Ok. one more coupon post then I'll quit this trend.

And I'll lead out with the disclaimer that I can count on 1 hand the time I've done 3 stores of shopping and coupon buying the same week. I don't like shopping that much. But maybe Mom and Grandma will see I appreciate their efforts to enable this hobby.

But we needed strawberries and milk and bread and cream cheese so I was going to have to set foot in a store, I just had to decide which one to go to. I like choices  ;-)

So.. Here's my "you saved $112" trip. An aside here - the cool thing about both CVS and Kroger is that they count your pre-coupon, pre-ECB spending towards your rewards so You get 1% back on stuff you didn't pay for out of pocket.


Ralphs (which is CA version of Kroger) has a buy 10 things, get $5 off sale much like Albertsons did this week. 

The Quick Summary is

• Ronzoni Whole Wheat pasta. .49 after the 10 item thing, with a $1 off 2 coupon, they were free. So.. 7 coupons = 14 boxes of free pasta. We like pasta here. And Larry and the kids will tolerate the whole wheat stuff and it's better for you, anyway.
• The box Ramen noodle stuff $1 minus .50 coupon, which doubled to $1, made them free
• I had coupons for free hot sauce. )They were in the paper). And while I generally prefer to leave the stuff that's free in the store that I don't really forsee me using. ever, Even if it's free, they counted towards the 10 item thing, so for the sake of making up the last set of 10, I got 4 of them. I bought the mild hot wings stuff. It might be ok. If not they'll go to the food pantry on base. Someone else might like it.
• Party Pizzas $1 each, with .50 off, doubled to $1 = free. I had a few more coupons, but I'm not a fan of these pizzas. The kids wanted to try them, so we got them. 1 for each kid. The food pantry doesn't take frozen food, so I didn't get all 8 free pizzas I could have. See. I have some restraint.
• Milk $2.69/gal on sale this week. 2 of those
• Bread from the day old shelf, .99  Not my preferred brand but I ran out 2 days ago and can't bring myself to spend $3/loaf when I can get 3x the bread from Costco. Haven't been to Costco in 3 weeks, however, so we ran out of bread, even from the freezer.
• Strawberries, $1.50 (sale) each
• Cream cheese $1.19 (sale) needed for desert for tonight and no, not baking with margarine for tonight's bring-a-desert social.  ;-)
• Ronzoni Smart source $.75 after the 10 item sale, then coupon $1off 2 = .25 each. Probably should have bought more.  My family prefers these to the whole wheat pastas. But I'd just bought 6 other white pastas the other day. And we were getting 14 whole wheat pastas today.. We do eat alot of pasta but 22 boxes of pasta will probably last us the better part of 4 months.
• Annie Organic MacNCheese .49/box after the 10 item sale.Seriously that's 1/2 the price of the Kraft stuff and it's organic.
• Diet Coke .89 after the 10 item sale. Add .10 per bottle for CRV deposit. = .99 each.
• Yogurt $1.99 minus $1 coupon = .99
• Foster chicken 4.99(sale) - $1 coupon = $3.99 for 2 lb bag (1.50/lb) bought 2 since we have many nights that convenience foods work best with soccer/girlscouts/awana. 
• And a re-usable Glass Tumbler $5 for a grab bag prize for tonight. 

Total paid = $33.90 ($5 of it being for a gift so $28.90 for food.)