The great thing about stocking up your food storage ONE week at a time, is that it is SO much less overwhelming! This week I was stocking up on three items in my storage…honey, tomato sauce, and marshmallows (a staple at our house..we LOVE rice krispie treats) I spent under $75 yesterday at Walmart and saved OVER $100’s! I saved so much the manager of the store had to come over and see what I was buying and how I did that. My favorite part of our service (it’s funny that I love it and I am the one that types it up every week) is the Tips of the Week sheet that you can print out weekly from our website (www.dealstomeals.com). It tells you exactly what the BEST of the BEST deals are each week (without coupons!), how much to add to your food storage, and how long each item will last. It takes the guess work out of your food storage. I usually just print this sheet out each week along with the grocery list and away I go. Shopping is SO much fun when you feel like you are paying ‘clearance’ prices on all of your groceries! I was even able to help the lady in front of me save over $20 on her groceries by telling the cashier the sale prices for some of her groceries. The lady was amazed that you can just tell the cashier the sale prices and they will change the price. Who knew shopping could be SO fun??
What I bought for under $75:
*9 lb. lean ground hamburger
*48 cans of tomato sauce (ONLY $9.60 for my families year supply! It’s not bad when you only buy one or two items a week 🙂
*22 12oz. honey bears (this was an AWESOME deal!!)
*10 bags of marshmallows (it’s almost Smore season!)
*10 cans of Enchilada Sauce
*4 Rice Roni’s
*3 Wheat Thin Crackers
*3 Suddenly Salads
My produce for the week:
*3 cucumbers
*bananas
*2 lbs. strawberries
*5 Green Giant Steamers
*10 lbs. potatoes
*3 peppers
*3 lbs. carrots
*4 large tomatoes
I’m wondering if I am doing something wrong when I print out the grocery list, as I try to mark the ‘add to’ box and nothing happens? Is it not set up to mark only the items I want to purchase to print out as my grocery list or am I not doing something wrong? Please let me know.
If it is not set up to be able to just print the items I would like to buy this would be a great feature to your website.
Thanks so much for your hard work.
I am so confused. So at walmart what do you do, cause I just thought you told us the sale price for other stores, so how did you know all that was on sale at walmart? Do you ever use coupons?
Cause I’m in need of honey bad and marshmellows. If you could let me know I’d really appreciate it. jocelynmcclellan@yahoo.com
Walmart will match all of the sale prices from the grocery stores. Walmart doesn’t have ‘sale’ items, they just will change their prices to the sale prices of the other grocery stores. You have to tell them the prices of each item (from our sheet it makes it easy) and which store is having the sale and then they will change the prices.
Unfortunately, the honey and marshmallow sale ended yesterday. You can check our blog for tips on price matching if you are interested http://www.myfoodstoragedeals.blogspot.com Thanks!
P.S.–The check box option is ALMOST done! Yipee. This will make printing the sheets MUCH easier and cost efficient. IN the mean time, only print the pages with the red deals. The green and blue ones aren’t worth buying anyway.
I agree with you, it is like shopping the “clearance racks!” I LOVE It. I really leave feeling like I saved a ton of money and got TONS of groceries/food storage! Thanks for all you do, this is how I got my year supply!!! THANKS.
You might have answered this elsewhere, and if so please just point me in the right direction. I’m confused about coupons at Albertsons. I’ve got the price matching thing down, but do I have to have the instore coupon at walmart to get the right prices? What about the buy $10 of these items and you get a certain price? Do I have to buy all $10 of the same thing at Walmart for it to work? I really haven’t had any problems price matching at walmart but I’ve been a little hesitant to use coupons or coupon deals at Walmart.
Thanks in advance! I love your svc and have refered MANY friends to you!
Adrienne
You will want to check with your walmart. Each store seems to have a different policy. I have found that if I just tell the cashier the final price (after you buy 10, with a coupon,etc.) they don’t seem to have a problem. As soon as I start fumbling around and making price matching difficult for them, they seem to get frustrated and need manager help. I know they will match 10 for 10 items, but the in store coupon, not all do. I find it is easier to check with the manager, than have to second guess what they will and won’t do.
Hope that helps 😉 Either way, it is a great way to save time and gas..doing one stop shopping 😉
I just love your blog, I would love to use your “Tip of the week sheet” but I’m on the east coast and the stores are all different. Do you know of anyone who does what you do for all of us on the east coast?
I love that you are now answering questions where all can see, thanks!!