I am so late posting my Photo Show and Tell this week! I did my shopping Thursday night but now here I am posting this on an early Monday evening! These sales are still going on – they will end Wednesday or Tuesday depending on where you live. I didn’t buy a ton of food during this shopping trip because I knew that I wouldn’t be home much the past few days. But I did stock up on Nestle Toll House Morsels because I go through bags and bags morsels when I bake cookies over the holidays. Now is the time to start stocking up on baking and cooking ingredients you use in your favorite holiday meals. So, starting planning ahead and figuring out what you will want to cook and bake this November and December and when you see those items on sale (and you have coupons to use) buy them now! I also scored excellent deals on the Voila frozen meals because the bags all had $1.00 peelies. See my scenario below to score very very cheap bags of Voila meals. Also – if you have the coupons for Vigo Yellow Rice, even if you don’t use the rice, I would recommend you purchase it to donate.
The items I purchased today coincide with this week’s Publix Weekly ad. To see this week’s ad & coupon matchups, go HERE.
If you are new to saving money at Publix, read my Intro to Publix post!
**NOTE**
1) My Publix allows us to use more than one of the same Publix store coupon and/or competitor coupon. Not all Publix locations allow this. You should ask customer service if they allow this before loading up your cart.
2) Not all Publix locations allow overage. If your Publix does not allow overage, they will adjust the value of the coupon down so that you receive the item for free.
Here’s the rundown and how to do what I did for today’s Publix stop:
8 Nestle Toll House Morsels, on sale B1G1 BOGO $2.55 for two
Minus four $1.00/2 Nestle Toll House Morsels
Total Due: $6.20 or $0.78 each
4 Vigo Saffron Rice, 10 oz pkg, on sale B1G1 $1.29 for two
Minus eight $0.50/1 Vigo Rice 10/3/2010 RP Insert (exp 12/31/2010)
Total Due: $1.16 or $0.15 each
2 Wholly Guacamole, regularly priced at $2.99 each
Minus two $4.00/1 Wholly Guacamole printables (print limit reached)
Total Due: FREE plus $2.02 overage
2 packages Green Bean on sale $0.99/lb
2 packages Zucchinni on sale $0.99/lb
Total Due: $5.05
4 Birds Eye Voila, on sale B1G1 $4.79 for two
Minus four $1.00/1 Birds Eye Voila peelies
Minus four $1.00/1 Birds Eye Voila Publix Store Coupons Harvest of Savings
Total Due: $1.58 or $0.39 each
4 Sundown Vitamin D regularly priced $2.99 each
Minus four $1.00/1 Sundown Vitamins printable
Minus two $6.00/2 Sundown Publix Store Green Advantage Flyer
Total Due: FREE plus $4.04 overage
1 Pillsbury Flour 5lbs on sale $1.49
Total Due: $1.49
2 Muir Glen Tomato Sauce (8 oz can) regularly priced $0.89 each
2 Muir Glen Tomato Paste (small can) regularly priced $1.09 each
Minus four $1.00/1 Muir Glen products
Minus two $1.00/2 Muir Glen products Publix Store Coupon Harvest of Savings Booklet
Total Due: FREE plus $2.04 overage
6 Hershey Syrup on sale B1G1 2.17 for two
Minus two B2G1 Hershey Syrup tearpad
Total Due: $2.17 or $0.36 each
6 Starkist Tuna Salad Pouch regularly priced at $0.99 each
Minus six $0.50/1 Starkist Tuna Salad Publix Store Coupon Harvest of Savings Booklet
Minus one $1.00/2 Starkist Tuna Products Kellogg’s Your Ultimate Holiday Booklet
Minus four $0.50/1 Starkist Tuna products printable
Total Due: FREE plus $0.06 overage
Total Spent: $10.51 (including tax), Total Saved: $93.36, Percentage Saved: 89.9%
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Also –Attention Bloggers -at the bottom of this post is a place for you to link up your deals! So, make sure you leave a link to your shopping trip successes this week. I am looking for your personal deals not a list of store sales/coupon matchups! And, make sure this is a direct link to your deals post – I will remove links that go directly to your home page. If you don’t have a blog, feel free to leave a comment on this post letting us know how you did shopping this week!
Thanks for coming to Addicted to Saving! Here’s a little bit about me so you can know who’s behind all these posts!
My name is Liza and I began my money-saving journey in the Spring of 2009 as a way to stretch a limited household income. I had lost my job and my hubby was self-employed. I launched Addicted to Saving in November of 2009 and it has grown by leaps and bounds. Since then, my hubby and I have struggled with the ups and downs of two failed adoptions and are now LOVING being parents to our little man Asher who we brought home from Ethiopia in August of 2013. I feel incredibly blessed to be able to help you save money. My goal is that you will have FUN and become empowered to save more and more money each week..
When you have an overage do they give you a credit? Our local Publix will not do credits so if you have coupons worth more than the item you simply loose it.
Ah, I saw your note about overages after I posted. Ours also won’t let you use a coupon more than once.
Hi DJ! Glad you saw the note.. some stores don’t allow overage.. My store won’t give me a credit, but if I have other items that I am purchasing the overage is put towards those items.
I had my first bad experience with Publix and the Wholly Guacamole coupon. I went to a different Publix then I usually go to. The cashier rung it up and then scanned the coupon and saw that it was $4. She then called over a head cashier and she told me they don’t accept coupons over $1 and even questioned the legitimacy of the coupon. I asked her to get the manager and she went back and came back and said the manager is refusing the coupons. I got back to the house and fired off two emails, one to Publix customer relations and one to Wholly Guacamole. Publix never responded back. Wholly responded back within minutes and asked for the stores telephone#. She called the store and told me to go back and speak to a certain individual. I instead went to my normal Publix the next day and they didn’t even blink an eye about accepting them. They did however reduce the coupon down to $2.99.
I am not surprised.. Publix has begun really cracking down on printable coupons because of too many people abusing them.. High value printables like the $4/1 Wholly Guacamole coupon probably made them nervous – especially if you were one of the first people to use the coupon there.. That said, I’m really glad you stood up for yourself and were able to use the coupon at your normal Publix to at least get it free..
Derrek,
As a Publix cashier I thought you should know that it is 100% ILLEGAL for Publix to reduce the value of a man. coupon. They will be reimbursed for the full value no matter how they ring it up or what they write on it. It is coupon fraud on their part. I HIGHLY suggest informing them of that if they every try that again.
I cant seem to find the starkist printable. where do you go on the website to find coupons?! thanks!
You have to register/sign up for their website and then the link will come via email.
The two Publix stores that I shop at have been slowly raising the prices on the vitamins this year. This week the cheapest was $4.29 for one!!! So much for the free and overage on them 🙁
Yep, here too!