Grocery Shopping

So today was grocery day. I usually always go on Wednesday's cause it's not busy at Wal-Mart (usually ;0) ) FOr those who don't know me very well, I love (LOVE) grocery shopping. It's a way to spend money and not feel bad about it cause it's stuff you need. I also love setting a budget for my groceries, and seeing if I can come in any lower and still get everything on my list! Lately I have turned into the mega grocery shopper; compare ads, clip coupons, making detailed list of what I need and how many and how much it is, ya the whole bit. I have been pleasantly surprised in how much I save. This week, Smith's had Quaker Cereal on sale for 5 for $5. PRICEMATCH! They also had Betty Crocker brownie mixes and cake mixes for 88 cents, and Suave shampoo and conditioner for 88 cents as well. Then Macey's had an in ad coupon for Western Family cereal buy 5 for 88 cents each!! I couldn't price match that at Walmart becuase they don't sell Western Family, but the short trip out to Macey's was no big deal. So this week I bought 25 boxes of cereal for under $25 dollars! I don't think I will have to buy cereal for a while! My other motto for grocery shopping, if its not under $2 dollars, you usually don't need it. Of course, it doesn't apply to everything, mostly meats and cleaning supply stuff, but if you look carefully, you would be surprised at how much you can buy for under $2 dollars, or very close to it! So this week I came in $15 dollars under budget! (Of course with Nelson working at Walmart I get the 10% discount on most stuff, so that always helps, but even without that I would have saved $10 dollars.) So if anyone needs help grocery shopping, I'm all over it!