Here’s what I bought on Saturday in anticipation of my freezer cooking marathon. There is no photo for this trip – because I forgot to take one!! I set all the groceries out nicely on the kitchen table for a picture…but apparantly put them away before I actually took the photo. Oops!

Total before coupons: 90.65
Total spent: Put $1.14 on my Safeway gift card from MyBlogSpark, spent $58.75 out of pocket
View receipt #1
View receipt #2 (refund)

Got:

4 lbs of C&H sugar – on sale for $2.95, used a .55/1 coupon from the 3/14 Red Plum newspaper insert, which doubled; final price: $1.90
1 bag of red beans – price: $1.34
1 bag of pinto beans – price: $1.34
1 bag of black beans – price: $1.34
2 Maruchan Yakisoba bowls – on sale for $1.00 each, used a $1.00/2 coupon from the 3/14 Smart Source newspaper inserts, which doubled; final price: .50 cents for both
1 package of bouillon cubes – price: $1.50
3 packages of tortillas – price: $2.50 each; grand total: $7.50
1 bottle of Holland House cooking wine – regularly $4.79, used one free coupon that I received in the mail (see next item) – final price: Free
1 bottle of Nakano rice vinegar – regularly $3.39, used one free coupon that I received in the mail – final price: Free. These coupons were a surprise to me; I got a letter in the mail with them that said, “Welcome to the NAKANO Splash Recipe Club! Thank you for visiting our website, www.mizkan.com to register.” If you want to sign up for the “Splash Recipe Club”, click here. I can’t guarantee that you will receive coupons, since they don’t make any mention of it on the sign-up page, but it doesn’t hurt to register – who knows, maybe you’ll get a surprise too!
1 package of 30 gallon freezer bags – I was almost out of Ziplocs anyway, and these seemed like the best choice for freezer meals. Price: $2.99
1 package of 40 quart freezer bags – price: $2.99
1 bottle of bleach – out of this too! Price: $1.79
Two 32 ounce bags of cheese – price: $4.49 each – $8.98 total
1/2 gallon of half & half – price: $3.99
1 lb of butter – regularly $2.99, used a coupon from the Safeway sales flier to bring the price down to $1.99
1 box of Popsicles – regularly $3.99, used a free coupon that I won in a Twitter contest – final price: Free
1 gallon of milk – price: $2.39
50 square feet of recycled Reynolds Wrap foil -regularly $2.99, used a $1.00/1 coupon from a booklet that I found in Safeway a while ago, which doubled – final price: $1.49
2 packages of scrubber sponges – regularly $3.99 each; Safeway had a sale where if you bought 3 participating cleaning items, the price would come down to $1.99 each. We needed sponges, and this worked out to be the lowest price on them. Final cost: $3.98 for both
1 bottle of Mr. Clean – part of the “Buy 3” sale mentioned above, making it $1.99 – used one .75/1 coupon from the Home Made Simple coupon booklet, which doubled; final price: .74 cents. I chose this as my third item because I only wanted two packages of sponges, and since I had a coupon for this it lowered my total out of pocket cost.
1 bottle of Gillette shaving gel – I was out of this, too! Price: $2.29
2 packages of ground turkey – regularly $4.99 each, Safeway was running a 48-hour sale which made them $1.99 each. Final price: $3.98
2.57 lbs of oranges – price: $2.52
4.15 lbs of broccoli – on sale for .78 cents a pound, but it initially rang up at $1.79 per pound; so first I paid $7.43, then I received a refund of $4.55, making my final total spent $2.88.
2 avocados – price: .49 cents each, total cost: .98 cents
.57 lbs of Red Roma tomatoes – $1.99 per pound, final price: $1.13
1 head of cilantro – price: .99 cents
5 lb bag of onions – price: $2.99
10 lb bag of potatoes – price: $1.78
2 lb bag of carrots – price: $1.29
1 pineapple – regularly $3.99, used a rain check that I had to bring the final price down to $1.00.

I also received a 10% discount – you see, recently Jai got a flier in the mail from Safeway telling him he would receive a 10% discount on all purchases made with his club card this month. I don’t know why they selected him and not me, but I quickly confiscated his card – ha ha! The 10% discount took off $8.95 – the great thing is that it calculates the discount based on your pre-coupon total, although certain items like milk don’t qualify for it.

Now we have all the supplies for freezer cooking – tune in tomorrow to see what I made during the big cooking day!