New and Starting - First Trip

This was my first shopping trip after finding HCW and reading up on some other sites about saving money. I don't have a lot of coupons yet and nothing matched the sales I found this week, so this trip was sales shopping only for stuff we needed.

Beginning Cash: $46

Fred's:
Soft N Gentle 12 pack TP
Saltine Crackers (sale .89)
Lays XXL Wavy (sale 1.89, reg 3.00)
COS Tuna in Water (sale .65 x 3)
Fred's creamy PB
MOM Golden Puffs cereal
Fred's 20lb dog food (sale $5.49, reg 5.99)
Fred's 15lb cat food (sale $5.49, reg 5.79)

OOP: 23.42 w/ tax

Pic N Save Supermarket
Shurfine Sugar 5lb
Honey Wheat bread (tag said $1.71, rang up at $1.94. Going back 2 store this afternoon to see about that)
Mr P Frozen Pizza .67 x 3
Large 1 1/2 doz eggs

OOP: 9.47 with tax

Total left: $13.11

I do have to say that shopping sales has helped this week. We also bought the store brand when the name brand was higher and we didn't have a coupon.

We did notice something at Fred's. The picture in the ad for the chips looked like the small bag, but the small bag was just over 6 oz and the sale was for 8-13.25 oz. They also had the sales tag on the smaller bags as well. We got one of the larger bags for the sale price (saved $1.11) because we read the sizes on the flyer. I wonder sometimes if stores want to confuse you or if employees put the tags where they aren't supposed to be because they don't pay attention or aren't trained well.

Dh is going to try to hit Walgreens tomorrow or Saturday before this weeks sales end so he can start getting the RR and we may start CVS next week. I looked at the sale previews and I don't know if we need anything on them yet. It will depend on coupons we get on Sunday.