Saving on groceries without tons of planning!

It's been quite a while since I've posted about saving money at the grocery store,
but I got such good deals yesterday that I wanted to share a quick post showing you how I saved!

This was no well-planned trip.
In fact, I just planned to run to the grocery real quick to pick up milk, toilet paper ...
you know, the things that you can't go without ;)

However, I decided to look over the sale ad before leaving & saw that there were some great deals
with the Mega Sale {buy 5, save $5}.
This is hands down, when I always get the best deals.

It's a rare occasion that I use manufacturer's coupons anymore.
We don't take the paper & I don't buy one on Sunday just for the coupons.
Truthfully, I just don't have the time to clip the coupons & plan out the trips like I used to.

What I do use are the ecoupons that I load onto my Kroger card!
There are always good ones & often times, they are picked for me based on what I buy.
Every now & then, I will get a package of coupons through the mail from Kroger,
but those don't come as often as they used to.
I think they are seeming to move towards the online coupons.

Today, I used a combo of three things to get these savings:

• ecoupons loaded to my Kroger card
• Kroger coupons that came through the mail
• coupons that printed out at the Kroger register

 

Now, I didn't plan on blogging about this, so it's not as put together as the big-time savings blogger.
It's just to show how I saved considerably with very minimal time spent.
And unfortunately, you most likely can't take advantage of every deal that I did,
because you may not have loaded the same ecoupons to your card
or have the same coupons that came by mail.
{Sorry about that.}

I can't share every single good deal, cause I had quite a few of them, but I'll show the best ones.

This one is my favorite, I think.

It was not part of the mega sale.

150 oz. Purex on sale for $7.99

- $3 off 2  ecoupon

- buy 2, get 1 free peeler coupon

$4.33 each 

Mega Sale Items {Buy 5, Save $5}

Great Lash mascara $2.49 close out price

- $1 mega sale came off

- $2 mail coupon

Free + $.51 overage

Loreal nail polish $2.49 close out price

- $1 mega sale came off

- $2 mail coupon

Free + $.51 overage 

{Being a close out item, these should not have gotten the $1 off mega sale discount.

I even asked at customer service to be sure, but for whatever reason, they still came up as part of the sale.}

Frizz-Ease $5.99

- $1 off mega sale

- $3 off 2 Kroger mail coupon

$3.49 each 

Oscar Meyer carving board lunch meat $3.49

- $1 off mega sale

- $.75 ecoupon

$1.74 

Oscar Meyer carving board lunch meat $3.49

- $1 off mega sale

- $2 ecoupon

$.49

Edy's ice cream $3.49

- $1 mega sale

- $1 ecoupon

- $1.50 register coupon

Free + .01 overage

Resolve $2.79

- $1 mega sale

- $.75 ecoupon

$1.04

Gevalia bagged coffee $6.99

- $1 mega sale

- $2.25 ecoupon

- $1.00 ecoupon

$2.74

Gevalia bagged coffee $6.99

- $1 mega sale

- $1.00 ecoupon

- $.50 ecoupon

$4.49

Freebie Friday items:

Kraft BBQ sauce

Snapple tea

I also had an ecoupon for $2 off produce.

Total savings:

coupons: $28.50

Kroger savings: $103.82

Now, remember those register coupons I mentioned above ... well, lucky me!

These printed out for me yesterday!

So, I think I'll run back up to Kroger in a bit to use these cause today is the last day of the mega sale.

The Old Orchard juice is $.99 & the Edy's is $2.49 {if you buy 5 items that are part of the sale}.

So, I'll buy 2 juices & 3 ice creams for $6.95!

The juices will be $.49 each & the ice cream will be $1.99.

And for one last big savings ... before I went grocery shopping yesterday, 

I redeemed 100 fuel points at the gas station saving $1 a gallon on gas!

All in all, I did pretty good today at Kroger!! =) 

*My tip for the best savings using ecoupons at Kroger: get on the site often.

I don't know the rhyme or reason as to when the new coupons are added,

but when they're gone, they're gone.

So check the site regularly & add any coupons that you think you may use.

 

Happy savings, everyone!

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