September Grocery Shopping

9/1. Shoprite $44.95. Hamburger rolls, 8 piece deli fried chicken, 5.74 lbs of 80% Ground Beef, 3.72 lbs of London broil (twin pack), 9.15 lbs (three packages) BS chicken breast.

9/2 Stop & Shop $82.86 I am especially proud of this shopping trip because my entire cart cost less then the price on the beef tenderloin that I purchased. I got 2.38 pounds of Italian sausage, 20.8 ounces of ground turkey, 5.74 pounds of whole beef tenderloin.   Four bags of lays potato chips which were on sale, plus I will get four dollars back from saving star when I reach the purchase price of $18 total.  Two Chobani Meze dips that will each cost me a dollar after saving star refunds a dollar each.  A container of alouette light herb cheese. The six pack of Jiffy corn muffin mix, and two boxes of Krusteaz corn muffin mix.  My one splurge on this trip was a box of weight watchers lemon cakes.   Price before manufacturer and store coupons was $142.66.  (Cornbread mixes were our part of a pig roast side dish)

9/3 bagel chips from a local Jewish deli.    Huge bag.  $4.99

9/3 Stop and Shop $6.09 case Sunkist Diet soda.  

9/4 Produce Market $20.79 3 bagels, 2 pastries, cream cheese,  salmon cream cheese and lemon poppy seed bread (very heavy).  


9/5 BJ's  $55.18 Gatorade 28 pk, diet snapple 24 pk, Stacey's pita chips, 20 ounces mushrooms, gallon milk, half and half, 4 lbs of tomatos, 2 lbs chorizo

9/10 Big Y $44.39 (after saving star)  Chocolate Chip cookies from bakery, A dozen donuts (pumpkin and apple) B1G1 half dozen free, 3 dozen eggs, 2 loaves of crap white bread for DH to use with Peanut butter, a package of store brand light english muffins (I am holding fast and not buying from SoNo), a bag of fritos which will put me at the $12.00 mark with SavingStar for 4.00 back, Seedless rye bread, a bag of kale chips (let's see how my system reacts to these) 2 bags of store brand egg noddles, 3.62 lbs of BSCB, 4 packages of Perdue GF breaded nuggets and tenders B1G1F PLUS two $1.00 off coupons on two of them.  3.63 lbs of cabbage (man, I have a thing for that weight I guess) 3.25 lb butternut and 1.9 lb acorn squash.  I thought this was an amazing trip.  Also received a 10% off of next order!

9/10 CVS. 4 boxes of oatmeal, various flavors.  FREE

9/11 Stop and Shop $58.21 Deli Hard salami, turkey breast and rare italian roast beef.  3.56 lbs of Ground Beef, and 20.8 ounces of ground turkey breast. 3 packages of mushrooms, 2.5 lbs of asparagus.  Quaker rice cakes chocolate and cheddar.  Bays english muffins (still trying to avoid buying from the farmers market.  These were actually very good, I think we have a winner) 8 pc fried chicken for DH. Large family size bag of Utz chips (DH's favorite) Orange Juice.

9/13 Boxed.com for snacks for DH's lunches.  He hasn't touched anything yet.  Also included an iced coffee that I have been wanting to try.  $77.81

9/15 Target to get stocked up on Bush's Sciracha beans (limited) Gpa P loved.  I had coupons, and there is a Savings Star Deal which I reached.  16.88

9/18 $3.75 sourdough boule

9/19 Big Y 8.38 after savings star, checkout 51 and coupons.  Two avocados, 5 lbs potatoes, 1.72 lb of BS chicken thighs and a can of rotel tomatoes.

9/26 $38.24  Three HUGE Big Y Roasting chickens .68 a pound.  Two packages of Ground veal dated 9/27 with $2.00 off stickers on them and one package of turkey italian hot sausage with a $1.00 off sticker.  2 bananas that I got for free after Ibotta.  5 lb bag of potatoes and celery.

$462.52         So, over my 400 dollar goal but UNDER my previous 500 goal (which I always went way over)  Funny huh?   We did bring back some baked goods from PA, but I target that as vacation $$. Though it will go towards meals.   Since alot of these purchases haven't even been touched yet I am counting on these purchases to be eaten in October.  I will again set the budget for $400 and focus on loss leaders and big sales only.  My market share is almost done (a little less than $100 left)