Working the overage

My weekly grocery budget is $75 for the four of us and it runs Wednesday-Tuesday. I rarely find myself in a situation where I need something and the budget for the week has been all but depleted, but that happened this week. I had grabbed some great "reduced for quick sale" meat deals at Walmart on Friday that were too good to pass up. But that left me with very little to work with for the rest of the week.

So how did I work around it when we used up the last slice of bread on Monday? Overage! I got all of the items pictured today at Publix for a grand total after tax of just 57 CENTS! This was possible because of the Mentos sale and coupons. They are on sale for 50 cents a roll, and there was a coupon in the 2/6 SmartSource for 50 cents off any Mentos product. Publix doubled the coupon, resulting in $3 in overage for 6 rolls. I also used a 50-cent off coupon (from 2/13 newspaper inserts) for the Fiber One Yogurt, making it just 25 cents. The bread and produce were not on sale, but we needed them before Wednesday, so the overage took care of most of it. Budget saved!

Publix Shopping Trip: $4.49!!

Had a great shopping trip at Publix today! I got all this for only $4.49 after coupons!

* 1 gallon Publix milk - 3.39

* 2 boxes Toaster Strudel - used 2 $1 off coupons, makes them 24 cents each

* 6 boxes Honey Maid crackers - used six $1 off coupons, makes them 1.06 each

* 1 Lubriderm lotion - used one $2 off man. coupon and one $1 Walgreens coupon, makes it 79 cents

* 2 cans Fancy Feast - 1.10 each (no Q's, but I was out!)

* 1 loaf Publix bread - 1.17

* 2 bags Chex Mix - used two 50-cent off coupons, which Publix doubled, makes them 24 cents each

I also had a $10 RR coupon, which brought the grand total down to $4.49 after tax.

PLUS, there is a mail-in rebate offer on the Honey Maid crackers (I bought 4 more boxes the other day at 1.06 each) for a $10 rebate when you buy 10 boxes. That brings the cost of each box of graham crackers down to SIX CENTS EACH!! Holy cow!!