This Week’s $50 Shopping Trip and Martin’s Deal

This week, I headed to Martin’s to take advantage of a deal in this week’s ad. If you buy 8 items, you can save $4 instantly. The products I chose were ones I had coupons for:

2 boxes of Betty Crocker Chex Mix Bars for $5 – 50 cents off each = $4 (Should have doubled, but didn’t. More on that later.)

2 Kraft Salad Dressing – $1.69 each – $1.25 each coupon = 88 cents

2 Quaker Quakes or Chips – $1.29 each – $1 each coupon =58 cents

2 Betty Crocker Supreme Brownies – $4 – $1 coupon =$3

A total of $8.46 – $4 instant savings = $4.46.

If you have more Quaker or Kraft coupons, you could do much better. Like having them pay you to remove food from the store better! Unfortunately, I’ve only been buying two papers lately, so didn’t have more coupons on hand.

On to the rest of my purchases:

2 bottles of A-1 (free after coupon in Sunday’s paper)

Sunchips

2 bags cheese curls

2 boxes of Mini Wheats

1 box Special K Berries

2 packages of chicken

2 packages of ravioli

2 packages of Capri Sun Sunrise drinks

a half pound of splurge cheese (Wenslydale with blueberries. Insanely expensive at $7.82.)

Vanilla

2 lbs of bananas

Kashi waffles

Milk

3 packs of string cheese

2 loaves of bread

Now, the bad news. It was 8 o’clock at night and I was trying to get out of the store, so I didn’t realize what a mess the kid made of my coupons. He shorted me about $10 – didn’t even use my free cereal coupon for the Special K and only rang up my $4 Mini Wheats at $2 for the b1g1 free coupon. He also neglected to ring up my $3 cheese coupon for the string cheese and only doubled one of the 50 cent coupons on my order. How I didn’t see that last night…Anyway, I spent $50.60 and saved $46.59, but the bill should have been a bit less than $40. At least he used my $5 off $50 and the $3 off $5 for the meat that Martins sent me in an email, though. I’ll have to go in to the customer service desk to see if they can fix it. His drawer was probably a wreck last night.