So, this week’s Photo Show and Tell should hopefully answer the plethera of emails I receive regarding whether or not I buy and eat fresh meat. The answer is a wholehearted YES!! I am not totally thrilled with this week’s Publix Weekly Ad BUT having chicken on sale for $1.99/lb made me very very happy. I only buy chicken breasts when they are priced at $1.99/lb or less. I will trim all of the chicken I bought today and separate them into one pound portions. I will then put them in Ziploc freezer bags, freeze them and use as needed. I bought 13.4 lbs of boneless chicken breasts and this should last us a while. The nice thing about my shopping trip this week – I was able to get everything in the picture for less than the cost of the 13.4 lbs of chicken 🙂 So, I spent a total of $25.54 and saved $100.94.
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!
Here’s the rundown and how to do what I did for today’s Publix stop:
13.4 lbs Publix Boneless Skinless Chicken Breasts on sale $1.99/lb Total: $26.71 4 Digiorno Pizza & Breadsticks on sale 2/$10.00 Minus four $3.00/1 printables Total: $8.00 or $2.00 each! 6 McCormick Garlic unadvertised sale B1G1 $2.49 for two Minus six $1.00/1 Mccormick seasoning blend spice herb extract or food color – 04-25-10 RPMinus six $.55/1 McCormick Herb or Spice Publix coupon PRINT or Find Deals that Make Your Earth Day booklet (coupons expire 4/30/10) Total: FREE plus $1.83 OVERAGE! 2 Vitamin Water on sale 10/$10.00 Minus two FREE Vitamin Water coupons from Facebook HERE (*Deal over now) Total: FREE (I just realized my cashier took off the regular price for each bottle so I actually got $0.98 overage) 2 Sunchips priced at $3.79 each Minus two FREE Sunchips coupons from Facebook HERE (*Deal over now) Minus two $0.55/1 Publix store coupons PRINT or Find Deals that Make Your Earth Day booklet Total: FREE plus $1.10 OVERAGE! 7 Lunchables on sale 10/$10.00 Minus seven $1.00/1 from 03-21-10 SS Total: FREE
Minus one $5.00/$30.00 Winn Dixie Baby Club Coupon (go HERE for more info)
Total Spent Including Tax: $25.54, Total Saved: 100.94, Percentage Saved: 79.9%
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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..
cookingwithkraft.com has coupons on kraft cheese for 1.25 off.
also $1.00 on any 1 oscar mayer deli creations cracker combinations. (it’s a Publix coupon) should work with this weeks sale 10 for $10.00
the deli creations are not part of the sale(just got back from a quick trip to publix) however, they are 2/$5. some boxes had peelies save $1.00/2. if you use the peelie and 2 publix printed $1.00 coupons should make them 2/$2 or $1.00 each. right Liza?
Hi Susan! Good find on the $1/2 deli creations peelies. You are correct! When you stack the $1/2 manufacturer and the two $1/1 store coupons, you are spending $1.00 each!
Susan – I just found a $1.00/1 Deli Creations manufacturer printable. You can print this out twice. If you use two $1/1 manufacturer and two $1/1 store, you will spend only $0.50 each! Go HERE for the printable
thanks so much Liza for checking it out!! you are the best!!!
Just wanted to say thanks so much for taking the time to break down exactly how you got your total! Most people just tell you how much they spent/saved but your website gives me such great ideas! Thanks again for all you do! You’re awesome!
I agree I love your site, not only do you break it down but we can see pictures of your fabulous deals!! Love It!!!
How many newspapers do you buy a week?? My husband thinks I’m crazy for wanting to buy more than 1 per week. I see above you had 7 coupons for the lunchables. Just curious.
Hi Chrystal! I buy 6 papers every week. If it’s an outstanding week, I may up it to 8. But, on average, I buy 6. I always supercede the cost of the papers by using up a lot of the coupons in them. So, while I do have to pay for more than one paper every Sunday, it’s always worth it. I think you should start with buying at least two newspapers. If you live in Florida, chances are that when there is a B1G1 sale, you will need to buy two items (other areas often have each item for 50% off). If there is a B1G1 sale, you should use two coupons on the two items you are buying! Also – read my post on Stockpiling HERE. This is good to read b/c it reinforces that fact that when there are good deals, you should buy more than one of that item so that you don’t have to pay full price on that item ever again! And, in order to buy more than one of that item, you will need more than one coupon – hence the concept of buying more Sunday papers! 🙂
Do you find that you get better value coupons from Sundays papers or from the internet printables? I have been couponing since February and I am trying to come up with a routine. I live in SC and the Sunday paper here is $2. My husband says I am counter acting the savings by buying more than one paper. I am trying to prove him wrong. If I were to get 4 papers per week for 4 weeks in the month thats spending $32 a month. He says that I would come up even if I spent this money each month on the actual groceries. He is also complaining about the ink. In 3 months I am on my 3rd cartridge. Ink cartridges are normally around $20 for B&W for my computer. He says between the ink and the papers I’m not saving anything. Of course he is enjoying the bags of free groceries but he is questioning in the end are we really saving money! I dont have any friends that are into couponing so please help!!
Hi; I’m relatively new to couponing, so I have lots of questions. For example, what happens to the overages? I see you applied the 55-cent Sunchips coupons even though they were already free with the Facebook coupons. Does Publix take the overage off your total? Thanks, Diane