AZ Grocery Deals: Fry's

Good deals I found while looking through the ads this week!  Most sales good through 8/21 (Tuesday!).
I'm just passing along my grocery list - there are other deals too but these are the foods we enjoy and we stop up for when they are on discount.

Fry's:

Save $5 when you buy 10:

-3-Healthy Choice Meals: $1.79 (I ALSO HAVE A COUPON!)
1-Reese's Puffs Cereal - $2.99
1 - Sara Lee Bread: $1.99
2-Dole salads - $1.99
1-$1.79 Oceanspray Cranberry Juice
1-Thomas English Muffins $1.99
1-Goldfish $.99

Sargento shredded cheese - 2/$4
10/$10 Kroger canned fruits


Albertson's
Zataran's $1
Minute Maid Fruit Punch $1
1/2 gallon of milk, $1.67 - 2 limit
Good Season's Salad Dressing mix $1
Plums $1/lb
Roma Tomatoes $1/lb

Bashas' - GET A THANK YOU CARD.
$.97/lb chicken breast
1/2 gallon milk, $.88 - 4 LIMIT
$.35/lb bananas
$.69 Beech Nut Fruities on the go drinks
$.37/lb watermelon
$.99 Greek God's Yogurt

 Sprouts
$.99 pluouts
$1.99 seedless grapes
$3.99 hummus dip

You will note I have milk on the list A LOT.  I don't hit all of the stores in one day so if milk is relatively cheap I put it on every list and then decide when I'm there if I should get one or two or five!  We drink a TON of  milk around here!

AZ Grocery Deals thru 8/14/12: Bashas', Albertson's, Sprouts & Frys

Things on sale of note I found this week:

Bashas':

String Cheese 2/$6 (I have coupon for extra off)
2/$3 Calidad tortilla chips



 $.69/lb grapes

 Buy 10 get $5 off sale:
$.88 Totino's party pizzas x 4
$.88 2 liters of Pepsi x 1
$1.99 Healthy Choice Meals x3
$2.49 Deli Selects Meat x2


Fri/Sat/Sun only:
$2.77/lb top sirloin
$.19/lb watermelon
$15.99 cases or 12 pack bottles of beer (ok I don't know if this is a sale or not but it sounds soo good right now)

Albertson's
 2/$3 milk
2/$1 refried beans (I'm thinking bean & cheese rollups for the kids!)
$1.69 Apple Juice

Sprouts
 $.88 vine ripe tomatoes

$6.99 tilapia fillets

Fry's (don't forget to sign up for your club card for better prices AND if in Arizona look on your school's website for a bar code to swipe once per year to have a portion of your sales go to the district)
Chobani Yogurt, $.99 each
Simply Orange juice $2.99 (this is a weekly staple we buy, sale or no sale)
Sara Lee bread - BOGO FREE
$1.65 boneless chicken breasts
Dole salad blends - BOGO FREE
Lean Cuisine Meals $2 each
GoGurt 2/$4 (the kids think these are Popsicles when they are a little more healthy than that!)

Arizona Weekly Grocery Deals

Here's what I found for deals this week:

Safeway:
$1.67 gallon of milk
$2.98 watermelon
$.88 strawberries
BOGO string cheese (I have a coupon for this brand too)
3/$10 Pepsi
Bush's Beans $1 each

Wal-Mart:
$1.97 Degree deodorant

Bashas:
BOGO ground sirloin
2/$5 Simply Orange juice
Fritos $1.99
$1.49 white bread
$.79 tuna
$1.99 cottage cheese
3/$9.99 Morton's salt pellets
$2.99 Kashi Go Lean (top your yogurt with it!)

Albertsons:
Bananas, $.39/lb
Garnie (Sp?) Fructis $2.00 (I have a coupon also)
Suave products, $.89 each (coupon)
Avocado $.99 each

How to save at groceries- shop the ads!

The biggest and easiest way to save money is to invest an hour of your time into the weekly ads. First, write down what you want from the weekly good deals at each store. Second, I compare my lists to determine who truly has the best deal on milk, fruit, etc. and then make my plan on which stores to get to for sure and which I want to but we can do without if it doesn't fit into the schedule. I carry my list with me all week and try to hit a store if I am already near it. Now that we live in the heat and right in the center of town I try not to make a special trip just for groceries. Save gas and money if I can. This week I wanted to hit a lot of stores so made it a special trip.

Tonight Launa and I went out loaded with our grocery list of sale items and we mostly stuck with it.

We started with the farthest distance store with freezer bags and reuseables in hand. Our deals at Albertsons were buy one get TWO FREE chicken breasts, $.75per pound grapes and 2 for $3 carrots. We put the juice back because it wasn't the $.99 bottles so over all total--$17.77.

Next we headed to Bashas and got three containers of strawberries at $.88 each plus the Nutella Launa keeps requesting.

Walgreens was out of my ink cartridges and said it takes 30 minutes to refill so we scooted because there is cold chicken in freezer bags in 100 degree cars whose air conditioning decides it won't work sometimes.

Fry's was next with $1 eggs, gallons of milk at 3 for $5 so you know we got all three, and water softener pellets since that is now up and running ( my skin is rejoicing just thinking about my shower tomorrow).

Overall we got the cupboard staples and cheap fruit ( which gets frozen when it's on the brink to save to use for smoothies).

As my sister says- if you fail to plan you plan to fail!