I stopped by Safeway on Thursday to pick up a few things:

Total spent: $25.84
Total before coupons & club card: $60.17
View receipt

Got:

17.49 lbs of onions and one head of cilantro – the onions were on sale for .25 cents per pound, and the cilantro was .79 cents. I used a coupon good for $1.00 off your produce purchase of $5.00 or greater which I got through this offer (Both Jai and I were able to sign up for this offer, and it allowed two prints per person). This brought my final total to just $4.17 for 17 and a half pounds of onions and the cilantro. Now, I know what you’re thinking….17 pounds?! 😀 But .25 cents per pound is a fantastic price for onions – in fact, I don’t think I’ve ever seen it so low. Onions are a staple in the dishes I make, and they freeze beautifully, so I will be chopping these and freezing them in ziploc bags. This will save us money and time, since having pre-chopped onion on hand is very handy!

1 bag of black beans – price: $1.49

1 bag of Great Northern beans – price: .99 cents

1 can of diced tomatoes – price: .69 cents. As you might have guessed from the other purchases, one of the dishes I plan to make this week is chili. I had originally planned to buy fresh tomatoes, but the prices were so high that it was significantly cheaper to buy a can instead; and this will actually work better for chili anyway, especially since it also has chopped green peppers mixed in!

2 boxes of Frosted Mini Wheats Touch of Fruit – on sale for $2.19 each through the “Buy 4, save $4” cereal promo, and I used two $1/1 coupons that I received through a sample from Vocalpoint. These coupons also doubled, making the final cost .69 cents per box.

2 boxes of Raisin Bran – I needed two more boxes of cereal to qualify for the “Buy 4” promo, and this was the cheapest option. Regularly $1.79 each, I used two .70/1 printables to bring the final total down to $2.18 for both.

1 box of Smart Start cereal – I had printed a coupon for this in case it was included in the “Buy 4” promo. It wasn’t, but I noticed that it had a “Try-Me-Free” rebate on the box, so this ended up being a bonus! Regularly $2.99, I used a $1/1 printable to bring the price down to $1.99. It will be free minus the cost of a stamp after rebate – possibly with a small profit if they refund me the pre-coupon amount.

12-pack of toilet paper (double rolls) – this was on sale for $5.49, which is a stock-up price for this area, so I bought one to take advantage of the price.

2 quarts of half & half – $1.50 each, final price: $3.00 for both

1 gallon of milk – price: $2.49

3 bottles of Pine-Sol – regularly $2.99 each. First, I used an in-store Safeway coupon to bring the price down to $1.49 each. I then stacked this with two manufacturer’s printable coupons for $1/1, and one .50/1 hangtag coupon that was on the product itself, which doubled. This brought the final price down to .49 cents each – $1.47 total for all three.

Thanks to Frugal Living NW for their Safeway coupon match-up! You can see all of their deal scenarios for this week here.

If you check out my scan of the receipt, you’ll notice that it’s one of the most convoluted receipts you’ve ever read. The coupon deductions are listed all over the receipt, and the product prices are inconsistent; some prices are displayed with the coupon savings factored in, some prices are displayed before coupon deductions, and some prices are totally random and don’t match up with the cost before OR after coupons! The final total that I paid was just a few cents higher than the total I had projected, so I’m going to assume that everything rang up correctly, because there’s really no way to tell. I’ve gotten a receipt that looked like this once before, so I’m going to hope that it’s a register quirk and not their new format!

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