Behold: last week's trip to Jewel.
The total was $32.95 for all this, with a savings of $39.69. I saved more than I spent--nice! Highlights include 12 Healthy Choice entrees for $10.00, and clearanced Swiss Miss. The flavor is chocolate with added caffeine--as much as a cup of coffee! Because that's totally what I need right now: more caffeine! The most expensive things I bought were the boxes of cookies: they averaged out to $1.19 each.
Ignore the mini-pyramid of Hamburger Helper. We don't eat that in my House of Martha. Clearly, it must be for someone else. I put it in my pantry for safekeeping.
Today's trip to Dominick's was similar. I spent $42.10 with a savings of $59.25.
Nearly every item was on sale, and I had a coupon for almost everything. Highlights for this trip were the Mini Wheats and eggs. The cereal was on super sale (with Dominick's coupon) at 4 for $6.00. I had 4 $1.00 off coupons, making them $0.50 each. Then, at the Kellogg's cereal endcap, they had coupons for a free dozen eggs with every 2 boxes of Kellogg's cereal purchased. The eggs were free--so watch for those coupons on the endcap! And don't be alarmed: the item on top of the Oreos is an avocado. Yum!
Sadly, I did miss out on $3.00 of savings. I don't know if I grabbed the wrong Hormel pork loin, or if the super coupon had a limit of one, but I didn't notice until I got home. Sigh. I suppose that's what happens when your shopping cart has a semi-cranky one-year-old in the front basket.
Grocery shoppers in the Chicago suburbs, take note: Jewel and Dominick's both take internet printable coupons and expired coupons. I've never had a problem at either store with this. Today, the only coupon problem I had was for the Kellogg's cereal: coupon 3 and 4 beeped, saying I hadn't bought 3 and 4 boxes of cereal. Clearly I had, so the cashier overrode the coupons. Which were both printed from coupons.com and expired. Woohoo!
2 comments:
Nicely done! It's so addictive to save more than you spend... it's gotten to where if I spend $14 and save $12 I feel mildly disappointed in myself, lol. It takes a lot of organization to pull off big shopping trips like that though, so I'm especially impressed that you managed it with a little one.
hehehehe I love that you bought the Swiss Miss with caffeine... It was the topic of my very first (very goofy) blog post! :P
http://devastateboredom.blogspot.com/2009/01/gettin-that-morning-buzz.html You'll have to tell me your opinion of it... to be perfectly honest, it's grown on me a lot and I bought another box just last weekend (half off! Couldn't find a coupon for it though... did you?).
I love those savings! If you ever have a chance to scroll through the wine, look for the winetags. I've got a small stack of them, and I'm going out hunting next week for more!
And thanks for the heads up about the expireds - I have tons of good ones that expired at the end of last year!
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