Shopping Update

So it has been a little while since I have posted. I had my mom in town for a week over Spring Break, which was a lot of fun. I was able to get in a little bit of awesome coupon shopping while she was here and also find her some good deals. Her trunk was stocked full of canned veggies, pasta, and dog treats when she left. Here is an update on some of my great deals this past week:

Husband went to Walmart to snag me some good deals. The deodorant and purex laundry sheets were free. The Gain dryer sheets were a moneymaker, now that Walmart's coupon policy has been changed to allow overage.

 While my mom was here she decided to get some of the items from the Kroger Mega sale, so I got a couple of things while I was with her- free pasta and the mustard was 19 cents each.

Husband also had a chance to use this amazing coupon we had- $4 off the purchase of 4 chex mix bags. The coupon was a printable and it was gone by the next morning, but I do have one more:) We paid $1 total for these 4 bags.

Everything in this picture- 14 boxes of pasta, 2 containers of dip, a mustard, and 2 16ct cheese slices- cost me $1.19+tax! Love that Ronzoni coupon! I had run out of them, but I decided to break out my laptop to print a few more. It was no small feat, since it took about an hour for it to boot up, but worth it in the end:)

After my mom left husband and I went to Kroger, where they have now updated their coupon policy so that you cannot use a digital coupon and a paper coupon together. Supposedly this has been policy for a while, but there was no system in their register to catch it. Well now it beeps and will not allow you to use the paper coupon, so you have to use the ecoupon, which does not double. I told the nice guy that checked us out that he could keep the cereal in that case. Why would I use your 50 cent ecoupon when I could use my 50 cent paper coupon that will double to $1, smart decision Kroger. In any case, we did get some good deals there- the Philly cooking creme was $2 and we had $1.50 off, plus $1.50 off chicken when you buy it. The chicken packs were on sale for about $3, so for $2 we were able to get a cooking creme and almost 2 pounds of chicken which = dinner! Hot sauce was free, pasta roni was less than $1 per box, the sauce was $1 each and I had a coupon for $1 off beef when you buy it, so that was a good deal too.

My best shopping trip of the week was definitely at Publix- loving it more every week. Everything in this picture- $7!!! I had a cashier who had clearly just started working there and she rang up my order, "that will be $53", um, no it won't. She was able to learn how to ring up all kinds of different coupons:) I love these vitamins, I am going to be so sad when I can't fund my shopping trips through vitamins! While I had the ole laptop fired up I printed out some more of the $3/2 coupons, so we made about $7 off buying these. The worcestershire sauce, philly creme, and yogurt were free. The pasta sauce was on sale for 99 cents and I had a coupon that doubled to 90 cents, so those were 9 cents each. The zatarains was a great deal- 50 cents a box and unlike Kroger last week they included the pasta variety, which is usually more expensive. The fish was about $1.75 for the bag. We haven't tried it before, but for that price I am happy to give it a try. The rest of the stuff in the picture was $1 each. My new cashier was super impressed and the bagging lady asked if I could teach a coupon class:)