First day and already out

Wow, my first trip and I am already not going to be under $50.00 but I am not defeated.   Some of the purchases made today are setting me up for the weeks to come.

I spent $42.04 at ShopRite, buying 3 24 packs of Deer Park Water, 4 cans of Libby's corn, Knorr beef stock, 2 12 packs of Dr. Pepper, Kellogg's Crunchy Nut Cereal, 4 Yo Crunch, 8 Yoplait light, 4 boxes of Kellogg's Fiber Plus (the mister is not a happy camper without his fiber bars), 2 packs of meatloaf mix (beef, pork,veal), 1 box of Idahoan Potato Casserole, a box of non fat instant milk, and two bags of ShopRite brand frozen vegetables.  The instant milk is going to be used to make bread so that is going to help save going forward.    The water, although not needed, was on sale and you had to buy three.    I had two coupons for the fiber bars, if you bought two fiber bars you saved $1.00 on the water.  The bars were on sale so I could not pass up the deal since both items were on sale and the fiber bars make the mister happy.   I saved $50.41 at ShopRite.

CVS was beyond fabulous today.  I bought Lady Speed Stick, Pantene shampoo and Pantene conditioner, and St. Joseph cold medicine for high blood pressure (again that man of mine).   The deodorant was on sale for $2.99, there was a coupon for $1.00 off in the Sunday paper and an Extra Buck reward of $1.00.   Pantene was on sale 2 for $8.00.   The normal price is $6.99.   There was a coupon in the paper a couple of weeks ago, buy a Pantene shampoo get a Pantene conditioner or styler for free.   The coupon will scan for the original price of $6.99 so you will get both for $1.01 and then get an Extra Buck reward of $1.00.   The cold medicine was on sale for $5.00.   The Sunday paper had a coupon for $2.00 off and then you got the Extra Buck reward of $3.00.  I used a $5.00 Extra Buck reward to pay for everything bringing my total to $1.53 and I now have $5.00 to use towards my next purchase.  The price of the Pantene will be added to my Beauty Bucks Rewards, another CVS program.   Everytime you spend $50.00 on beauty items you get an additional $5.00 Extra Buck reward.   And if you bring your own bag with a CVS tag you get a $1.00 Extra Buck reward for every four times that you use the bag.  

So far I have spent $43.57 but am heading out later to get lunchmeat, Deterdings, the smallest grocery store I know, has a lunchbox special that ends today.   You get 2 lbs. of tavern ham and 1 lb. of american cheese for $7.99,  that is going to put me over by $1.56.   The bonus is Deterdings is close enough that I can ride my bike and far enough that I am getting a fair amount of exercise and since I am saving gas money I am not going to let the $1.56 bother me too much.

Well that is it for this week as far as shopping.  I am now going to bake some bread sans bread machine....I will let you know how that goes....