Aldi
1 Frozen Peas – $0.95
1 bag Gala Apples – $2.99
2 Strawberries – $0.99 (I noticed when I got home I was charged for 3 packages of strawberries instead of 2.) 🙁
1 Rice Cakes – $1.29
1 Mini Marshmallows – $0.89
1 Flour Tortillas – $1.19
1 Pineapple – $1.29
1 bag Tomatoes – $0.99
2 Cucumbers – $0.49 each
1 Cantaloupe – $1.29
1 loaf Bread – $0.99
1 Mild Salsa – $1.69
Total with tax ($1.25): $18.76
Dillons1 gallon Milk – $3.09
1 Kroger Sour Cream – $1
4 Land O Lakes Spreadable Butter – $1.88 each, used 2 $0.50/1 printable and 2 $0.40/1 coupon from the 4/13 SmartSource insert – $1.43 each after coupons (We LOVE this butter!)
1 Kroger Frozen Orange Juice Concentrate – $1.59
1.57 lbs Bananas @ $0.59/lb – $0.93
1 Kroger Cream Cheese – $1
1 Kroger Shredded Cheese – $2
1 dozen Dillons Eggs – $1.69
1 Hillshire Farms Sausage – $3.99, used $3/1 e-coupon – $0.99 after coupon (I’ve never bought this before but couldn’t resist trying it after this great price. We’ll see how we like it!)
0.54 lbs Broccoli @ $0.99/lb – $0.53
2 Lettuce – $0.99 each
4 Sweet Baby Ray’s BBQ Sauce – $1 each, used 2 $1/2 coupon from the 5/18 SmartSource insert – $0.50 each after coupon
2 Chocolate Chex Cereal – Marked down to $1.89 each, used $1/2 coupon from the 5/4 SmartSource insert – $1.39 each after coupons
1 Raisins – $1.79
1 Psst Crackers – $1.19
2 Kroger Cream of Mushroom Soup – $1 each
1 Quilted Northern Bath Tissue – $5.99, used $1/1 printable – $4.99 after coupon
Total after sales and coupons: $40.02
Total for all grocery items: $58.78
Menu Plan for this Week
Breakfasts
Pancakes, Homemade Granola, Cereal, Eggs, Juice
Lunches
Cheese Quesadillas, Tossed Salad, Crackers/Fruit/Veggies, Mac & Cheese, Leftovers
Dinners
Sour Cream Enchiladas, Chips and Salsa, Fruit Salad
Salad Bar (This is one of our favorite dinners in spring/summer!)
Pasta Salad, Sliced Apples
Poor Man’s Steak (using deer meat), Biscuits, Green Beans, Tossed Salad
Scrambled Eggs and Sausage, Fruit Salad
Italian Chicken, Texas Roadhouse Copycat Rolls, Steamed Broccoli
Leftovers (I’ve been trying to do better about eating up the leftovers in our refrigerator vs letting them go to waste. It’s worked pretty well to do one night devoted to just eating leftovers. And I enjoy having an night off from cooking!)
Angela Brenbarger says
what are sour cream enchiladas?
Kelly says
That is great!!!! I just started shopping at Aldi about a month ago. I can’t believe how much we save! Do you ever buy their milk ? Our Aldi store carries it for $1.69 a gallon.
christina says
I have a question for you. I have been following this website for a while and look at your grocery trips and meal plans but I hardly ever see any meat and do you ever get “burned out” on the lunches? I can’t eat the same thing every week but I do rotate things. If my husband had it his way we would have the same thing over and over. Mon-tacos Tues- burgers Wed- steaks Thurs- pork chops Fri- pizza. LOL
Jennifer says
I’m curious how many tomatoes you got in a bag for .99? I don’t even usually get a whole tomato here for .99 unless its a really small plum tomato.
I so agree with you on having a leftover night. I’m pretty good about taking leftovers to work for lunch but still If I don’t pick a night for us to clean out the fridge, it doesn’t happen.
Lynn says
I have to say, I really love Gretchen’s shopping trips! Maybe because her shopping purchases are similar to mine? Sometimes it can be discouraging when it looks like people are constantly spending $15 a week for groceries, so Gretchen’s trips always seem like a pretty balanced approach. There are some great deals, but also, if you need toilet paper you need toilet paper even if it is $4.99 for the kind you like!
Crystal Paine says
Thanks so much for your kind encouragement! Gretchen is an inspiration to me, too! And I’m pretty happy to have her for my sister. 🙂
Linda says
I hear you on the TP. If I don’t like it, it doesn’t matter if it’s free – unless I’m camping, and desperate, of course.
Our favorite TP brand is Kirkland from Costco. We buy the bulk package; it’s very affordable and soft, but not fall apart soft. It’s the only brand that lasts at my house.
Gretchen says
Awww! Thank you! You’re sweet. We were actually down to less than HALF A ROLL of TP here so it was kind of an emergency situation. 😉
Beth says
where did the Hillshire sausage e-coupon come from??
Gretchen says
Sorry I forgot to put the link in the post. It came from the Dillons website. Here is the link: https://www.dillons.com/coupons
Thanks for letting me know so I can fix the post.
Roxanne says
I find Kroger is pretty bad about double charging for items or keying produce in incorrectly. Because they have baggers the cashiers go so fast I can’t keep up watching everything on the screen. I’m also still emptying my cart when the fist half of my groceries are rung up.
It’s pretty frustrating. I never notice until I’m at home and I never go back to the store for the $2 or $3 I was overcharged. I only did one time when I was actually charged for quantity 11 instead of 1 on a produce item!
Beth says
I like to go through the u-scan and scan and bag my groceries myself. If your store has that option, it might alleviate that problem for you?
kate says
I used to work at kroger. We would get scolded some times if rings per minute were slow. They wanted to make sure we had a fast service. But I doubled scanned so much because of it. 🙁
That was 6 years ago though.
Kelly D says
What’s that plastic box in the upper right of the Aldi pic? It looks like grapes or cherries, maybe they charged you for a strawberries instead of those.
Gretchen says
Oh my goodness! I think you are right. Those are grapes and they must have charged me for strawberries instead. And here I was complaining…
Thanks for catching that for me!
F says
Hi Gretchen!
Are your Target and pharmacy store trips (CVS, Walgreens, etc) separate from your weekly grocery budget?
Gretchen says
My goal is to stay around $280/month for all of my grocery and drugstore shopping. 🙂