Before savings: $42.98
Savings (sales & coupons): $29.53
Amount Paid: $13.25!
I used coupons coupons on everything except the three bread items and bananas. The milk, 3 yogurts, spaghetti-os and campbell’s had store coupons attached to them (the milk (paid $1.19 for a gallon!) and yogurt were closed dated (but still 5 days away!) and the cans were dented). The things I didn’t have coupons on were still under $1 each. The Hormel completes was free with the purchase of the Hormel entree (which was $2.99 after coupon!) One cane of tuna was free and I had overage on the coupons for toilet paper!
Food World is still operating 20 stores across Alabama and 7 stores in Florida (Niceville, Mary Esther, Milton and 3 in Pensecola.) If I continue to get Food World ads in my newspaper, I will start a Food World feature. :]
In the meantime, if you live near a Food World, go scoop up that Tilapia deal! And while you’re there, take your $1/2 Birdseye Steamfresh veggies coupon b/c Food World has select varieties for 89c!! (78c for 2 w/coupon).
And the Marcal Small Steps 4 roll toilet paper is on sale for 69c. In the 1/31 SS is a $1 off any and a $2 off any! You can use the $1 Q to get 31c overage on a pack and the $2 off to get $1.31 in overage! (Just remember with overage, you need items in your transaction to absorb it. The store will not give you money back.) Or you can use the $2 coupon to get a 4 double roll pack for 59c (reg. price $2.59). I had one $1 and three $2. I got two 4pks and two 4 dbl roll pks. It was $6.56 & I had $7 in coupons for 44c overage on 8 reg rolls and 8 dbl rolls (like 24 rolls total!)
These deals are good through Tuesday. :]
I know a way to save more on toilet paper than any coupon or special. This covers all the bases = saves you money, helps the environment, helps your health, makes you feel better, it's so easy to do and it costs less than $50.00; Save money and the Earth and be clean at the same time! Add Bathroom Bidet Sprayers to all your bathrooms. I think Dr. Oz on Oprah said it best: "if you had pee or poop on your hand, you wouldn't wipe it off with paper, would you? You'd wash it off” Available at http://www.bathroomsprayers.com with these you won't even need toilet paper any more, just a towel to dry off! Don’t worry, you can still leave some out for guests and can even make it the soft stuff without feeling guilty. It's cheap and can be installed without a plumber; and runs off the same water line to your toilet. You'll probably pay for it in a few months of toilet paper savings. As for water use a drought is always a concern and must be dealt with prudently but remember the water use of industrial users far exceeds the water use of household users and in the case of toilet paper manufacture it is huge. The pollution and significant power use from that manufacturing process also contributes to global warming so switching to a hand bidet sprayer and lowering your toilet paper use is very green in multiple ways.