February Trip 2 List
Posted By Kim on February 12, 2010
I re-tweaked the last part of February’s menu to account for Ash Wednesday and to use up some roast in the freezer. I think we did pretty good this time around.
Walmart
Cereal – $5.12 (less $0.75 coupon, $4.37)
Chili -2 cans at $0.97
Ground beef – 2.25 pounds, $4.23
Spaghetti sauce – 2 at $1.98 (less $1.00 off two, $2.96)
Cheese – 1 pound, $3.88
Red beans and rice mix – $1.47
Cream of Potato Soup – 2 cans at $1.26
Clams – 2 cans at $1.38
Pizza crusts – 2 at $0.52
Pizza sauce – $1.14
Manwich – $1.00
Ham steaks – $2.98
Tortilla chips – $2.00
Ramen – $1.98
Scalloped potaotes – 2 boxes at $1.00
Tuna fish – $0.77
Tea – $2.24 (less $0.50 coupon, $1.74)
1 pound of black forest ham – $3.50
1 pound turkey pastrami – $2.98
1/2 pound hard salami – $2.34
Oreos – $2.19 (less $2.19 with coupon, FREE)
Total: $49.04
Safeway
Chicken breasts, 2 pounds – $2.02
Pita Chips – $4.99 (less $5.99 with coupon, FREE + overage)
Total: $1.02
A few things that we noticed:
- It’s a better value for us to buy cheese and milk in bulk from Costco.
- If you go up to the deli at Walmart right before it closes, you can buy the already sliced meat for half off. The black forest ham was $7/pound, we purchased a pound for $3.50
- We really lucked out with the pita chips coupon, because we had overage that was applied to our purchase of chicken breasts. We saved a total of $10.66 (91%!!) at Safeway between coupons and their little club card. A grand total of $15.89 saved between coupons and club card at Walmart and Safeway.
Our grand total was $50.06, and we have about $10-15 budgeted for milk and cheese. We’re still on track quite nicely, and we don’t feel deprived or anything like that in our eating. 
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I was thinking of you the other day since I got a few budgeting books from the library. One of them is “American’s Cheapest Family” by Steve and Annette Economides. Have you read this one? They had some really good ideas in there. A few things I hadn’t thought of. One was about purchasing deli meat at a lower price and how they do that. Also had some ideas about prescription drugs! Definitely thought of you with the recent insurance drama. If you’re interested I can pass along those tips. God Bless!
I started reading that book but stopped about halfway through it. I don’t remember what they said about prescription drugs, so I’d definitely love to hear! We’ve been trying to find the ‘chubs’ but alas, haven’t had much luck!
In this book as well as the one I’m reading currently, “The Coupon Mom’s Guide to Cutting Your Grocery Bills in Half” by Stephanie Nelson, they both mention checking into clubs like Sam’s and Costco which allow non-menmbers to purchase prescriptions there. You can check online for Costco (I believe), but would have to call for Sam’s. I think I”m going to check into this for DH’s allergy medicine! His is the most expensive script we have, and I’d really like to bring that cost down. I’m still learning the ropes with coupon use, but this current book from the Coupon Mom is really helping me make sense of things. If your library has them, definitely recommend borrowing. Happy Shrove Tuesday!
Awesome! We don’t have a Sam’s club but definitely a Costco. I used to get my eye care + glasses through them when I was in college. I never thought to think about prescriptions.
I’ll have to check and see if our library has that book – hopefully they do!