My first attempt at coupons

Our first month with me back to work has just flown by. It has been an adjustment to say the least. The thing that was affected the most was our meal plan or I should lack of one. Even when I attempted a meal plan something would invariably happen and the meal plan went out the window.

With that being said, it basically means that we ate out A LOT. We probably spent more on eating out this month than we did groceries. So this week I need to get some groceries but not very many because we have food, I just need to cook it.

Earlier this month I signed up for The Grocery Game. It is a site that matches up coupons with your local grocery store and gives you a list of what is on sale and tells you the percentage off. It shows you which items are free and which ones you should purchase or wait on.

I am not a coupon user normal but I have been wanting to give it a try and even though I didn't purchase a lot I still saved 33% of what I spent. My total was $44.00 and I end up paying $29.00 but I didn't use coupons on everything. I saved 52% on the things that I used coupons on. So maybe coupon clipping isn't so bad after all.

And in case you might be wondering, here is a picture of what I purchased.

It will be interesting to see how much I save when I do an actual regular week of grocery shopping but even if I only save $15 a week that is still $60 a month and that isn't too bad. Not bad at all.

This post is linked to Super Savings Saturday.