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Thi Week’s $62.75 Kroger Shopping Trip

I’m currently challenging myself to stick with a $70 budget for our family of six (two adults, two teens, a pre-teen, and a baby). This includes almost all of our breakfasts, snacks, and dinners + most household products (toiletries, feminine products, etc.). Jesse and I usually eat lunch at home. The kids have lunch at school.

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Well, after last week’s accidental $82 shopping trip with Kroger Pickup, I was excited to get back to shopping in-store. And I’d planned that I was only going to spend $58 to make up for the overage I’d spent with pick up.

I was so excited because Kroger had sent me a $6 coupon good for any $60 or more shopping trip. I had my shopping trip planned and I was excited about the deals! I did my shopping and found lots of great deals… but when I got up to the self-checkout to scan and pay for my groceries, I couldn’t find my $6 coupon anywhere.

I went through all of the contents of my purse. It wasn’t there.

I looked through the shopping cart thinking it may have fallen. It wasn’t there.

I asked the lady at self-checkout if I could leave my groceries and quickly go look in the car for the coupon (I had gone later at night and there was almost no one at the store!). I couldn’t find the coupon anywhere.

So, I just ended up paying for my groceries and heading home.

Guess what I found stuck down on the side of the driver’s seat when I got home? The $6 coupon!!!

Of course, it expires tomorrow, so I couldn’t just keep it to use for groceries this coming week. Multiple people told me on Instagram that I should bring my receipt back to the store with the coupon the next day and they would give me a refund. Since I was going to be right by the store, I decided to try it.

Well, I found out that they totally would have given me a refund… only I hadn’t spent enough money to qualify to even use the coupon in the first place!! (The fine print says you have to spend $60 *after* tax!)

I thought some of you might find it encouraging that I still lose coupons and fail to read the fine print — even after years of shopping like this!!

Oh well, I’ll just spend $65 at Kroger this coming week and I’ll be within budget and it’s all good. And this is one good reason we budget out enough money to last for the next month in each category!

I also had to take pictures of both the produce markdown area and the bread cart. Because I thought it might encourage you to see that sometimes it’s really picked over at our store, too!

I did end up getting one loaf of Italian bread marked down to $0.79 to stick in the freezer, though.

I’ve been loving all of the yogurt markdowns they’ve had recently!

Kierstyn loves yogurt, so I’ve been buying the vanilla for her. And the plain yogurt is great to sub for sour cream, as well.!

Two of our older three still love those Danimals drinkable yogurt, so I pick them up whenever I find them marked down.

I’ve not tried the Sweet Biscuits before, bought I bought two cans and we’ll see what we think! And I picked up the cookie dough to use for when we had a group of teens over for dinner this weekend.