Thursday, November 18, 2010

Love it!! So much FREE & super cheap stuff!!

Thank You Smith's!!

Spent:  $36.99
Bought 71 items
Saved:  $79.65

So what's in the picture?  
12 cans of Campbell's cream of mushroom/chicken soups--FREE
15 cans of Swanson's broth--$.34 each
6 cans Carnation evaporated milk--$.44 each
2 Colgate toothpastes--$.25 each
2 Colgate toothbrushes--FREE
4 bags of Ricola cough drops--FREE
6 boxes of Quick cook pasta--FREE

2 boxes Ronzoni Garden Delights pasta--$.25 each
Lots more pastas--all kinds--$.49 each
4 Krusteaz Chocolate Chunk cookie mixes--$.49 each
2 large box Jellos--$.34
2 16 oz.sour creams--$.88 each
32 oz Dannon yogurt--$.49
Sarah Lee Whole Wheat bread--$2
2 family packs of chicken (about 10.3 lbs)--$1.69/lb 
The chicken was about $18 total--which was half of what I spent!!  If you take the chicken out of the picture, I would have only spent $18.99 for the other 69 items!!!

Tuesday, November 16, 2010

Thanksgiving Foods Deals

Check out this link on the "pinching your pennies" website
before doing your Thanksgiving shopping!!   
If you find that you need to go to multiple stores, remember that Walmart will price match--take the store ads with you just in case Walmart wants to see them.

Here is the link:

Happy Thanksgiving!!

Monday, August 16, 2010

Smith's just keeps giving us great sales!!

Smith's had a GREAT sale on several things last week--fortunately the sale is continuing on many of the items through this week--so get your coupons ready and go stock up!! It's been a while since there has been a really good cereal sale and with my baby coming soon, I wanted to stock up on what I could--my husband LOVES cereal and if he had the choice, he would live off of it completely!
Total Spent:  $59.39 
Plus I received $11.50 in catalinas to use on my next shopping trip!
Bought:  38 items 
Not including individual bananas and apples--I have about 6 bananas and 10 apples, 
making it 54 items.
Total Saved:  $107.23

What's in the picture?
10 LARGE boxes of cereal
5 fruit roll-ups/fruit by the foot (for every 5 you bought, you got a $3 catalina)
5 boxes of granola bars (for every 5 you bought, you got a $3.50 catalina)
5 16 oz. pkgs of Kraft cheese (for every 5 you bought, you got a $5 catalina)
1 peanut butter--it was the last one--they are on sale for $1/18 oz.
3 Sunny Delights--these were only $.53 each after the coupon!
3 Hamburger/Chicken Helpers
1 package of popcorn
1 London Broil family pack (5.3 lbs total)
a bunch of apples
a bunch of banans
2 lbs grapes
1 loaf of bread

I was quite pleased with this shopping trip because I got 3 smallish London Broils in the meat pack and quite a bit of produce.  I was REALLY pleased with the cheese sale--if you bought 5 Kraft cheese packages, you got a $5 catalina and we were about out of cheese from the last time I stocked up!  This sale is one where you buy certain items and for every 8 of those items, you get $4 off.  They are always really nice about counting to make sure you have even groups of 8 and they have never given me a hard time about coupons.

Okay, so I went back for more!!  
And it was a good thing too, because although they are having pretty much the same sale again this week, the Kraft cheese catalina has ended (catalinas have nothing to do with sales, but is a promo done by seperate companies--they are listed at the bottom of the shopping list on the individual grocerysmarts lists so you know when they are available).  And I just throw the packages of cheese in the freezer!  They freeze great!
Total Spent:  $31.99
I used my $11.50 in catalinas, and I got $7.50 more to use on my next shopping trip!
Bought:  30 items
Total Saved:  $70.06

What's in the Picture?
11 boxes cereal
3 boxes granola bars
1 package of nut clusters
5 16 oz packages of Kraft cheese
4 18 oz peanut butters
4 large yogurts
2 loaves bread

Yes, I know it's a TON of Golden Grahams, but that is one of my husbands FAVORITE cereals and it hasn't been on a good sale for a while!  And Trix is one of our kids' favorites--and they get a box for their birthday and on Christmas. It's great to be stocked up on cheese, yogurt, fruit roll-ups, granola bars, cereal,  & peanut butter (though I plan to get more of that this week for $1 each)!  Great way to start off the school year!