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Monday, May 3, 2010

Grocery Store Roll Call April Week 4 04/18/10-04/23/10

Kroger 04/21/10
Total Spent: $18.09
Total Saved: $59.86
Percentage Saved: 77.19%
Notes: Now have 3 candy purchases towards free movie ticket, spent 8 in ECBs received $9.49 in ECBs used $2.64 from FSA

4/21/2010 CVS
Total Spent: $5.69
Total Saved: $19.26 
Percentage Saved: 77.19%
Notes Now have 3 candy purchases towards free movie ticket, spent 8 in ECBs received $9.49 in ECBs used $2.64 from FSA

4/21/2010 Meijer
Total Spent: $4.75
Total Saved: $33.62 
Percentage Saved: 87.62%
Notes: Used 2 Coupons for $3 off my next order and received one coupon for $3 off my next order

4/23/2010 Meijer
Total Spent: $20.96
Total Saved: $56.97 
Percentage Saved: 73.10%
Notes: Received $14 in catalinas!

4/23/2010 Sav-A-Lot
Total Spent: $4.84
Total Saved: $0.21 
Percentage Saved: 4.16%

4/23/2010 Rite Aid
Total Spent: 0
Total Saved: $27.08
Percentage Saved: 100.00%
Notes: True savings of 66.73% but spent gift card and used 0 out of pocket

4/23/2010 Meijer Transaction #1
Total Spent: 0
Total Saved: $9.00
Percentage Saved: 100.00%
Notes: Used $9 in Catalinas to pay for order and received 7 more in return

4/23/2010 Meijer Tranaction #2
Total Spent: $0.91
Total Saved: $6.60 
Percentage Saved: 87.88%
Notes: Used $3 in catalinas and received $2 in return

4/23/2010 Meijer
Total Spent: $3.11
Total Saved: $39.58 
Percentage Saved: 92.71%
Notes: Used remaining catalinas to lower out of pocket cost

So I spent $58.35 to purchase $310.53 worth of groceries including lots of snacks and personal products for an overall savings of 81.21%.  I have went way over budget but gotten a lot of things in return like movie tickets from last week and the deals have been just too good!  As you can see I was able to "roll" catalinas at Meijer which helped a lot. 

1 comment:

  1. I went to grocery shopping tonight and used the $1.00 off coupon for the Pillsbury, Save $1.00 on any High Liner SEA Cuisine product and save $1 on the Cheerios cinnamon toast crunch using printable grocery coupon from clickmycoupon.com.

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