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December wraps up a great year for grocery savings! This month I anticipated spending more than usual due to holiday festivities, but didn't really do too badly, spending just $233.31 while saving $896.49 (all the giftcards I received for Christmas helped). Here is what I bought:
Produce:
1- 5lb Red baby potatoes
2- 1lb baby carrots
Dairy:
8- 15oz Coffeemate creamer
2- International Delight 32oz creamer
6- Bailey's 15oz creamer
6- Coffeemate 32oz creamer
1- 15oz Great Value creamer
1- Gallon 2% Milk
1- Garelick Farms 1/2 gallon egg nog
1- Hood quart sugar cookie egg nog (for baking too!)
6- Yoplait yogurt
2- Land O Lakes 1lb butter quarters
6- Great Value 1lb butter quarters
2- Dragone 2lbs Ricotta cheese
4- Cracker Barrel cheese bars
2- Helluva good cheese bars
2- Helluva good dips
1- Hood Sour Cream
1- Price Chopper 8oz Cream cheese
1- Price Chopper American Cheese Singles
1- Price Chopper 2lbs shredded Mexican cheese
2- Price Chopper 16oz Italian shredded cheese
3- Kraft Shredded Cheese
2- Kraft 100 Calorie Cheese bites
2- Philly Cream Cheese tubs
3- Land O Lakes XL dozen eggs
4- Land O Lakes LG dozen eggs
4- Athenos Greek Yogurt
Frozen:
4- Mrs. T's pierogies
2- California Pizza Kitchen frozen pizzas
2- Birdseye Steamfresh veggies
2- Birdseye Steamfresh brown rice
3- Price Chopper frozen squash
2- Morningstar Farms crumbles
1- Edy's Eggnog icecream
9- Stouffer's entrees
2- California Pizza Kitchen individual frozen pizzas
1- Alexia Onion Rings
1- Alexia Sweet Potato Fries
Meats:
5.13lbs ground beef
2- Butterball turkey bacon
4- Hillshire Farms turkey lil smokies
4- Perdue Chicken nuggets
2- al fresco chicken sausage
1.5lbs chicken tenders
1lb Johnsonville ground Italian sausage
Cereals/Breads:
2- Fiber One bread
1- Price Chopper rolled oats
2- Quaker Instant Oatmeal
2- Bob's Red Mill Steel Cut Oats
2- Mission burrito size tortillas
2- Nutri-Grain Superfruit bars
2- Arnold Sandwich Thins
Side Dishes/Canned Goods:
2- S&S Dark Red Kidney beans
2- S&S black beans
2- S&S pinto beans
6- Rotel
1- Barilla Lasagna noodles
1- Kraft Easy Mac
8- Campbell's Cooking soups
4- Tuttorosso Tomato Sauce
1- PC Pork & Beans
1- BM Baked Beans
1- Barilla Plus Pasta
1- Kraft Grated Parmesan cheese
2- Great Value Mac & Cheese
1- Great Value 66oz Pasta Sauce
2- Muir Glen diced tomatoes
1- Great Value 2lb cheddar melt
2- Swanson Canned Chicken 12.5oz
4- Progresso Soups
Snacks/Office Candy:
1- Carr Water crackers
2- Wheat Thins Stix
2- Triscuit Thins
4- Planters NUTrition
1- Planters flavor grove almonds
2- Kraft 100 Calorie snacks
4- Dole 4pk fruit cups
4- Ghiradelli Luxe chocolate bars
3- Starburst
2- Oreo Cookies
2- Wise Potato Chips
2- Lays Kettle Cooked Chips
2- Tostitos Scoops
2- Pringles Multi grain chips
2- Trident Layers gum
1- Trident gum
4- bags Dove miniatures
6- Milky Way candy bars
2- bags Butterfinger Jingles
5- Hershey's kisses bags
1- Hershey's Reeses pieces
1- Hershey's miniatures bag
3- bags marshmallows
4- Chex Mix
1- Zone Perfect bar
4- Snickers Marathon bars
Baking/Scratch Cooking:
1- S&S nonstick cooking spray
4- Pillsbury Crescent rolls
2- Great Value Crescent rolls
12-15oz cans Organic Pumpkin
2- Price Chopper refrigerated pie crusts
1- Gold Medal better for bread 5lb flour
4- Nestle Morsels
1- Reese PB cup miniatures bag
2- Bakers Shredded Coconut 14oz bag
1- Buttermilk Powder
Beverages:
1- Nature's Promise Rice Milk
1- Nature's Promise Vanilla Soy Milk
1- Starbucks via 3pk
2- Starbucks Fusion 11oz bags
8- Polar Seltzer 1trs
3- Polar Seltzer 2ltrs
12- Poland Spring Sparking Water 1ltrs
8- Vitamin Water
4- GFIC Vanilla Caramel Latte mix
2- V-8 Fusion Green Tea
4- Oregon Chai mix
1- Arizona fruit punch
Pet Supplies:
2- Whiskas Tempations treats
6- Purina Party Mix treats
8- Whiskas 12pk pouches
2- Whiskas trays
2- Fancy Feast cans
4- 3lbs Friskies dry food
Household Needs:
4- Glade Fragrance Collection candles
2- Scotchbrite dishwand refills
1- Febreze Wood Diffuser
1- Ocello 6pk sponges
1- Great Value foil
1- Reynolds Parchment Paper
Health & Beauty:
3- Zegrid 14ct
2- Zegrid 28ct
1- Crest prohealth toothpaste
1- Advil PM trial size
4- Degree A/P
3- Gas-X Thin Strips
2- Halls Defense lozenges
1- Colgate Sensitive toothpaste
1- Gillette Shave Gel
1- Gillette Fusion ProGlide razor
1- Cottonelle Fresh wipes
1- Tone bodywash
Misc:
2- Prestone DeIcer Windshield wash gallons
December Spent: $233.31
December Saved: $896.49
Year to Date Spent: $2572.54
Year to Date Saved: $9147.79
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