Tobins' Tastes: Weekly Totals Link Up & Today's Publix Trip 3/22

Thursday, March 22, 2012

Weekly Totals Link Up & Today's Publix Trip 3/22


Happy almost Friday! It's been nice (and hectic) to be back to a regular work schedule this week and for the first time in awhile I was able to do my weekly Publix shopping on my normal day of Thursday. 

Nothing crazy this week for me at Publix. The sales were good but we are just so well stocked on so many things that I don't feel the need to spend the extra money taking advantage of some of the deals right now. Also, as I mentioned last week, I haven't been on my couponing game lately and I am attempting to get back into things now that life has settled down a bit. I had very few coupons this week and my recipet below is a perfect example of how you can save money by shopping smartly even without coupons. 

Today I bought meat at Publix (just a chicken) for the first time since my overage stock up trip. We actually still have some meat in the freezer (a pack of the chicken and one pack of the ground beef and the pork loin from overage trip and a whole chicken left from a sale awhile ago) but I want to keep our meat supply stocked when there are sales since I found that there were really no good deals on meat this past summer. 

I wanted to use my $5/$50 Alberston's coupon from this week's flyer but my total before coupons didn't hit $50 so I had to use one of my precious $5/$30 Enjoy The City coupons. Oh well... I stayed right around 50% this week which is ok with me since I got cheap butter, BOGO peanut butter and some veggies. 

Make sure to link up below and show me how you did this week!

Here is the breakdown of today's Publix trip:
Total retail value: $75.61
Total spent: $34.81
Total saved: $40.80
Percent saved: 54%

Most of my savings came from store sales not coupons this week : )
Here is what I bought with sale/coupon match ups:
  • 2 boxes of Eggo Waffles, retails for $2.95 each on sale BOGO ($1.48 each)
    • Used a .75/2 coupon from the 3/11 RP
    • Made them $1.10 each
  • 2 bags of Fresh Express Salad, retails for $4.09 each
    • On sale BOGO, made them $2.05 each
  • 1 packages of Ole corn tortillas, retails for $2.19
    • On sale for $1.95
  • 2 bags of Kraft shredded cheese, retails for $3.69
    • On sale BOGO, made them $1.85 each and of course my coupons expired yesterday
  • 4 one pound boxes of Land O Lakes butter, retails for $4.43 a box, on sale for $2.50 each
    • Used four .75 off printables from coupons.com 
    • Made them $1.75 each (great price for butter if you ask me!)
  • 1 three pound Publix Greenwise organic chicken, on sale for $1.99 a pound
  • 2 Friendship Sour Creams, retails for $2.35 each
    • Used two .55 cents off Publix coupons from the Yellow Adv. Flyer
    • Stacked with a $1/2 coupon from a past in store blinkie
    • Made them $1.30 each
  • 1 half gallon of Almond Breeze milk, retails for $3.49 
    • Used a .55 cents of coupon from 3/18 SS
    • Made it $2.94
  • Organic baby carrots (Publix brand), on sale for $1.69 
  • 2 packages of Pepperidge  Farms Buns, retails for $3.29 each
    • On sale BOGO, made them $1.65 each
  • 2 Haas Avocados, retail for $1.50 each
    • On sale $1 each
  • 2 jars of Peter Pan Peanut Butter, retails for $3.49 a jar, on sale BOGO ($1.74 each)
    • Used two .50 cents off coupons from the EatWell newsletter
    • Made them $1.24 each
How did you do this week? Inspire me (and everyone else) with your amazing savings and deals this week. Please link up directly to your specific post. No main pages, giveaways, or etsy shops please. I would love it if you would link back to this post or grab my button from the sidebar : )


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