Another day with no pictures. I only went to two stores.
Walgreens - I had a 50¢ off coupon on Chex Mix which was on sale for 99¢, so I ended up getting a 5.5oz. package of Chex Mix with Dark Chocolate for 49¢. I also got two cans of Barbasol shaving cream for 99¢ each. And I had two coupons for $1 off two individual size bags of skittles, and they had Skittles on sale for 2/$1, so I basically got 4 bags of Skittles for free! My total came to $2.82 and I saved $7.88. I saved 74%.
Then I headed over to Jewel. I was able to stack two coupons for a 56oz. box of Tide Powder. The original price was $10.49, my preferred savings was -$2.50, plus I had a Jewel store coupon for -$3, plus I had a manufacturer's coupon for -$2, making my total for that box of detergent $2.99.
I also had a coupon for $1 off any purchase of meat. I ended up getting a package of mild Italian bulk sausage. I can make spaghetti sauce with it. Yummy!
I had a catalina for a free loaf of bread from the bakery up to $2, so I bought a loaf of Vienna bread, which was $1.99, so I got it free.
Jewel is running a sale on Russet Potatoes. A 5lb. bag was 99¢ after using a $1.50 coupon.
Jewel was also running a sale on Jack's Pizzas. They were 5/$12, -$2 in store coupons when you buy 5, -$1 manufacturer's coupon, making them $9 for 5, or $1.80 each.
They had a sale on Speedstick deodorant, but I think that I messed that up. It was supposed to be Buy one for $2.99, get one free, plus use a Buy 1, get one free coupon, and they would both be free, but I didn't pick the ones that were marked Buy 1, get one free. Oops. That wasn't that good of a deal. I need to be more careful on stuff like that.
They had a sale on Green Giant Frozen Boxed Vegetables for $1 each. I had two 80¢ off 4 coupons, plus two 60¢ off 3 coupons, which meant I could get 14 boxes at 80¢ each. Not bad. They are normally about $1.39 at my cheaper store, and can be as high as $2.35 at Jewel.
Then they had the "Buy 10, save $5" Instant Savings Sale, where if you buy 10 of any combination of the listed items, you get $5 automatically deducted from your total. This one can get kind of tricky, because if they are out of any of the items that you put on your list, and matched up coupons for, then you have to make adjustments. I had to do this, this week.
I had a coupon for 50¢ off two boxes of Betty Crocker Fruit Snacks, so I bought 2 boxes. Total of 2 items.
Then I had four coupons for 50¢ off Betty Crocker Potato Specialty Mixes. They were on sale for 50¢ each (after the $5 is deducted), and I had 4 coupons, so I ended up getting 8 boxes for 25¢ each. That's 10 items total, and now I have $5 off my total.
Next, I had a bunch of different coupons for General Mills Cereal Treat Bars. I have found out that these are really yummy! Not exactly healthy, but they DO have cereal in them. LOL. So, I bought 10. Most of them were 50¢ off one or $1 off two, but I did have at least one $1 off 1 coupon. Nice! So, there's another 10 items, and a total of $10 off my total.
Next, I had several coupons for Pillsbury crescent rolls, which were on sale. I know I had enough coupons to match up to 8 items, so I ended up getting 8 cans.
Next, I bought 4 boxes of Tostino's Pizza Rolls. They were $1 after the discount, and I had two $1-off-two Pizza Rolls coupons, so those ended up costing me 50¢ each. Now I have another 10, plus 2 left over, so there's a total of $15 off my total.
This is where it got tricky. I needed 8 more items to get another $5 off. On sale were Yoplait Delights, Go-Gurt, Trix Kids or Yoplait Smoothies. I had coupons for 4 packages of the Yoplait Delights, but they were out. :( I was also going to get 4 packages of Yoplait Kids Yogurt or Splitz, which I had coupons for. But instead of getting 4 packages of them, I ended up getting 6 packages of the Splitz, and 2 packages of teh Trix. I had enough coupons for 6 of the items, but I left some of my coupons at home, and ended up having to buy two of them without coupons. But they aren't any more than the ones I would pay at Aldi, and my kids LOVE those kids of yogurt, so I decided to just go with that. Now I've gotten my additional 8 items, bringing it up to 10 and knocking $20 off my total.
I ended up getting one more thing that was on sale, that I didn't have coupons for, and they weren't the best price either, but my kids have been asking me for Pirate Booty. So, since it was on sale, even though I didn't have a coupon for it, I decided to get it. Hey, I've done enough saving to splurge a tiny bit, right?
I think that I got my biggest saving this time, although if I had done my deodorant's right, I would have had even better savings. I paid $84.29 for all those items, and saved a whopping $130.28. That's 61% savings on groceries. Woo hoo!
Now I'm going to try to eat out of the pantry for a little bit. I've already made my menu out for next week, and have a very slim shopping list. I'll do a new post for that though.
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