Schnucks trip 3/1

8 Pizza rolls
8 Uncle Ben's Rice
8 Chicken Noodle Soup
2 Hungry Jack syrups
2 Hungry Jack pancake pouches
Baking soda
sugar
2 Minced garlic
3 Fritos
Gevalia coffee
2 Premium crackers
2 Kleenex cool touch
2 Kraft Fresh Take
18 Beneful meals

Spent $65.49
Saved $65.91
Also got $1 off next purchase for the Fresh takes

So before you think I'm the crazy dog lady with all the Benefuls, let me explain.  Coupon+sale= stock up!  These meals are usually at least $1.89.  They are on sale for $1.  I had 3 coupons for Buy 4 get 2 Free.  Which makes them come out to $.67 each.  Spoiled dog or not she does not get $2 meals.  Ever!   She is a small dog and she gets these only once in awhile.  I can split one meal into 3 meals for her.  20 cents a meal.
Pizza rolls are for the kiddos.  I don't buy too many processed frozen meals.  There is not much in our freezer for them to just pop in the microwave.  I got them some of these since they were on sale and I had a coupon. Paid $.60 each.  Now they have something in the freezer.  Maybe they'll shut up now!  (doubt it!)
The only things I didn't have coupons for was the baking soda, sugar, and minced garlic.  They were on sale.  The garlic was marked about 60% off.
Just another glimpse of how I shop.  I do not shop week to week for what we need.  I buy what's on sale with coupons and base our meals on that.  We always cook from the stock pile.  (Except hubs but he's getting better)  By cooking our meals this way we can feed our family of 4 for about $5 a meal.  Of course, there are some exceptions to this rule.
Example:  Spagetti dinner
Whole grain spagetti noodles  $.40
Spagetti sauce  $.60
Hamburger   $2.40
garlic toast from bread I baked let's guess about $.50
Veggie $.40
Comes out to about $4.30.   And we had leftovers.
We buy half a cow from a local butcher.  It comes out to about $2.40 a pound.  That means a pound of hamburger or a steak is $2.40.  Gotta love eating porterhouse steaks for $2.40 a pound.