Wednesday, April 22, 2009

Kashi parfait with a side of pasta loaded with cheese, anyone?

Okay....so....today a flier came out with a Sweetbay $10/$40 and there is a very generous source at Clipper Chicks that hooked us up with a few to take to PUBLIX as they take all competitor q's. Couple that with the BIG time Kashi sales and internet printable q's for Kashi stuff, and you've created a coupon monster within me. Here's what I got:

Trans. 1:
8 boxes Kashi breakfast bars
8 boxes Kashi cereal
2 boxes Kashi crackersI used:
$10/$40 Sweetbay Competitor Q
$2 Kashi peelies

HOLY COW...I just realized I had extra $1/1 peelies for the cereal instead of the $1.50/2 internet printable!!!!!!!! UGHHHH. That would have saved me an extra $4! DARN.
Anyway..
8 - $1.50/2 printables

TOTAL OOP - $16.56
Total saved with coupons & sales - $49.86

UGGH...I know it's silly but that $4 mistake is going to keep me up tonight.

Trans. 2
8 Kashi cheese crackers
2 Voila skillet meals
2 kids yoplait (I made $0.13 getting these by the way)
1 bag of Publix crispy fries
I used:
$5/$30 Winn Dixie Competitor Q
(I signed up for their baby club and now they're sending me store coupons! Yay!)
2 - $1.50/1 Yoplait
2 - $1/1 Voila
8 - $1/1 Kashi Cracker

TOTAL OOP - $13.39
Total saved with coupons & sales - $31.02


Trans. 3
2 - 1/2 gallons organic milk
12 organic yogurts
2 glad bags
1 publix block cheese
1 lb organic butter
14 Sargento Shredded Cheese (these freeze beautifully)

I used:
$5/$50 Albertson's Competitor Q
14 - $.50/1 Sargento
$2/2 Organic Valley Milk
$1/1 Organic Valley Butter
3 - $1/4 Organic Valley Yorgurt
2 - $.50/1 Glad

TOTAL OOP - $28.11
Total saved with coupons & sales - $48.79

Trans. 4
4 - Raisin Bran
4 - Cheerios
12 - Mueller Pasta
4 - Quaker Oats Granola Bars
4 - Kashi Cheese Crackers


I used:
$10/$40 Sweetbay Competitor Q
3 - $1/4 Mueller Pasta
2 - $1/2 Quaker
2 - $1/2 Cheerios
2 - $1.50/2 Raisin Bran
AND I TOTALLY MESSED UP AND BOUGHT TOO MANY CRACKERS!!
I HAD NO MORE Q'S! ANOTHER $4 MISTAKE!!! UGH!


TOTAL OOP - $19.06
Total saved with coupons & sales - $56.90


TOTAL AMOUNT FOR ALL GROCERIES WITHOUT Q's AND SALES: $264
GRAND TOTAL OF WHAT I PAID - $77.42

THAT'S A 71% SAVINGS, PEOPLE!!!

I'd like to thank the academy for giving me the chance to.......

Truly. Seriously. I'm that batso that it's the equivalent of winning an Academy award for me. The stuff took up 2 & 1/2 carts!!!! I know I still spent a lot...and it woulda been $69 if I hadn't made those two dumb coupon blunders. But I still got organic dairy AND Kashi stuff galore! I still feel healthy (and thrilled) after all that. Now I just gotta figure out how I'm gonna stash this with the rest of my haul in the garage. I'll probably have to buy a $1000 shelving unit or something....

6 comments:

Amanda said...

You are SO crazy!

The Old Life said...

i cannot speak.

you amaze me.

plain and simple.

Erin said...

you are completely nuts.

i love it.

my husband wishes i would be more like you with my spending.

i really need to come to coupon night. maybe i will next monday. but i have NO idea what I am doing.

what if i just come... with nothing.

Michele said...

Teri....you def. deserve and award. Wow! Did you have your transactions planned before you went in? Did you just have 2 huge shopping carts full and stop the cashier when she got to $40?

Michele said...

oh, I have to tell you, I'm not feeling so well right now, pretty nauseous (I can't spell that without spell check) Anyway, I almost lost it just reading the title. Not a yummy sounding snack to preggo me, haha

Art Teacher said...

I am salivating. It is a good thing that I don't live in FL anymore b/c I would probably beg you to grocery shop with me whenever I went.
I vow to be as thrifty as you one day, so that SAHM's everywhere will envy my money saving power!