Big $avings!

Today, I attempted my first "coupon" run for grocery shopping. It was a success but a long day! I had to have 4 women hold my hand all week to even make it to the store. They had to explain and reexplain everything again and again. (Thank you Diane, Laurie, Mijken and Teresa!)

I was at Albertson's for 3 hours! Checking out was a two hour process. Everyone was SO nice there. They are big helps. I had ordered a BUNCH of stuff ahead of time and they had it all in a cart with saran wrap all ready for me. While I was at Albertson's I also did some regular grocery shopping. So my total includes those items also. Everything I did by was on sale though. I really didn't need 12 No-Bake Cheese cakes, but I decided to buy them anyway. They were $1.20/each so that didn't help my impressive total. I followed my list and I only bought 7 things that weren't on my list. So that was good I guess. It was fun, but very crazy.

I was in and out of Smith's very fast-15 min. I had a lot less things.

Here's my pictures of the day......

Here's our grocery's before we unloaded. I had already given 4 grocery bags full of food away.

Smith's:

20 bags of rice cakes, 10 Grill mates and 2 brownies

$2.92 total paid

Albertson's-the mother load

$305.96 spent ($772.75 price total after sale price before coupons)

405 items. Including 60 frosting's (don't ask me what I'm going to do with that many because I don't know), 20 salad dressings, 40 tv dinners, 20 shells and cheese, 60 cookie pouches, 45 granola bars, 20 b-que sauces, 20 spaghetti sauces....