Thursday, July 8, 2010

Groceries! $20.25 before taxes!

First store: Walgreens
2 Boxes of Club crackers 2/$5 less 2 $1off coupons
1 Oral B toothbrush $2.99 less 1 $2off coupon
2 packs pens .19 each
=$4.37  Used $2RRs, Paid $2.37 OOP, got $3 RRs back (effective cost $1.37) *pretax*

Second store: Price Cutter (first trip ever!)
2 boxes of Cheerios (the big box!) .99 each
2 dozen eggs .49 each
=$2.96 
Used 2 .50off one Cheerios coupons which were doubled to 1.00 each.
Paid $.96 pretax

Last store of the night: Dillons (JUST realized what "double up to .50" means and found out about digital coupons being used WITH paper coupons)

2 Coke and 2 diet Cokes for .88 each less $1.00 off 4 coupon (.63 each)
1 A&W Root Beer for .88 less .28 Dillons digital coupon (.60 for root beer floats! Woot!)
Half Gallon Milk 1.19 Reduced for quick sale
3 Half gallons for $4
2 pounds ground turkey for 1.25 each
Honeysuckle Italian sausage B1G1F (can buy just 1 and get 50% price) So 4.39-50%-$1.00off coupon is 1.20
Fast Fixin' Chicken Nuggets (8oz) 1.00 less 1.25 off any coupon (+.25!)
4 Barilla Wheat Pasta on sale for $1 each less $1off2 coupons (.50 each)
3 Tuna Helpers on sale for $1 each less $.75off3 digital coupon less $.75off3 paper coupon multiplied to 1.00 (=.416 each)
Fisher sunflower seeds $1.75 less 1.00 coupon makes it .75 (big bag, now to figure out if my kids can handle them yet!)
Goldfish Graham crackers 2.19 less .75 digital coupon less .75 paper coupon multiplied to 1.00 =.44
Starkist tuna $1 for regular pouches. Used B2G1 "creative" pouch free (.67 each)
4 cans Libby's vegetables for free using free coupon
=$17.92 pretax total (Receipt says I saved $32.13, I think that means I saved about 65%, if I'm doing the math right!)

For the whole night (all pictured), I spent $20.25 before taxes! Woohoo!!! I am very excited because this is the first time I feel like I really pulled something off with groceries!

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