November Eat from the Pantry Challenge- Week 2

We have joined Coping with Frugality in the November Eat from the Pantry Challenge.  Have you joined us too?

We inadvertently kept our shopping to a minimum the first week of November, so I joined in the Eat from the Pantry Challenge. You can see below my SPENDING progress for week 2! This includes toiletries as well as groceries!

Sunday NO SPEND DAY

Monday $0.56

Walgreen’s- 4 ice teas, gallon of milk, 2 Russel Stover Candy Treats (and knee high panty hose)  =  $0.56

Tuesday NO SPEND DAY

Wednesday $6.37

Walgreen’s- 4 ice teas = $0.18

Walgreen’s- 4 ice teas, gallon of milk, 2 Reach toothbrushes, 1 Reach floss, 1 single mm’s = $0.77

Price Chopper- 2 gallons of chocolate milk- $5.42

Thursday NO SPEND DAY

Friday NO SPEND DAY

Saturday $16.30

Price Chopper- 3 bags of Hostess Donuts- $3.18

Walgreen’s- 2 Reach toothbrushes, 1 Reach dental floss, 4 ice teas, 3 Carmex lip balms, Schick disposable razors, 2 Ghiradelli bars- $2.09

Price Chopper- 3 bags of Hostess Donuts- $3.18

Price Chopper- 3 bags of Hostess Donuts- $3.23 (Brian didn’t take his green bag with him!)

Walgreen’s- 8 ice teas- $0.75

Walgreen’s- 6 boxes of Kleenex, 4 ice teas, Schick disposable razors, 3 Reach dental floss, 2 Ghiradelli bars- $3.87

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My total spend on groceries and household items this week was $23.23.

Compared to everything I bought that doesn’t seem like a lot of money. Here is a breakdown of what I SAVED this week…

Manufacturer Coupons:                     $23.08

Walgreen’s Store Coupons:                   2.00

Wag Rewards Savings:                         39.58

Walgreens Register Rewards:            33.10

Price Chopper Member Savings:       22.32

Green Bags:                                                 .10

TOTAL SAVED:               $120.18

TOTAL SAVINGS:               84%

What did I learn about my spending this week?

1. I bought a LOT of iced tea! This is Brian’s favorite drink- and it was on sale for half off- I had a lot of register rewards to use so I used them to really stock up on his tea to save me money out of our weekly budget in the future.

2. We bought 9 packages of donuts from Price Chopper. Wow- we usually buy them on sale for $1.50 but this weekend they were only $0.99! We couldn’t pass up the deal- these aren’t the 6 donuts but the bag of Hostess Donuts! My kids are spending several day’s at Mema’s and then turning around and spending a week at their Grandma L’s. I like to be able to send special treats with them. So guess what they get to take with them? DONUTS!!

3. I went to a LOT of Walgreen’s. Mostly because I kept buying out all the tea! Luckily, two are on my way home from work and the other two were on our way home from Mema’s!

4. I use a LOT of coupons, and this week I had a lot of register rewards to use at Walgreen’s. If you want to find out more about how to use coupons and work Walgreen’s Reward Program I suggest heading over to Little People Wealth or Penny Pinchin’ Mom.