There are some fantastic deals to be had at Safeway right now. Yesterday, I paid zero for my groceries – actually, they paid me .06 cents to take them!

Total spent: ZERO – they paid me .06 cents in bag credit!
Total before coupons: $19.00
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In order to best utilize my double coupons, I split this into two transactions. The first time, I got:

4 bags of No Yolks noodles – on sale for $1.25 each, used four .75/1 printables, which doubled, making them all free! And, whenever you bring your own bag to Safeway, you get a .03 cent bag credit – and since my total for the pasta was zero, they actually owed me .03 cents!

For the second transaction, I did another deal with the “Buy 10, save $5” promo:

2 packages of Dreamfields spaghetti – these come to $1.50 after the “Buy 10” promo, so I used two $1/1 printables, which doubled. Final price: free!
4 bags of Halls cough drops – these are .75 cents per bag after the promo, so I used two .75/1 printables and two “Buy One, Get One Free” tearpad coupons that I found at Safeway a few months back. Final price: free!
4 Del Monte fruit cups – on sale for .75 cents each after the promo, used two $1/2 printables, which doubled. Final price: free!
And, because I had brought two reusable bags, I was paid another .03 cents in bag credit! (Note the six pennies in the photograph.)

The cashier had trouble ringing my second transaction up, so a manager came over and ended up re-ringing my items at customer service. She keyed some of the coupons and doubles in differently than I had expected because of some weirdness with the “Save $5” promo, but the math still worked out to be the same so it didn’t make a difference to me (I just thought I should point it out for anyone trying to make sense of my receipt). Also, she rang my .03 cent bag credit refund in a separate transaction from my groceries, and I did not get a receipt for that transaction.

Most of the employees at this Safeway know me, and as I was leaving one of them quipped, “So did you get $100 worth of stuff for $5?” to which I replied, “Actually, I made six cents!” (This is the same store where I was christened “Super Coupon Girl”.)

But this was only the start of my good deals at Safeway yesterday. Check back later today for part two – local readers take note, because I found an awesome new catalina deal that you won’t want to miss!

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.