Woo-Hoo!! I was famous at my Publix (for 3.5 minutes at least!)! My cashier was actually excited to be ringing my order, the bakery and front desk staff "were wondering what you'd save today"!! I had such awesome Publix savings that my cashier asked me to announce to everyone my total savings....$179.79
....thanks HCW for giving me the tools to rock my stock(pile) and lower my expenses!!!
I bought:
BOGO
20 Barber Chicken $4.99 ea.
6 Sea-Pak (Various Items) $7.59 ea.
8 Kozy Shack Puddings $3.09 ea.
4 Post Honey Bunches Cereals $3.89 ea.
2 Classico Alfredo Sauces $2.69 ea.
2 Lifesavers Peppermint $1.79 ea.
Advantage Buys
5 Packages NY Strip Steaks $7.99 per lb. ($4 per lb. savings) = $47.00(rounded off total)
5 8-packs of Diet Coke/Coke Zero (each with Publix Coupon for $2.00 off of the meat.....YAY STEAK!!) $3.00 ea.
2 Arnold Bread $3.00 and $3.69 ea.
2 Pepperidge Farm Fruit Breads $3.00 ea.
3 Fruity Cheerios $5.00
3 Dannon Light and Fit Yogurt $2.00 ea.
1 Royal Butler Chardonnay $3.99 (in store savings $9.00)
2 Tropicana Orange Juice $3.00 ea.
and a few misc. items/fruit, etc. Everything listed above had a coupon (although I did leave half of them on the kitchen counter as DS was hurrying me to go to Blockbuster....I'm heading back tomorrow to get my $$$ back....LOVE Publix!) so the final bill broken down looks like this (I know, I know some of you can feed your family for the month on my OOP, but this was a stockpile splurge for me):
OOP: $180.79
Vendor Coupon $20.10
(about same amount at home to bring in tomorrow)
Store Coupon $12.00
Advertised Special Savings $130.09
Advantage Buy Savings $8.59
In-Store Special Savings $9.00
Your Savings at Publix $179.78
Thanks to everyone at HCW, my family will be eating really well (breakfast, lunch, and dinner) from this shopping excursion (plus previous additions to the stockpile) for at least 5-6 months (3 adults, 2 hungry pre-teen children) and because I believe in the Karmic Boomerang, our families monthly food donation to St. Vincent de Paul has increased in these tenous times, and is now at 6 paper bags full of shelf stable foods/canned veggies/baby food/cereals/New England Coffee(!!) from two weeks of rocking the BOGO's !! I'm sincerely grateful to have found HCW and many thanks to Heidi, Julie, Mark and everyone behind the site; you're really a positive force for good!!