The Dollar General store is a little over a 10 minute walk from my house and if one makes a purchase on any day from Sunday through Friday, the receipt will have a coupon attached which is good for the following Saturday only. If one spends at least $25.00 that Saturday, you'll get $5.00 off.
So last Friday I walked to the store and bought a bottle of ketchup for a dollar. I needed ketchup anyways and I wanted that coupon. That evening, I looked at my inventory list of what I needed and looked up prices at the Dollar General website and I knew prices of some products as I shop there often and produced a shopping list where I'd spend just enough to be able to use the coupon.
Saturday I walked to the store with a large, heavy duty, nylon shopping bag with carrying straps to use as I didn't want to attempt to walk back home carrying a number of flimsy plastic bags. I ended up spending a little over $27 so with the coupon, the cost was a little over $22. I was happy!
On Sunday, I walked to the local grocery store which is a little over twice as far from my home as the Dollar General as I needed produce, meats and hopefully frozen orange juice if it was on sale. At the deli, there was rotisserie chicken priced to sell for $1.99 each so I took 4 as I use them for the base of several different meals. 14 oz bags of salad mix and 1 lb bags of baby carrots were on sale for $.99 and I bought 4 of each. Frozen orange juice was on sale for $1.79 and I got 4 which ought to last me a month. Plain greek yogurt wasn't on sale but I bought a container anyways as I needed it for dip and for tuna pasta salad. Salad dressing was on sale for $.99 and I got one bottle of Italian. Purchased two bunches of celery for $1.99 each and two bags each of frozen peas and carrots and frozen peas for $.99 each.
I was very happy with that shopping trip primarily because of the rotisserie chicken. I have the option to make the following meals with that:
Rotisserie chicken noodle soup
Chicken salad (with the salad mix I bought)
Easy Chicken A La King
Rotisserie chicken corn chowder
Chicken salad sandwiches
Chicken and rice
Chicken and stuffing casserole
Monday I didn't do much as my left leg and foot were stinging quite a bit from all that walking.
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