Weekend Wrap-Up

I did my grocery shopping last night at Kroger and wound up with a good deal or two. According to the end of my receipt I saved 33%. The breakdown of the savings are as follows:

MFG Coupon Savings - 18.52 Bonus Coupons - 0.30 Kroger Plus Savings - 36.80 For a total of 55.62 I spent 117.52 out of pocket.

However, I did earn a $0.10/gallon reward and I was getting low on gas...and then my stock pile in the freezer was getting low.

Here are the deals I got...

Buy 2 things of Quaker instant oatmeal get $1.00 off - So they were on sale for 2 for $4. I also had a MFG coupon for $1 off 2. So all said and done it cost me $2 for 2 boxes. Not bad for name brand oatmeal.

I had 2 buy one get one free Welch's Aqua Juice coupons *couponbug.com* & they were on-sale for $2.79 with your Kroger card (regularly $3.99) so I got 4 large bottles of juice for $1.40 a bottle.

They also had the California Pizza Kitchen frozen pizzas on sale for $5.49 with your Kroger card (which is cheaper than Wal-mart). We LOVE the white pizza with the spinach. Great for Friday's during Lent.

Now onto Sunday's shopping spree....I hit both Walgreens and CVS up. I had a few coupons that were about to expire so I went ahead and used them even though the items weren't on sale...but it is stuff we use. Here is the breakdown....

Walgreens: Purchased the following:

-2 Hot Wheel Cars (Easter Basket for PMck) buy one get one free - 2 for $1.29
-3 boxes of 20 ft Reynolds Foil Wrap (we were out) - $0.89/box
-4 Crest Pro-Health Toothpaste (Found on clearance and then when you purchase 4 you get a $5 rebate this month through the Easy Saver Rebate program) - used a 0.75 off one coupon, and 2 $1 off coupons - marked down for $0.94/box - cost 3.76 less 2.75 coupons - OOP cost 1.01 and will get $5.50 back in rebates.
-2 cans of Fushion shaving cream (hubby's favorite) at 4.29/can - less 2 $1 off coupons
-1 pack of night light light bulbs for PMck's room
-1 One A Day vitamin drink mix for 1.49 (free after Easy Saver Rebate)

Total 17.03 less 6 Register Rewards - 11.03 OOP

Savings: Walgreens Coupons 3.39 Walgreens Advertised Savings 11.40 MFG coupons 10.75 Total Savings 25.54 (33%)

CVS:
-3 12 packs of coke zero (for a party this afternoon) - 3/$11
-1 Glade Plug In Scented Oil - $5.99 (Regularly $9.99) less $3 MFG coupon - $2.99 earned $1
ECB plus there was a $3 MFG coupon inside the Glade Plug In Box.
-1 CVS 16 oz Hydrogen Peroxide on sale for $0.50
-1 CVS 16 oz Rubbing Alcohol on sale for $0.50
-4 Old Spice deodorant on sale 2/$5 less 2 $1 off 2 coupons - so 4 for $8

So Total OOP 16.37. I used $7.99 in ECBs and $7 in MFG coupons. Total savings $28.33.

All and all not too bad.

With the Walgreens Easy Saver Rebate, you can enter your purchases online and elect to have your rebate money on a Walgreens giftcard and they will give you 10% more of your rebate money (so if you are turning in purchases to get a $5 rebate they will put $5.50 on the gift card) and each month they run these rebates so the next month enter your giftcard number and they will load it directly on the card. So just another way to make a few extra bucks.


So what deals did you find today??