My Shopping Trip: ShopRite and Stop & Shop
Extreme Couponing Shopping Trip
My favorite shopping trips are the ones that the cashiers get excited over. Today, at ShopRite, my cashier was commenting about each coupon she scanned. Things like, “wow this is a good coupon”, “another great coupon”, “boy, you really have a lot of great coupons”. She was amazed and happy to see the final total which was just $2.71. Of course, previous catalinas helped lower that total however I did walk away with another $2 catalina and a lot of great groceries.
Oh and, if you bought the Mallomars this week, stick them in the microwave for 5 seconds for instant smores! Yum! 
Here are my trips:
ShopRite Transaction :
- (4) Nabisco Mallomars – $1.49
- (2) Wasa Crackers – $1.40
- (1) Glade Expressions Oil – $6.29
- (3) Progresso Soup Recipe Starters – $1.33
- (1) ShopRite Imported pasta Sauce – $1.99
- (2) Baileys Coffee Creamer – $1.67
- (2) Breyers Ice Cream – $2.50
- (4) Wet N Wild Nail Polish – $0.74
- (1) Tums Freshers – $2.49
- (2) $1/2 Nabisco Cookies (SS 8/5)
- (2) $0.75/1 Wasa Crackers
- (1) $5/1 Glade Expressions (NLA)
- (3) $0.50/1 Progresso Soup (9/9 SS)
- $0.50/1 Progresso Cellfire
- $2.00/1 ShopRite Pasta Sauce ecoupon
- (2)$1/1 Baileys Coffee Creamer (8/5 SS)
- (2) $0.75/1 Breyers Ice Cream
- (4) $1/1 Wet N Wild Nail Polish (adjusted down to $0.74) (RP 9/9)
- $1.50/1 Tums ecoupon
- $1/1 Tums Acid Reducers (8/26 RP)
- -$3.00 Catalina
- -$2.00 Catalina
- -$2.00 Catalina
- Tax: $0.65
Paid: $2.71
Received: $2.00 Catalina (Glade)
Stop & Shop:
- (2) Era laundry Detergent – $2.50
- (4) Quaker Medley Oatmeal – $1.50
Coupons used:
- (2) $1/2 Era Laundry Detergent (8/12 SS)
- (4) $0.50/1 Quaker Medley Oatmeal
- -$3.00 Instant Savings
- Tax: $0.35
Paid: $2.35
Total Savings including sale prices and coupons: $78.48 which I will be adding to the LRWC Reader’s Grocery Savings Counter. Be sure to add your savings so we can see how much we have all saved in 2012
Here is an update to my Grocery Budget:
- total in envelope as of 8/31: $224.64
- $53.20 for produce/meat at Best Market & the farmers market
- added $150 to the envelope on 8/31
- $2.40 Shopping Trip on 9/6
- total in envelope as of 8/31: $319.04
- $10.34 shopping trip on 9/6 & 9/7
- total in envelope as of 9/7: $308.70
- $4.31 shopping trip on 9/6 & 9/7
- total in envelope as of 9/7: $304.39
- $33.42 for produce at Best Market
- $4.31 shopping trip 9/10
- Total in envelope as of 9/11: $266.66
- $5.06 shopping trip 9/12
- Total in envelope as of 9/12: $261.60
If you’re interested in seeing how we set up our budget envelopes, make sure to check out, How To Set Up a Budget and Stick to It.
How are you doing on your grocery budget?
LRWC Reader Grocery Savings Counter: Be sure to add your weekly grocery savings to the the LRWC Reader Grocery Savings Counter below. You can check out the counter in the sidebar to see how much we have all saved so far in 2012!
I searched all over for the imported pasta sauce… but could not find it, was it somewhere special?
I searched too. It was actually hiding in plain site as they say. It was mixed in with all the other sauces but it was a very small section so it was easy to pass up.
The sauces were on an endcap at the back of the pasta/sauce aisle in my ShopRite.
‘love those nabisco mallomars, i did’nt think i could use that MQ for that.Thanks for sharing
Awesome trip! The sauces were on the top shelf at the Wallingford ShopRite. Have any of you tried them yet specifically the portabella mushroom one? There is also or was a savingstar on one as well.
At the ShopRite near my home the Mallomars boxes had ShopRite coupons attached $1 off 2 boxes.
Check the Nabisco cookies for $1 off 1 box peelies! Used on the Mallomars makes them .49 cents!
Cindy, I was just looking over your grocery budget and noticed that your numbers are off. You added some shopping trips instead of deducting them. Don’t want you to be off anywhere.
Thank you for all the hard work you do. We apprecaite it all!
Oh my gosh that is too funny because I just said to my husband that there is money missing. He said why, I said because, according the my tracking on my site, I should have more money in the envelope. I thought I was going crazy. Now I know that it’s just that I can’t do basic math.