I have been so eager to share my last shopping trip. Day before yesterday was my grocery day. Most times I do a month of shopping in one trip and supplement here and there things like milk, ect. I usually hit Walmart, Safeway, and a place called the Grocery Outlet.

But, it is my trip to Safeway that I wanted to talk about. I have been studying Crystal's (Money Saving Mom) SUPERMARKET SAVINGS COURSE and it has helped me understand how to be really frugal with our dollars.
So, I decided to put it into practice this shopping trip and guess what?! I saved us a total of $173.17!! I did this by combining the sales for that week with coupons I cut from the Sunday paper and printed from coupon sites. Then, I added those to Safeway's double coupons in their ad. And finally, by looking for the mark-downs Safeway had.

There is no way to list everything I got, but here is some ideas: (two) 5 lb sugar, (six) 5 lb flour, (two) boxes Bisquick, (five) boxes cereal, 10 yoplait yogurts, (three) half gallons of organic milk, a 24 lb. turkey, varying baking supplies, juice, (two) jars Bertolli sauce,ect., for a total of 113 items.

Now, I don't normally buy organic milk because it is out of my price range. But, I will show you an example of one of the transactions I did that made it a frugal buy.

Safeway has one coupon you use to double up to four more. So, I broke my groceries into three transactions so I could double 12 coupons. On one of those transactions I bought 2 jars of Bertolli Pasta sauce- regular price $6.38, they were on sale 2 for $4.00. I also purchased two of the half gallons of organic milk-regular price was $7.58 but these two half gallons had five 75 cent mark-down stickers on them which brought them to $3.83! Now, I had printed off the internet two $1.00 off each coupons on the sauce and the milk. I used a Safeway double coupon to double them to $1.50 each.

In summary, I got 2 Bertolli Pasta Sauce and 2 half gallons organic milk- original price $13.96 for $1.83!!!!!! Yep, I said $1.83!

I spent a total of $146.90 for 113 items. That means I paid $1.30 per item including the 24 lb turkey!!

I am writing this because I hope to encourage someone out there who needs to cut grocery cost to look into Crystal's course and try this out. It really wasn't hard and it was such a blessing to me.

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