Super Mega Sale at Kroger and Walgreens! Read ASAP!

Let me say this first: I am not the first person to post about these items being on sale. I am just one of many people out there who share deal scenarios, although I don't do it very often anymore. I just saw several diff deals from various bloggers, and noticed a few of my own, and am putting them all in one place. You guys know I don't buy very many processed foods any more. We try to buy as much fresh fruit and veggies, local if possible, and organic when possible. I LOVE shopping for produce at the farmer's market because that is good for our community and directly helps support families in our area. BUT, that's only possible with some balance. I shop on a very tight budget, so that means shopping for things and buying when the price goes lowest and stocking up to lock in on that price for as long as 1) I can have room to store it and it will keep (might freeze it) or 2)I can afford it. Even if it was $1 and it was a good price, I couldn't ever spend $100 on 100 of something, just because it was a good deal. I have a strict budget and have to keep it balanced on other things too.



I am still losing weight. I'll probably write about that on the other blog tomorrow, but today is the end of the first 6 months. I am over halfway there, I have lost over 67 pounds, and for the most part my kids and husband eat what I eat. I don't make some separate meal for me and feed everyone else all the junk. We, like I said, eat alot more fresh local produce, and lean meat-mostly chicken or extra lean ground turkey or extra lean ground beef, depending on the dish.

Having said that, I'm still a mom. My kids still like the same stuff yours do. Cheetos, hot dogs, General Mills Cereal, american cheese, etc.  I DO buy that stuff. I just don't think I should have to pay a ton for it when I do, so when I see the price go fantasticly low, I do try to buy a bunch. Please don't get the idea that we eat like this every day. I think we prob go through 1 box of sugary cereal a week, between all 5 of us. Maybe 2. The last time I bought like 12 boxes was like March or April. It has lasted me till now. Which actually works out well because it's back to a super low price!  And for those wondering, me buying this stuff is what helps me to buy that $6 pack of Laura's lean beef or organic blueberries.  Sometimes the stores have mostly processed stuff on sale, sometimes it's a mix. Sometimes I am shopping at Aldi because there's nothing at Kroger I need, and Aldi's produce is cheaper. Also, Kroger is about to stop doubling coupons-July 10th-if you weren't aware. In addition to only taking 2 like internet printables or 2 internet printables from the same brand, or limiting to 4 or 5 of one item when you are using coupons, now they won't double. It will probably affect the deals I used to be able to get, but perhaps only make it harder to save. Some deals will still be there I'd imagine.

ANYWAYS, here's what I did at Walgreens.


I broke it up into 2 separate transactions, so I could use the register rewards towards the 2nd purchase.

Transaction 1:
Buy 4 Velveeta Cheesy Skillets, on sale for $1.99 each
        Use 4   $1/1 velveeta cheesy skillets coupon, from here
Pay $.99 each and receive $3 back in RR     IF you do not see 4 left on your shelf, try this.
       (Buy 2, get $1 back; Buy 3, get $2 back; Buy 4, get $3 back)

Transaction 2:
Buy 3 simply lemonade at $1.99 each, sale price
      use $.50 coupon in July coupon book at front of the store
      Use $.75 coupon from coupons.com   (2 prints per pc allowed)
Final Price: $.75 each wyb 2

Buy 4 oscar meyer hotdogs at $2.99, b1g1 free price (totals to about  $1.49 each)
      Use $1/2 coupons.com coupon if you printed when it was available
Final price: $.99 each

Buy 2 Butterball turkey bacon  $.99 sale price 6 oz size
      Use $1/1 found here https://www.facebook.com/Butterball/app_520919787975954
take the quiz, takes like 30 seconds, and submit your email and you can get 1 print per pc

Use the Register Reward toward this purchase, and pay less than $10 after tax total for BOTH transactions. Woohooo!!!!!

Kroger:
There is a huge, mega sale this week. Huge!! Huge, I tell ya!!

Here's what I got. * Denotes a Mega Sale item, after the mega discount.
You do need to buy 10 of ANY (mix/match) Mega items, to get $5 to come off at the end of your receipt  It will not come off unless you buy 10 items, and it will not come off until the very end when you hit pay.

1 loaf Kroger bread $1
1 kroger whole wheat tortillas $1.49
1 loaf Kroger hot dog buns $1
        used .40 off Kroger buns e coupon, comes off automatically at the end
1 bag kroger tortilla chips $1

1 bag Kroger chicken breast, 3lbs frozen $6.99
     Use $1/1 kroger e coupon for kroger frozen chicken breast

1 jar Tostitos salsa, price $2.99, Kroger E coupon from Friday for free salsa
2 gallons of milk $3.15 ea
*2 pkg Oreos $2.49 ea
    Use $1/1 oreo when you buy 1 gallon of milk (I believe that's on the Nabisco Cookies FB page)
*2 kraft BBq sauce, $.50ea
   Used $1/2 kroger e-coupon (there was also printables for this last week)
*2 Kraft singles, 22 ct, $1.99 ea   (the 2% singles are part of the mega this week but My kroger was out so I'll go back Tuesday to get some or get rainchecks)
   Used $1/2 kraft cheese singles
*2 Koolaid cannister $.99 each
   Used $1/2 kool aid sweetened cannister E coupon (or printable if you printed it last week. Tang cannisters, and country time lemonade are also part of this deal and there is both an e-coupon and a printable from last week for the country time, but obviously I'm good on lemonade, ha!!)
*3 bags Green giant steamer veggies, $.99 each
*1 jar Vlassic Pickles, $1.49
    use $1/1 vlassic coupon
*1 bag cheetos $1.50
*4 boxes Hefty gallon size freezer bags, $1.49 each
       use $1/2 coupon from coupons.com (I believe it's still available)
*1 box cinnamon toast crunch $1.99
     Use $.50/1 e coupon or other coupons.com, or pillsbury coupons
*2 boxes Trix cereal $1.99 each
     Used 2  $.60/1 printable coupon from Pillsbury online or other coupons.com etc
Total spent $38!!!!!!