My Shopping Trip to Vons

Update:
If you are wanting to learn how to use coupons etc...check out my friends blog, Wee Wilhites, she has a blog on couponing and how to use them. Her blog is to the left under my blog list.

I did not need a lot of groceries, but I had such great coupons that I could not pass a lot of these items up and now I am stocked! I have not had this much food in my house at the end of the month ever. This is how it began:

I did what Jessica did, bought 4 boxes of fruit roll ups with my coupons and paid $1.50 total. I received a catalina coupon for $2.50 off my next shopping trip plus $1.00 of coupons for goldfish, cheeze-its, 2 liter of diet Dr. Pepper and 200 count napkins.

These were the bargains I could not pass up:

I got 5 boxes of cereal for $5.50
Goldfish is in sale for .88 and I had a $1.00 off coupon so I received .22 cents back
8 boxes of fruit roll ups/fruit gushers for $1.50 total
No Yolks pasta .25 cents
2 liter of diet Dr. P for .66 cents

I bought items like milk, 13 Yoplait yogurts which I had $1.50 off coupon, V8 juice, veggies, cheeses which I had coupons for etc..The only items I did not have coupons for were the veggies I bought, V8 juice and hamburger buns, but they were both on sale. Hamburger meat was on sale for .99 cents a pound so I bought a package since it was 50% savings.

After all was said and done I bought $128.11 worth of groceries and only paid $62.33.
This was the most I have spent at the grocery store in the past 3 weeks and I stocked up. Little man was very excited about the fruit roll ups since I rarely buy them. I only put 2 boxes in the cabinet and hid the rest away.

It took me about 2 hours this week looking at ads, searching for coupons and researching new sites. This time will go down as I go since a lot of the time was looking at new coupon sites. It really does pay off!