And I'm back! Sorry for randomly taking a week off but after a weekend out of town for Memorial Day followed by exam week at school while also kicking off four days of wedding festivities for my sister I had way too much going on to blog.
Now that the parties, cookouts, ceremonies and work is finally over I am getting back into reality and getting caught up on grocery shopping, laundry and life in general. I really wanted to make sure that I made it to Publix during this sale cycle for two reasons: peanut butter and Hofmann's Hot Dogs.
Justin is obsessed with Hofmann's which are apparently something his family loved in Upstate New York. Our Publix's just started carrying them and since they are usually pretty pricey I wanted to take advantage of the BOGO sale on them and get him two packs.
You may be wondering why I bought so much peanut butter. Remember last year when (on this exact day actually) I also stocked up on peanut butter for the year? Well we went through it all and more in the past twelve months so I went ahead and took advantage of a BOGO sale and a $10 mail in rebate to get our year's supply again this week. Shopping sale cycles and having a stockpile are two of a couponer's best friends.
I also grabbed some ice cream and oreos for some upcoming recipe posts and got some other good deals from the weekly ad and a few things we needed for the next few days of meals/lunches. I split my trip into two transactions so I could use two $5/$30 Winn Dixie coupons. Since I actually used last Thursday's grocery money for today's trip, I should have plenty left in our two week's of grocery cash for this week's sale cycle trip.
Breakdown of today's Publix trip:
Total retail value: $140.07
Total spent after coupons, sales and mail in rebate: $47.59
Total saved: $92.48
Percent saved: 66%
What I got with sale/coupon match ups:
- 16 jars of Peter Pan Peanut Butter, retails for $3.49 each, on sale BOGO ($1.74 each)
- Spent over $25 in participating products for the ConAgra Summer Storms rebate, so I will get a $10 Publix gift card by mail
- Made them $1.12 a jar
- 1 six count of big roll Sparkle Paper Towels, retails for $7.17, on sale for $5.49
- Used a $1 off manufacturer coupon from the 5/5 RP
- Stacked with a .55 cents off Publix coupon from the Children's Miracle Network Donation sheet
- Made it $3.94 for the six pack
- 1 tub of Fresh Attitude Baby Spinach, retails for $3.09, on sale for $2.00
- 4 bags of Oreos, retails for $4.29 each, on sale for $3.00 each
- Used two $1.50/2 Facebook coupons
- Made them $2.25 each
- 2 half gallon tubs of Publix Ice Cream, retails for $4.79, on sale for $3.50 each
- Used two $2.50 off Publix Ice Cream peelie coupons WYB 2 Oreos that I found on the Oreos packages
- Made them $1.00 a tub
- Bananas, $1.04
- 4 Voskos Greek Yogurts, retails for $1.25 each, on sale for $1 each
- Used two .50/2 tearpad coupons
- Made them .75 cents each
- 1 box of Hefty Trash Bags, retails for $7.59, on sale for $5.50
- Used a .55 cents off coupon from the 5/5 RP
- Stacked with a $1 off Target coupon
- Made them $3.95 for the box
- 1 packages of Kraft Velveeta Cheese, retails for $4.39 each, on sale BOGO ($2.19 each)
- Used two $1 off in store tearpad coupons
- Made them $1.19 each
- 1 tub of Philadelphia Cream Cheese Spread, retails for $1.95
- Used a $1.50 off Kraft First Taste coupon
- Made it .45 cents
- 2 double packages of Lunchables Snack Packs, retails for $2.20 per pack, on sale for $1.50 per pack
- Used a $1/2 peelie coupon
- Made them $1.00 per two pack
- 2 Hallmark cards for $2.79 each
- Used a BOGO coupon from the in store display
- Made them $1.39 each
- 2 packages of Hofmann's Hot Dogs, retails for $5.99 each, on sale BOGO made them $2.99 each
