Grocery Shopping on Monday

Well, at this point I don't feel like we're making any progress toward that whole "getting out of debt" thing. School is about to start, and everyone needs stuff. My oldest wants her hair cut and colored (although she will do the coloring herself), the middle one thinks she needs a new $30 backpack, even though the one she used last year is perfectly fine, and the little one needs new shoes for school.

I guess I shouldn't complain about the oldest, since she has a job I haven't really had to give her any money all summer. Except now, she's been having band practice for the last two weeks, and she hasn't been able to work. So she just got a $20 paycheck, which will go straight into her gas tank. Anyway, enough complaining from me.

I spent my entire $100 grocery budget at Fry's this week. Actually it was $100.16, but my total before VIP card and coupons was about $225, and I saved 55%.

Highlights:

Did the 20 Powerades for 75 cents each, got two free cases of Dasani water. Unfortunately, I didn't have any Powerade coupons to go with this, because I used them all up the week before.

Two packages of Pilgrim's Pride boneless, skinless chicken breasts, used two 55 cent coupons that doubled. The sale price was $1.87/lb.

Two large 64 oz bottles Sunny Delight, $1 each

Two dozen eggs, $1 each

I also bought something I never buy, which was a family pack of bone-in NY strip steaks. There were 4 of them in the package, and the price was $13.xx. The original price of the package not on sale was $34.xx. We will grill those outside this weekend. Yummy.

They also had a special where if you bought four specially marked Keebler crackers, you automatically got $6 back. The boxes were $3 each. I used two $1/2 Keebler cracker coupons, making the final price $1 per box. I got two of the puffy Club Crackers and two pretzel/cracker combo crackers.

Three bottles Hunt's ketchup, 60 cents each with coupons

I had one more $3/2 bottles of Herbal Essence shampoo, so I got one more shampoo and one conditioner, $1 each.

I can't remember what else I got, but I spent $100, so there must have been some other things mixed in there as well.

All I know is that I have a kitchen crammed full of food, and a 13 year-old who complains that there's nothing to eat.