Super Savings Saturday

Super Savings Saturday: No shopping in order to save for my Azure Standard order

by Crystal on September 10, 2011

I didn’t do any grocery shopping at all this week. We had plenty on hand in the freezer, refrigerator, and pantry to tide us over until this coming week (you can see what we ate this week here).

Instead, I saved my grocery money to put towards my very first Azure Standard order. I’m so excited about ordering some more food in bulk and can’t wait for my order to come in next week. (And yes, I promise I’ll post pictures and show you what I got when it comes in!)

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Did you snag any great deals or bargains this week or save money in other ways? If so, be sure to post about them on your blog and leave your link below. Please remember that this weekly round-up is to share deals you personally got and/or money you were able to save this week. In order to keep this weekly round-up focused on helping and inspiring others in their efforts to save money, links which have little-to-no content other than promoting affiliate links, etc. will be deleted. Also, to make it easy for everyone to navigate quickly through the links, your link must link directly to your Super Savings Saturday post.

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Super Savings Saturday: Health Food Store, Dillon’s, Aldi, Walmart, Dollar Tree, Target

by Crystal on September 03, 2011

I think I may have set some sort of record in my grocery shopping today. I went to six stores–which is very out of character since I rarely go to more than three at a time! However, I only had a short to-do list today and I got it done right after lunch. So my husband sent me out to go shopping on my own and told me to just take my time and enjoy myself. So I did!

Each of the stores ended up being out of some of the things I was hoping to buy, but I was still able to get some great deals. Here are the groceries I ended up buying:

And here are the different store transaction details:

Health Food Store Shopping Trip:

5 cantaloupe marked down to $0.59 each (I gave one to a friend whom I ran into at Dillon’s, so there are only 4 pictured.)
Organic bananas marked down to $0.39 per pound (I’ll freeze these for smoothies.)
4 boxes of Rice Milk marked down to $0.99 each
1 box alphabet noodles (for alphabet mac & cheese that we’re making for a school project)

Total with tax: $11.71 (I can’t seem to find my receipt, but I’m pretty certain this is what the total was.)

Aldi Shopping Trip

Butter — $2.79 (ouch!)
Feta cheese — $1.99
2 packages of Multi-colored peppers — $3.18
Hebrew National Beef Franks — $2.49
Total with tax: $11.21

Walmart Shopping Trip

4 bottles of Spic & Span — $0.97 each, used 2 $1/2 Spic & Span coupons
Total with tax after coupons: $2.16

Dillon’s Shopping Trip

Mom’s Best Cereal — $1.50, used $0.55/1 coupon (“doubled” to $1 off), $0.50 after coupon
2 cartons of buttermilk marked down to $0.79 each (I stuck these in the freezer to use in pancakes.)
2 Luna bars — $1.09, used two $0.50/1 coupons (doubled to $1 off), $0.09 each after coupons
2 8-oz. packages of cheddar cheese — $1.88 each
Total with tax after coupons: $6.57

Target Shopping Trip

3 bottles of Simply Lemonade/Simply Orange — $1.27 each, used $1/1 coupons, $0.27 each after coupons
1 Rimmel Glam Eyes Eye Shadow — $2.49, used $2/1 Target coupon + $1/1 manufacturer’s coupon, free plus overage after coupons
Total with tax after coupons: $0.37

I stopped by Dollar Tree hoping to find some Nature’s Own bread. They were all out, but I picked up some fun activities for the children to do this week and for when we travel to Dallas later in the week.

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Super Savings Saturday: Dillon’s, Aldi, & the Health Food Store

by Crystal on August 27, 2011

I had some extra money leftover in the grocery budget from this past month, so I had fun buying a few extras in my grocery shopping trip today (including, ground lamb–something I’ve never purchased before!):

Dillon’s Shopping Trip

Bob’s Red Mill Hot Cereal — clearanced to $2.09
Kroger White Whole Wheat Flour (I’m all out of wheat and haven’t had a chance to get to the bulk foods store yet!) — $3.49
Organic Leaf Lettuce — $1.99
Organic Spring Mix Lettuce — reduced to $1.79
2 Pure Protein Bars — $1, used 2 $0.55/1 coupons (“doubled” to $1 off), free after coupons
5 packages of Garlic Bread (I’m bringing this to a get-together tomorrow.) — $2.49 each
Hebrew National Franks — $3
Total with tax: $26.71

Aldi Shopping Trip

Gala apples — $2.99
Dried cranberries — $1.39
Yogurt — $1.99
Salsa — $1.79
Roma Tomatoes — $1.29
2 bags of frozen peas — $0.99
Oats — $1.99
Cucumber — $0.69
Grapes — $1.58
Cheese — $1.99
Tortilla chips — $1.19
2 dozen eggs (my brother’s hens aren’t laying much so I bought store eggs for the first time in months!) — $1.19 each
Total with tax: $22.80

Health Food Store Shopping Trip

Lamb — marked down $4.99
Bacon — marked down $3.99
5 cantaloupe — $0.99 each
Rudi’s organic hot dog buns — marked down to $0.99
Total with tax: $16.01

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Super Savings Saturday: Dillon’s, Aldi, Health Food Store

by Crystal on August 14, 2011

After tackling an enormous pile of post-trip laundry, I headed out for a fun shopping trip by myself this afternoon. (I know I might be weird, but grocery shopping is something I really enjoy–especially when I’m not rushed!)

Here’s what I ended up buying:

Dillon’s Shopping Trip

Organic lettuce — $1.99

Cilantro — $0.99

Cheese — $1.79

I also used my free coupons to get the Pantene, Aussie, Skintimate, Herbal Essence, and Playtex products for free.

Total after coupons with tax: $6.69

Health Food Store Shopping Trip

Organic Clearanced Bananas — $0.39/lb. = $3.53 total

Apples — $0.99/lb. = $3.15

Wheat — $1.29/lb. = $2.49 (I ran out of my bulk wheat and need to buy another bag, but had to buy some to tide me over until I can get it in bulk again.)

Stonyfield Yogurt — Reduced to $1.99

Sprinkles — Reduced to $0.99

Total with tax: $12.98

Aldi Shopping Trip

Chicken — $5.49

2 bags of peas — $0.99 each

2 limes — $0.35 each

2 cans of black beans — $0.55 each

5 packs of strawberries — $0.99 each

Grapes — $1.58

Raisins — $1.69

Nectarines, Peaches, Plums — 15 total — $0.19 each

Total with tax: $21.82

Did you snag any great deals or bargains this week or save money in other ways? If so, be sure to post about them on your blog and leave your link below. Please remember that this weekly round-up is to share deals you personally got and/or money you were able to save this week. In order to keep this weekly round-up focused on helping and inspiring others in their efforts to save money, links which have little-to-no content other than promoting affiliate links, etc. will be deleted. Also, to make it easy for everyone to navigate quickly through the links, your link must link directly to your Super Savings Saturday post.

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Super Savings Saturday

by Crystal on July 30, 2011

Life was more than a little busy this week with me finishing up the final edits for my book, Jesse prepping for a big case, two of my children being sick, and all of us preparing for the big bridal shower we’re hosting this evening. So other than buying things for the bridal shower tonight, I didn’t buy any groceries and we just ate from the freezer and pantry.

We did get some great deals at Office Max, though.

And we bought a bunch of strawberries to make chocolate dipped strawberries for the bridal shower. They were $0.88 at Aldi this week, so we price-matched at Walmart and got 10 packages!

We also got two fun freebies in the mail yesterday: the free sample box of Honey Nut Cheerios and the free Pantene Shampoo or Conditioner coupon.

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Super Savings Saturday: Aldi, Dillon’s, Health Food Store, and Dollar Tree

by Crystal on July 24, 2011

I had a 2.5-hour time block today to run errands and do my grocery shopping. Jesse was working on things with the children, so I went by myself. And somehow, in that 2.5 hour time block, I made it to six different stores!

One of my errands was to go to the party store to buy things for a big bridal shower I’m hosting at our house this next week. They had everything I was looking for and almost all of it was on sale! I also stopped at Walgreens but they were completely out of everything I’d hoped to buy (no surprise since it’s Saturday, but I still decided to stop since it was right on my way!).

Here were the groceries I ended up getting at the four other stores I went to:

Dillon’s Shopping Trip

2 heads of lettuce marked down to $0.75 each

2 bags of croutons — $1.99, used 2 $0.55/1 coupons that “doubled” to $1/1 = $1 per bag (not the best price for these, but I’d signed up to bring them to a get together tomorrow so I went ahead and bought them since I knew I didn’t have time to make homemade croutons between now and then.)

Total: $3.81 with tax

Dollar Tree Shopping Trip

3 packages of Nature’s Own Hamburger Buns — $1 each

Sea Salt — $1

Total: $4.29 with tax

Aldi Shopping Trip

2 bags of shredded cheddar cheese — $2.99 each

Baking soda — $0.49

Straws — $0.99

Carrots — $0.99

Colored pepper pack — $1.79

2 packages of sweet corn — $0.99 each

4 packages of tomatoes on the vine — $0.99 each

Total: $17.36 with tax

Health Food Store Shopping Trip

10 cartons of Almond and Rice Milk for $0.99 each

2 organic Toaster Pastries at $0.99 each

6 mangoes at $0.33 each

4 lbs. of peaches at $0.79 per lb.

6.3 lbs. of marked down bananas at $0.39 lb.

Blueberry yogurt marked down to $0.99 each

Brown cow yogurt marked down to $1.99

Total: $24.11 with tax

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Super Savings Saturday: 20 pounds of grass-fed ground beef!

by Crystal on July 09, 2011

I’m super excited because, as I mentioned on my Facebook Page a few weeks ago, my husband surprised me with a new deep freezer! I’ve always just had over-the-fridge freezers (except for the short stint when we had the freezer disaster and ended up getting rid of the the blood-soaked and stinking freezer when we moved because we were too scared to try using it again!) so I was thrilled — especially because I wasn’t expecting that we were going to get a freezer for at least another year or two.

And one of the first things we did was buy twenty pounds of local grass-fed ground beef. My parents bought a cow a few weeks ago and they kindly let us buy some of the beef from them. It was $3.80 a pound — which is a great price for this high-quality beef. I can’t wait to make hamburgers, meatballs and meatloaf with it!

I also went to Target and purchased the items pictured above — you can see the full price breakdown here.

Also purchased and not pictured: chicken, butter, peanut butter, oats, fruit, and veggies from Aldi, farm-fresh eggs

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Super Savings Saturday: The I-Didn’t-Use-Any-Coupons Edition

by Crystal on June 25, 2011

I went to four different stores this week and used a grand total of zero coupons. Here’s what I bought:

Dillon’s Shopping Trip — see the full price breakdown and shopping trip details here.

Aldi Shopping Trip — see the full price breakdown and shopping trip details here.

Health Food Store Shopping Trip — see the full price breakdown and shopping trip details here.

Walmart Shopping Trip — see the full price breakdown and shopping trip details here.

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Super Savings Saturday: 10 lbs. of raw sugar, 5 cartons of almond milk + more!

by Crystal on June 19, 2011

Dillon’s: Spent $13.78

There wasn’t much we needed to buy in the way of groceries this week, so I just made a quick trip to Dillon’s and the health food store to get some of the deals.

The Health Food Store: Spent $20.15

Two of my children are currently off milk, so I was thrilled to be able to get these markdown prices on the hemp, almond and rice milk! We’ll use the chocolate milk to make Chocolate Peanut Butter Banana Smoothies. It’s a delicious treat for a hot afternoon. I want to get some popsicle molds so I can freeze it and make homemade fudgsicles, too.

Also shown in the picture is the raw sugar my friend Angie found clearanced to just $1.25 per pound at another Dillon’s location. She picked up 10 pounds for me. (It’s such a wonderful thing to have fellow frugal friends who are always on the lookout for deals and willing to snatch up extras when they find them!)

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Today’s Walmart shopping trip: My first big price-matching attempt (Super Savings Saturday)

by Crystal on June 12, 2011

So I’ve been price-matching bananas on occasion at Walmart, but I’ve never done any price-matching besides that. However, because so many of you suggested I try it after repeatedly being disappointed in the fruit selection available at Aldi, I finally worked up the courage to try it today.

Guess what? It was easy-peasy! And I’m wondering why I took so many years to try doing this. I’m hooked!

Here’s what I bought:

Walmart Shopping Trip

Suave Professionals — used free coupon

5 packages of strawberries — price-matched to Aldi $0.99 each price

Watermelon — price-matched to Aldi $2.99 price

Gain dish detergent — $0.97, used $1/1 coupon from the P&G Solutions coupon booklet = free

Spic & Span — $0.97 each, used $1/2 coupon from Coupons.com (no longer available) = $0.47 each

KC Masterpiece BBQ Sauce — $1.42 each, used $1/1 coupons = $0.42 each after coupons

3 packages blueberries — price-matched to Aldi $1.49 each price

3 Sugar & Spice Yarn — $0.50 each (these were in a big clearance bin)

Grapes — bought two pounds and price-matched to Aldi’s price of $0.89/lb.

Just My Size tank — $5, used $5/1 May All You magazine coupon = free

Ivory Soap — $0.97, used $1/1 coupon from the May P&G insert = free

My total after coupons was $19.70.

How I Price-Matched

Walmart says you don’t need to bring in an ad, but I brought the Aldi ad with me just to make things go more smoothly — and so I didn’t have to remember all the different sale prices!

I split my order up on the belt and had the non-price-match items go through first and then handed the cashier the ad and asked her to price-match the remaining items on the belt with the prices listed on the Aldi ad.

It was a very simple process and I have no idea why it made me nervous to try this! Best of all, the produce was better and the selection was leaps better than Aldi.

THANK YOU to each of you who suggested I try this. I can’t believe it’s taken me all these years to figure out how easy this is. I’ll definitely be adding this to my arsenal of money-saving/time-saving things to do!

Would you like to know what the best deals and coupon match-ups are for your local stores? Be sure to check out the Store Deals section of our site where we post the best deals and coupon match-ups each week for over 100 different stores across the country. You can sign up to receive the top deals in your email inbox each week as soon as they are posted!

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