Safeway & Giant

Both Safeway and Giant have some particularly good sales going on, some of the decent ones at each are:

Giant

• $1.77lb chuck roast boneless - this is a great deal and I'm definitely going to be making at least 1 pot roast in the near future
• 3lb/$1 bananas - didn't pick up any during this trip but I might later this week when I have more energy
• $1 Giant Brand frozen vegetables in the smaller 16oz packages - I restocked our peas
• $1.99/lb Giant brand unsalted or salted butter - great stock up price!
• Also look for "Great Value" bathroom and general cleaners on clearance - it looks like they are repackaging or discontinuing these and they are all 33% off which beats any name brand cleaner even with a coupon!

Safeway

• $.99 Safeway Brand apple juice limit 4
• $.79 Gatorade - we go through a lot of this and $.79 is a great price to stock up on it

Now, my shopping trips. What's interesting about these trips is that the store brands were so good that I did not use any coupons. Yet, I still managed to save quite a bit over regular store prices.

Safeway:
$1.74 2 bottles of SF orange cream seltzer (on sale for $.87 cents a piece)
$2.97 3 bottles of Safeway brand apple juice
$2.50 1 lb bag of Utz pretzels
$3.95 5 bottles of lemon-lime Gatorade

= $11.50 Oop (even without coupons I saved 45%!)

Giant:
$1.99 Giant salted butter
$1.99 Giant unsalted butter
$1.00 1 bag frozen brussel sprouts
$2.00 2 bags frozen peas
$1.69 Great Value bathroom cleanser
$1.33 Great Value general lemon cleanser (both 32oz sprays)
$1.50 Giant brand long-grain rice
$1.50 Giant brand long-grain rice

The rice was interesting. Generally speaking, some people think that buying the largest quantity will net you the most savings. Not true. The Giant brand rice in the small 2 lb bag was only 75 cents per pound, while some of the larger bags of rice were upwards of $1 per pound. The only cheaper bag of rice was upwards of 20 lbs and only saved 5 cents per pound. Not worth it.

$7.12 1 chuck roast several pounds at $1.77/lb
$4.59 1 chuck roast a couple pounds at $1.77/lb

I'll probably go back to Giant sometime this week for another roast and some bananas but otherwise am well stocked!

= $24.87 Oop (saved over 50%, $25.60!)