Shopping This Week (CVS, Safeway & Giant)

Things have been getting a little crazy around here recently. 1, I'm now unemployed and looking for work again which is not so great - thankfully hubbie is still gainfully employed. The good news is that we have plenty of gift cards so hopefully one of my 2 leads will pull through. Not that anyone reads this, but anyone looking for a smart and driven HR person getting her Master's (who knows how to budget, too!)?

Anyhow, usually what happens is that I shop on Sunday and that's it for the week, well with our milk intake increasing, this has now increased to a couple times a week which means I am bad and spend more money. Now granted, I would have spent the money anyway at some other point, but starting tomorrow I'm going to be penny pinching a lot more. Of course, I'll also have more time to cook food and we won't be eating nearly as much prepackaged stuff (thankfully, we have quite a bit of cereal and hopefully I'll be picking up some Kashi waffles whenever they go on sale with my $1.50/1 coupons from Vocal Point).

Ok, that was long-winded.

Here's what I bought at CVS this past Sunday, the 12th:

$3.34 Special K red berries
$3.33 Special K red berries
$5.00 Special K protein bars
$5.00 Special K protein bars (DH eats these like regular granola bars - wish I had his metabolism!)
$.99 pens
$.99 pens
$.99 pens
$.99 glue
$.99 glue
$.99 ruler
$.99 ruler
$.99 college notebook
$.99 college notebook (these are for me for school but I'm going to donate the other school supplies to a local charity once I find one!)

- $2/2 Special K
- $2/2 Special K
-$5.00 Extrabucks

= $17.02 OOP
Received $13.82 in Extrabucks

Earlier this week, I tried making these. They were a complete flop. Don't make them! They didn't stick together even though I added an extra egg after the batter seemed crumbly but they all fell apart in the pan, so I just dumped the rest of the batter in the pan and sauteed it all. I can't imagine it was particularly healthy but DH liked it. Anyway, the next day, I had the brilliant idea of adding a package of spinach to it to make it at least semi-healthy so I had DH go to Safeway and get 2 packages of frozen spinach, $2.78 OOP. I wound up baking it all with the spinach mixed in and that lasted us till last night when I finally had the rest of the leftovers for dinner (I made DH something new cause he was sick of it!).

Then today I went to Giant because we needed milk desparately and I had several coupons for Giant ($5 off $40 and $7 off). Here's what I got:

$2.39 gallon skim milk
$4.50 6 yoplaits
$3.00 Edys strawberry fruit bars
$3.00 Edys strawberry fruit bars
$3.00 Hagaan Daz ice cream bars
$3.00 Hagaan Daz ice cream bars
$.99 marshmallows
$.99 marshmallows
$5.00 Angel Soft 12 pack
$5.00 Angel Soft 12 pack
$3.00 3 bottles Gatorade
$2.00 Ocean Spray juice
$1.00 apple sauce on reduced
$2.50 canola oil spray
$4.00 4 1-serve easy mac
$.89 liter seltzer
$.89 liter seltzer
$2.50 pound Utz pretzals
$5.00 2 packages Giant turkey breast
$8.47 several pounds of boneless skinless turkey breast
$1.65 3.51 lbs of bananas

-$.80/6 yoplait
-$1/2 Edys
- $1/2 Haagan Daz
- $1/1 Angel Soft
- $1/1 Angel Soft
- $1/1 Ocean Spray
- $1/1 Easy MAC (b1g1)
- $1/1 Easy MAC (b1g1)
- $5/$40
-$7.00

= $43.86 OOP
And I received $4.00 off my next shopping trip for buying the Edys.