I'm already happier because I say I saved 72%!
This week the mega event includes only frozen items. The deal is still the same--buy 10 get an additional $5 off your order. Pricing below will reflect the price after the additional .50 off per item. Also, my store doubles coupons up to $1 off.
2-New York Texas Toast on sale for $1.79 each. Used .40 and .50 coupons making them .99 and .79 each.
5-Sister Shubert dinner rolls on sale for $1.79. Used 2-$1 coupons and 3-.50 coupons making them .79 each.
2-Green Giant boxed veggies on sale for .99 each. No coupons (what has happened to our GG coupons?)
Ore-Ida Sweet Potato Fries on sale for $2.49. Used $1 coupon making them $1.49
3-Kool-Aid on sale 6 for $1. I used the buy 2 get 1 free coupon. Register took off .25 and then doubled making them free.
2 half gallons milk on sale 2 for $3.
2 Lipton side dishes $1 each, used .50/2 coupon making them .50 each.
2 Colgate toothpaste on sale for .88 each. Used 2-.75 coupons making them free plus .24 total overage.
2-Colgate toothbrushes at .98 each. Used 2-.75 coupons making them free plus .04 total overage. (The store was out of the .88 toothbrushes on sale so I just grabbed the cheap ones)
I spent $14.70 OOP of which $1.78 was sales tax. I saved $18.30 with coupons including the additional $5 off. With sales and coupons I saved 72%!
I made a trip to Aldi this last week where I did a little grocery stock up with a lot of meat and canned fruits and veggies. This will allow me to concentrate on my coupon shopping, and hopefully I can get it more mastered. I spent $159 at Aldi, which also included several non-food household items as well.
I can't seem to get much over just 50% savings on my shopping, but I'm working on it. It's pretty easy to do a huge % savings when you are ONLY buying the good things with coupons. However, there are things we need that there aren't coupons for (for the most part).
Dillon's is having the Mega Buy 10 Items get $5 off your order sale. I bought 20 items getting $10 off total. Pricing includes the .50 additional off each item. My store doubles coupons, not to exceed $1 off.
Mega Event items:
4-Kraft BBQ sauce at .49 each (no coupons)
Ronzoli Smart Taste Pasta $1.49, used $1 coupon--.49
Puffs $1.48, used .50 coupon--.48
Uncle Ben's Ready Rice--$1.25, used .75 coupon--.25
Ragu Pasta Sauce $1.17 (no coupon)
Dole Salad $1.99 (no coupon)
American Beauty Pasta .49 (no coupon)
Jello Refirdgerated Pudding, $1.99, used .60 coupon--.99
2-Cap'n Crunch cereal at $1.99 each, used 2-.50 coupons--.99 each
2-Gillette Shave Gel at $1.49 each, used 2-.55 coupons--.49 each
Philadelphia Cooking Creme--$2.29, used $1.50 coupon--.79
Freschetta Pizza--$4.99, used $2 coupon--$2.99
1 Gillette Body Wash and 1 Gillette deoderant--Body was was $2.99, used $2 coupon--.99-----I then used a Buy the Body Wash, get the Deoderant free coupon---taking off $3.90 (deoderant was $3.40 after .50 off with Mega Event savings, so I ended up with both items for just .49 each)
(Here is where I messed up--somehow miscounted on how many items and ended up paying the .99 each for 2 more bottles of the BBQ sauce---this really ticks me off when I do things like this--$1.98 plus sales tax that I did not need to spend)
Other good deals:
Pantene shampoo on sale for $3.33, used $2 coupon--$1.33
gallon milk on sale for $2.99
Potatoes and strawberries were to total cost of $5.28, I used a $1 off coupon so both together cost me $4.28
Mentos--sale $1, used .35 coupon--.30
Kraft 2% cheese slices on sale for $1.79, used $1 coupon--.79
Kroger Ice Cream (my indulgent item), on sale for $2.50, used store coupon for .40 off--$2.10
In total, with sales tax I paid $49.16 for the items in the photo (notice that my daughter ate the Lunchable on the way home from the store)
I saved 52% including sales and coupons. Including the $10 extra as coupons, I saved a total of $32.10 with coupons.
As much as I would like to get my % of savings higher, I am still very pleased with what I did get for the money. Tonights supper---Freschetta pizza, Dole salad, and strawberries--yum! yum! and at a total cost of $6.47 plus tax not including the milk we will drink. Not bad at all!!
..
You read that right.....I bought all of this (plus the margarine I forgot to take back out of the fridge) for just $7.48 out of pocket!!!! Of the $7.48, $5.07 of that was sales tax) The actual total after coupons was $32.48, but I had a $25 Kroger card to spend as part of my current blogspark.
It's one of the Mega Event weeks, where if you buy 10 of the items on the list you get an additional $5 off your total. I bought 40 of the items.
Please note I am subtracting the additional .50 off for buying the 10 items off each item. My store doubles coupon up to $1 off total.
Mega event items:
12-Temptations Cat Treats--.91 each, used 11-.55 coupons doubled to $1 (I had 12 coupons, but once home realized one of them didn't scan) FREE with 8 cents overage.
2-Birdseye vegetables-$1.49 each, used 1-.50 coupon doubled to $1, so $1.49 and .99 each. (I had in my mind that I printed 2 coupons, but one home remembered the 2nd coupon hadn't printed)
2-Hot Pockets, $1.49 each, used 2-.50 coupons doubled to $1, .49 each.
1-Wolf Chili--.75--used .50 coupon doubled to $1 FREE plus .25 overage.
4-Carnation Evaporated milk--.49 each, used 2-.50/2 coupons--FREE plus 4 cents overage
1-Armour meatballs--$1.99--used .55 coupon doubled to $1--.99
5-Krusteaz Cookie Mix--.99 each--used 5-$1 coupons--FREE pus 5 cents overage.
2-Barilla Pasta--$1.49--used buy 1 get 1 free coupon--register took off full price of $2.19 so I paid .79 for both.
3-Gillette deoderant--$3.50 each--used 2 $2 coupons and a buy 2 get 1 free coupon--register took off $4.95 for the coupon so I paid just 5 cents for each one!
2-Chex Cereal--$1.79--used $1/2 coupon--$1.29 each
2-Ziploc Freezer bags--$1.99 each--used $1/2 coupon--$1.49 each
1 Wesson Oil--$1.99--used .40 coupon doubled to .80--$1.19
1-Best Life Spread--$1.49--used $1 coupon--.49
2-Tidy Cat litter--$1.89--used 2-$1 coupons--.89 each
Other purchases:
Kroger peanut butter--$1.65
Kroger chocolate chips--$1.99
Kroger 12 pack soda--$2--used .50 coupon--$1.50
2-Duracell battery 4 packs, on sale for $1.98--used 2-$1.50 coupons--.48 each.
Kroger Powdered Sugar $1.43
Idahoan potatoes--$1--used .40 coupon doubles to .80--.20
Carnation Instant Breakfast--on sale for $4.29--used $1 coupon--$3.29
2 dozen eggs-on sale for $1.50 each, used .55 coupon doubled to $1--$1 per dozen.
My receipt says that I saved 75%, which includes sale prices plus coupons used. ($94.12 savings)
I used $44.74 in coupons plus the extra $20 off for a total savings of $64.74 not including the sale prices.
Want to know more about the $25 Kroger gift card that I had to use? It's part of my next blogspark prize pack with Chex cereal that will be offered for giveaway on my blog! Watch for the giveaway in the next couple of days.
Even if I hadn't had the Kroger gift card, spending $32.48 for all of it would have still been great. Some things I would not have bought though as they are ingredients to go with my blog post coming up.
