I had so much fun doing this $5 post the first time that I thought I’d do it again.
Just like the first time, the store I purchased these items from was Publix and again, I was amazed at how people that don’t use coupons afford groceries!
Publix milk is $3.99 regular price and the day I was in there, the Knorr side dishes were on sale for $1.00. So without coupons this would have been $4.99.
Since I was armed with an arsenal of coupons this is what *I* got for just $5.00:
One Gallon of Milk ($3.99)
Four Knorr Pasta Sides ($4.00)
Two Starkist Tuna ($2.00)
=$9.99
Coupons: Two $.50/2 Knorr doubled (-$2.00)
Two $.50/1 Starkist Tuna doubled (-$2.00)
$1/2 Starkist Tuna PUBLIX coupon ($-$1.00)
Total paid $4.99
For the same as a non-couponer would have paid for milk and one pasta side dish I got the same two things plus FIVE MORE items!!
Share this with your non-couponing friends! :)
At my Kroger here in Texas we had a wonderful sale on milk. The springdale milk was 2 for $5! I loved that sale.
The amazing thing is that our walmart sales Borden’s milk for 4.12! So for $5 I got two gallons of milk whereas the person who doesn’t watch sale cycles or stock up would have only gotten 1 gallon.
Isn’t it things like that that make you so happy to be a couponer?? :)
wow if I got milk for 2 for $5 I’d be freezing those suckers
Our frys safeway and albertsons here in Arizona switch off on who has milk on sale for 1.57 so I usually never have to pay more than that
It amazes me at how much milk prices vary from state to state. You cannot get milk here for under $3/gallon. Not even at Aldi. Last time I was there it was $3.19.
Once in a blue moon there might be a super great sale and you can get it for $2.59-$2.99 but it’s rare!
Here too I think one walmart it 2.99 and the other is 3.19 but we don’t have anything g here but walmart and heb and both are not the greatest for couponing all the time.
I won’t complain about milk prices here anymore! We have $2.49 normal price, every once in a while Fred Meyer does a sale on 1/2 gallons which usually only saves about $.25 but I’ll take it! I can’t believe some people are paying $4 a gallon!!! I would buy a cow if I had to pay that much LOL!
Last Saturday, our Kroger had milk on clearance for 79 cents for a half gallon with expirations dates of over a week out! I was so excited, I bought 8 and alerted all of my friends!!!
There is a 75 cent off milk on coupons.com right now (area code 84123). I will be watching for more deals!!!
Good only in Idaho and Utah. :(
Wow….I am also amazed at milk prices. Out milk is $1.99 a gallon. Maybe it’s because I’m in a big dairy state.
Cheapest milk to be had is if I wait for Kinney’s sales and grab the .99c 1/2 gallons. That’s the absolute cheapest you will get milk in these parts. :)
Last week our local Shoprite had PB Multigrain Cheerios, Caramel Cheerios and French Toast Crunch on sale for 2.49 each. I had multiple coupons of .75/1 for each kind (which all double to 1.50/1). Every box was .99 after coupon (2.49 – 1.50 = .99) and with every three boxes purchased you got a catalina for a free GALLON of milk. So, 2.97 for 3 boxes cereal and a gallon of milk….pretty sweet. I’m stocked up on cereal for a while and have some of the free milk coupons left which are good until 2/25.
This week they have Shoprite milk on sale for $2.71 a gallon.
Yes, milk here in VT is usually about $3.29 a gallon, even the store brand. Sometimes you can get it on sale at drugstores or gas stations for $2.77. It’s ironic that our milk is so expensive since there are so many cows here! :)
Milk is always on sale each week here. $1.57 for a GALLON! One week its at safeway, the next at frys. So, I am tempted to go and do something like that and pricematch it all at walmart, pretty sure I can get a little more ;)
The one reason I DON’T price match at Walmart is because I have three stores around me that double coupons – which makes everything a better deal at any one of those stores – because my coupons are going to double. And when you factor in that Winn Dixie and Publix have store coupons, there is no comparison. If I had price matched at Walmart I might have paid $.50 less for milk (it might be cheaper at Walmart but $.50 is being very generous, it’s probably not that much cheaper).
So $3.49 for milk
Knorr Sides $4.00
Tuna $2.00
=$9.49
minus $2.00 in coupons (4 $.50 coupons – none doubled and NO store coupon on the tuna)
=$7.49 for all that
that’s why I don’t shop at Walmart very much! :)