Grocery Haul(s) $243.80

Hello my friends!  I feel like we are *slightly* getting back to normal at our house.  We are not normal and our routines are far from what they usually are but we are getting there.  Denton is healing and doing so great.  Thank you all for your prayers.  I need to sit down and write it all out, but I just can’t do it yet.  So let’s talk about something that’s easy to clarify – like the money I spent on groceries for the past two weeks!

I had to pull all of my receipts to be able to tell when and why I went to the grocery store.  One of the trips was because I wanted a roast and I didn’t have any more stored in my giant garage freezer.  I hate it when that happens.  While I was in Food Lion to pick up a chuck roast, I also grabbed some yellow tomatoes.  They were so, so good.  I think I’ve only had maybe five tomatoes on the two plants that I grabbed from the clearance rack at Walmart in the middle of July, so here’s to hoping that everyone is well next spring so that we can have fresh veggies right outside in the summer.

Also, milk.  We are still going through gallons and gallons of the stuff.

I didn’t get any other photos of everything else that I bought.  Do you know how awkward it is to take a picture of your food with people staring at you?  Well, it’s pretty awkward.  I need to take the photos when I get home, but when I got home I still had stuff on my dining room table from mine and Liv’s trip into the city from three weeks ago.  Yes, we are living real life right here.

Denton keeps telling me that my table is going to collapse.  I respond with – dining room tables are designed to hold massive amounts of food.  He says not in the way you are using it.  I think it’s just fine.  We will see who is right.  🙂

I looked back over my notebook that I keep in my purse to see what I actually bought too.  BTW, how do you keep your grocery shopping lists?  Just a scrap piece of paper, or a printable running list of things you by often?  I’ve done both, but for the past year I’ve used one of the kids 5 X 7 notebooks that they had used two pages out of and put into the go away pile.  I am loving this method.  It stays in my purse, it’s small enough that I don’t mind that it lives in my purse and I always have access to it.

When I make out my normal weekly grocery list, I just transfer what everyone has written on my big whiteboard during the week to my little notebook.  It keeps me straight, which is always a big plus in my world.  I use the right side of the notebook for my list and the left for a possible running weekly menu.

The only thing out of my normal weekly shopping in the past two weeks was a request from Hayden.  He wanted bologna of all things.  To my knowledge he has NEVER eaten a piece of bologna in his life, but that’s what he made for lunch one day last week and now he wants more.

So that’s what’s going on in my little part of the world right now, let’s see what the food totals are up to this time:


Walmart $89.90 on 08.09.19 | Food Lion $19.49 on 08.10.19 | Walmart $82.91 on 08.15.19 | Walmart $8.80 on 08.17.19 | Food Lion $42.70 on 08.17.19


Total spent for the last two weeks: $243.80

January $740.71

February $631.00

March $689.00

April $405.44

May $1,047.02  Yikes  

June $361.33

July $704.96

August $436.03

How is the grocery shopping going at your house?

Here are some ways I recoup part of my grocery budget each week:

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Grocery Shopping Trips: 07.29.19 – 08.04.19

Hello my friends!  It’s time to account for my grocery spending.  I don’t have to account to anyone for my spending.  This is just my inner control freak way to keep myself in check.  Sometimes.

To tally everything up this week, I had to dig hard.  I had to actually look at our bank account, paw through my purse, my wallet, and my car to finally find all of the receipts. But I found them all.  This week.  Sigh.

Olivia and I went into the city, which means that I made a stop at SharpShopper, my favorite grocery store of all time.

Where we stocked up on necessary items like:  Oreos for $1.49 a box, V8 juice for $1.49, Olive oil $4.99, black peppercorn $0.99, 16 ounces of honey $2.99 and Oreo’s favorite dog treats for $1.99 a box.

Our favorite Oscar Mayer Maple bacon $2.49, Kozyshack rice pudding $ 1.49 for six, and Dannon coffee yogurt $0.50 for four!  As you can see, some things were pilfered before I could even take a photo…..Unfrosted Pop-tarts for Denton $0.99, cereal for $0.79 and $0.99, glass bottles of lime juice for $0.50, Godiva chocolates $0.99 and $1.49, Thomas Everything Bagels $1.49 and Velveeta shells and cheese $1.49.  You know, the necessities.  

We always come home with something new to try.  This time it was:  Organic Acai Supergreens smoothies by Sambazon for $1.19.  We haven’t tried these yet, but Denton and Liv love this stuff, so I’m sure this brand won’t disappoint.  Target sells these for $5.99 each.

We also stocked up this week on more Dr. Pepper to support our families craving, lots of veggies, Nesquick, and milk, milk, milk and more milk along with a multitude of other things I know I have forgotten about.

I have bought more milk in the last month than I’ve bought in years.  I’m buying two gallons at a time, and I’m buying at least six gallons a week.  I think Denton’s body must be craving it, trying to repair itself.  And that statement is straight from Dr. Tracie and you can take it with a grain of salt, which is what it’s worth.

Please keep Denton in your prayers.  We spent this morning and part of the afternoon at the hospital doing pre-op things.  They have moved his surgery up.  He will have it this Wednesday.  The preparation we went through this time was so much more involved, so much so, that its actually frightening.  I will be so glad when this part of it is over – I can’t imagine how he feels.

Let’s see what the food totals are up to this week:


Walmart $73.43 on 07.29.19 | Sharp Shopper $137.89 on 08.02.19 | Food Lion $54.34 on 08.03.19


Total spent for the last week: $265.66

January $740.71

February $631.00

March $689.00

April $405.44

May $1,047.02  Yikes  

June $361.33

July $704.96

August $192.23

How is the grocery shopping going at your house?

Here are some ways I recoup part of my grocery budget each week:

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Grocery Shopping Trips: 07.22.19 – 07.28.19

Hello my friends.  How was your week?  Before we get to the grocery shopping hauls, in my normal fashion I want to discuss the weather, because it consumes my mind 24/7 while I wait – impatiently – for fall.  It also affects everything we do.  Right?  It does at my house.

We have had a picture perfect week of summer.  You know my feelings on the subject of summer, but this past week was glorious if I do say so myself.  We had lows in the 50’s and highs in the 70’s and very low 80’s and I enjoyed it.  Basically if summer came without humidity I would be a very happy girl.  It was lovely.  Even without any glorious rain.

Now onto the food.  On Monday I made an emergency stop at Walmart for Coca-Cola and Dr. Pepper because we were running dangerously low.  By Wednesday, I needed to run into Food Lion because they were running a special on their 80/20 ground beef for $2.99 a pound.  I’ve said it before, but we can’t find a better tasting alternative for ground beef other than our Food Lion.  It’s delicious.  Hard to believe, isn’t it?  And milk.  We are going through milk faster than ever right now.  Denton and Olivia both are craving it.

Friday Hayden, Liv and I made another trip to Walmart with the main intention of Hayden ordering his new glasses.  He hadn’t ordered them from our Walmart in the past few years and we discovered after waiting for the vision worker people to come back from lunch that our vision insurance isn’t accepted by Walmart any longer.  Well that was a kick in the teeth after he spent an agonizing hour picking out the new frames.  Now we are back to square one.  Which seriously sucks.

While we were there we dropped another 78 bucks on random pantry staples that should last at least a couple of months for those things.  Things like sliced American cheese, canned soup and ramen for lunches and mac and cheese.  I buy these things in bulk stick them on a shelf, or in the refrigerator drawer, and call it good until I need to stock up the next time.

What kind of stuff do you buy in bulk and how did your grocery shopping go for the week?

Let’s see what the damage was:


Walmart $14.66 on 07.22.19 | Food Lion $24.32 on 07.24.19 | Walmart $77.99 on 07.26.19


Total spent for the last week: $116.97

January $740.71

February $631.00

March $689.00

April $405.44

May $1,047.02  Yikes  

June $361.33

July $631.53

How is the grocery shopping going at your house?

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Grocery Shopping Trips: 07.15.19 – 07.21.19

Hello everyone!  I hope you had a wonderful week.  The past week is a blur for us.  We are still in a holding pattern at our house, so everything is limping along as best it can.  Denton and I met with his neurosurgeon and they will be scheduling him for surgery in the next week or two.  Keep him (and the rest of us) in your prayers, if you would!

Sooooo, trips into the city and general fuzziness of my brain causes me to just buy whatever I happen to see on the shelves at the grocery stores.  This is my new excuse!  Exhaustion has EVERYTHING to do with all of the nutty buddies, oreo ice cream and orange swirl ice creams that ended up in our cart on Saturday and nothing to do with poor impulse control.  I’m sure there have been studies about this phenomenon, right?

But I did happen to buy other good things too.  A yummy Boston butt that has already made it’s way into my crockpot and been consumed completely, which you will see later tonight in my What’s for Supper post.

Rosemary, cilantro and mint plants that I’ve already set out on my front porch.  I’m counting these in my grocery budget, because…..we are going to eat them.  I would count them if I had bought them dried and in a container, so just because they are still alive and on the plant doesn’t mean anything.  These are the thoughts that are taking up space in my head.  I could try to blame this on lack of sleep and worry too, but that would be a blatant lie.  I would definitely be rationalizing all of this even if things were all sunshine and roses.  Sigh.

Honeycrisp apples are always a good chunk of our grocery budget each week.  We eat a LOT of these apples.  I usually spend about $10 to $12 on apples each week.  I most definitely need to buy a tree for the yard.  How much do you spend on apples?  What’s your favorite kind?  Gala’s are pretty cheap compared to the honeycrisp, but they break Hayden and Olivia’s mouths out.

I am loving the strawberries and blueberries right now.  They are so, so sweet!

How did your grocery shopping go for the week?

Let’s see what the damage was:


FoodLion $35.66 on 07.16.19 | Walmart $163.55 on 07.22.19


Total spent for the last week: $199.21

January $740.71

February $631.00

March $689.00

April $405.44

May $1,047.02  Yikes  

June $361.33

July $514.56

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Grocery Shopping Trips: 06.30.19 – 07.14.19

Hello my friends.  I hope you are having a great week!  My Mama and I were having conversation the other day about the best way to save on your grocery bill.  It’s quite simple, if you can actually do it.  And all you have to do is stay OUT of the store.  Truly.  Yes, I know.  We are geniuses.  🙂

I know that’s not possible all the time, but if you can make what you have at home stretch for a day, and then another day…..I kept myself out of the stores week before last with this method until last Friday when we were completely out of fruit and other desperate necessities, like:

Swaggerty’s sauage.  This is the BEST sausage patties on the planet in my opinion.  I use others sausages for other things, but if I am craving sausage biscuits and gravy, this is what I’m going to use.  Every time.

Pedigree dog food.  I’ve been buying this for Oreo.  I have found that the better quality food we buy the fur babies, the less food they eat and they seem to stay full longer.  We leave their food out at all times so that they can regulate when they want to eat, but they still eat less with the better food.I use this in place of milk – when I remember to add it to my list –  when I make Hayden’s Alfredo.  It is SO good.

Fiesta blend cheese.  We put this stuff on everything.

The people who live at my house actually prefer the Walmart version of Honey Nut Cheerios.  Does your family have quirks like that?

And much, much more.  And then another week went by because life is crazy at my house right now.  Denton is still in terrible pain.  He had an epidural shot in his spine – gahhh – and our next step is to see the Neurosurgeon.  Keep him in your prayers.  He said to me this morning that so far this hasn’t been a stellar year health-wise.  Hopefully he will be pain free soon.  It is a horrifying thing to watch someone you love be in terrible pain, and not be able to do anything about it.  I hope you and yours are well!

So let’s see what the damage of the last two weeks was:


Food Lion $24.36 on 07.05.19 | Walmart $111.57 on 07.05.19 | Food Lion $44.47 on 07.09.19 | Walmart $32.79 on 07.10.19 | Walmart $102.16 on 07.13.19


Total spent for the last week: $315.35

January $740.71

February $631.00

March $689.00

April $405.44

May $1,047.02  Yikes  

June $361.33

July $315.35

I have no idea how to gauge where we will end up at the end of this month.  We shall see.  How is the grocery shopping going at your house?

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Grocery Shopping Trips: 06.23.19 – 06.30.19

Hello my friends.  It’s a brand new week!  I didn’t post anything last week about groceries, because we were at the beach ~ the glorious, heavenly beach, and I didn’t buy ANY food for my house.  Don’t you love getting away?  It’s always lovely to come home, but I love being away too.

We haven’t ventured beyond our tiny town since we got home.  Denton is having very debilitating pain with his back and the nerves running down his leg.  Say a little prayer for him.  We go to have an MRI done tomorrow.  So traveling for groceries is not on my priority list at the moment.

Walmart and Food Lion it is!  Liv and I did find a Great Value substitute for our beloved Boom Chicka Pop.  I LOVED it.  Liva was more – mehh.  But when I can’t run into a Sharp Shopper and buy Boom Chicka Pop for $0.79, this is a great alternative.  It was $1.98 I believe and it’s slightly more salty, so YUM.

Still loving the dill pickle chips from Food Lion.

These were a total fail.  We ended up opening two canisters of these knock off Pringles. They were both really, really gross.  They have a terrible aftertaste.  Hayden said it tasted like they had sat and absorbed the flavor of the can and the plastic lid.  Gross.

This is Denton’s absolute favorite coffee at the moment.  It’s all we buy and he is a major coffee snob.  I can take it or leave it, pretty much from any coffee brand.  I’m not a big coffee drinker; as we all know, Coca~Cola is my caffeine drug of choice.  But this is good.  Especially when you have a piece of chocolate cake to go with it, which is what usually motivates me to drink a cup of coffee.  Black of course.  The cake will provide all the sugar I need.

Okay, I promise that I did buy things other than potato chips, junk food and coffee at the store this past week.  So let’s see what the damage was:


Food Lion $74.88 on 06.25.19 | Food Lion $51.01 on 06.29.19 | Walmart $77.99 on 06.29.19


Total spent for the last week: $203.88

January $740.71

February $631.00

March $689.00

April $405.44

May $1,047.02  Yikes  

June $361.33

This month ended better than last month, but that’s because we were away on vacation.  We’ll see what happens July!  How did your grocery budget do in June?

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Grocery Shopping Trips: 06.02.19 – 06.09.19

Hello my friends.  And we are back to grocery shopping again.  So soon!  It seems like I spend an inordinate amount of my time shopping for something each week.  For someone who hates shopping, this is not a happy thought.  A thrift store or a yard sale?  I can search for treasures there all day long, but Wal-mart, or Food Lion with the masses?  No thanks.

Many, many moons ago, I used to try to shop once a month.  I haven’t even tried that in quite a few years.  I don’t know how I would fare.  How do you grocery shop?  Each week?  Once a month?  Every few days?  Inquiring minds want to know.

Last week I tried my best to stay out of the stores.  I think I did pretty well.  The kids and I went into the city, and anytime we make the hour and half treck, I always try to hit a store that’s not available in my tiny town.  This week Sharp Shopper won our hard earned money.  I LOVE that store.  Who doesn’t want to find Boom Chicka Pop for $0.79 a 7 ounce bag!?  We bought all kinds of goodies – Oscar Mayer Maple Bacon, 16 ounces for $2.49, Capri Suns for Liv for $1.49, Cheez It’s for Hayden, it was a Costco sized box – I have no idea what the size on that thing was but it was $4.99. (I looked at the box – 3 pounds) The list goes on and on.

Yes, yes, I can hear you.  All I listed was snacky type foods.  Don’t you buy snacky type foods for your people?  We’ll divert with a story time story for a moment:  When Hayden and Liv were really small, about two and four at the time, Granny Joyce and I were sitting on her back porch talking.  Granny Joyce was the lovely woman who lived in front of us when the kids were tiny and that’s what they called her from the time they could talk.  We were talking about Liv’s food allergies and all of the things that we had to constantly keep away from her, when she turned to me and said, “You still let Hayden have those things, though, right?”.  And I can remember that hitting me like a lightning bolt.  Because we didn’t.

I have a niece who cannot stand chocolate.  So we always try to have some things that she will like every time we have an Eatin Meetin.  But that doesn’t keep us from making things with chocolate.  I’m so thankful for Granny Joyce.  She influenced me in ways that she will never understand.  And I know that Hayden was grateful to her for being able to eat M & M’s, peanuts, and Cheez It’s.  Even when his sister couldn’t have them.  So, yes.  I buy all of my people snacky foods when they want them.  Life is short.  Story time over.

All of that to say, here is what we spent on groceries last week:


                                                       Sharp Shopper  $100.11 on 06.07.19


Total spent for the last week: $100.11

January $740.71

February $631.00

March $689.00

April $405.44

May $1,047.02  Yikes  

June $157.45

And that’s it in the grocery haul department for our house.  Are you keeping up with your grocery spending this year?  Are you staying on track or do you just go with the flow?  Going with the flow is killing my food budget!

Here are some ways I recoup part of my grocery budget each week:

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Grocery Shopping Trips: 06.02.19

Hello my friends.  Let’s talk groceries.  We are six months into the year 2019.  Seriously, how does the time go so, so fast!  At this point I have to concede the fact that I am NOT keeping up with a grocery budget this year, but instead, I am tracking what we are spending.  Two very different things.

I know that you already know the difference but let me clarify:

If I was actually keeping a grocery budget, I would:

    1.  Set an amount and stick to it.  No matter what.

    b. Make a strict list each week and stick as close to it as humanly possible.

    Trois.  Shop at ONE store while sticking to said list.

    4.  Let my family throw themselves onto the floor in a meltdown when I won’t buy the Oreo’s because they are almost $4.00 a box.  Wait that would be me, not my family since Denton won’t eat pretty much anything with sugar lately, and Hayden wouldn’t eat an Oreo if you paid him a gazillion dollars.  Liva might be on the floor with me though.  At least one member of my family knows what’s good!  Have I ever mentioned the fact that we have a beloved dog named Oreo?  What a coincidence.

Oreo
Oreo

Now what I am actually doing is tracking my spending each week.  Which isn’t doing  my bank account any favors of late.  Let me show you how I do it.  Instructions follow:

   1. Keep a white board in your kitchen and let anyone and everyone – including the dog and the cats – write down what they want for that week.

   Dos.  Write out a very loose list of everything that’s on the whiteboard in my grocery notebook, and then go through my fridge and pantry to see what we are actually running low on….

    III.  Go to any and all grocery stores that I happen to be near at that moment and buy EVERYTHING in a willy nilly fashion.

Quattuor.  Tally all of the evidence up at the end of the week and stare in horror, while trying to figure out how this happened – again.  (All the while, knowing exactly how it happened – because you were there.)

Sigh.  Yes, this seems to be what I have been doing all year long.  I am going to advise myself to get my arse in gear for the second half of the year.   We shall see if myself listens.  I certainly hope so…..

All of that to say, here is what we spent on groceries last week:


                                        Food Lion $51.54 on 05.27.19 | Walmart $49.42 on 05.27.19                                         Food Lion $8.43 on 05.28.19 | Walmart $57.34 on 06.01.19


Total spent for the last week: $166.73

January $740.71

February $631.00

March $689.00

April $405.44

May $1,047.02  Yikes  

June $57.34

And that’s it in the grocery haul department for our house.  Are you keeping up with your grocery spending this year?  Are you staying on track or do you just go with the flow?  Going with the flow is killing my food budget!

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Grocery Shopping Trips: 05.19.19 & 05.26.19

This is very, very late.  But, it’s here!  The good, the bad and the ugly of our grocery budgets and hauls for the last two weeks.  I tried my best to cull out anything that wasn’t edible, because – hello, this month’s total cost is going to be exorbitant already.  I don’t need to add in anything that we didn’t eat, like washcloths and dog food.  🙄

BTW, did you see my post on Instagram?   Do you have yellow pears where you live?  Apparently, we don’t grow them in Virginia.  Or import them either, hahahaha.

One of my many grocery hauls over the past two weeks.  How do you like my new to me beach hat?  Denton was not impressed.  Good thing we’ve been married so long or that might have hurt my feelings.  This one has a string to hold it on my head.  Last year I lost my brand new hat on day two, due to the wind.  I am prepared this year.

To all of you Mama’s and Daddy’s out there who feed lots and lots of people at your houses each week – you have my undying admiration and respect.  Also, if I ever do win the lottery I need to figure out a way to help individual families with their grocery bills without just handing over money to a giant corporation.

Feeding lots of people, multiple meals a day is stressful and costly!  It was so, SO worth it to have our families with us for Liv’s graduation.  On a side note:  Have you ever wondered how often drink company’s put their products on sale?  I just realized that I’ve bought Pepsi products the last few times I’ve bought soda.  I’ve looooong been a Coca-Cola girl, but I also LOVE Dr. Pepper.  I can happily switch between the two constantly.  But Denton asked me the other night why I hadn’t been buying Coke.  Well, my darling, it’s because Coke hasn’t been on sale.  If it’s not on sale, I don’t buy it.  Step up your game Coca-Cola, because right now Dr. Pepper is getting all of my business…..

All of that to say, here is what we spent on groceries the last two weeks:


Food Lion $7.66 on 05.13.19 | Walmart $64.69 on 05.16.19 | Walmart $118.94 on 05.17.19 |                Food Lion $58.41 on 05.20.19| Walmart $2.56 on 05.21.19 | Food Lion $29.91 on 05.22.19 |         Walmart $21.89 on 05.25.19 


Total spent for the last two weeks:  $304.06

January $740.71

February $631.00

March $689.00

April $405.44

May $937.63   Yikes, May isn’t over yet!

And that’s it in the grocery haul department for our house.  Are you keeping up with your grocery spending this year?  Are you staying on track or do you just go with the flow?

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Grocery Shopping Trips: 05.12.19

Hello again!  How are you doing in the grocery budget department?  Hayden and I went gallivanting last week and stopped into one of my favorite grocery stores:  Sharp Shopper.  I LOVE this store.  It’s a discount grocery store, and you can get amazing prices on things.  Examples:  We bought two 12 count boxes of La Croix Berry for $1.99 each.  Two bags of Boom Chica Pop for $0.79 each, Poptarts – my family will only eat the plain ones, toasted with butter on them – for $0.99 a box, Good Thins $0.99 a box, Cracker Barrel mac and cheese for $1.49 a box, Cheez It Snack Mix and TownHouse Flip side crackers for $1.49 a box, Avocado Oil $4.53 and Blackstrap Molasses $2.99 for 32 ounces.  Again:  I LOVE this store.

I also love to buy my spices there.  The prices can’t be beat, and everything is still in date for those of you who will ask – I know you are there.

I also bought Oscar Mayer maple bacon for $2.49 for 16 ounces.  I wish that I had picked up more of those to stick in my giant freezer, but we were tired and I just didn’t think about it.  Do you freeze bacon?  I freeze just about anything and nothing has been weird yet.  Did you know that you can freeze potato chips?  I’ve never had the opportunity to try it, because when I bring them home we eat them, but it can be done.

Liva is always asking me why I don’t run into the store to pick up ???? insert whatever it is someone has asked for.  My Food Lion total below is why.  I have everyone in my house write things on our giant whiteboard on my kitchen wall during the week and when I do a grocery run I pick up whatever is on the list.  Even if I specifically go in with a list, I always find great deals, so I try to keep myself out of the stores as much as possible.  Denton and I went in to buy Ribeyes for my Mother’s Day supper.  There was NO way anyone in my family wanted to wade into the madness of eating out that day.  We came out with ice cream, ginger ale and coke for the week.  Along with milk and a few other items.  Still, at $47.09 it was cheaper than eating out, dealing with the crazies, waiting on a table and maybe having terrible food.  No thanks, my steak was amazing and I didn’t have to cook it.  And we have yummy treats that will last well beyond this weekend.

All of that to say, here is what we spent on groceries last week:


Aldi $68.38 on 05.10.19 | Sharp Shopper $85.61 on 05.10.19 | Food Lion $47.09 on 05.12.19


Total spent for this week $201.08

January $740.71

February $631.00

March $689.00

April $405.44

May $329.51

And that’s it in the grocery haul department for our house.  Are you keeping up with your grocery spending this year?  Are you staying on track or do you just go with the flow?

Here are some ways I recoup part of my grocery budget each week:

ibotta | Checkout 51 | Receipt Hog | Walmart Savings Catcher | Fetch (referral code – QF4TJ)

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