After a disappointing trip to Kroger I was thrilled with my trip to Publix the next day. I had to stop by for my .01 item and FREE frozen veggies, FREE Progresso soup, more FREE Bayer, and CHEAP pizza rolls. I used a $5 off $25 Rite Aid coupon + the $5 off 20 item Publix store coupon.Out of $23.00, more than half ($11.58) was spent on just the pork chops ($6.59), bread ($2.00), and milk ($2.99). I got everything else for $11.42!
I'm not real thrilled about how this trip to Kroger worked out. It seemed like all of my coupons "beeped" including my (2) $1.00 off OYNO Catalinas. I don't have the patience to figure out which coupons I actually got credit for and which ones I didn't. My trips to Kroger are getting few and far between and if it weren't for the FREE Cottonelle, I would only shop at Publix.My order generated (2) more $1.00 off OYNO Catalinas and (1) $3.00 off 3 Johnson & Johnson products Catalina which just means 3 more .09 Buddie Bars.
More FREE Colgate + 2.58 PROFIT!
$48.76 in Products for FREE + $12.80 PROFIT!
Today was Round 2 at Publix this week before the ad changes on Thursday. I was waiting on them to restock the Juicy Juice, Ken's Marinade and Lipton Tea so I could use the rest of my coupons. Our store has the Betty Crocker frosting on sale for .99 this week so my .50 coupons (doubled) made all 5 of those FREE. The Blistex is on sale for .83 or .13 each after my .35 coupons (doubled) The Chinet plates are FREE thanks to a printable + peelie coupon found on the larger sized platters. I also used a $5 off $25 Rite Aid coupon.
I'm looking forward to my Publix shopping this weekend where I plan to load up on Lipton Tea, Ken's Marinade and Kraft Salad Dressing. Other than the normal milk, bread, meat and fruits I should be well under budget next week too! I'm also looking forward to no coupons in the paper this weekend. I did splurge a little and bought some great coupons on ebay and thecouponclippers this week but spent way less than I would have buying papers this weekend and they are for specific items that are on my Publix list.
$326.46 worth of products for FREE + $1.48 Profit
Out of my $7.67 total, $5.19 was Ground Sirloin, $1.36 was Bananas and $1.17 was Hot Dog Buns so basically everything else was FREE!
PLUS I should get a $5 Gift Card for purchasing $20 in Kimberly Clark products in one transaction!
Note: The Starkist generated (2) $1.00 OYNO Catalinas & (1) Save $2.50 on 10 Starkist purchase Catalina.
I want to point out that out of $20.95 I spent $14.08 on just bread, eggs, bananas and ground sirloin. I got everything else for $6.87!
I made one more trip to Kroger for more of the $1.00 sandwich meat and also use some coupons that Kroger mailed me this week.
Wise Cheez Doodles are BOGO this week at Publix 2/2.99
Free Body Wash, Toilet Paper and (almost Free) Soap Bars
All of this stuff was FREE and I made a $7.09 PROFIT!Walgreens
2 trips to Publix yielded $108.94 worth of stuff for $1.99. I'm not really sure how it happened so I'm gonna break everything down and figure it all out.
A lot of the items had store coupons that could be stacked with regular coupons and they usually end up FREE or FREE with an overage. My local Publix is very lenient with their coupon policy but the register does "beep" when your coupons out number the amount of items purchased. When you stack coupons this can easily happen since you are basically using 2 coupons for 1 item. Although most managers will come and over-ride the "beep" I tend to avoid having any manager intervention if at all possible. They all smile when I come in to shop and I hope to keep it that way. I've started keeping track of my coupons vs. items purchased and make sure they are always equal to prevent the "beep". I've started picking up filler items (this week was the .50 Publix sodas) to offset the extra coupons I have. For example if I had 20 items and 26 coupons I would get 6 drinks to balance the order.
Every time I make this particular meal I'm so excited that I was able to make something that the family loves all from stuff that I have purchased BOGO + coupons at Publix. If you have ever been to Outback and had one of their pasta meals this would remind you of the Walhalla Pasta minus chicken, but add shrimp. I use:
Cook each thing separate and mix them all together. Fast, easy, and CHEAP too!
I figure that 2 boxes of shrimp BOGO + coupons cost about $5.00, 2 boxes of Pasta Roni BOGO + coupons cost about $2.00 and the frozen veggies BOGO + coupons cost probably about $3.00. In my opinion pretty close to a restaurant quality dinner for about $10.
A pretty good trip to Publix today. The .01 item was Publix coffee so I took the kids with me so they could have their own order and we could get 2 of them. (and also use (2) $5 off $25 Rite Aid) I had a couple "have to get" items. The Bounce I usually have a coupon but didn't today (maybe next week in the P & G insert) and the Lipton I usually wait until it's BOGO but still had a .75 coupon so that wasn't too bad. I picked up a few more of the cheap Aleve and the FREE Bayer. The overage on the Bayer actually offset the cost of the Aleve so they were really all FREE!
