The Big Day!

So my big day has arrived, the day I take my lists with coupons, and head to the stores. Today I went to three different stores with 4 kids in tow, and it only took me an hour and a half to get my grocery shopping done. If I were to go to Wallymart with the kids in tow, then it would of taken me at least 2 hours! So right there just by skipping Walmart, I'm saving time! Which somewhere I heard was the same as money.

Now the three stores I shopped at today was Tom Thumb, Albertsons, and Kroger. I tend to have my travel route planned as well to help me save time. If I go to Tom Thumb, I always go there first. It is the furthest away and on my way back home, I am able to make stops at the other stores.

Lets start with the first store, Tom Thumb. I did get lots of things on sale at Tom Thumb today, but for time I'm going to write about the best deals I got there. I was able to get most of my cereal there for under $1.50 a box. Now the cereal I got was an assortment of General Mills cereal that I had coupons for and were also on sale. In yesterday's flier, I clipped two coupons. One has 4 boxes of General Mills cereal for a sale price of $1.49. One of those selected cereals is Reese's Puffs. I looked through my coupons and discovered a $1 off of 3 of any General Mills coupon. Next I checked Shortcuts and Cellfire for electronic coupons to use on top of the coupon I already had. I discovered a 50 cents off of one box of Reese's Puffs. So when I checked out, I paid $0.66 for that one box of Reese's Puffs! The other 2 boxes I got for about $1.16 a box. There was also a separate coupon making Banana Nut Cheerios a $1.99 a box. Like before, I looked through my coupons and found a $1 off of 2 boxes of any Cheerios. So far that dropped the price to $1.49 a box. I checked Shortcuts and Cellfire again for Cheerio coupons and discovered one for a 50 cents off of one any type of Cheerios. So in the end, I got one box for $1.49 and the other for $0.99! Try getting General Mills at Wallymart for that price!

Next on my route was Albertsons. I spent the most at Albertsons today since I had to buy meat and produce there today. I also had to buy garbage bags and nobody had them on sale this week. Albertsons did have nice cantaloupe on sale for 99 cents. I was also able to get 4 large ripe coconuts for $1. The kids were excited for that since they want to drink the coconut milk. I also got the shrimp I wanted for $3.99 a pound instead of $4.88 a pound which was advertised in my flier. And these shrimp were the extra large ones too!!!

My last stop was Kroger. Kroger has a buy 8 participating items, get $4 dollars off deal going on this week. I was able to get all 8 items and use coupons too. Sunny Delight was on sale for 75 cents( after the $4 was taken off). I had a 25 cents off of any Sunny Delight coupon. Kroger tripled my coupon and in the end, it was FREE!!! Then the Chex Mix was 99 cents(after the $4 was taken off). I had two coupons to use on this one. One was a regular 50 cents off of one and the other was my electronic coupon for 50 cents off of one. Kroger doubled the regular one to make the item free, but then they applied my electronic one to it as well. So in the end, Kroger paid me 50 cents to take that bag of Chex Mix off their hands! How could I refuse to help them out. I was also able to get a bag of Buggle snacks for free too! The Buggle snacks were 99 cents as well, and I had a 50 cent coupon that was doubled. There were other deals, like I got Smart Balance Sour Cream for $0.49 cents. and Progresso Thick and Hearty soup for $0.69 cents a can. All using the buy 8 get $4 off deal and coupons.

I hope my examples can shed some light on how to find the deals in your area and how to use coupons with those deals. When I used to shop for groceries at Wallymart, I would spend $100 every week, now I spend way less and get more. Because of this, I no long have to shop Wallymart for my groceries. Today I spent $69.39 and was able to get $134.04 worth of food. Which is a savings of $64.65! Not bad for a day's work.