Grocery Smarts

I am very proud of myself - I have been wanting to start doing the whole coupon thing - I mean do you realize what saving $200 a month would do? (Actually it would mean about 900K over 30 years at a 10% ROI)

So even though I am not getting my newspapers yet with the coupons, I wanted to start trying it out. So Sunday night I spent 30 minutes getting myself organized with coupons and so forth - and today was the big day. I went to Albertsons and followed exactly what they told me. Here is what I bought.




4 boxes of Capt Crunch
6 Mac and Cheese
4 Digornios Flatbread
2 Hidden Valley Ranch
2 Angel Soft double rolls of toilet paper
1 Treseme Shampoo
1 thing of Bananas
1 Bag of grapes
2 Bagelfulls
1 Gallon of Milk
1 Jar of pickles
2 Cinnamon Rolls
1 Jello No Bake Cheesecake
2 Kraft Cheese Shredded Cheese
2 South Beach Granola Bars
2 Purex Concentrated Detergent
2 Hawaiians Own Drink Milk

Retail Price : $140
What I paid : $59.65

Saved : $77.23 (plus $12 of free gas!)

This was my very first trip trying this out and I was really lucky to get such a great sale. I'm determined to get great at this. Thanks Brooke!