While I am not super shopping like I have been (too tired), I still have my coupons so when something comes up at Safeway, Fred Meyer, or Albertson's, I am able to take advantage of it. Tonight Kiera and I visited Safeway to try out the Living Well Feeling Great promo, and we think it worked pretty good. I spent $35.01 oop, received $10 back, after using $10.60 in coupons and one left over $10 cat from the frozen food promo (Thanks Grandpa!). Total, spent $35, got $10 back, saved $56.84. Now I just need to catch up with my clipping and get in there again. (If I had planned this trip, I would have saved a lot more. But I realized that the cat I had expired tomorrow, so I needed to use it up. We just wandered the aisles and sorted through coupons to find what we had to work with tonight. I saw many things that I will plan on buying the next time through, once I've gathered all the new coupons together.)
For a list of best deals, see Moneywisemoms for many shared scenarios. This will also help you get started if you haven't tried to do a promo before.
Note: I know this is different from buying "what you need," or what is on your menu. It's these kind of deals that build up your stock pile, so when you are tired or low on cash, you still have lots of options :-) (Or when a baby comes...) It takes a while to "get it," but once you do, you'll get better at buying things that you know you will need and use in the future, instead of a bunch of junk food! Good luck!~
Edited to add: These totals included about $20 worth of items that we needed that were not part of the promo... frozen chicken breasts, lipton tea (good deal) and bagels... So that you get a better view of what I spent.
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