Grocery Budget 10/25-10/31

As usual, I made my Sunday night run for SOMETHING.  This time it was crackers (for crackers and cheese snack) and a newspaper.  The insert is all I care about, so I pitched the rest before I remembered to take a picture.  I paid $3.50 for this.

This was my Monday night run to CVS.  I paid $3.95 for all of the pictured items after using $7 in ECB, but I got back $15 in ECB. Not bad.  If I had been thinking, I would have used my gift card that I received for bringing a new Rx there, but I forgot.

Tuesday night I couldn't resist the allure of more free Tomato soup and the threat of an expiring $5 ECB, so I made another run to CVS.  I paid 22 cents for all of this, after using up my $5 ECB.  I love that!

I also stopped by Giant Eagle to grab some sales.  I paid $18.80 for all of the pictured items!  My receipt said 71% savings!  This was not inflated by any catalina coupons.  This was a straight coupons-from-the-paper-and-internet type deal.  The Steamfresh meals were on sale for $5.99, and I used the BOGO coupons from the paper to score a usually $8.49 product for $2.98 each.  This will be nice on evenings when we're in a rush, as they are healthful and only takes 10 minutes in the microwave to heat.  Actually, one of the Steamfresh meals is missing because we ate one before I took the picture!  The cookie sheet was free with the purchase of 4 Betty Crocker items!

I couldn't pass up the free cookie sheet deal again, so I went to GE again on Wednesday.  I paid $5.56, saving 76% according to my receipt! The L'oreal Kid's Shampoo was only $.09, after the sale and coupons.  The cookie mixes were $.20, and the cookie sheet was free with the cookie mixes. The peanut butter was $1.20, the margarine $.75, the bread was $1.50.

My grand total was $32.03, making our monthly grocery spending just $163.19!  I was $36.81 underbudget!!