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Getting a hang of the grocery game

November 17th, 2010 at 05:14 pm


Our Jewel/Albertson had a deal (ending today) of buy a Mrs. Smith's pie for $3.99 (regularly $7.99) and get a free Dean's ice cream (which is usually $6.99 but this week is on sale for $2.99).

I purchased three pies for $12.00 plus tax, and ended up with three cartons of ice cream as well. I will use one pie at Thanksgiving, and another at Christmas. The ice cream we'll use at the girls' birthday party on Black Friday. We'll keep one pie as a spare.

Similarly, in the spirit of friendship, I've invited (as a surprise) the families of my girls' bffs to the party. Younger daughter has had a friend since preschool, and the new bff comes from a very friendly family of 5). Older daughter's bff is from a nice family but we've never socialized with them. So our guest list at this point stands at: 31. That is a lot of people! I'm going to do Italian beef sandwiches and baked ravioli. I purchased six bags of frozen meat torellini for $9 (it was a buy one, get one). I'll spend another $30 on Italian beef (10#s). All in all, I do expect to be right on budget.

I also went to CVS and got a large Triaminic Cold & Cough kid medication ($7.49) and a Nivea lip treatment ($3.99) for $1.39 OOP. Feeling good about the amount of money that I'm spending for what I'm getting!

2 Responses to “Getting a hang of the grocery game”

  1. thefamilyfinanceguide Says:
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    I am a Husband and father of two. My wife and I play a game that first limits our grocery budget each week. Then we apply coupons. We always spend less than our budget which then allows us to gorge around the holidays for filet mignon with the extra cash. Grocery games are fun and you learn just how great capitalism is with all the options in the grocery store. Great blogs, keep it up!

  2. Homebody Says:
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    Laura, I am really trying with the coupons too. I did pretty good yesterday. I used about 5 coupons at Target.

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