Friday 5/11/12

Hi fellow couponers.  Well, another week has gone by....and again I did not shop drug stores this week, and very little at the grocery stores.  I was on the other side of town for a doctor appt. yesterday, so I did a quick Whole Foods Market run and stopped at a very old Publix store over there.  Here's how I did.

Whole Foods Market I spent $84.01 and used $12 in coupons that I found on line.  Not a stellar performance, but considering the things I bought are not readily available on the Westside.....since we don't have a big health food store! I did pretty well.  We do have a small one in OP, but they don't carry a lot.  At any rate, I went to the Wholefoods.com website, looked over the sales, went to their coupon section and printed out what I needed and took off.  FYI....their coupons are good for the entire month of May.  I bought 2 boxes of Nature's Rancher Black Angus Burgers were $7.99, coupon for $1 off, made those $6.99.  I know you are thinking....pricey, but considering that these are NO antibiotics, no hormones and totally vegetable fed cattle, it was a good deal for us.  6 per box at $1.16 per burger is not bad for something that's good for you, just my humble opinion.  Also bought ground organic turkey for $3.99 per pound.  Organic Tortilla Chips and Organic Salsa, I had coupons for both, salsa ended up at $1 and chips (huge bag) $2.49.  Thinkthin crunch bars were $1.25 and I had a store coup for $1 off and a mfg. coup for $1 off, actually made $$ on those.  Cliff mojo bars were $1 each, had a coupon for $1/2, ended up at .50 each.  7th generation Liquid dish soap (Lavender my favorite) was on sale for $3, had a coupon for $1 off.  Crofter fruit spreads were $4.29, I had a coupon for $1 off 2, these are all fruit no added anything.  Bought a bag of organic yellow onions, organic green beans, organic walnuts and pistachio nuts, organic bananas and organic parsley.  I truly have to be very careful in this store, I want everything in there!  It's a beautiful store with so many exotic things, just be careful, not everything in there is organic....some is billed as "all natural" which is different.  One thing I didn't find was Walnut butter, I love love walnut butter....great on Waffles with SF Maple syrup!

Publix....this was an old store, they didn't even carry their own brand of organic milk!  ha.  I did the Barilla Pasta/sauce deal.  Not a real great deal, but since the pasta was bogo, I used my coupon for if you buy one pasta and 1 sauce, you get .55 off.  I wanted to get the Welches juices, but they were not 100% juices, we use them at church for communion, but they have to be the 100% juice, those were not the ones on sale.  I bought 2 of my new favorite laundry softener....Purex Crystals...these smell fabulous and the smell lasts way longer than the Downey or anything else I've found.  I had $1 off coupons for those.  Not a great sale day in this Publix, spent $55.87 for $71.53 in items....not my best effort, but sometimes you just need stuff.

Okay, that's it for this week.  I hope you all did better than I did, but again, I feel like every dollar I DON"T give them, is a win for our household!

Have a great weekend and a great Mother's Day for all of you hard-working moms out there.  God Bless and see you next week.......Rhonda Goff