Thanksgiving AND necessities - AND saved????

Well I did it. I managed to buy everything I needed for Thanksgiving dinner (minus the bird), got our weekly needs and still saved! I love Couponing!

So here is the low down:
Total Bill: $282.06 (which I could have sworn it said 287 but hey...)

Club Card: -$94.27 (I also used my $17 points gold coupon that was mailed)
Coupons: - $10.15
REUSABLE BAG credit!: -.35
Total Savings: - $104.77
Out of pocket: $177.29
Number of Items: 98 ($1.81 an item)

I got our milk, juice, eggs, lunch meat as well as the $5 pyrex 9X13 dishes! I got cool whip, readiwhip, veggies, stuffing, 10 lbs of potatoes for $1.50 - all I needed for the big day this week.

Now one thing to note - I did go to Walgreens last week - they had coupons for cranberry jelly, french's onions, sweet potatoes and the campbell's gravy that I picked up.

One extra note - I ordered a Honey Baked Ham last week. (I ordered the "mini" since we are doing a HUGE bird, 4 lbs should be plenty for the 12 - 16 I am expecting.) The reason I mention this is... on "retailmenot.com" they have coupons for SO many sites. I found one that worked and saved $5.20!  I did have to try a couple to get one to go through but it did work. The ham was delivered in two days. (I could have saved more off shipping if I had paid better attention to the site and found that I could have picked up in store!)

Update from 11/07/09

I didn't think I had much on my list of items to get. But I managed to fill up my cart that is for sure. Although I didn't do as well as I have done in previous weeks... still not too shabby.

Smith's was my target on Saturday.
Total Bill: $289.72
Club Card: -$81.59
Coupons: - $9.35
Total Savings: - $90.94
Out of pocket: $198.78
Number of Items: 96

About $2.07 an item - and to give you an idea of what was in my cart:
Dog food, milk, 4lbs of hamburger, name brand cereal, lunch meat, Aussie Hair products etc... so nothing to shabby!

So keep on trying out there... this week I am looking forward to actually not having to shop. With Lapband surgery coming on Friday, I won't be up to doing much this weekend. (Who knows maybe I will get a wild hair and go anyway :) that's what kids are for right?