Saving $Mucho Dinero$!

Okay Amy and Mer and anyone else that wants to hear about my fun day grocery shopping :)
So last Friday (Skylar has been working really late the past little while putting a sound system in his dads new semi so Friday night was the only night I could go to the store without the boys) I went to Lee's and Albertsons to do the grocery shopping and to try out the new tricks I learned at Amy's (Amy is on my blog list check out her shopping trip) party a few weeks ago. I had so much fun! really I didn't think I would but I did. So here it goes...
I bought 63 Items all together from both stores, we have not been grocery, grocery shopping in awhile if you know what I mean so since both stores were having great sales and I had all these coupons that matched the sales I thought I might as well get everything that I needed for the next couple of weeks...
I got 2LBS fresh turkey from the deli, two bags of sugar, two roast, two things of stake and lots more stuff. I also took advantage of the stuff that was on big time sale and got lots of it to add to my food storage and be able to shop from my pantry. So grand total...drum roll please....before coupons my total between both stores came to $178.00. Still not to bad considering all the things that I got. Grand total out of pocket $108.00!! I saved $70.00!! I was so excited, I know that I'm going to get better as I learn more tricks. I took the receipts home to Skylar, thinking I was going to get a typical guy reaction, but he was so excited too! He could not believe it, he asked how much money it was costing me to be apart of this whole saving money thing, he didn't understand that all it was, was buying the newspaper. My goal is to spend $200on groceries and and the thigs that we need a month. So for a family of four that is $50 a week. I got pretty close to my goal since I bought for the next two weeks so we wouldn't have to go shopping on Easter weekend.

So here is a pic of everything I got
Minus the two bags of sugar I forgot to put in the picture


Click on the pic to enlarge it. Notice the two items of makeup that both normally cost $10 each. The only things that I got that I normally wouldn't get are the microwave dinners, since Skylar has been working late like til 2 in the morning I am always tempted to just get kid meals for dinner for the boys, box dinners are not much healthier but it does save money so I thought I would just make them on the nights that Sky is working late which hopefully won't be for to much longer. So last Saturday we were down in Logan again doing some banking stuff and I had purposely made everyone eat before we left. Every time we go to Logan on the weekends we go out to eat, so since we are trying to save money and stop going out to eat so much, we all ate before we left, we ended up spending all day in Logan and everyone was getting hungry so Skylar insisted we go out to eat. I had to be strong! I told him that home was just a few minutes away and there was really no point in trying to save all this money with grocery shopping if we are just spending it on more food by going out to eat, he was a little upset cause he was hungry but when we got home I cooked stake and potatoes and he was much happier :)