I live, write, and garden in the PNW with my husband of 27 years, disabled daughter, college-aged son, and my 84-year-old mother. We have paid off $250,000.00 worth of debt (if you include the interest) in the last fifteen years and as of 6/12/2020 are 100% DEBT FREE!!!!So I'm not much of a couponer. It's just plain hard to find coupons for the sorts of foods I buy, which are generally unprocessed whole foods. Not impossible, but hard. I can download and print two milk coupons a month from Organic Valley for their organic milk, but considering it's still $5 a gallon after you take off the $1 coupon, it's still not much in the way of coupon savings for the month. But with the great store coupons on produce at Cost Cutter this week, I suddenly found myself with a whole lot of coupons I could use.
I'm not just thrilled with how much I saved, but on how much I spent overall, which was $17.75. I got 15 pounds of potatoes, 2 pounds of strawberries, 5.25 pounds of oranges, 1.66 pounds of tomatoes, 1.5 pounds of lettuce, and a 4 ounce generic saline nasal spray for my son for $1.99 + .17 tax. Take out the $2.18 for the spray and I paid $15.57 for 30.41 pounds of food. My average food cost for this visit is 51 cents per pound! 51 cents! How often does that happen? Never, that's how often.
I seriously considered getting another 15 pound bag of potatoes and 5 pound bag of onions since you could get 2 each on their limit and those things will keep for a couple months, but it's a question of storage space, so I didn't. Oh, well, I did great and I'm very happy with it.
I Saved $8.92
February 9th, 2011 at 09:35 pm
February 10th, 2011 at 02:58 am 1297306726
Have you checked Amazon's Subscribe and Save prices for your organic milk? You get a 15% discount plus free shipping if you "subscribe." It can be as long as every six months, and you always have the option to cancel an order the month it is to ship.
February 10th, 2011 at 03:39 am 1297309160
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