Shop-Rite...Using all those Kraft/General Mills/Unilever Rewards

So I had to head back to Shop-Rite this week. I still had $35 in rewards from that Spend $120/Get $40 in Catalinas when you buy Kraft/Unilever/General Mills products Promotion.
The Rewards expire July 18th BUT.....the 2 FREE MILK Coupons I got for buying the General Mills Cereal expire July 10th-Today!
Grumble, Grumble....

So off to Shop-Rite we went to spend those Free Milk Qs and that $35 in Rewards.

Before I went through the checkout I gave the daughter 2 boxes of Excedrin(on sale for $2.99 ea.), 2 $1/1 Qs for Excedrin, my Store Card and $4.
She bought the Excedrin, paid $3.98 and got a $4 OYNO Catalina Q.
So I went into this next Transaction with $35 in Rewards, $4 OYNO Q + all those other Qs I brought with me.


Transaction #1
4 Northland Juices @$2.50 ea.=$10.00
3 Packs of Pencils @$.33 ea.=$.99
4 Dole Fruit Cups @$2.00 ea.=$8.00
4 Santa Cruz Organic Lemonade @$1.39 ea.=$5.56
1 Joint Juice 4 pack @$3.99=$3.99
1 Purina Kitten Chow @$2.19=$2.19
2 Pam Cooking Sprays @$3.00 ea.=$6.00
1.90 lbs. Broccoli @$.99lb.=$1.88
1.94 lbs. Peaches @$.99lb.=$1.92
2 Excedrin @$2.99 ea.=$5.98
8.88 lbs. Fresh Pork Picnic @$.79lb.=$7.02
3 lbs. Fresh Chicken Legs @$.79lb.=$2.37
3.13 lbs. Fresh Chicken Legs @$.79lb.=$2.48
3.00 lbs. Fresh Chicken Breast(boneless) @$1.99lb.=$5.97
Subtotal...$64.35
Tax $.71

Coupons Used
2 Northland Juices @$1/2=$2.00
1 Dole Fruit Cups @$1/3=$1.00
4 Santa Cruz @$.75/1 doubled to $1=$4.00
1 Joint Juice 4 pack @$2/1=$2.00
1 Purina Kitten Chow FREE ITEM=$2.19
2 Pam Cooking Sprays @$1/2=$1.00
2 Excedrin @$1/1=$2.00
7 $5 Rewards=$35.00
1 $4 OYNO Q=$4.00
Coupon SubTotal...$53.19

$65.06-$53.19=$11.87OOP
And I received another $4 OYNO Cat for buying the Excedrin, & a $.75 OYNO for buying the Dole Fruit Cups.

So we went back in for this....

Transaction #2

4 Santa Cruz Organic Lemonade @$1.39 ea.=$5.56
2 Excedrin @$2.99 ea.=$5.98
1 Gallon of Milk @$3.23
1 Gallon of Milk @$3.05
2 Reduced Rolls/Buns @$.84=$1.68

Subtotal...$19.50
Tax $.28

Coupons Used
4 Santa Cruz @$.75/1 doubled to $1=$4.00
2 Excedrin @$1/1=$2.00
2 FREE MILK Qs=$6.28
1 $4 OYNO Q=$4.00
Coupon SubTotal...$16.28

$19.78-$16.28=$3.50OOP
And I received another $4 OYNO Cat for buying the Excedrin. That Cat was truly ROLLING!
At this point, I was fresh out of Excedrin IP Qs. I was loving this spend $5.98 on Excedrin, use $2 in Qs & the previous $4 OYNO Cat. Q to get 2 boxes of the stuff free in each transaction....too bad the gravy train had to end.
Sigh.
But when I went over to get 2 more Bottles of it for Transaction #2 I saw that a lot of the Excedrin boxes that were the size on sale for $2.99(that gave the $4 OYNO Cat Q) had $1/1 Qs right on the boxes!!!
So if I had wanted to(and you know I would have if daughter wasn't with me & rolling her eyes at me with teenage disgust), I could have gotten as many FREE BOXES OF EXCEDRIN until I ran out of boxes with the $1 Q on them.lolol
Oh, how I LOVE when stores want to GIVE you stuff for F-R-E-E!!!

We did 3 Transactions, buying 2 bottles of Excedrin each time plus a pack of pencils($.33)once & a candy bar($.69)twice(daughter ate her bar so it's not in the picture).
Subtotal spent for all three transactions was $19.65.
Tax was $.02(for the pencils).
Coupons used amounted to $18.00.
$19.67-$18.00=$1.67OOP
And I received yet another $4 OYNO Cat Q.

So.....I went back in one last time....
Transaction #6....7....oh, who knows!
1 Flat of Blueberries @ $6.99
I used my $4OYNO Cat. and paid $2.99OOP for 6 Pints of fresh Blueberries.
Oh.
Yes.
Yum!

Total Figures for this Trip to Shop-Rite.....

Value of Items Bought $155.43
Sales and Discounts from Store Sales Ad $37.95
Coupons Used $93.47
Cash OOP $24.01
Savings of 84.5%

It's funny that both grocery store trips this week, Shop-Rite & Weis, my Savings % was 84.50 at each.
Since we bought 12 Boxes of Excedrin totaled, we spent $3.98 total for them all(the cost to get the 1st $4 OYNO Cat). Each box cost me .33¢. These were the 50 count boxes that go for $5.49 regularly.
Seriously.
Love.
It.

I spent a total of $58.98 OOP this week at the grocery stores(I'm not counting KMart Double Q Trips this week). In these 2 trips, I got everything I needed for this week's meals that I didn't have at the start of the week(namely the produce/fruit), plus enough tortillas and chicken to do a TON of homemade Burritos for the freezer(approx. 38), milk for all that cereal I got at Weis for breakfasts, and a big honking Pork Picnic to make more BBQ...enough for 3-4 more meals of that. We had most of the chicken legs & thighs I bought for tonight's grilled chicken. I reserved 3 leg/thigh combos to pick the meat off the bones to add to the boneless breat meat I also got for the chicken enchiladas and chicken wing pizza(2 meals for next week) and the burritos I'll fill with chicken(some will be filled with beef that's in the freezer). I know I wanted to keep this week's grocery bill to $20 or so, but for $59 I finished off the 7 meals for this week AND got the fixings for 12 or more meals or partial meals for next week and beyond, got alot of fruit, milk, cereal, lots of lemonade, needed school supplies and enough pain reliever that I won't even mind the annoying loud friends of #2 son who live in our pool in the summer.

I'll try to be good next week.
Really....I will! 8-P
I am designating next week as my "Stay Out Of The Grocery Store Week" for July.
How wants to come and hide my keys?lol

Sluggy