Let me start by saying that Safeway is just not floating my boat lately. There really haven’t been many good sales. Oh, SURE I do just fine, but you don’t see me running out the door to the store at the first sight of the circular, that’s for sure.

My game plan for the last couple of months has been to just buy what my family eats, stockpile when I can, and sit back and relax. And, do it all under $50 a week, of course.

This is another one of those posts where I tell you that there really isn’t anything massively spectacular here. You won’t see me hoarding 42 bottles of mustard or anything like that. This is basic stuff. This is how I feed my family.

We didn’t really need much except snack food (carrots, cucumber, apples, bananas), butter, eggs, bread and milk.

However, I did plan to take advantage of the Buy 5 cereal promotion. I grabbed my 4 Life Cereal coupons and the Safeway doubler and decided to see what was what once I got to the store. I was excited to see that the Mini Wheats Touch of Fruit was part of the promo, which is great because I had some Vocalpoint coupons that expire on 7/16 stuffed in my wallet. I used the BOGO coupon and the $1/1 coupon. All 6 boxes rang up at the sale price, however when the checker scanned the BOGO coupon it took off the non-sale price of $4.19. My checker didn’t bother to fix it, so I let her leave it that way! When all was said and done, the cereal actually ended up making me 25¢!!

Other stuff -
Butter $2.49
Eggs $2.00
Cilantro 50¢
Milk $2.59
Bread $1.79
Carrots $2.49 (better value than the advertised 1lb bag)
Cucumber 59¢
Bananas $1.37
Apples $3.49
Ice Cream - $2.50 each - FREE with my raincheck from last week’s purchase. - My store was out, but I bought 2 containers for my son’s b-day last week, so I got a raincheck! Love free ice cream!

I paid $16.06 out of pocket! If I can practice some self control, I don’t plan on going back to the store this week. Hopefully I’ll be able to roll the leftover money in the envelope to the next week, since we are having family in town! Yay!

And, for those of you who care: I have quite a large stockpile of meat and vegetables in my freezer right now, so we are eating just fine! That’s the beauty of a stockpile!

And, for those of you who are curious: I threw my son a BBQ and sleepover (9 kids!) for his 8th birthday party. It was crazy. We had all kinds of great party food: most from my stockpile! I did have to make last minute runs to the store for Cheetos, ice cream, and cake mix, however I stayed within my $50 a week budget, even after feeding my own family! Easy Peasy!

Now, I have to know - Did you find anything amazing at Safeway this week? What did I miss?

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