Shopping Trip 5/20: Aldi and Tom Thumb

My daughter has been a battling a stomach bug, and today was the first time we have left the house all week.  I had a few errands that I needed to run, and I wanted to follow my own advice about not driving all over town.  I looked over the meat sale prices for the week, and decided that I wanted to shop at Tom Thumb for pork chops because I still have plenty of chicken in my freezer but I've been out of pork for a while.  I also needed to go to the bank and to Aldi, but that was not a problem at all because those three places are within 2 blocks of each other.

There were not many things that I needed from Aldi this week at all, since I made a pretty big stock up trip last week.  Here is what I came home with:

Total Spent:  $15.60

Since I was already at Tom Thumb buying the pork, I wanted to take advantage of some of the other deals they had.  We had also run out of oranges, and I noticed that they were on sale there cheaper than Aldi's everyday price, so I opted to pick up a few there instead.  I also noticed they had spinach on sale for $0.99.

Here is everything that I got:

Total Shelf Price:  $48.84  (I had forgotten to hand over my card first and this is what showed up!  Yikes!)
Total Sale Price:   $16.57    Already 66% Savings
Price Paid After Coupons:  $14.82   70% Savings

I actually only used 2 coupons on this shopping trip.  Notice how most of my savings are just from shopping the great sale prices.  The pork chops themselves were less than $5 per pack at $0.99/lb.

Everything I bought today was only $30.42, and this is the only shopping I have done all this week, so I would say that is well within our grocery budget.   It's a good thing, though, since I've had to dip into the grocery budget for gas money! =(


How did your shopping go this week?  I'd love to hear about it.