Reasons I love A and P

1: see above
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I've been eating this delicious cheesecake with fresh fruit a huge piece at a time every morning and evening since I bought it Sunday. My waistline doesn't thank A&P's wonderful half price markdowns on Sundays, but my wallet and taste buds sure do :)

$28.92 spent, $96.32 worth of Groceries!

People who say you should shop around for the best grocery deals are definitely right. We recently found that our local A&P (the smaller of the two in our area) has excellent markdowns on meat and baked goods on Sunday afternoon/evening. Last week I got a whole organic chicken for $7.00! This week I got a pound and a half of individually packaged chicken breast for $4.00, a huge Focaccia bread with roasted veggies for $2.00, a package of fried chicken for E's lunch $2.00 and a 12 pack of jumbo glazed donuts for $1.50.

After A&P we headed to ShopRite to get...
Free:
Heinz mustard and brown mustard
4 free boxes of Ronzonni pasta
3 free packages of Carolina rice
1 package of free Halls cough drops

Super Cheap:
4 packages of Sargento cheese ($0.49 a piece)
2 Tropicanna OJ ($0.75 each) using a bogo coupon and a $1.00 coupon
and 3, 7lb bags of Worlds best cat litter $6.99 each (used 3, $5.00 coupons) Not shown in photo

Plus:
Strawberries $1.99
Tangelos
Bananas
Asparagus $1.99 a pound
hazel nuts ($3.49 ouch!)

Total of both trips was $28.92, not too bad since I got meat and cheese and juice that all would have been pricey without discounts/coupons. Without coupons I would have spent $96.32, can you imagine spending $100 bucks for groceries for two people?

Disregard the shih tzu in the photo thinking "If I go in for the kill real quick, mom won't notice I'm eating her dinner".

This Week's Grocery Shopping=Free Pancakes & Free Panteen

Ok, not technically pancakes, but pancake mix.

On Sale at A&P for $.99
Used $.75 off 1 box coupons (that doubled)

Also got 2 bags of Quaker rice cakes (the mini flavored kind) for free using $.75 coupons that doubled.

ShopRite had a few deals really good deals this week including free Egg noodles and a Proctor and Gamble Rebate on Panteen shampoo (I got 8 bottles! for FREE!). The full deals and a bunch of other great deals can be found at Living Rich with Coupon's blog here

Total bill pre-sale and pre-coupon: $89.71
After Coupons: $40.80
Minus Rebate: $30.80!

A little higher then I wanted, but I did buy 3 packages of chicken and 5, 12 pack's of E's ice tea.

Plus a $5.00 Catalina on my next ShopRite trip!