I went to TOP early this morning to use the $5/25 coupon from Sunday's paper. Amazingly my total was exactly $25! Isn't that weird? After the $5 coupon I paid $20 and was on my way!
Sometimes I get crazy good deals, but most of the time my shopping trips look like this with mostly sale items and maybe a clearance deal. I spend around $20 each at two or three stores usually totalling between $50 and $60 per week.
Price breakdown (20% means the $5/25 coupon):
4.5# Pears - $1/lb sale price (20% $.20/lb) = $.80/lb
3# Bananas - $.59/lb regular price (20% $.12/lb) = $.47/lb
Lemon - $.34 sale price (20% $.07) = $.27
4 bags shredded parmesan - $1.25 sale price (20% $.25) = $1.00 each bag
3# bag gala apples - $2.49 sale price (20% $.50) = $1.99
3 cans olives - $.99 regular price (20% $.20) = $.79 each
Stash tea - $2.46 clearance price (MC $.50 & 20% $.39) = $1.57
100 black tea - $1.99 regular price (20% $.40) = $1.59
6 cans tuna - $.67 sale price (20% $.13) = $.54 each
When I have a coupon like this I'll consider buying things at regular price because the coupon makes an automatic 20% discount and it's like I bought it on sale. Today I bought tea and olives because I needed $5 more to reach $25 - I needed both, but would normally have waited for a sale. I was delighted to find the generic TOP items were really cheap and even cheaper with the 20% coupon.
I also have a $7 off $50 coupon at Albertsons that I'm trying to decide if I should use. I could spend $50 including diapers because they are having a good meat sale this week (chicken breast and pork loin for $1.99), but don't know if I want to start off the month using that much of my grocery budget. I'll keep you posted!
Katie
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Wow, that parmesan cheese is an especially good price. That's definitely a staple in our fridge! Wish we had a TOP closer to us.
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