Week 3 - Shopping Trip

I am very happy to say that this week of the Eating from the Pantry Challenge was FAR MORE successful in keeping to my financial goal! I did go to 2 stores though. I had to go to the bank inside of Macey's and I decided to check some of their prices with Walmart's, and then I shopped.

Macey's



6 boxes of Sunbelt Granola Bars 3/$5, 3-BOGO coupons, Total $5 for all six boxes
5 Yoplait Yo-Plus 4 pack yogurt, $1.50, 5- $1/1 coupons General Mills-1/3, Total $.50 ea.
Farmland 1lb sausage, $1 ea.
2lb medium cheddar cheese, $4.99, $1/1 coupon, Total $3.99
5 boxes Quaker instant oatmeal, $1.78, in ad coupon $3/5, $1/1 Quaker coupon (FF link), Total $.98 ea.
2- Cokes, $1, $1/1 coupon, Total- FREE

Grand Total $19.46
Coupon Savings $17.00
5 cents off per gallon of gas as well, every little bit helps.


Wally World



2 gallons milk, price matched at $1.89
2 bottles of Tabasco, $1.25, $.50 printable(print two), Total $.75
Franks Hot Sauce, $.96, $.50 printable, Total $.46
8 bottles of La Victoria Salsa, $2.14, $4/2 coupon, Total $.14 ea.
4 boxes of Barnum's animal crakers (these are Nabisco products), $1 ea., $2/2 printable (FFlink), Total- Free
200 Equate Ibuprofen, $4

Grand Total $11.97
Coupon Savings $21.50

Today's Grand Total $31.43
Coupon Total $38.5o

My eight year-old was disappointed that I went over the $30 budget, I laughed. Personally I could not be happier with what I spent and that I even got some stock up items!

If you missed past postings from my 4 week challenge, you can read them:
Week 1- Menu
Week 1- Shopping Trip
Week 2- Shopping & Menu

Walgreen's Deals - Guest Post

Today I went into Walgreen's with my friend Ginger. She had prematurely purchased her items for the J&J Rebate, your purchase needs to be made between January 10th and February 5th, so she went in to take advantage of the sale on these items for her rebate. When she had purchased her earlier items she went to Walmart with coupons and received less than half of the J&J products she purchased today for a few dollars more than she spent today. (We did some bad math and needed a couple more dollars of Loreal product purchased to get the $5RR, I think I will carry a calculator with me from now on.) She returned the unopened product to Walmart today.

Here are my shopping deals for today! Thanks again for your help at Walgreen's. :)

WALGREEN'S

Order #1

Colgate toothbrush $2.99
Loreal Foundation $11.49
Loreal Blush $6.99

$2.00 coupons for each of the Loreal products
$0.75 coupon for the toothbrush

Total: $16.72 plus $2.00 RR from Colgate

$6.40 Walgreen's advertised savings
$4.75 manufacturer coupons savings


Order #2

4 Scrubbing Bubbles Cleaner, buy one get one free $3.59 for 2
1 Aveeno Shampoo, buy one get one half @ $7.49
1 Aveeno Conditioner, buy one get one half @ $7.49
6 Lubriderm Lotion, buy one get on half @ $7.99 includes bonus trial size lotion

$0.75 coupon off 2 of scrubbing bubbles
$2.50 coupon off shampoo
$2.50 coupon off conditioner
$2.00 coupon off each lotion
$2.00 RR from order #1
$3.00 RR from previous shopping trip
$12.00 off Lubriderm Lotion (buy 1 get 1 50%)
$3.75 off Aveeno Hair Care (buy 1 get 1 50%)

Total: 34.44

$22.93 Walgreen's advertised savings
$23.50 manufacturer coupons savings

Order #3

Colgate toothbrush 2.99

$0.75 coupon

Total: $2.44 plus $2.00 RR from Colgate


WALMART

12 La Victoria Mild Salsa $2.33

6 - $4.00/2 printable coupons from LaVic Rewards

Total: $3.96 + tax

Each jar was 33 cents!

Today made a total of $53.00 savings just in manufacturer coupons! That is well worth the $18 a month for my newspaper subscription!

The J&J product coupons as well as the cleaning supply coupons can be found in SS 1/10. You can print J&J coupons HERE.
I would love to show off your great deals to! Email me at survivingrecession101@gmail.com.

La Victoria $4/2 Coupon

I have posted this great deal once before. Click HERE to get all the details and codes for your printable coupon.
If you have done this before and have points sitting in your account, they have reset the coupon and you can get it again. I hit the back button 4 times and it printed each time! That 8 bottles of salsa for nearly free!

Save $4 on Two LaVictoria Products!

Sign up for La Victoria Rewards Program and add the following codes to your account. Enter enough codes to collect 64 points, and you'll be able to print a coupon for $4 off 2 La Victoria products! The jars of salsa sell for less than $2 at Walmart so you should be able to get them free after coupon.

A few tips when entering codes:

* You can now cut & paste!!
* You can enter each code up to 4 times.
* Enter these codes in the 2nd box, that's specially designated for 18-digit codes.
* After you enter the codes, from the drop down menu choose “No Purchase.”

Enter the following codes:
L8CP225J509:08U8XN
L8CS298T819:03VQOZ
L8DA271N613:36DESW
L8PD276K610:07FN1A
L8DA2710614:36B4OK
L8DA271N613:36DESW
L9CO085J509:31ZLKQ
L8CP316J509:09YGCQ
L9CW043K610:334BUY
L8PD071W622:45JRNQ
L8CU238L411:40SXFB
L8CT2390414:30XX1L
L8PD2761608:1443UH
L8CW276B601:13Y9TF

These coupons don’t expire until 1/31/2010! Last time I was able to get some nice overage from my coupons too!

Also, you won't be able to print more than 2 coupons per computer! I spent time getting another 64 points and the coupon wouldn't print. It did however, graciously take my points! I'll have to try it tomorrow on my laptop! ;)

Thanks, Utah Deal Diva.

More Coupons & Contests

Blue Bunny: Save $1 on Bomb Pops & Ice Cream

National Bomb Pop Day (I didn't know there was such a thing) is June 25th and to celebrate Blue Bunny is offering up a coupon for $1 off any one variety of Bomb Pop 12 packs! This coupon should make for a pretty sweet deal when paired with a sale!

Blue Bunny is also offering up $1 off any 1.75 quart of Blue Bunny premium ice cream. In order to print the coupon, you must be a member of the iScream Team. You'll either need to login or register to become a member.

Lots of $1.50 Kashi Coupons Available!

UPDATE: Here's is yet another new Kashi coupon: Save $1.50 on any Kashi Cereal! You can print this in IE or Firefox!

I LOVE Kashi products, so I was definitely excited to come across another Kashi coupon. I posted yesterday about a $1.50 Kashi Bars and Cereal coupon that is available here (IE or Firefox). Well, on top of that great coupon, you can print an additional $1.50 Kashi TLC Bars coupon here courtesy of Vocal Point. Press your browser back button to print a total of 2 coupons per computer.

Also, don't forget to print the $1.50 Kashi Waffle coupon , if you haven't already. I also previously posted an additional $1.50 Kashi TLC bars coupon here (this is a different link from the one posted above).

Betty Crocker Summer Time Recipes

I was happy to see that Betty Crocker has just come out with a new FREEBIE. They will send you fresh new ideas for summer meal ideas, also you will be the first to hear of new products, coupons or promos. As always if you do not want extra mail, make sure you sign up with you “extra coupon email” These offers always fill up quick so HURRY if you want to sign up! Click logo above for the link.

La Victoria Instant Win Sweepstakes

Enter the La Victoria Promotion once a day for your chance to win the grand prize of $1,000. You could also instantly win one of 20 $500 prizes or one of 10,000 coupons good for one free jar of salsa.

You can play once per day until June 30th, 2009.

On Good Things Utah there is a contest to win four tickets to Rocky Mountain Raceway. My husband and son would be so excited to get these tickets and I'm sure yours would too.

Enter for the chance to win tickets to the IHRA Nitro Nationals this weekend.