It seemed like the evil forces lined up and conspired to make us spend money today. I had no coupons left for any of the good moneymakers, plus we needed a few items that we had to buy without coupons (milk, bread, cat litter.) I don’t understand how this managed to happen, but the cats are brand-loyal on the litter. (At least it was on sale!)
The roommate is off her diet this week, so she saw the sale ad and wanted to make lasagna. I saw the sale ad and wanted to make fried eggplant sandwiches. So we both got our way. She did one transaction and used a $5/$25 Save-a-Lot coupon and a $2/$2+ Publix coupon. I did two transactions. My first transaction used a Publix $5/$30; my second transaction used a $2/$2+ Publix coupon. My second transaction consisted of two loaves of bread and nothing else.
Here is what we bought, along with the coupons used:
ONE GALLON MILK, $3.65 regular price
No coupons used
NET PRICE: $3.65
ONE FRESH STEP CAT LITTER 20 LB., on sale $6.99 (regular price $9.49)
No coupons used
NET PRICE: $6.99
TWO LOAVES OF ARNOLD ITALIAN BREAD, on sale BOGO $2.79
No coupons used
NET PRICE FOR ALL: $2.79 (or $1.39 each!)
TWO EGGPLANT, on sale $1.29/lb. (regular price $1.99/lb.) = $3.26 TOTAL
No coupons used
NET PRICE FOR ALL: $3.26 (or $1.63 each!)
ONE TUB OF PUBLIX SOUR CREAM, $1.15 regular price
No coupons used
NET PRICE: $1.15
FOUR BLOCKS OF KRAFT CHEESE 8 OZ., on sale BOGO $3.49
Used two $1/2 Kraft Cheese Items, Target printable store coupon (no longer available)
and used two $1/1 Any Brand Cheese manufacturer coupon (FL-only)
NET PRICE FOR ALL: $2.98 (or $0.74 each!)
ONE SORRENTO RICOTTA CHEESE 32 OZ., on sale $3.50 (regular price $4.59)
Used one $1/1 Sorrento Ricotta Cheese, 2/12 SS newspaper insert
NET PRICE: $2.50
TWO MT. OLIVE RELISH, on sale BOGO $2.39
Used two $0.55/1 Mt. Olive Product hangtag
NET PRICE FOR ALL: $1.29 (or $0.64 each!)
FOUR WISH BONE SALAD DRESSING, on sale BOGO $2.65
Used two $1.50/2 Wish Bone Salad Dressing, Target printable store coupon
and used two $0.65/2 Wish Bone or Western Dressings, 1/29 RP newspaper insert
NET PRICE FOR ALL: $1.00 (or $0.25 each!)
TWO MENTOS UP2U GUM, $1.49 regular price
Used two $0.55/1 Mentos Gum, Target printable store coupon
and used two $1/1 Mentos UP2U Gum, 2/5 SS newspaper insert
NET PRICE FOR ALL: $0.12 OVERAGE!
TEN HUNT’S TOMATO SAUCE, on sale BOGO $1.99
ONE HUNT’S CRUSHED TOMATOES, on sale BOGO $1.99
ONE HUNT’S DICED TOMATOES, on sale BOGO $1.99
Used two B5G1 Hunt’s Tomatoes Publix printable store coupon (deducted $1.49 per coupon – max value)
and used two $1/5 Hunt’s Tomato Sauce or Paste Publix printable store coupon
*** I think I may have made a mistake here. If the B5G1 was “tomatoes” only and not including tomato sauce, I probably should not have used the B5G1.
NET PRICE FOR ALL: $6.96 (or $0.58 each!)
TWO PROGRESSO BREAD CRUMBS, on sale BOGO $1.97
TWO PROGRESSO WHITE KIDNEY BEANS, on sale $0.67 each
Used one $1/4 Any Progresso Products, Publix printable store coupon
NET PRICE FOR ALL: $2.31 (or $0.58 per item!)
FOUR BERTOLLI PASTA SAUCE, on sale BOGO $2.99
Used two $1.50/2 Bertolli Pasta Sauce, Target printable store coupon
NET PRICE FOR ALL: $2.98 (or $0.74 each!)
SIX MUELLER’S PASTA, on sale BOGO $1.39
Used six $0.55/1 Mueller’s Pasta printable manufacturer coupon
NET PRICE FOR ALL: $0.87 (or $0.14 each!)
TOTAL RETAIL VALUE OF ALL MERCHANDISE: $112.39
SPECIAL PRICE SAVINGS (SALES/BOGOs): $48.00
COUPON SAVINGS (STORE/MANUFACTURER): $39.78
TOTAL PRICE PAID: $24.61 (plus 70 cents sales tax)
PERCENTAGE SAVED (EXCLUDING TAX): 78.1%
PERCENTAGE SAVED (INCLUDING TAX): 77.6%
I was looking your shopping list for publix and noticed that you used target coupons there. So does Publix really honor other store coupons?
Yes. Each store has their own list of competitors they accept. It varies from store-to-store, based on which other grocery stores operate in their immediate area.
Gotcha, pretty soon a Publix will be opening up here in knoxville. I can’t wait to be apart of these amazing deals. Especially using my extra register rewards from Walgreens on MEAT!!!
I’ll cross my fingers for you. Not all Publix stores will accept Register Rewards from Walgreens.
@Renal, at most of the Publix’s I visit, there is usually a Poster in the store’s window that tells me what other store coupons they accept…I have seen these posters advertised when I lived in Atlanta last year and here in Miami…Also, the one in ATL, had a little booklet also letting you know which ones they accepted…
Hi I went to Targets website of coupons and could not find a coupon for the Bertolli sauce and when I do how do you print 2 of any coupon, I printed a few other coupons and when I went back to look for the sauce coupon i noticed the ones i printed said coupon printed used so I don’t know how you get 2 of anything here.. Thanks…
We have three computers in the house
I think target coupons have two prints. Try cleaning your browser history.
Wow, you can clean your browser history and print more Target coupons?
There’s a manufacture coupon from the January newspaper for hunts I found it using iheartthemart.com coupon database I can’t remember what wk. But it was recent.
Hey Georgia,
I don’t think I could use that coupon because almost all my cans were Tomato Sauce, not Tomatoes. It is a bit of a gray area, but my manufacturer coupons were $0.45/3 Hunt’s Tomatoes and I only bought two cans that were not sauce.
Steve,
Are just the small cans of hunts BOGO or are the normal size cans BOGO as well?
Just the big ones this week.
Oh OK. Thank you!
Hi there, it looks like the 14.5 oz cans of Hunts tomatoes are on sale too, based on the Viva Italia sale flyer (look under Additional Ads), but when I visited my Publix yesterday there were no BOGO signs, so I bypassed it for the time being. Otherwise I have Target Qs and MQs to use on them before the sale. BTW, I got out of there with Publix paying me 9 cents a bottle for 8 bottles of Wishbone (1.97 price BOGO, 4 Target 1.50/2, + 4 MQ 0.65/2)!!
Wow, I just checked and you’re right. My store didn’t have any signs either.
If it says it in the flyer, but doesn’t ring up as bogo, you could always show them the flyer and they will change the price, right?
Your prices are certainly a lot lower than in my area..lucky
Yes it’s amazing not that far away, I am on the east coast and the prices are different here by 10 cents or more sometimes. But I finally found a store in my areas (after 4 stores) that had the sominex and the phazyme in stock and today was the last day of that sale so I was able to buy 4 of each and get $5.24 overage on the sominex and $4.04 overage on the phazyme on my trip today. I took the hubby so I could do two transactions. He thinks I am crazy!!! I did so well today
I love the italian sale every year, but last year the coupons were so much better but we wanted to make lasagna this weekend so we got 4 boxes of the lasagna. I actually did better than you for once. Got $114 worth of groceries for $14.50
Awesome!
That cheese coupon for $1 on 1 Florida only states 1 pound or larger! How can you use that on 8 oz cheese that is on sale?
I bought two pounds of cheese. My store allows me to use one coupon for each pound.
Thanks for linking up at Pounds4Pennies this week. Great savings.
Nice job especially on the cheese it is so expensive anymore! Our Publix here will take the cheese coupon as well if you buy 1lb regardless of sizes as long as it totals one pound. Thanks for the linkup on our website take good care!
Thanks for stopping by (and the compliment)