I went to the grocery store to grab some deals & other items we needed. The grocery game is a learning lesson. My goal is to save 50% or more. Each trip to Ralphs I learn something knew to help me with my next trip. Last trip I realized that they only double the 1st coupon of a product. I went to get toothpaste. It was 4/$4. I had 2 - 50cent coupons & another 75cents off 2. I went in expecting to only pay $1 for 4 tubes of toothpaste. It was $1.75. Lesson learned there. I should have made multiple trips, but who wants to do that with 3 screaming kids? This time I was prepared. I had multiples of coupons so I did 2 transaction. Lesson learned in this trip? 1) My kids can actually behave in a grocery store & 2) Better organize the coupons that get put onto the store card from the internet. I need to print out a list instead of writing them down. My paper coupons were good to go - except I forgot to use 1. Example of the store card coupons - Part of the Mega sale deals were certain General Mills cereal. I had store card coupons (2) for a $1 off Honey Nut Cheerios. I forgot that I needed to grab HNC & instead just got regular Cheerios. I even had it written down!! Guess I was distracted.
I did good with the coupons. All but 4 of my items I had a coupon for & 3 of those items were store brand (milk, sugar, & marshmallows). I searched online for a coupon for the 3rd item but one was not to be found. I'm not going to list everthing I got, but will highlight the deals where I saved 50% or more. Oh, let me explain a Mega Sale. If you buy 10 products that tagged you get $5 off your total. This is also why I did 2 transactions. Doing them together would have not gotten me $10 off.
Transaction #1:
Total before: $38.69
Total OOP: $15.09
Total savings: $23.60 (39%)
Most of this transaction I saved 50% or more.
Betty Crocker cookie mix: $3.49, after sale & coupons - 79cents
Betty Crocker fruit snacks (rarely bought item for this house): $3.59, after $1.09 (x2)
Betty Crocker Warm delights (hold your granny panties for this one!! Too good to resist!): $2.49, after - I made 1cent!!!
Nature Valley Granola Bars: $4.29, after - 1.59 (x2)
Cheerios: $3.99, after $1.49 (x2... If I bought the HNC I would have only spent 49cents/box)
Transaction #2:
Total before: $76.50
Total OOP: $29.19
Total savings: $47.31(38%)
In addition to paper coupons & store card coupons I also had paper store coupons that were mailed to me.
Betty Crocker Warm Delights & Nature Valley Granola Bars are same as above.
Betty Crocker fruit snacks: $3.59, after $1.19
Trix: $3.99, after 94cents
Captain Crunch: $4.49, after $1.49
Golden Grahams: $3.99, after $1.99 (I should have repeated the Trix deal here instead.)
Pillsbury Grands!: $2.99, after $1.49 (x2)
liquid Coffeemate: $4.49, after $2.00
Nature Valley Clusters (Delish, btw!): $3.99, after 99cents (x2)
Wheat Thins: $3.99, after FREE!!
Mentos Gum: $1.25, after 25cents.
14 years ago
