I was so nervous about my shopping trip today. I kind of threw it together last night and it seemed like none of my newspaper inserts had the right coupons or the right values to match the good deals at Publix this week. I ended up not getting much but still was able to save 63% even though I only used 11 coupons. A possible record low of coupons for me.
That shows , in my opinion, that you don't have to go crazy with coupons to save significant amounts on your shopping trips. If you shop the sales and store deals you can still do pretty well. I used one of my $5/$30 Winn Dixie Enjoy the City coupons so that helped with my total too.
I was very under budget this week (thank you stockpile!) and even after we hit up the Farmers' Market Saturday, I should be able to stick some left over grocery cash in our camera savings and house projects fund.
I also found a new "Spring Gathering" booklet at my Publix which had over $30 in amazing Publix store coupons so I was thrilled. They all expired at the end of May.
On another note, I am so excited that we had over 40 link ups for last week's weekly totals post. You all blow me away with your amazing savings and I love looking through all of your deals and see how you accomplished it all. Can't wait to see what you have in store for us today!
Breakdown of today's trip:
Total retail value: $85.29
Total spent: $31.98
Total saved: $53.31
Percent saved: 63%
What I got with sale/coupon match ups:
- Dozen 4 Grain eggs, retails for $2.69
- Used a coupon for a FREE dozen of eggs from a Target Get Fresh mailer
- Made them FREE
- Publix Organic Strawberry Preserves, retails for $2.99
- Buy Theirs Get Ours promotion made it FREE
- 2 Slim Fast Shakes Mulitpacks, retails for $5.99
- On sale BOGO, made them $2.99 each
- 4 boxes of Kleenex, retails for $2.03 each, on sale for $1.25
- Used two $1/2 Publix coupons from the March Of Dimes in store booklet
- Made them .75 cents each
- 2 jars of Orville Redenbachers popping corn, retails for $5.29 each
- On sale BOGO, made them $2.64 each
- Smucker's Organic Strawberry Preserves, retails for $3.89
- Used a .55 cents off coupon from Coupons.com (no longer available)
- Plus got the Publix version FREE
- Made it $3.14
- 1 Mango, retails for $2.09 (?!?)
- On sale for $1.00
- 1 tube of Colgate toothpaste, retails for $3.47, on sale for $2.50
- Used a $1.00 coupon from the 4/15 SS
- Stacked with a $1.00 of Target coupon from a recent Hi Coupons mailer
- Made it .50 cents
- 3 Dove Hair Products, retails for $4.79 each, on sale for $3.00 each
- Used three $1 off coupons from here and here (plus the product had $1 off peelies on them that I saved for later)
- Stacked with a B2G1 Free Target.com coupon
- Made them $1.00 each
- 1 bag of Publix salad, retails for $3.09
- On sale for $2.00
- 1 sweet onion on sale for .61 cents
- 4 boxes of Krusteaz cookie mix, retails for $2.19 each
- On sale BOGO made them $1.10 each (Perfect for making Snickerdoodle Candy Cups)
- Silk Almond Milk, retails for $3.49 (ouch)
- Used a .55 cents coupon from the 4/15 SS
- Made it $2.94
- 1 package of Martin's Potato Rolls, retails for $3.49
- Randomly marked down to $1.99
- 2 bottles of Lawry's Marinade, retails for $3.19 each, on sale BOGO ($1.60 each)
- Used two $1.00 off Publix coupons from the Spring Gatherings in store booklet
- Made them .60 cents each
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