Mondays With Mavis – How to Feed Your Family For $100 a Month

Hi, I’m Mavis.  I went to the store twice last week to buy food for my family.  My shopping trips were so stinkin’ RAD you are going to pass out with amazement.  I hope you’re sitting down.

Albertsons $.99

Thanks to the Albertsons Summer Sizzlin’ Sweepstakes, we won 6 free doughnuts. I would have put all of them in the picture but the frosting was totally smeared and I almost started to break out in hives because I simply couldn’t imagine showing a photograph of ugly doughnuts. So I just left them in the sack.  This whole problem could have been avoided of course if Monkey Boy someone would have placed the doughnuts in a box.

Next time I will give more specific directions.

Luckily, my Albertsons store is part of the Preferred Rewards program that gives you a $5 store coupon for every 5,000 points you redeem.  I knew I was getting close the 5,000 mark so I had my cashier ring up the free doughnuts, free tickets, free ketchup and the rewards points first, so a $5 off coupon would spit out and the bottom of my receipt.  Then, once the $5 coupon was in my hand, I had her ring up the coffee. With the coupon, only had to pay $.99.

Safeway $2.81

I used the $3.00 catalina coupon I earned last week and ended up only having to pay $2.81 out of pocket for 2 gallons of milk and some peaches.

If you’re new around here and thinking, Holy Crap, how do these people survive on a couple of doughnuts and milk? What are they doing?  Eating dirt? Head on over HERE and you can see what I bought last week.  Maybe that will help explain why I didn’t need to buy a ton of food.

So what did YOU buy last week?  Did you spend a ton of dough, or just use items from you stockpile?

♥ Mavis

Total Spent This Week $3.80
Total Spent This Year $737.46
Total Spent This Year on Garden Seeds/Supplies $484.46
Total “Seed Money” donations received $8.00

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