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

Shop Rite Week of 6/21 Kraft,Unilever & General Mills PROMO DEAL Results

Shop Rite is running a Promotional Deal that calls for you to buy up to $120 of Kraft, Unilever &/or General Mills products. Depending on how much you purchase, you get a $off Coupon good on your next order. The most you can get is $40 worth of catalinas(you will get them in $5 increments). You don't have to complete the deal in one trip and you have 2 Weeks(until July 4th)to make your purchases. You can read more about the details Here.

Anyway, all the coupons I had traded for had arrived, so daughter and I took the hike to Shop Rite on Friday.
I purchased more than just the Cat Promo items, as there were some other good deals & I had coupons for those too.
Here's the big list of everything we bought. Everything was bought in 2 trips/transactions....except for 2 bottles of barbeque sauce.(More on that later.) I have highlighted the items that qualified for the Kraft/Unilever/General Mills Deal in green.

Items purchased & not pictured below are...10 Kool-aid packets, 13 produce items, 4 packages of hot dogs & 30lb. of fresh meat.




8 Kraft Mac&Cheese on sale .86¢=$6.88
2 Country Time Lemonade Mix on sale $1.99=$3.98
30 Knorr Rice/Noodles Sides on sale $1.25=$37.50
1 Fiber One Yogurt 4 pack on sale $2.00
2 Cheerios Cereal on sale $2.50=$5.00
2 Chex Cereal $3.49=$6.98
2 Fiber One Cereal on sale $2.99=$5.98
3 Fiber One Chewy Bars on sale $2.99=$8.97
12 Barbeque Sauce on sale $.89=$10.68
8 A-1 Sauce on sale $2.99=$23.92
2 Taco Bell Shells on sale $1.99=$3.98
8 Santa Cruz Organic Lemonade on sale $1.39=$11.12
3 Hefty Kitchen Bags on sale $5.99=$17.97
4 Bumble Bee Tuna on sale $1.00=$4.00
10 Kool-aid Packets on sale $2.00/10=$2.00
1 5lb bag Sugar on sale $2.99
4 Marcal Facial Tissue $1.59=$6.36
2 Schick Razor 15 Packs $6.99=$13.98
12 Limes on sale $1.99
1 Coconut on sale $2.00
1 Sausage Patties $2.49
1 Ground turkey $2.67
4 Ground Turkey $2.65=$10.60
2 Ground Turkey $2.63=$5.26
1 Ground Turkey $2.61
1 Ground Beef $11.52
1 Ground Beef $11.80
4 Hebrew National Hot Dogs sale $2.50=$10.00
Subtotal.....$235.23
Tax.....$3.05
$238.28

Coupons Used....
2 Kraft Mac&Cheese B3G1=$1.72
1 Country Time Lemonade Mix $1.50/2=$1.50
10 Knorr Rice/Noodles Sides Asstd. Qs/some doubled=$6.00
1 Fiber One Yogurt 4 pack $1/1=$1.00
2 Cheerios Cereal $.55/1 doubled=$2.00
2 Chex Cereal $1/1=$2.00
2 Fiber One Cereal $1/1=$2.00
2 Fiber One Chewy Bars $.45/1 doubled=$1.80
12 Barbeque Sauce $.75/1 doubled to $1.00=$12.00
8 A-1 Sauce $2/1=$16.00
8 Santa Cruz Organic Lemonade $.75/1 doubled to $1=$8.00
3 Hefty Kitchen Bags $1/1=$3.00
4 Bumble Bee Tuna $1/1=$4.00
1 Kool-aid Packets $.50/10 doubled=$1.00
4 Marcal Facial Tissue FREE Item Q=$6.36
1 Schick Razor B1G1=$6.99

I also had these DOUBLE DIP & Other Coupons....
1 $2.00 off Sugar Purchase when you buy 10 Kool-aid Packets=$2.00
6 $2.50 off Meat Purchase when you buy 5 Knorr Sides=$15.00
10 $2.00 off Meat Purchase when you buy 2 Kraft Items=$20.00
And there was an Instant Savings on the Schick Razor Packs of $1.50=$3.00
$2.00 off OYNO Q for buying the Razors, used on trip #2=$2.00
$5.00 off OYNO Q from the K/U/GM Deal, obtained on trip #1, used on trip #2=$5.00
Coupon Total.....$122.37

$238.28-$122.37=$115.91 TOTAL Out of Pocket

And I have $35 in OYNO Catalinas(the balance of the $40 in Cats I got for the K/U/GM Deal) & 2 FREE Gallon of MILK Coupons(for buying 6 GM cereals) to use for my next trip to Shop-Rite.

Add that $44 worth of future free products and I got a Total Value of $282.28 worth of groceries for $115.91!

I was .88¢ short of the $120 needed to get the $40 in Catalinas for the K/U/GM Deal after 2 trips, so I sent daughter in to buy 2 more BBQ Sauces for Zero out of pocket, so my grand total OOP for the K/U/GM items was $63.38.
Add the $44 of FREE $$ Cats I still have for buying the K/U/GM things, and I am technically OOP only $19.38 for that $120 of product!

I misread the Fiber One deal and bought 3 Chewy Bars but they didn't count toward the 4 items to get the free Chewy Bars, so I didn't get the free Chewy Bars.argh I might have to return the 1 Chewy Bars that I didn't have a coupon for.....the one I thought would be free.
Lesson to self.....read the fine print!
And the Coconut was rotten.....lesson to daughter, don't buy fresh coconuts in PA.

The best deals were the free items.....Marcal Tissues, Tuna Fish, Kraft BBQ Sauce. Also very good deals were the Santa Cruz Lemonade(.39¢), the A-1 Steak Sauce(.99¢), 5lb. sugar(.99¢), Kool-Aid(.10¢ea.),Cheerios($1.50 for a BIG box), Kraft Mac/Cheese(.64.5¢), & all that FREE MEAT! ;-)) The best "Get Meat when you buy" deals were pairing the meat Q with buying 2 BBQ Sauce, since the Qs I had for the Sauce made both the Meat and the Sauce FREE! Gotta love that.....

Be sure to get to Shop-Rite this week and pair your coupons with the sale prices to get some awesome deals!

Sluggy