I got a great deal on salad and fruit cups yesterday:
Total spent: .13 cents out of pocket, put .34 cents on my free Safeway gift card
Total before coupons: $12.50
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Safeway has a promotion going this week where if you purchase 10 participating items, you will save $5 off your total. This has all kinds of interesting potential for good deals. Here’s how this scenario worked, and what I got:
8 Del Monte Fruit Natural Cups – when you buy 10 participating items, it brings the price of these cups down to .75 cents each. I used four printables for $1 off 2 cups, which doubled, making all 8 cups free! You can print two coupons per computer.
2 bags of Fresh Express salad – After the “Buy 10, save $5” discount, these were also .75 cents apiece. I found a “blinkie” coupon dispenser at Fred Meyer on Thursday night, which contained coupons for $1 off any two Fresh Express salads. This brought the final cost down to .25 cents a bag.
Another tip for Safeway shoppers – if you can’t find coupons for Fresh Express, you could do a similar scenario with 8 fruit cups and 2 pouches of Bertolli pasta sauce. There is a blinkie machine right next to the pasta sauce at my store, with coupons for $1 off one sauce pouch; and from what I’ve heard on Hot Coupon World, these coupons can be found at most Safeways. The pasta sauce is part of the promo and comes to $1.50 each after the $5 discount, so the blinkie coupons would bring the price down further to .50 cents apiece. So you could possibly get 8 fruit cups and two Bertolli pouches for $1.00 after the promo and coupons. Or if you really need pasta sauce, you could buy ten pouches, use ten coupons, and pay $5.00 total.
