I stopped by Kroger yesterday and grabbed some great markdown deals!
Have you gotten any great deals this week? Tell us about them in the comments!
As I told you in yesterday’s Kroger markdowns post, because I’m changing my morning routine, it means I have time to run by the store and shop for markdowns or great deals again in the mornings — which I have really missed having the margin to do.
So expect to be seeing a lot more posts about my shopping trips. Here’s what I got today (I just popped into Kroger on my home from school drop-offs):
Today’s Kroger Shopping Trip
Total with tax: $6.62
I froze the cottage cheese and we’ll use it in Berry Cottage Whip or smoothies.
I’m on the fence as to what to do with the avocados. As you may recall, I found a similar deal on avocados last year and we ended up freezing them! Truth be told, we didn’t love them that way.
So, this time around, I’m thinking that we’ll eat as many as we can in the next few days and make a big ole batch of guacamole, too!
Any other ideas for what we should do with the avocados? I’d love your suggestions!
Because I’m changing my morning routine, it means I have time to run by the store and shop for markdowns or great deals again in the mornings — which I have really missed having the margin to do. So expect to be seeing a lot more posts about my shopping trips. 🙂
Here’s what I picked up today at Kroger:
Total with tax: $10.34
I browned the sausage and then froze it in 4 separate bags to have ready for meals. It will be great for Egg Casserole or Lasagna or just to serve with scrambled eggs.
What’s YOUR way to use ground sausage? I’d love to hear in the comments!
After Monday’s coupon shopping trip success, I was inspired to head back to Kroger to grab some more deals! Here’s what I got (except for the clearance deals, all of these deals and coupons should still be valid, as far as I know):
Goldfish crackers are on sale for $0.99 you buy 4 participating items, so we bought 10 bags — which my kids were very excited about! They LOVE Goldfish crackers for their lunches!
Larabars — on sale for $0.90 (through 10/24)
Bought 2 and used $0.50/2 Kroger digital coupon
$0.65 each after coupon
(I have fallen in love with Larabars now that I eat a lot fewer desserts!)
Kellogg’s Special K cereal — on sale for $1.99 when you buy 4 participating items
Bought 2 and used 2 $1/1 Kellogg’s Special K cereal coupons
$0.99 after coupons
You can mix and match any of the 4 participating items, but you have to buy in sets of 4. So we bought 10 bags of Goldfish crackers + 2 boxes of Kellogg’s cereal to make 12 items total.
Stonefire Naan — marked down to $1.29 each (I had one $1/1 coupon — I wish I would have printed more coupons! We LOVE this Naan and I’ve never seen it marked down like this!)
I also found apples marked down to $0.99 per bag! I always love it when I find good quality apples in the reduced produce section!
iBotta also has an offer this week where you can get $0.25 back on any grocery purchase, so I submitted my receipt for that, too!
A big thank you to Kroger Krazy for the heads up on some of these deals!
After being in Cincinnati last week with a few other frugal bloggers, including Katie from Kroger Krazy, I was so inspired to shop with coupons again — something that I haven’t done much of in the last few years. (Read more about how we save on groceries without using coupons here.)
So, I went over to Kroger Krazy, made my grocery list, printed my coupons, and then promptly lost the coupons! For real.
Maybe this wasn’t such a good idea??? 😉
I ended up finding out that my daughter had put the coupons under a stack of books, so all was not lost! But then when I got to the store, I realized how rusty I was at using coupons. I ended up having to consult Kroger Krazy multiple times on my phone AND I had to return a bottle of laundry detergent to customer service because I had bought the wrong size!!!!
Apparently, using coupons isn’t quite like riding a bike. When you learn how to do it once, you can’t necessarily just hop back on and do it again!
But, as I walked out of the store with my bags in tow and my receipt with all the savings listed, I remembered the rush I got from using coupons and getting deals and now I’m inspired to jump back into it again! 🙂
Here are the deals I got:
Huggies Baby Wipes (56 – 72 count soft pack) – $0.99 (when you buy 4 participating items through 10/24)
Used $0.50/1 Huggies Wipes (56-167 ct.) Kroger Digital Coupon – Limit 1 (expires 10/31/17)
$0.49 after coupon
Tide Simply Laundry Detergent (37-40 oz) – $1.99 (when you buy 4 participating items)
Used $1/1 Tide Simply Detergent Kroger Digital Coupon – Limit 1 (expires 10/28/17)
$0.99 after coupons
(There’s also a printable you could use: $1/1 Tide Simply Detergent 37 oz or larger or Bounce Dryer Sheets printable)
Twinings Tea Bags (20 ct) – $1.99 (when you buy 4 participating items)
Used $1/1 Twinings Tea, any variety (20ct.) Kroger Digital Coupon – Limit 1 (exp 11/22/17)
Final cost is as low as $0.99
I also got a bag of Goldfish crackers for just $0.99 as my fourth item for the get $4 off when you buy 4 participating items promotion.
Stayfree Pads (16-24 countt) – $1.99 (when you buy 4 participating items)
Used 2 $2/2 Stayfree product printable
$0.99 each after coupons
Always Radiant or Infinity Flex Foam Pads (14 count) – $2.99 (when you buy 4 participating items)
Used $2/2 Always Products Kroger Digital Coupon – Limit 1 (expires 10/28/17)
Paid $1.99 each, Submitted for (2) $1/1 Always Radiant or Infinity Pads – 11 ct or larger ibotta Rebate
$0.99 after coupons and rebate
Tampax Radiant or Pearl Tampons (16 ct) – $2.99 (when you buy 4 participating items)
Used $2/2 Tampax Pearl OR Radiant Tampons Kroger Digital Coupon – Limit 1 (expires 10/28/17)
Paid $1.99 each, Submitted for (2) $1/1 Tampax Radiant or Pearl Tampons 16 ct or larger ibotta Rebate – Limit 3
$0.99 each after coupons and rebate
Have you gotten any great deals recently? If so, I’d love to hear about them! Share your deals in the comments!
Since we were out of town for two weeks, our fridge was really bare so I did a big shopping trip to stock back up for this week! Here’s what I bought at ALDI:
I also quickly stopped by Kroger to grab some cage-free eggs (our ALDI doesn’t carry them and these are what we use for scrambled eggs, etc.) and to grab some cottage cheese (because I forgot to buy it at ALDI). I also looked at the markdowns to see what they had.
I was excited with the deals I found:
All totaled, we spent $106.35 on groceries. We usually average around $125 in grocery spending per week (though recently, it’s been less — in fact, we set aside all of our extra grocery money from the past few months to use for our food spending on our recent vacation!), so I was excited to restock our fridge and have food for all of our meals this week and still stay under-budget!
Here’s what’s on our menu plan this week:
Breakfast — Cereal, Oatmeal, Toast, Eggs, Fruit, French Toast
Lunches — Turkey Sandwiches, Chicken Hot Dogs, Cheese Quesadillas, Caeser Salad, Yogurt, Fruit/Veggies, Chips/Salsa/Guac, Leftovers
Dinners — Baked Ziti, Corn Chowder, Haystacks, Breakfast for Dinner (French Toast/Bacon), Southwest Roll-Ups, Sausage & Peppers over Rice, Dinner Out
New to shopping at ALDI? Read how we save close to $1,000 per year by shopping at ALDI. Also, check out my post with my 25 Favorite Things to Buy at ALDI.
Want to see me break down my shopping trips and talk more about why I bought each item? Watch these videos:
