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Kroger! I’ve missed you! And of course, when I was gone to India, you had to have some fantastic deals that I missed. I saw them online and wished I could fly back just to get them… but alas, that wasn’t really feasible.
(I did get to go to a grocery store called More while I was in India. The prices were pretty downright incredible! I took a bunch of pictures and will do a post about that sometime in the next few weeks. Our Indian friends found it quite funny that I was so excited about all of the deals there and how cheaply I could feed our family. Of course, considering the whole not using toilet paper thing and the fact that I got sick as a dog with Dehli Belly at the end of the trip, I think I’ll happily stick with shopping at Kroger here in the US!)
The kids are back in school and that means that I can swing by Kroger on the way home from school drop offs. I actually drive right by two different Kroger stores on the way home, believe it or not! Best of all, I can run into Kroger at the perfect time of
day to shop: before 8 a.m.! Not only are there usually some good markdowns, but there also is usually almost no one at the store!
Here’s what I got this morning:
Thursday Kroger Shopping Trip
- Gillette Satin Gel — $0.99 when you buy 5 participating items in the current Kroger Mega Event (buy $5, get $5 off)
- 2 Lady Speed Stick Deodorants –$0.99 when you buy 5 participating items in the current Kroger Mega Event (buy $5, get $5 off)
- Wrigley Extra Chewy Mints — priced at $1.50, use $1.50/1 Kroger Digital coupon, FREE after coupon
- Colgate Toothpaste — $1.99 when you buy 5 participating items in the current Kroger Mega Event (buy $5, get $5 off), used $2/1 Kroger digital coupon = FREE after coupon
- Gillette Daisy Razors — $3.99 when you buy 5 participating items in the current Kroger Mega Event (buy $5, get $5 off), used $3/1 Kroger digital coupon = $0.99 after coupon
- 2 boxes Welch’s Fruit Rolls (these particular ones didn’t have any food coloring or artificial flavoring!) — $0.99 each when you buy 5 participating items in the current Kroger Mega Event (buy $5, get $5 off), used $1/2 Kroger digital coupon = $0.49 per box after coupon + submitted for $1/2 Checkout 51 rebate = FREE after coupon and rebate!
- 2 bags of Pepperidge Farm Goldfish Crackers — $0.99 when you buy 5 participating items in the current Kroger Mega Event (buy $5, get $5 off)
- 1 bar of Kraft cheese — $1.99 when you buy 5 participating items in the current Kroger Mega Event (buy $5, get $5 off) — I thought that my $1/1 Kroger digital coupon was going to come off for this, making it just $0.99. I discovered when I got home that the coupon was only good on shredded cheese, not bar cheese. Oh well!
- 6 tubs of Chobani yogurt — marked down to $0.49 each
- 2 tubs of Kroger Greek Moose Tracks yogurt — marked down to $0.29 each
- 2 bags of Peatos — marked down to $0.99 each (Have you tried these before? We haven’t, so I only bought two bags in two different flavors because I wasn’t sure if they were good or not.)
- Half and Half — $2.99
- Smoothie Greens — marked down to $2.99
- Used $4 catalina I earned on my last shopping trip to Kroger
- Total with tax: $18.34
Cashback I Earned
$0.25 from iBotta for submitting my receipt, 69 points from Fetch Rewards for submitting my receipt, and $1 back from Checkout 51 for buying Welch’s Fruit Rolls.
