Smiths (Kroger) Shopping Trip – Saved 73% and Special Buy Stock-Up

This week’s grocery shopping trip took us to Smiths (our local Kroger affiliate). We have not shopped at Smiths for nearly 6 weeks, in fact, we hadn’t gone to a store in nearly two weeks. We were just getting our produce from our co-op and didn’t need to get anything else (our milk is a natural/organic milk that is delivered every 4 days). It is nice to not HAVE to get groceries!

But there was a VERY hot item that our family is picky about, and it was at a jaw dropping low price (without coupons) so that was the big draw to shop this week! And in the process of picking up our HOT item, we snagged quite a few groceries too! It ended up being quite a trip!

Here is a picture of the first round (it is a very crammed picture and hard to see all of the items) but they are there:

Here’s the breakdown of what bought:

• 1 Kroger veggie dip sale for .88 (normally $2.29) = final is .88
• 1 32oz. block cheese sale for $4.99 (normally $5.99). Then used $1.00/1 printable (Utah and Idaho, use zip code to find it) = final is $3.99
• 12 Ricola all-natural herb throat drops sale for $1.00 each (normally $2.19 each) = $12.00. Then used 12 $1.00/1 10/17 Smart Source Insert – $12  = final is FREE
• 2 Sara Lee Frozen Pumpkin Pies sale for $2.50 each (regularly $4.49). = final is $5.00
• 1 Cool Whip sale for .99. In-store promo: buy 2 pies get FREE Cool Whip = final is FREE

Mega Event (ME): Buy 10 items, get an additional $5 off, mix and match.  This is .50 additional discount on each item.

• 6 Premium Saltine Crackers sale for $2.49 each (regularly $3.09) = $14.94. Then – $3.00 for ME = $11.94. Then used 6 $1.00/1 peelie coupons = final is $5.94 for 6 or .99 each
• 3 Keebler Graham Cracker crusts sale for $1.69 (reg $2.49) = $5.07. Then – $1.50 for ME = $3.57. Then used $1.00/3 printable = final is $2.57 for 3 or .86 each
• 6 Campbell’s cooking soups sale for .99 (reg. $1.09) = $5.94. Then – $3.00 for ME = $2.94. Then used two $1.50/3 printables – $3.00 = final is FREE plus .06 OVERAGE
• 2 Ronzoni Garden Delight Pasta sale for $1.49 (reg. $2.19) = $2.98. Then – $1.00 ME = $1.98. Then used two .75/1 printables – $1.50 = final is .48 for two or .24 each
• 4 Ronzoni Smart Taste Pasta sale for $1.49 (reg. $2.19) = $5.96. Then – $2.00 ME = $3.96. Then used two $1.00/2 printables – $2.00 = final is $1.96 for four or .49 each

• 8 Ronzoni Healthy Harvest Taste Pasta sale for $1.49 (reg. $2.19) = $11.92. Then – $4.00 ME = $7.92.  Then used four $1.00/2 printables – $4.00 = final is $3.92 for eight or .49 each
• 6 American Beauty Quick Cook pasta sale for .99 (reg. $1.69) = $5.94. Then -$3.00 ME = $2.94. Then used 6 .55/1 10/3 Smart Source Insert – $3.30 = final is FREE plus .36 OVERAGE
• 3 Heinz jar of gravy sale for $1.25 each (reg. $1.39) = $3.75. Then – $1.50 ME = $2.25. Then used one $1.00/3 printable = final is $1.25 for three or .42 each
• 10 Swanson broth sale for .99 each (reg. $1.19) = $9.90. Then – $5 ME = $4.90. Then used two .75/5 9/26 Smart Source Insert – $1.50 = final is $3.40 for 10 or .34 each
• 2 Land O Lakes butter sale for $2.99 (reg. $4.99) = $5.98. Then – $1.00 ME = $4.98. Then used .50/2 printable = final is $4.49 for two or $2.25 each
• 1 Challenge Butter for $3.99. Then -.50 ME = $3.49. Then used $.55/1 printable = final is $2.94
  
• 4 Danimals yogurt packs for $1.99 each (reg. $2.05) = $7.96. Then – $2.00 ME = $5.96. Then used two $1.00/2 10/10 Smart Source Insert = final is $3.96 for four or .99 each
• 3 Dannon Activia yogurt packs for $1.99 each (reg. $2.79) = $5.97. Then – $1.50 ME = $4.47. Then used three .75/1 printables – $2.25 = final is $2.22 for 3 or .74 each
• 2 Pepperidge Farm Cookies sale for $2.99 each (reg. $3.79) = $5.98. Then – $1.00 ME = $4.98. Then used two $1.00/1 printables = final is $2.98 for two or $1.49 (oh, and they were gone before this post was done! YUM by all!)
• 8 Pepperidge Farm all-natural baked crackers sale for $2.49 each (reg. $3.69) = $19.92. Then – $4.00 ME = $15.92. Then used two .75/1 peelie, two $1.00/2 printables and two $1.00/1 printables – $5.50 = final is $10.42 for 8 or $1.30 each
• 1 Hormel Chili master sale for $1.39 (reg. $2.49). Then – .50 ME = .89. Then used .75/1 printable = final is .14
• We were one item short and we needed it to get the last $5 discount so we grabbed Stovetop as it was close to us. 1 Stovetop for $1.25 (reg. $2.59). Then -.50 ME = final is .75

Then the HOT draw item for us was Annie’s Organic Macaroni and Cheese – this is the ones we eat in our home and we were sooooo excited to see this price.  They had many cases of it (to our surprise) and so we purchased 40 of them!

• 40 Annies Macaroni and Cheese sale for .99 each (reg. $2.19 each) = $39.60. Then – $20 ME = final is $19.60 for 40 or .49 each

Summary: The total before sales and coupons was $289.89 (which we honestly think regular prices are inflated ;)). After the sale prices and the mega event discount, our total dropped to $127.30. We then used $49.85 in coupons which made our final total  $77.45 for all of the above! This was a 73% savings!