Tuesday, October 20, 2009

Tuesday's Tip: Update on our Budget, Great CVS Deals This Week

Well this week my goal was to only spend $125 on both grocery food and out to eat food. We spent $90 on groceries which was good (I went online and successfully got coupons for almost everything we bought), but we spent $77.18 on out to eat food for a total of $167... I am not too disappointed because we have been spending even more than that! Did we got to a restaurant a pay a waitress fee? Nope. We did not stick to eating at home on Monday, Thursday, and Saturday night. We went to the mall and ate at the food court on Friday night, and Saturday night we got Groucho's to go. We also got Sonic Sunday night which we normally do not do, and Charlie went to the fair yesterday with staff (although he has been taking his lunch to eat every day). I am still going to try for $125 again this week, but it just might not be a realistic goal for us.

I braved CVS today with both babies and I forgot my double stroller. Plus, they were doing construction inside the store. Somehow we made it and they both stayed in the buggy. We paid $15 for tons of candy and got $5 back. I also bought the coke deal they had this week, because I had a coupon for $5 off when you spend $25 at CVS for filling out an online survey. Click here to get yours!

Spend $20 on select Candy, Get $5 ECBs (Limit 1)

*****Deal Idea #1*****

Buy 3 Nestle Fun Size Bags at $2.50 each
Buy 4 Hershey's Fun Size Bags at $2.50 each
Buy 3 Trident Gum at $0.99 each

Use 3 Nestle $1/1 printables here
Use 1 B3G1 Hershey's coupon from the 10/18 SmartSource insert
Use 1 $1/3 Hershey's coupon from the 9/27 SmartSource insert
Use 3 $0.75/1 Trident printables here
$0.67 per item after coupons and ECBs (Thanks, Jenny!)

*****Deal Idea #2*****

Buy 4 Nestle Fun Size Bags at $2.50 each
Buy 4 Hershey's Fun Size Bags at $2.50 each

Use 4 Nestle $1/1 printables here
Use 1 B3G1 Hershey's coupon from the 10/18 SmartSource insert
Use 1 $1/3 Hershey's coupon from the 9/27 SmartSource insert
$0.94 per bag after coupons and ECBs

*****Deal Idea #3*****

Buy 8 Hershey's Fun Size Bags at $2.50 each
Use 2 B3G1 Free coupons from the 10/18 SmartSource insert
Use 2 $1/3 coupons from the 9/27 SmartSource insert
$1 per bag after coupons and ECBs

Deals came straight from moneysaving mom's blog

I did do the first deal and printed it out so I would not be confused with both babies. However, I used the new printable coupon for one bag of candy. You can get a new printable $2 off 1 bag of nestle candy here.

Printing off coupons through online sites has probably saved us $20 this week!

What is your money saving tip for this week?

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

My family of 6 (38,37,10,8,6,and 5 yrs) eats $225 per week total and we are fairly tight. That figures to $150 for a family of 4 with no diapers! Hillbillyhousewife.com has a lot of tips and recipes for a very low budget. The name of that website sounds bad, so please google it first instead of risking a typo - but it really is awesome!

Suzanne Jones said...

One thing I do to save a little $ and time is to buy my ground beef at Sam's. It is cheaper than the grocery stores but you do get a lot of meat. I go ahead and brown it all as soon as possible. Divide the cooked meat, put into freezer zip lock bags and into the freezer they go. Great to have to pull out to make spaghetti, taco, chili, etc.

Emily Wallace said...

Yes I think $150 should be my new realistic goal for the week to spend on groceries and out to eat food. Thanks so much!

Suzanne-
Thanks so much. We love taco's and we should try to have taco night once every couple weeks.

Thanks again yall!

Anonymous said...

Eating at home more will help save money and by planning your meals ahead of time it makes eating at home easy. Also on days you know you will be busy and not have time to cook a meal the crock pot is great, you can even get it all ready the night before and then just put it on in the morning. There are also a lot of easy family meals you can make even if you don't like to cook. We also look for meals that can do double duty. I will put a large roast in the crock pot and at the end of the day I shred half of it up and make tacos and the next night with the second half of the roast I shred it and mix with BBQ sauce and have BBQ beef sandwiches.