One of the ways I’m learning to save both money and time is by limiting myself to one grocery/drugstore trip per week. This forces me to make sure I’m organized enough to do ALL my deals on one outing. (I am not 100% perfect at this, but I have DEFINITELY improved since I started couponing!)
I thought I’d share my trips with you today. First Walgreens:
The Bic Razors were $3.99 and I used (2) $3/1 off coupons, making them $0.99 a pack. I needed a thank-you card, and easily found one for $0.99. I had a $3 Register Reward from last week that I wanted to use. Since my order at this point was only $2.97, I bought one pudding for $0.25 to balance out the transaction. I paid $1.07 for everything pictured (eek, sales tax!). Go HERE to get in on these deals, too!
Next, we hit up Albertsons. There were still plenty of tortillas, and I had (3) $1.50/2 tearpad coupons I’d found at a store a few days earlier. So all 6 tortillas were only $0.24 out of pocket TOTAL. I used my $1/1 Trop50 coupons and the doubler coupons and got those for only $0.50 apiece! Finally, I’ve decided to turn some of my tortillas into breakfast burritos (more on that in an upcoming post), so I decided to look for some meat to add. I found a package of turkey sausage priced at $4.39, but with a $2/1 Manager’s Special on it. All this food? $4.13, baby! Go HERE for Albertsons deals.
With some stockpile deals out of the way, it was time to tackle my grocery needs for the week. Since I had a freezer meal swap last week, most of my meals are prepped. I needed some produce and other basics to top of my week. I also needed eggs and potatoes to finish off the 20 breakfast burritos I’ll be making. I decided to hit up Fred Meyer since they had a couple deals I wanted to take advantage of. Here is my final haul:
I know this is a rather small picture, but you should see how much produce and healthy stuff I got! I stocked up on more organic soup (this time, there was an entire ENDCAP full of it!), the B1G1 Amy’s Burritos, Horizon Organic Milk ($2.44 after blinkie coupon), tomato soup, and a big thing o’ strawberries. I spent $37.66 at Fred Meyer today. See Fred Meyer deals HERE.
Finally tally: I paid $42.86 for everything pictured, and saved $54.41 – that’s roughly 56% saved. AND that includes some splurges, such as a 3 lb bag of organic red potatoes for $3.46! I also imagine I saved money just by shopping at Fred Meyer. I’m very happy with my trips today!
Incidentally, you might have also noticed I bought a couple papers. One is a Seattle, the other is a Tacoma. I understand many of you were frustrated last week that some coupons were only in certain papers. I am hoping to try to decide which paper had which coupons last week. I’d also suggest to buy BOTH papers if you can to ensure you got everything.
I also picked up the Fred Meyer Extra Savings booklet. I’ll make sure to do those matchups in the next day or so.
Did anyone else get out to do any shopping today?
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That’s a lot of healthy food for $42! Where did you get the tortilla tear-pad coupons? I may make a trip to Albertson’s tomorrow.
Hi Laura! If you’re in the Federal Way area, the store on Pac Hwy had them on the chip aisle (by the Mission Tortillas Chips) AND towards the back – they had a Cinco de Mayo display of sorts. This was as of Saturday.
Others are reporting finding the tearpads at Safeway & QFC.
Also, be sure to head to my Albertsons post – there is a printable coupon fro $0.75/1 you could use (if it’s still available – I think it is).
I saw the tearpads at Top Food & Drug as well (that’s Hagen Foods up here, not sure how widespread they are as Top) so they’re a lot of places. Yesterday Safeway had 22oz bags of Mission Tortilla Chips for $1.99 (same bags were 2/$4 at Freddies and $2.50ea at Albies) so with the tearpad coupon (which they didn’t have that I saw) they’d be just $1.24. Just another great way to use those Mission coupons. We love Cinco De Mayo deals!!!
So I went to Walgreens yesterday to take advantage of the free 8×10 photo collage, the Bic Razors, the Sure Deodorant & cheap Scotch tape. I got 3 of the Bic Razor packs using the $3 off coupons, 3 Sure Deodorants using the $1.50 off coupons & 3 Scotch tapes. I should have paid $30.68 for all of this. After in-store and manufacture coupons, I only paid $4.14 out of pocket! Even the checker was impressed with the deal I got on the razors! This couponing is addicting!