I had a great day at Publix today! (Really – when do I not? I love Publix!) I had quite a few free coupons that expired after today so I went today instead of tomorrow/Friday. I came across a few great peelies that scored me great deals. And I was able to really maximize my Target store coupons. Remember that not all Publix locations accept Target coupons so make sure you find out before you start shopping. I think I had a coupon for everything except the eggs, Bush’s Baked Beans and Eagle Condensed Milk. My poor cashier! She was awesome though and she knows all about my website and she coupons but yet never visits meon Addicted to Saving! So, I’m hoping she will join in on the madness along with all of us! 🙂 Oh – and if you are noticing a lack of produce, I received my delivery from the Organic Produce Groupon deal I posted about HERE. So, with the delivery and the peppers from my garden plus the fact that my hubby and I will be away for a few days, I really didn’t need any produce at all.
**I also did the awesome $10.00 off $50.00 Gas Card deal. I didn’t include that in my total below since that will fall under my gas budget, not grocery budget.
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 What I Bought (please note that many of the coupons I used expired after today 6/30):
1 Caribou Coffee, on sale $5.99
Minus one $2/1 Caribou Coffee Publix Store Coupon Smart Savings Booklet (exp 7/18/2011)
Minus one $1/1 Caribou Coffee (zip 22222)
Total Due: $2.99
2 Breakstone Zesty Blends, on sale 2/$3.00
Minus two $1/1 Breakstone’s Zesty Blends Sour Cream 6/19/2011 SS Insert (exp 7/31/2011)
Total Due: $1.00 or $0.50 each
1 doz Publix eggs, on sale 4/$5.00
Total Due: $1.25
Hellmann’s Mayo on sale BOGO $4.89 for two
Minus one $1.00/2 Hellman’s products peelie
Minus one $1/2 Hellmann’s or Best Foods Mayonnaises TARGET Target.com
Total Due: $2.89 or $1.45 each
Buy four 12 Pack Selected Coca-Cola Products, 12 oz can, B2G2 $9.98 for four**my store had Nestea, Minute Maid & Fanta products included in this sale
Minus two $1.00/1 Nestea 12 packs peelie
Minus one $2.00/2 Minute Maid and or Fanta 12 pks peelie
Total Due: $5.98 or $1.50 per 12 pk or $0.13 per can!
4 Sabra Hummus on sale BOGO $3.99 for two (LOVE this stuff)
Minus four $1/1 Sabra Product 6/26/2011 SS Insert (exp 8/30/2011) or $1/1 Sabra Item
Total Due: $3.98 or $0.99 each
2 bags M&M Peanut Butter on sale BOGO $4.73 for two **we’ve already eaten at least 1/3 a bag.. oops 😉
Minus one $1.50/2 M&M’s Brand Chocolate Candies 5/22/2011 RP Insert (exp 7/3/2011)
Total Due: $3.23 or $1.52 each
2 bags M&M Pretzel on sale BOGO $4.73 for two
Minus two $1/1 M&M’s Pretzel Chocolate Candies 6/19/2011 RP Insert (exp 7/31/2011)
Total Due: $2.73 or $1.36 each
2 Beechnut Mini Meals on sale BOGO $2.00 for two
Minus two $1.00/1 Beechnut Mini Meals printables (print limit reached)
Total Due: FREE **great donate item
4 Reynold’s Wrap Regular & Nonstick on sale BOGO $3.19 for two
Minus two $1/1 Reynold’s Wrap Foil 5/15/2011 SS Insert (exp 6/30/2011)
Minus two $1/1 Reynold’s Wrap Non Stick Foil 5/15/2011 SS Insert (exp 6/30/2011)
Total Due: $2.38 or $0.60 each
1 Oscar Mayer Lower Sodium Turkey Bacon reg price $3.39
Minus one $1/1 Oscar Mayer Bacon TARGET coupon Target.com
Minus one $0.75/1 Oscar Mayer Lower Sodium Turkey Bacon 5/15/2011 SS Insert (exp 7/10/2011)
Total Due: $1.64
2 Aunt Jemima’s Waffles on sale BOGO $2.15 for two
Minus two $1/1 Aunt Jemima Frozen Breakfast Items (Tip – if I recall, the print limit was one per computer.. I scored one w/ my Facebk account and a second coupon with my hubby’s on a different computer.)
Total Due: $0.15 or $0.08 each
1 Jell-O Temptations on sale 2/$5.00
Minus one FREE Jell-O Temptations Kraft First Taste Coupon (expires 6/30)
Total Due: FREE
1 Planters Almonds reg price $3.19
Minus one FREE Planters Almonds coupon (expires 6/30)
Total Due: FREE
2 Silk Soy Milk reg price $3.39 each
Minus two FREE Silk Soy Milk coupons (expires 6/30)
Total Due: FREE
1 Nabisco Crackerfuls on sale 2/$5.00
Minus one $1/1 Ritz Crackerfuls TARGET coupon Target.com
Minus one $1.50/1 Ritz Crackerfuls Filled Crackers 4/17/2011 SS Insert (exp 7/10/2011)
Total Due: FREE
2 Sundown Vitamins reg price $3.29 each
Minus one $6/2 Sundown Naturals or Osteo Bi-Flex Publix Green Flyer, Hot Summer Savings (exp 7/15/2011)
Minus two $1/1 Sundown Naturals Vitamin Product or 5/15/2011 RP Insert (exp 7/15/2011) or 6/12/2011 RP Insert (exp 7/26/2011)
Total Due: FREE plus $1.42 overage
2 Bush’s Baked Beans on sale BOGO $1.97 for two
2 Bash’s Grilling Beans on sale BOGO $1.97 for two
**had no coupon but this was a great deal even w/o a coupon
Total Due: $3.94 or $0.99 each
9 Carefree Pads on sale 10/$10
Minus nine $1/1 Carefree Product 5/8/2011 SS Insert (exp 6/30/2011)
Total Due: FREE **excellent donation
1 Eagle Condensed Milk, on sale $2.19
Minus ZERO coupons 🙁 I needed this for a recipe.
Total Due: $2.19
4 Kraft Salad dressing on sale BOGO $3.19 for two
Minus one B2G1 Kraft Salad Dressing TARGET coupon Target.com
Minus two $1/2 Kraft Salad Dressings 6/19/2011 SS Insert (exp 7/17/2011)
Total Due: $1.19 or $0.30 each
6 Duncan Hines Brownie Mix on sale BOGO $2.69 for two
Minus two B2G1 Duncan Hines Premium Cake Mix or Brownie 6/5/2011 SS Insert (exp 9/5/2011)
Total Due: $2.69 or $0.45 each
Minus one $5 off $30 + Winn Dixie Store Coupon from Enjoy the City Coupon Booklet
Minus one $5 off $30 + Publix Store Coupon (expires 7/4)
Total Spent: $29.25 (including tax) Total Saved: $150.05 Percentage Saved: 83.7%
** Please leave a comment and let me know how you did this week at Publix! Did you find any great deals??
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My shopping trip was awesome as well!! OOP- $126 and total saved was $91!! That includes my $50 gas card also! I am so exited!! This has been my best shopping trip so far! 🙂
Sweet deals! We are going tonight after supper. I hate to tell you this, but coupons.com had $.55 off Eagle Sweetened Condensed Milk. :{
Where did you get the FREE Silk Soy Milk coupon?
Thanks
Yeah, I did good today, total b4 Qs, 66.~ after Qs= $30.72 oop… and they were out of AJ waffles, my store has bush’s beans @ $2.29 and reynolds foil @ $4.29 ~ and NO smart saving booklets to be found!
But I’m happy with my savings 🙂 Duncan Hines .45 each, Sabra .99 ea., Kraft shredds $1. ea.,Breakstones .50 ea.,Muellers pasta .26 ea.,French’s .45 ea.,Kashi cereal .99, lots of good deals!
Hi, were you able to use both the Publix AND Wnn Dixie $5 off coupons at the same time?
I also did good yesterday, probably my best so far! I spent $43.10 OOP and the total b4 coupons was $126.45. I could have done better, had the shelves not already been wiped LOL!! I even did it on the first day of the new sales.
I just love that feeling walking to the car with ALL those groceries!!
I had a good day today too, although I wanted to leave a comment about a little issue. I have totally bought in to the buying what you need for 6 to 8 weeks idea and I do that. Today though, when I arrived at Publix at 11:30 a.m., somebody had gone through Publix and cleared the shelves of many of the good deals. Publix does a great job of stocking their store too. Really, does anyone need to buy 20 boxes of the Finish gel-pacs? Leave some for the rest of us, please??
I totally agree, its not about hoarding , its about all of getting a great deal.
Be sure to ask the stock clerk to check the back for more or have them order it for you. They are great about that. They will even order things they don’t carry. If your coupon is going to expire before they can get it you can prepay for it. One of the many reasons I love Publix.
It irritates me that I have to go to the extra trouble and time to have them check stock, etc. because some hoarder has gotten to the store before me. Why doesn’t the hoarder pre-order and leave the stuff on the shelves for those if us who are buying a normal amount of product?
I had a great day at Publix as well! The best deal I found was the Pedigree dog food. All total, I spent $44.39. My total savings was $160.01. I also bought 4 gas cards since my total before coupons exceeded $100. So if you count the coupons for the gas cards, I actually saved $201.01! My best trip ever!!!
Thank you Melody for saying just what I have been thinking. I work 8-6 during the week and have to make special trips after work to even attempt to get some of the deals. However, since that “wonderful” show on TLC. I often find the shelves empty of what I need. Tends to be very frustrating.
Also, where did you find the free Silk coupon? My son is allergic to milk to we go through alot!
Thanks for all you do.
The 5/15 RP coupon for Sundown vitamins expired 6/28/11; in my RP’s at least.
Great week at Publix for me too!! Spent 143.12 and saved 230.46!! Got a $50 Shell gas card so I can use my .10 off per gallon (from Kroger)! 5 cereal,16 Kid Cuisine, 10 Banquet,5 Ritz, 4 Kraft sliced, 4 Kraft shredded, 2 Kraft block,4 foil,6 biscuits, 4 Goldfish, 4 Kraft dressing, 2 Nabisco cookies, 3 Hormel kid compleats, 2 playtex sippy cups, 4 quaker bar, 2 velveeta, 8 Garnier Fructis,3 dixie paper plates, 2 Finish quantum, 2 gallons milk, 12 roll Charmin, 6 roll Bounty, 6 OM cracker combos, 2 texas pete wing sauce, 4 french’s mustard,2 beechnut steamers….Way to start off the month!!! =0
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Question about the GAS deal. I just want to clarify the “fine print”. The $25 “grocery” purchase is anything not listed in the exclusions (prescriptions, alcohol, tobacco, etc.), would that also include non-food items? Also, is this $25 total taken pre-coupons? Should I hand the Gas Card over after all other items with the Gas Card coupon, and then my remaining coupons? Am I making too big a deal out of this? haha =)
About the gas card question, I asked my store’s manager and was told that you can use one coupon for every $25 you spend, doesn’t matter if it is food or non-food. I didn’t even have to do separate transactions. My pre-coupon total exceeded $100, so I purchased 4 gas cards. I gave them the gas card coupons first and then all of my other coupons. My total OOP after coupons was $244, and that includes the $200 for 4 gas cards. I would just ask at your store before you start shopping to be certain.
Thanks for the heads up on the Caribou Coffee deal. I totally missed that and ran out for a couple of bags this morning. My family adores hummus so the Sabra deal this week has been awesome for us!
I saved $160 and spent $18!!! I got 4 aunt jemima waffles, 6 brownie mixes, 5 cracker fulls, 3 lance crackers, Tyson anytizer wings, 2 hummus’,8 boxes of pasta, 4 BBQ sauces, 3 carefree liners, 2 gold fish, 8 Nabisco mini packs,oscar meyer turkey bacon, 1 15.5lb of dog food, 1 beneful snacks, and 3 prepared meals, 1 sour cream, 2 Reynolds wrap, & 2 Vitamins. =) I still have to go back for the salad dressing, because i forgot my coupons. Best trip so Far!!!!
We had a great night last night at Publix! I did two transactions so I could double up with my Target coupons. Here’s our breakdown:
Trans#1
2 Kashi GoLean, 2 Duncan Hines brownies, 4 Goldfish grahams, 2 Breakstone Sour Cream, 2 SD Folic Acid vitamins, 2 Bullseye BBQ sauce, 2 A-1 sauces, 2 SD B complex vitamin, 4 Kraft light dressings, 2 Bertolli sauces, 4 boxes Mueller Linguini all for the low, low price of …..$$4.39!!!! We saved $73.57
Trans#2
1 Kashi Go Lean, 6 Kraft dressings, 2 A-1 sauces, 2 Ro-Tel cans, 2 Bullseye BBQ, 4 S/D vitamins, 2 Hellmans Mayo, 2 Bertolli Sauce, 2 Bush Beans, all for the low, low price of…..$3.43!!! Saved $68.98
My hubby was so proud he posted it on his FB page. LOL. Thank you Addicted to Savings for all the matchups!
My Publix had 55 cent off stickies on the M&Ms, so I combined that with the dollar off coupon from one of the inserts. Also, mine had the unadvertised BOGO Feta deal A2S wrote about, so I combined that with the $3 off printable you directed us to! Thanks! BTW, the Feta at our store was flavored – Mediterranean Herb or Tomato & Basil; they were either out of plain or it was somewhere else not on sale. Also, A1 was on BOGO and I had a $1 off insert coupon for it. Sorry, I still cut my coupons out (the horror!) so I don’t know what inserts these came out from.
the aunt jemima coupon will print two per computer. you just have to watch the video twice and enter alternate information the second time…
I DO NOT feel bad about doing this, since I buy for several people. 🙂
Just be careful with the unadvertised cheese on bogo. I got 4 Rondele which said on the shelves BOGO, but then at checkout it rang as regular full price for each. That is a great deal by the way, I use two of the President $3 coupons, they come out to $.84 each!
I did awesome this week, the manager (who ws assisting the cashier who was new at the job) let me buy 3 gas cards together on the same transaction and since my total was around $200 with the cards, she also let me use two $10 off $100 coupons from Doris (an italian market) that is on their list of competitors. I get these coupons in the Doris advertising weekly ad that comes with coupons insert on Sunday and also in the mail, it is a one page ad. So at the end I only paid $5 for my groceries which was worth $85 before all stores and vendors coupons and I got $ 150 worth of gas for $120, not too shabby!
Thank you Lisa for all the matchups and hard work you do, you are a true blessing.
What I got:
3 Kikoman stir fry seasonning mix packets
2 Finish dishawashing gel packs
4 Rondele cheese
2 Breakstone sour cream
10 Oscar Mayer Lunch box
2 Alexia frozen appetizers (raincheck)
2 Triscuit
2 Mueller Pasta
1 Carefree
4 Emeril Bam meals
4 Sundown vitamins
2 Kraft cheese
1 32oz. Plain yogurt
6 Beechnut Fruit cups
1 Greenwise cat litter
Awesome job Bessymae! $5.00 for $85 worth of groceries is amazing! 🙂 Have you tried the Kikoman Stir Fry Seasoning Mix packets before? I would be curious to hear how they are – I love stir fry! Great job again!
I think I have everybody beat in the spending and savings department. I only spent $2.40 and saved $93.85!!! Here is what I got:
3 lbs Ground Beef
2 lbs Chicken Breast
Half Gallon Milk
Loaf of five grain bread
Cuban Baguette
(10) Oscar Mayer Cracker Combos
(4) Muellers Spaghetti
(2) Ritx Crackerful Crackers
(2) A-1 Steaksauce
(2) Sundown Vitamins
(6) Kraft Dressing