I'm currently challenging myself to stick with a $70 grocery budget for our family of five. This includes almost all of our breakfasts, lunches, snacks, and dinners + most household products (toiletries, laundry soap, etc.).
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I’ve got some GREAT deals to report today — including some that you can do if you have a Kroger or Kroger affiliate! But first things first, last night’s dinner was delicious! I didn’t know how it was going to turn out, but I was very pleasantly surprised! Yay!
In other news, I am having so much fun challenging myself to stick with a $70 grocery budget. I forgot how fun this was to see how well I could do and how well we could eat while on a tighter budget.
I’m also loving hearing from so many of you who are being inspired by following my deal posts on Instagram Stories and am just thrilled to see that you are finding great markdowns at your stores or are looking for new ways to save!
Here are the great deals I got at Kroger last night and this morning (I went to two different Kroger stores and they both had different markdowns):
Thursday’s Kroger Shopping Trip
- Lemon juice (I use this in my daily gallon of lemon water) — $2.49
- Take & Bake Bread — marked down to $0.99
- Rolls — marked down to $0.99
- Whole Wheat bread — marked down to $1.49
- Ground Turkey — marked down to $2.49
- 5 boxes of oatmeal packets — on sale for $1.39 each, used $0.50 Digital Coupon (can be used up to 5 times in one transaction) — $0.89 each after coupon
- 5 boxes of Creamette pasta — on sale for $0.99 each, used $0.50 Digital Coupon (can be used up to 5 times in one transaction) — $0.49 each after coupon
- Total with tax: $16.10
Want to see more details on the deals I got? Watch my live un-bagging video above. 🙂
There is a GREAT deal on bacon at Kroger that I stumbled onto, thanks to a tip from Kroger Krazy!
Through Sunday, Kroger has their Private Selection Center Cut Bacon on sale for just $2.99 (some regions have it for $3.99). There is a $1 off Digital Coupon available that you can use up to 5 times in one transaction — making it just $1.99 per package!!
Jesse was quite excited that I got 4 packages of bacon!!! (I only got 4 so that I could stay under my $70 grocery budget!) I stuck three of them in the freezer to use in the coming weeks and I’m planning at least one breakfast for dinner night next week where we’ll have some yummy bacon alongside our French Toast!
Friday’s Kroger Shopping Trip
- 1 loaf of Sourdough bread — marked down to $1.49
- 3 bags of apples — marked down to $0.99 each
- 1 bag of potatoes — marked down to $0.99
- 1 bag of tomatoes — marked down to $0.99
- 1 bag of onions — marked down to $0.99
- 1 head of lettuce — marked down to $0.49
- 4 packages of bacon — on sale for $2.99, used $1 off Digital Coupon off each — $1.99 per package after coupon and sale
- 1 package cheese — on sale for $1.99, used $0.50 off Digital Coupon — $1.49
- 1 package taco seasoning — Free Friday download coupon
- Total with tax: $18.99
Want to see more details on the deals I got? Watch my live un-bagging video above. 🙂
Total spent this week (last Friday to this Friday): $68.22
Total Cashback: $1.50 from iBotta for buying the Fage yogurt and $0.50 from Checkout 51 for buying the Artisan lettuce!
How did you save today? Have you found any great deals on groceries or gotten creative in order to save money? Tell us about it in the comments!
