2.21.10 Tom Thumb and Whole Foods

TOM THUMB

Five boxes of Cheerios, on sale for $2 each

-Free MC (Received from General Mills as compensation for faulty product), $1/1 MC (Again, from General Mills), $1/1 MC (Previously on Coupons.com), $2/5 Tom Thumb coupon (from previous receipt)

=$4 for 5, or 80 cents each

Dawn Pure Essentials on sale for $2.99

-$1.50 MC

=$1.49, which I felt was a good price since it’s double the size of most other dish soaps.

Four Campbell Select Harvest (not sure why only 3 made it into the photo), on sale for $1 each, or $4/4 (I had already used these coupons – 1/3 SS and 2/7 SS, both for 50 cents/2, which is $1/2 when doubled.)

20 lb bag of Pedigree dog food at $14.99

- Free MC (From adopting my dog in 2009)

=FREE

Four cans of Pedigree wet dog food at 95 cents each

-Free/4 MC (From adopting my dog in 2009)

=FREE

Pedigree Dentastix on sale for $3

-$2 MC (2/14 RP, or $1 MC at Coupons.com)

=$1

Two dozen Lucerne eggs at $1.79 each

-BOGO MC (From Facebook promo)

=$1.79/2

O Organics Milk at $5.49 (Comparable to Whole Foods’ price)

Excedrin at $4.99

-Free MC, here

=FREE …Added to donations pile.

Two Nature’s Own Whole Wheat Breads with Organic Flour on sale for $2.99, plus BOGO

=$2.99/2

Total: $70 – $17.39 from Rewards Card – $36.06 from coupons

=$17.39

WHOLE FOODS

0.18 lb of Organic Spinach at $3.99/lb

=72 cents

*I used to buying CostCo’s organic spinach and lettuce for salads, but I recently started buying organic spinach loose like this from Whole Foods because it’s cheaper. Bagging it myself allows me to: 1) Get the amount I need, so I don’t waste, and 2) Get all of the air out of the bag so that only the spinach is being weighed.

Five pack of organic Fuji apples at $2.89

Seventh Generation dish soap at $2.99

-Free MC, courtesy of RecycleBank

=FREE

Total: $6.85 – coupons and bag credit

=$3.76

TOTAL SPENDING TODAY: $20.31

I had a couple questions last time, so here’s the coupon lingo if you’re new:

MC = Manufacturer’s Coupon …I specify this because stores also have their own coupons sometimes, as Tom Thumb did with the Cheerios, above.

SS = Smart Saver, P&G = Procter and Gamble, and RP = Red Plum …These refer to the coupon packets you get on Sundays with the newspaper. I cut the coupons I think I may use and sort them in my coupon binder. Then I label these packets (i.e. “RP 2/21″) and put them away in case a great sale or freebie comes up.