I'm Still Around and Still Shopping

Took a little break from posting (not shopping), because I've been so busy with work. Isn't it horrible when your job takes away time from your hobby? But I've still been managing to get a few great deals. Last week I was able to snag the Olay products at Rite Aid for a money maker and today I made trips to ShopRite, CVS, and Rite Aid.

Below's a photo of everything I picked up a ShopRite My receipt reads as follows:

Total On Sale Savings $33.36
PPC & Mfr Coupons $55.71 (yes that's right I had $55.71 in coupons!)
Total Savings Today $95.27!!

With coupons each of the following items were FREE:
pasta (5 boxes)
croutons
Chevre goat cheese, yum! ($5.49)
relish
Kitten chow (I'll be donating this since we don't have a kitten)

Under 50 cents:
Reynold's recycled foil
Muir Glen organic pasta sauce
Wheatable Crackers (4 boxes) These has bogo peelies, score!
Wise ridges chips
Blue Bunny ice cream cones (like drumstick)
Al Fresco chicken sausages (5 packages). These retail $4.49 a package!

Under $1.00
everything else in the photo (except olive oil and cereal-full price, E had to have it ugg). I'm especially excited to try the "food should taste good" olive tortilla chips. They retail for $2.66 and I got them for just $0.66 a bag.

Total paid $11.34 for everything in the photo!

Busy Week=Few Shopping Trips

I've been meaning to head over to CVS to do a few deals, but in all honesty I've been so busy at work I've been getting out late and sleeping in until 10-11am every day this week. Yesterday I bought some Schick Hydro coupons on e-bay (hoping they'll arrive by Saturday so I can do some Target Deals).

This week the hydro is on sale at ShopRite for just $4.99! So I'm planning on doing a price match at Target.

The transaction will look like this:

Buy two Hydros at $4.99 each (price match)
Pay nothing OOP
Get a $5.00 Target gift card for buying the two razors!

Cross your fingers the USPS will come through for me :)

Shop Rite ConAgra Catalina Deal

Cindy over at LivingRichWithCoupons.com alerted her readers to a wonderful unadvertised catalina deal at ShopRite this week.

The advertised deal is: Buy 10 selected ConAgra products get a $3.00 catalina. The unadvertised deal is that a $5.00 on your next shopping order (5/23-5/29) also prints.

I was lucky to have a training during the day today, so I worked 9-5 and headed over to ShopRite after work. I bought everything in the photo (two transactions of ten items a piece, plus two free chocolate milks) for $16.32. Plus I got back $13.00 in Catalinas making my total just $3.32! I plan to go back tomorrow or Saturday to do several more transactions like this:

Buy 10 products at $1.00 a piece= $10.00
Minus one $3.00 catalina= $7.00
Get back $8.00 in catalinas (one, $3.00 and one, $5.00) $1.00 moneymaker per transaction!

My transactions today were a little higher because the popcorn was $1.59, not $1.00. If I do three more transactions my OOP will be $37.32 and I'll have $28.00 in Cats to use on future grocery transactions making my total just $9.32 for 50 grocery items that retail for about $65.00! And what's even better is I just got a postcard in the mail stating that my local post office/letter carrier is participating in the national food drive this Saturday, so I won't even have to drive anywhere to drop everything off!

Saturday ShopRite Snags

Today I ran to ShopRite after stopping by Rite Aid and PetCo/Petsmart. I was pretty pleased with myself when I picked up everything in the photo for just $5.97!

What's even better is I got a Catalina for $3.00 off any beef or chicken purchase for purchasing 6 old El Paso products (This cat is National I believe, check your local store!). The taco shells and seasoning were all on sale (I believe $1.40 for the shells and $0.67 for the seasoning) and I used the $.60 off two products (which doubled to $1.20!).

Marcal TP was $0.99 a roll and I used the Marcel for free coupon
Sargento reduced sodium cheese was just $1.49- free after a $0.75 coupon doubled (coupons.com)
Malt o Meal cereal was $0.49 each after a doubled $.75 coupon (coupons.com)
Wacky Mac, free after a doubled $0.50 coupon

$28.92 spent, $96.32 worth of Groceries!

People who say you should shop around for the best grocery deals are definitely right. We recently found that our local A&P (the smaller of the two in our area) has excellent markdowns on meat and baked goods on Sunday afternoon/evening. Last week I got a whole organic chicken for $7.00! This week I got a pound and a half of individually packaged chicken breast for $4.00, a huge Focaccia bread with roasted veggies for $2.00, a package of fried chicken for E's lunch $2.00 and a 12 pack of jumbo glazed donuts for $1.50.

After A&P we headed to ShopRite to get...
Free:
Heinz mustard and brown mustard
4 free boxes of Ronzonni pasta
3 free packages of Carolina rice
1 package of free Halls cough drops

Super Cheap:
4 packages of Sargento cheese ($0.49 a piece)
2 Tropicanna OJ ($0.75 each) using a bogo coupon and a $1.00 coupon
and 3, 7lb bags of Worlds best cat litter $6.99 each (used 3, $5.00 coupons) Not shown in photo

Plus:
Strawberries $1.99
Tangelos
Bananas
Asparagus $1.99 a pound
hazel nuts ($3.49 ouch!)

Total of both trips was $28.92, not too bad since I got meat and cheese and juice that all would have been pricey without discounts/coupons. Without coupons I would have spent $96.32, can you imagine spending $100 bucks for groceries for two people?

Disregard the shih tzu in the photo thinking "If I go in for the kill real quick, mom won't notice I'm eating her dinner".

ShopRite Free Deodorant!

No smelly men here! Lately it feels like all the deals have been for men's care products. But I'm certainly not complaining. I'm happy to stock up on razors, bodywash and deodorant to pass on to friends, family and our local homeless shelter.

These bad boys were $0.99 a piece, I used 4, $2.00 off 2 Right Guard coupons from coupons.com to score them for FREE! (well actually I had to pay tax, but I did get $.02 overage for each set of two)

This Week's Grocery Shopping=Free Pancakes & Free Panteen

Ok, not technically pancakes, but pancake mix.

On Sale at A&P for $.99
Used $.75 off 1 box coupons (that doubled)

Also got 2 bags of Quaker rice cakes (the mini flavored kind) for free using $.75 coupons that doubled.

ShopRite had a few deals really good deals this week including free Egg noodles and a Proctor and Gamble Rebate on Panteen shampoo (I got 8 bottles! for FREE!). The full deals and a bunch of other great deals can be found at Living Rich with Coupon's blog here

Total bill pre-sale and pre-coupon: $89.71
After Coupons: $40.80
Minus Rebate: $30.80!

A little higher then I wanted, but I did buy 3 packages of chicken and 5, 12 pack's of E's ice tea.

Plus a $5.00 Catalina on my next ShopRite trip!