$20 WEEK PREP CHALLENGE--WEEK 7, FEB 12-18

[prudentwatcher]

Another week of slim pickings. Here is what I came up with:

FOOD LION--
2 pasta or rice and sauce--.69 +.50/1 coup--2/.38

ALBERTSONS--
2 18 oz Skippy peanut butter--1.50 +.35/1 coup--2/2.30
1 24 oz bottle Albertson's syrup--1.50

PUBLIX--
8 chef boy ar dee pasta--buy1/get 1 free---8/5.00
1 can evap milk-.59

HITCHCOCKS--
4 Betty Crocker cake mixes-.88 each--4/3.52
3 15 oz boxes Cheerios--1.60 ea +1.00/3 coupon--3/3.80

WALGREENS--
2 18 oz quaker oats--1/1 w/in ad coup + .50/1 coup--2/1.99
3 cans mandarin oranges--.39 w/in ad coup--3/1.17

TOTAL-$20.25

Peanut butter is a good, cheap protein. The canned pasta is a good deal and is easy to heat over a sterno stove. The Cheerios were a fabulous deal and they are my favorite cereal. You also have to have dessert, hence the cake mixes, 2 chocolate and 2 lemon would be my choices, and I don't really like my cake with frosting on it any way.

Hopefully some of you have better sales out there. What have you found so far this week?

 

[Dinghy]

No good sales, and nothing good on clearance yet. I'll try to get to the store early tomorrow and see if there is a produce clearance cart. I'll probably buy some more of the Chef Boy RD ravioli that's marked down. It's still .79, but it's a nice quick lunch. The sales here have been pretty pitiful for a long time. I've been dehydrating a lot of produce from the clearance cart and I made more applesauce yesterday. We only have one grocery store in town, so it's slim pickings!

 

[prudentwatcher]

I was just at Big Lots this afternoon and noticed a few good deals--it can be hit or miss there. They had a LOT of pasta at 49 cents a bag (1 lb bags), shapes, angel hair, etc. The generic stuff at the grocery store is 79 cents for the same thing. Also had a lot of soup this time around, and lots of canned tomatoes and beans. Might be worth a quick look if you have one close to you.