Frugal In Florida

Well, here's how I did at the grocery store THIS week: Publix (Monday), needed milk and coffee cream. How is that I got more? 1 qt milk $1.85 (to tide us over til Costco trip) 2 small international coffee creamers $1.67 each (seriously, not a flavored coffee person at all) 1.5 lbs of fried chicken tenders @ deli $8.67 (doh, I had a $1 off coupon and forgot to use!) 8 oz deli potato salad $2.99 (had thought it was $1.99) Grand total $17.52 And then ... well, I needed to get to Costco. I had a list, cash, my coupon booklet AND the American Express card since I was getting gas too ($3.35 per gallon for regular, GREAT DEAL!) ... ummm ... yeah, it's ugly. But in keeping it real, here you go: Butter Lettuce $4.59 (I'm hoping to make chicken lettuce wraps next week) *Romaine lettuce $4.29 *Organic spinach $3.99 *2 2 lb packages of deli thin turkey $8.39 each plus $2.25 off each $6.14 each which is $3/lb) 3 dozen xlarge eggs $3.69 (price is down again!) large bag of...

Yeah, I know, I said I was going to stay out of the stores as I didn't really need anything. Then I had a very specific list to stick to and $75 cash in my envelope. Yes. I even scratched things off the list because it was going to have me over by a few bucks. So what happened? I'm not sure. Friday was fine. Got out of work 30 minutes early so drove south to Penn Dutch. Ummm, had boneless skinless chicken breast (15 lbs) and bananas on there. Easy, $25 maximum and out. So convinced of that, I didn't bring the $5 off $50 coupon code to print out. Yeah. Doh. boneless california (?) chuck roast $10.29 pork tenderloin $8.78 NY Strip steaks $16.23 chicken breast $8.95 chicken breast $7.30 4 jars of pure tomato sauce (tomato's and salt, thats it for ingredients, 24 oz) $1.25 each bananas $1.31 2 strawberries $2.98 french bread (still warm, the smell!) $1.29 loaf of texas toast bread $2.79 Grand total $64.92. Fine, that still gave me $10 to get milk and p...