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I know you have ALL been wondering if I have been shopping lately. You have been sitting at the edge of your seats just waiting for me to update my blog with a grocery score,huh?

Well, I don’t really know what happened, but the Week 4 grocery envelope emptied out really fast last week. Oh, yeah. I remember what happened. I got cocky and bought a bunch of meat last week. Hmm. Well, I was down to my last $1.25 (not enough to buy Sunday papers, darn it!) and yet there were deals CALLING MY NAME! I stole from the haircut envelope last night. I did. However, we got paid today, so I paid the envelope back. I just LOVE my pretty cash envelopes!!

Anywho! On Friday, I HAD to buy cookies for Grant’s class party, so I went shopping. OH, how I wish I had taken a picture of the trip. I got a bagful of groceries for absolutely free!! Paid $0 out of pocket!! The contents: Nestle chocolate chips, Treetop apple juice, Oreos, International Delight Creamer, feminine items, Fiber One Yogurt . . . and one more thing that I can’t remember. I actually had overage, but I didn’t have enough fillers, so the cashier took one of my coupons off and adjusted down so that I simply didn’t pay anything.

Last night, I did something REALLY dumb and took both boys shopping with me. Why is the shopping trip 10 bajillion times harder when I have the 6yo with me? I take the 3yo with me ALL the time, and he’s just fine, but then when I add the 6yo to the mix there is tripping, and imaginary sword fights and hugs in the middle of the isle . . . good grief.

This is what I bought:

I never would have bought the crackers if Grant hadn’t been with me. It was my bribe. However, I’m willing to pay .99¢ to keep the kid STILL.

The rice wasn’t really a fabulous deal, but I had a coupon, which doubled, so it ended up being $1.64, and I needed rice anyway.

The bread is on sale (ends today) for only 99¢ a loaf! Pretty cool.

The apples are on sale for 58¢ a pound.

Now, the Right Guard is a perfect example of purchasing something that you don’t actually use just so you can use the overage to buy something you DO use. My husband does not use Right Guard (although he might now, since I bought so much of it!), however it was on sale for $1.00. There are coupons out there on the internet (smartsource.com and coupons.com) for $2/2, which makes them FREE. I printed out two coupons from each site. In this first trip, I used 2 coupons and doubled them, which gave me an extra $1.00 of overage! Essentially, that paid for a loaf of bread! Kinda cool.

Today, I went back to get more apples, since I realized that these ones will probably be gone in 2 days. I checked my email before I left and noticed that Shortcuts.com has more ecoupons to load to my card! YAY! I loaded, I checked the blogs, I saw another link to the Right Guard coupon, and I was OFF!

I picked up this:

All of the YoPlus was free! And, so was the Fiber One Yogurt! I paid 20¢ (total) for the Yoplait. How? Ecoupons and Manufacturers coupons AND, the YoPlus was on clearance. I’m freezing it to use in smoothies! The cashier wouldn’t let me double the YoPlus coupons, otherwise my total would have been lower, but I’m pretty okay with my grand total. Oh, notice the free Right Guard?

The funny thing is, the apples were $1.91 and the potatoes were $1.29, which equals $3.20. Hmm . . . and yet I paid $2.40! Overage, people. It’s a good thing.