If you know JJ or I in person you have probably heard us bragging about my grocery shopping adventures. Ever since JJ and I have been married we have spent far less than average on groceries but only buying the minimum our family needed. I recently became addicted to combining coupons and sales to get fantastic deals. Some people ask how I find the time to do this but the truth is the people over at pinchingyourpennies.com help me save a lot of time by letting us know where the best deals are.

There are several bloggers I visit that reveal their grocery budget and everything they buy to help their readers save money like they do. I thought this would be lots of fun to do as well and also help me get a better idea of how often certain items are on sale. Blogging about it would be more fun than writing it on a piece of paper that I will probably loose.

Anyways we have a grocery budget of $150 a month. Yes, for a family of 4! I feel great that we can keep this low of a budget for our family however we do use cloth diapers and our children are on the WIC program so this helps us keep a low grocery budget.

There have been some very incredible deals this week. After today’s grocery shopping adventure which I will share in this post we still have $103.85 in our budget.

Today I went to Walgreen this is what I bought:

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Peanut M&M’s and Peanut Butter M&M’s (JJ’s fathers day gift!), Package of tissues, Crackers, flavoured bottle water, St. Ives body wash, John Freida shampoo, conditioner and curling products.

Retails: $33.61
Sales – $8.35
Coupons – $19.50
Total spent : $5.76
Plus I recieved $9 in register rewards to use at Walgreens within the next two weeks.

Albertsons today:
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2 boxes of cherrios, 3 boxes of Golden Grahams, 4 boxes of Total Cereal, Chex Mix trail mix, 2 bags of green giant vegetable steamers with sauce, Breyers all natural ice cream.

Retails: $52.27
Sales – $25.77
Coupons – $20.75
Total Spent: $6.45
Plus I received a $10 off coupon to use at Albertsons within the next two weeks.