Confessions of a Cheapskate

Not a bad day at Meijer! Free Red Star yeast, .24 coffee creamer, and cheap Kraft cheese slices!

Total: $30.05*

Shopping Haul and price before coupons:

1 Gallon Canola Oil (no sale, just needed) $7.99

4 Strips of Red Star Yeast, $4.28

2 Bags Purina One Cat Food, $12.32

6 Coffee-Mate Creamer, $5.94

4 Betty Crocker Cookie Mix Pouches, $7.48

4 Betty Crocker Potato Boxes, $4

2 Boxes of Kleenex, $3.18

1 Meijer brand pasta, .59

3 Kraft Cheese Singles, $5.97

2 Ghiradelli Chocolate Chips, $5.98

2 Boxes Frosted Wheat, $3.76

8 McCormick’s Seasoning pouches, $4

1 bag of brown paper lunch bags, $1 (just needed.)

2 Pledge Wipes

8 Knorr Pasta/Rice kits, $7.12

2 lb. bag powdered sugar, $1.86

2 lb. bag brown sugar, $1.86

Subtotal, sale price for everything I purchased: $82.63

Total After Coupons: $30.05

*I was accidentally charged $3 for a check cashing fee by accident. I’ll have to take my receipt in for credit, so the amounts on the receipts are off.

A breakdown of some of the deals I took advantage of today…

Red Star yeast is FREE after coupons when you combine the $1/2 Meijer Mealbox coupon and this .35 coupon doubles. Free yeast really brings down the cost of all the bread I’ve been making!

I picked these up at a profit of $0.70!

On sale for $2.65, I used $1 Meijer Mealbox Coupon and the $1 Manufacturer’s coupon found here. After coupons I paid $1.30, and received a $2 OYNO coupon.

Unadvertised special! I found Coffee-Mate coffee creamer on sale for .99. I used $1.50/2 coupons from the Coffee-Mate website and paid a mere .24 for each. Just an FYI, many of the creamers you buy today from a large store like Meijer don’t expire for 3 months, so not a bad thing to stock up on!

The size on sale this week is the larger size, 22 slices of the 2%, 24 slices of regular. Sale price is $1.99. Get $3 OYNO WYB 3. That brings the net cost for this stack of cheese $2.97.

This is a coupon I’ll mourn when it’s expiry date rolls around 12-31-09. This is $5 off any bag Purina One size 3.3 pounds or more. Regular price of this cat food is $6.16. Price after coupon is $1.16.

I almost always grab 2 boxes of Betty Crocker potatoes per transaction when they are available at the $1 price they’ve been. .40 coupons are abundant on coupons.com, bettycrocker.com, coolsavings.com, and after doubling these potatoes are only .20/box.

I paid just .09 each for these!

Another instance of stacking a Manufacturer’s coupon and a Meijer Mealbox coupon.

Regular price, $1.87 x 2 = $3.74

-$1/2 Meijer Mealbox Coupon = $2.74

-(2) .40/1 coupon, doubled (found at coupons.com, bettycrocker.com, coolsavings.com) – $1.60

=$1.14, or .57 ea.