Publix Purchases 06/30/11

This was a GREAT day at the market! hehehe :-)

I paid $56.82 and I saved $86.08

So here is what I have--first off let me tell you about the card in the front. I was able to get another $50 gas card for $40 because I spent at least $25! WOOHOO Soooooo right off the bat that takes off $40 of the price above, so for the actual groceries I only spent $16.82!!!!

• 2 tubs of cool whip 84 cents each
• 8 Oscar Mayer Cracker Combos FREE!!! (they were $1 each and then I had a coupon for $1 off!)
• 2 tubs Breakstone Sour cream. The Zesty Blends was only 50 cents! The regular sour cream was $1.50 (no real sale there, but I needed some more sour cream!)
• 3 bags Goldfish...the Color goldfish was $1, the 2 Flavor Blasts were 45 cents each (I had a coupon for flavor blasts from the package, but DS really wanted the color ones, so I figured for $1 it was okay! lol)
• 2 boxes Crackerfuls $1 each
• 2 boxes Arm and Hammer Fabric Softner Sheets $1.99 each for 144 count!
• 2 boxes Philly Swirl Frozen Treats $1.50 each (these are only 45 calories each, so a great dessert for me when I am craving something sweet!)
• 4 boxes Aunt Jemima Waffles, 3 of them were only 8 cents each!! 1 was $1.08 (I couldn't get a 4th coupon to print for some reason...so I guess really they were all 33 cents each. lol)
• 2 bottles French's Yellow Mustard 63 cents each
• 2 bottles A-1 Steak Sauce I made 2.5 cents each!!!!
  
• 6 bottles Kraft Salad Dressing 3 cents each!!!!!

This was a great shopping trip!!! I got tons of stuff and several of the items were ones I was out of or almost out of and needed desperately! So it worked out great and I got it for super cheap!!

Publix Purchases 6/16/11

Tye was my helper in this shopping trip so he had to be part of the picture he said! lol I went to a different Publix this time so I could use my Target coupons! lol

I spent $27.42 and saved $73.71.

The purchases were as follows:

• 2 tombstone pizzas $2.35 each (I bought them so that Kevin and Tye could have them for one of the meals while I was gone to my scrapbook retreat) not the best deal but still fiarly good since regular price is $4.69 each.
  
• 2 bottles Resolve Spray N Wash 75 cents each! (and they were the 30 oz bottle because it was a promo with 30% more for free! WOOHOO!)
• 2 Old El Paso Enchilada Dinner Kit $1.35 each!!
  
• 4 containers of Crystal Light 75 cents each!!
• 2 pkgs Oscar Mayer Lunch Meats $2.10 each for the 16 oz combo packs
• 2 Fiber One Yogurt 4 pack $1.40 each (these are about 15 cents more expensive at this Publix than they are at the one I normally go to, so that kindof stinks, I will have to be more conscience of that in the future).
• 4 boxes of Magnum Ice Cream Bars 50 cents each OMGosh these are the BEST ice cream bars, just ask my sisters!!! We had these when we went to Europe on vacation in 2002. Every time we stopped to get gas we got two things...the Magnum ice cream bars and salt and vinegar pringles! ROFL! The caramel ones are the best, but the others are really good too! They were 2 for $5 and then I had a target coupon for $1 off and a manufacturer's coupon for $1 off each so I got them for 50 cents each!! WOOHOO!
  
• Now here is my 2nd favorite deal of the week...4 bottles Old Spice Body Wash and 4 sticks of Old Spice Deodorant. 50 cents each!!! Here's how I got the deal. The price was 2 for $6. Proctor and Gamble had a whole flyer of Target coupons on 5/1/11 in the newspaper. There were two coupons in there, one for $1 off Old Spice deodorant and one for $1 off Old Spice Body Wash. So these were considered Target coupons. THEN I had a manufacturer coupon for Buy 1 Old Spice Deodorant and get 1 Old Spice Body Wash free. So total price for all 8 items on sale were $24. BUT I had the buy one get one free so it made it basically half the price only $12. Now I was able to use a $1 off coupon on every single one of the items...so $8 off in manufacturer's coupons. Which leaves me $4 for 8 items, so 50 cents a piece!!! WOOHOO!!!! And those body washes are HUGE! They are 18 oz each.

I am very pleased with this purchase and I didn't even have a $5 off $50 purchase coupon either. Or a free gift card or anything. So while the total price seems kindof hefty the majority of the deals were pretty darn good! :-)

CVS Rain Check Redemptions 6/16/11

This week when I looked the CVS ad I didn't see anything I couldn't live without or needed really at all. So I wasn't going to go at all, but then I was going to be fairly near a CVS so I decided to go ahead and redeem my rain checks from last week.

I spent $4.07 and I saved $16.93 and I got $6 in Extra Care Bucks!

• 3 Ivory soap 3 pk FREE!!!
• 2 Pulsar toothbrushes $4 each, BUT I got $3 Extra Care Bucks back for each...so it kindof made them $1 each
• Plus I had the $1.98 Extra Care Bucks from last week's purchase AND the $3 Extra Care Bucks from the week before.
  

CVS Shopping 6/9/11

Why oh why do I continue to go back to the same CVS?! lol Here are my two issues with today. First of all, they didn't have two of the items that were on sale, all out, but the REAL problem was the worker! He is really kindof a jerk! He was giving me a hard time about writing a rain check and told me I needed to come on Sundays if I wanted the deals. I told him I wasn't coming on Sundays and told him that I know they get a shipment in on Wednesdays so I come first thing Thursday morning to get them. And I asked him what the big deal was in writing the rain check. He just mumbled on and the lady behind me in the line was looking at me in a way that I could tell she totally thought he was being rude. When we both got outside she actually told me she thought he was crazy and rude about it. If it wasn't that it was easiest to go there after I go to Publix on Thursday mornings I would go some place else! I may figure out a way to do it anyway. UGH!

Soooo with all that said here is my purchase for this week.

I spent $4.98 and saved $2.37 plus I got $1.98 in Extra Care Bucks

I bought 3 bottles of water for hurricane season (I probably should have bought more, but didn't do it). $1.00 each

2 bottles of Excedrin PM (8 ct) for 99 cents each and then I got 99 cents in Extra Care Bucks (kindof like getting it for FREE) lol But I will use the Extra Care bucks for another trip.

And they scanned my green bag tag, I have 2 uses so far, need 2 more to get my $1 Extra Care Bucks for free.

Publix Again 6/9/11

I hate it when my bags are not very full and the resulting picture looks like this and I still spent almost $20. Probably should have avoided most of it since some of it was not that great of deal...but again use it and so therefore bought it.

I spent $19.79 and I saved $28.28.

Here is what I got this week:

• 1 gallon of milk $1.79 (if you bought the brownies or cake mix and frosting you got $2 off the milk)
• 1 box brownie mix 99 cents
• 1 tub of frosting $1.10
• 2 bottles Olive Oil $2.00 each normally $5.99 each!
• 4 jars Peter Pan Peanut Butter (this time I bought all jars of this whipped version...I have never tried it before but it is 1/3 less sugar and it has less fat than the reduced fat version! ROFL! So we will see how it tastes! lol) 49 cents each!!!!!
  
• 1 pkg Publix reduced fat blue cheese and 1 pkg Publix reduced fat feta (we use these a lot in dishes so they were needed, but at least a decent price) $2.00 each
• 4 boxes Keebler Crackers $1.50 each
  

I hadn't bought $50 dollars worth so I wasn't able to use the free $10 Publix gift card again. :-( Sad! lol Oh well hopefully next time. I didn't make any "mistakes" this week, but some of my deals weren't as great as they could have been.

Publix Shopping Adventure 6/2/11

I spent a bit today, but I also saved a bit too. So it works out pretty good. Somethings I had to buy because we needed them this week and so they weren't on sale at all, other things I bought because they were on sale, but maybe not the greatest sale because again, we needed them. So here were the results:

I spent $47. 67 and I saved $70.87 plus I got a FREE $10 Publix Gift Card!

Here are the details:

• 6 boxes of Fiber One Cereal (YAY because I take this every day to work, it makes it easy and since I don't like it with milk I eat it like a snack, but for breakfast! lol) These are normally like $3.79 a box if you buy them at Walmart, I bought them for only $1.30 each!
• 2 boxes Ritz, Hint of Salt, and 2 boxes Ritz Bits $1.00 each!!
  
• 4 boxes Fruit Snacks Here's another mess up...I guess that one of the boxes was not part of the sale, even though there was a tag in front of it...so instead of getting 4 for B1G1 I ended up paying full price for 2 of them and then the other two were $1.05 each UGH! I swear am I ever going to go one week without messing something up?! lol Can't go back and fix it now either because DS has already eaten several of them! lol
  
• 2 boxes Rozini Garden Delight I MADE 11 CENTS on this purchase!
• 4 pkgs Rozini Healthy Harvest (since this is what I usually use) 45 cents each!
• 2 jars Nutella $2.00 each
• 2 jars Peter Pan Peanut Butter $2.16 each
  
• 1 container of marshmallow fluff $2.79 (0ne of those have to haves for DS class for their "reading camp out")
• 1 box graham crackers $2.99 (another one of those have to haves for the "reading camp out")
• 2 boxes Taco Bell Home Originals Dinner kits $1.35 each
• 2 of the 4 packs of YoPlus yogurt $1 each
  
• 2 loaves of bread $1.19 each (have to haves, we were almost out and since DS takes a PB and honey sandwich to school every day we had to get it! lol)
• 2 boxes of Glad zipper bags $2.00 each
• 2 packages Hebrew National Hot Dogs $2.50 each
• $10 Publix Gift Card FREE!!!

Not too bad. Especially for so many had to have items and the one mess up. UGH! I swear! lol I really love saving all this money! I am spending slightly less than I used to going shopping every other week at Walmart (even using coupons...just not in the right way! lol) and I am stocking my pantry up and mostly with stuff we use. We have tried a few new things I wouldn't have bought because they used to be "too expensive" for me. But heck if I only pay $1.00 for a box of something that normally costs $3 just to try it, no big deal! Or many times I can pay even less than that! :-)

CVS Trip 6/2/11

This week I bought 2 bags of York pieces (this are soooo yummy!) and 1 bag of the Hershey's cookies and cream drops and 1 bag of the Almond Joy pieces. They were 2 for $5 but I had a $2 off 2 coupon and I had a $1 ECB. So it made them $1.25 each. OH and I got $3 ECB for buying them too! lol I forgot about that!! lol I also got my $10 gas card that I actually earned last week.

I paid $5.70 and I saved $22.46 plus the $3 ECB for next time!