Bought $200 worth of groceries tonight....Paid $75!

I've been wanting to try and visit Safeway ever since I started following the KCL's. Did my homework and was able to do a decent job of grocery shopping considering it was my first time in the store.

The Safeway near me doubles coupons up to $0.75. They have in store coupons and ecoupons that can be stacked with mfc's.

Here's how it went!

8 Fruit snacks
$0.98ea
mfc -$4.00
*2 Fajita mixes
$0.89 ea
*1 Redenbacher popcorn 10ct
$6.29
1 Lays kettle chips
$1.99
2 Ragu sauces
$0.99ea
12 mini snack bags - oreos/teddy grahams/nutter butters
$1.00ea Buy 10 get 2 free
4 Ritz crackers
$1.88ea
5 Gatorade Prime
$1.49ea
mfc -$5.00
*1 Flour tortillas
$4.49
4 Tide stain remover spray bottles
$2.99ea
mfc -$12.00
10 Stouffers Lasagna
$2.00ea
mfc -4.00
*1 Breakstone Sourcream
$2.49
2 Marie Callenders frozen entree
$4.99
mfc -$2.00
3 Dannon Danimals yogurt packs
$1.77
mfc -$3.00
*Kraft shredded cheese
$5.49
1 California Pizza
$5.99
mfc -$1.00
1 Tyson beef potroast
$6.99
mfc -$1.00
2 Fishsticks
$3.99ea
mfc -$2.00

$10 off $30 of Frozen foods (March is frozen food month!)
$4.50 off for using printed Catalina's

Total Cost of groceries: $75.00

Total saved: $132.52
$87.50 from Safeway card
$34.99 in coupons

$207.52 worth of groceries for $75! woohoo!

Came home with a Catalina for $1.50 off next purchase as well as $$ off Stouffers and Kellogs fruit snacks.

I'd like to take this time to point out the items my husband tossed into the buggy. He likes to pick up things that are NOT on sale and that I DON'T have coupons for. Those items are noted with an *.
They total up to be $19.65.
I guess if he loads and unloads the groceries for me, it's worth the extra $20 to let him tag along. ;) hehe

Thanks to the Mr. for always doing a great job setting up our items for a photoshoot!

Pampers diapers....$2.99 at Food Lion!

March 6 is the last day to take advantage of this remarkable deal!

Pampers are on sale at Food Lion for $7.99.
Combine that with the $2/1 for last Sunday's paper and a print out from Food Lion, and you pay $2.99! That's a stock up price people.

Copy the link for more details and coupon site.

http://www.iheartsavingmoney.com/index.php/category/grocery-deals/food-lion/

It's Saturday, and that means last chance to take advantage before the new sales start tomorrow

The best thing CVS had going this week was their Tide Stain products on sale for $3.99.
You could purchase a combination of the liquid stain release, drop ins, or spray bottle.
Of course, I've purchased multiples of everything over the last 6 days!

I can only use four like coupons in one trip, so tonight I purchased $16 dollars worth of Tide products... that's the sale price!
The fabulous part is handing my coupons to the cashier and watching the magic happen!
Total comes to $4 plus tax on all four products. And of course if you collect Extra Bucks like any normal Krazy Coupon Lady would, then you end up getting the items free!
My laundry shelf is happy!

I love getting something for nothing!

Dropped a few dollars ar Rite Aid and CVS the other day.

Paid roughly $11.00 for all this! That's because the baskets were 3/$10! Everything else was free with my coupons and Extra Bucks cash! Long line behind me, due to lunch hour ruch, not my slowness. Folks were confused how I walked away with all that!

Total cost for this trip was $0.22.

Just saved 75% on my grocery bill! Here's how!

Last night, Bloom, was filled with over excited and bubbly super saving coupon diva's. I was one of them! My cashier even commented how pleasant everyone has been today.
It's hard not to be extrememly happy and excited when you see just how much all your hard work of scouring the ads and clipping coupons pays off.

One day a month, Bloom, has super double coupon days. This is where they double coupons up to $1.99!!
I went in loaded with any coupons I had between $1 and $1.99 off, and scored some big savings.

This evening I bought $175 dollars worth of groceries.
I paid $60 for everything!

Every item in this picture was purchased using a coupon. In fact, these days, I don't by anything unless I have a coupon with it!
This bill is incredibly confusing. So I will list the items purchased along with their regular price. At the end I'll add the savings from my Bloom card followed by savings just from the coupons I used!

2 GM Lucky Charms $8.78
2 Ritz Chips $5.98
3 Kellogs Special K Oats N Honey $10.17
2 Pop Secret Popcorn $5.98
1 Post Honey Bunches of Oats peach $3.22
6.38lbs of red seedless grapes $19.27
4.76lbs of bananas $2.80
4 Smart balance half gallon milks $13.16
6 packs of Jello Pudding $17.94
2 Danimals yogurt packs $5.98
2 Dannon Yogust smoothie packs $4.98
20 Yoplait Yogurt cups $14
7 Dannon Yocrunch Yogurt cups $4.90

Total: $152.51
Breeze card -$27.05 (their store discount card)
Mfc's: -$75.00 (that's right.. just from coupons!)

Total Out of Pocket: $50.46

Along with my purchase, a few Catalin's printe up. Savings on more yoplait and cereal. So dad loaded the kids in the car, and I went back in while I could still double the coupons!

Trans 2:
20 Yoplaits $14.00
8 YoCrunch $5.60

Total: $26.81
Breeze card: -$4.00
Mfc's: -$9.40
Total out of pocket: $13.41

SO in all I spent a grand total of $63.87.
I saved a total of $115.45

That's $179.32 of groceries for $63.87!! Nearly 75% in savings!!!

A pat on the back from my cashier who informed me that I beat the record of the day of 48% savings.

OOHRAH!!!

Free Pancakes at IHOP! Today Only!

It's National Pancake Day, and to celebrate, IHOP is serving up one order of free short stack pancakes for every customer!
Who can resist free pancakes!?
Be a dear and leave an appropriate tip. Also, make a donation to the charity they are sponsoring!

Dumpster diving! Don't knock it till you try it!

If you're serious about coupons, you already know about dumpster diving! The fine art of rescuing those valuable circulars from the recycle bin!
I've been hearing all the hoopla, and finally musterd up the guts to do it tonight! So much fun! The Mr and I came home with so many circulars! Some I had never even seen, since coupons can vary by region.

Depending on your budget, you can purchase multiple Sunday papers each week, you can beg friends, family, even strangers to give you their inserts, or you can go snooping in the recycle bin. The latter will definitely give you thousands of dollars in valuable products!

Tonight, I found a few inserts that actually had an expiration of today, 2/28. Clipped them very quickly and paid $0.99 for Tide stain booster liquids and tablets at CVS. (those things are normally $6 at min!)

Can't wait to get them all clipped and share the wealth! Hey! It pays to be my friend!