Success

Here's the picture of my organic grocery trip for this week. I felt it was a successful one at that! I shopped exclusively at Publix this week. They seemed to have more on sale that matched up with my coupons.

The biggest scores in my opinion were the Nature's Own Whole Wheat Bread. It was BOGO and to top it off the organic was included! I got 2 loaves of organic bread for $3.49. Also, I had a coupon for Ragu pasta sauce, which was BOGO, but the organic wasn't on sale, but I did save $0.50 a jar. So I paid $2.79 each.

M and C eat peanut butter and honey sandwiches just about everyday for lunch and we eat "Ants on a Log" (peanut butter and raisins on celery) a lot for snack during the week. So we can put down some PB. Skippy Natural was on sale for $1.89 each and I had a 40 cent coupon that was doubled. I got 4 jars at $1.69 each!

The organic strawberries were on sale 2/5. They were sold out of Mott's Organic, but I got the natural BOGO. Kashi had granola 2/5. I saved $2 on the squash and zucchini and 40 cents on the recycled paper towels. I also saved $1.50 on the Organic Valley milk and $2.43 on the Green Wise Organic Chicken Breasts. Oh, Publix had their Kettle Chips on sale 2/5 (last week Kroger had the 2/6 and I saw Whole Foods had them on sale 2/7).

So the only things organic that I bought that weren't on sale were the cookies, apples, C's whole milk, M's organic chocolate milk and the ground chuck.

My total spent this week was around $72, and I saved around $20. I was very pleased with this week's trip!

Grocery Shopping~Organic Style

Well here are the costs of my organic grocery shopping. The first picture is my trip to Publix. This was all that I bought there. It is cheaper to get the Greenwise Whole Milk for Cooper than it is to buy 2 1/2 gallons of other brands. M only drinks chocolate milk and Publix carries the Organic Valley Low Fat version. They were 2/$7, plus I had a 1 dollar off coupon and was able to get some milk for myself and Marlee to eat in our cereal and pancakes. The Amy's brand of frozen products are pretty good, and the pizza was on sale 2/$10. The celery and carrots were also on sale at a $1.99 each.
I spent $27.17 and saved $4.47. I know not a lot of savings, but it puts me well of my way.


Here are my organic purchases from Kroger's. The Private Selection Organic Eggs were cheaper than Eggland's Best at $3.69. The Kettle "Natural" Chips were 2/$6. I had a 50 cent coupon for the yogurt, so I paid $3.49 for it. The whole wheat pasta was on sale for $2 a box, plus I had an online $1 off coupon, so I bought 2 boxes. We like to eat pasta. The sauce was also on sale for $1 off @ $4.49. One of the blogs I read talks alot about rolled oats and steel cut oats being better than instant oatmeal. We eat oatmeal for breakfast at least once a week, so I bought a bag of rolled oats. I chose them over the steel cut oats because there was more for a lower price.

Side note, although Arnold Mill bread isn't organic, the 100% Whole Wheat bread is BOGO this week at Kroger. We eat sandwiches everyday, so that is a bargain for me!

So how did I fare in the pocketbook? Well, I spent $33.94 on these organic groceries and saved $5.25.


It's hard for me to take the kids to the local farmer's market during the day, so I plan on making my first trip there this Saturday. I hope to score lots of good fruits and veggies because I looked at the squash, cucumbers, apples, grapes, and blueberries at the grocery stores and about fell out on the floor. ONE organic squash was $1.97! YEAH RIGHT!!!!