Saturday at Shoprite.

I love food shopping.
Not only because I love food but I love to see how much I can get and how much I can get for free.
I have not always used coupons.  I remember my mother clipping them as a kid.  I just never really bought the Sunday paper and when I had coupons they just got lost or forgotten about in my purse.
After Rocco was born I needed to start spending less money on the things we needed so I started clipping coupons and looking for sale.  A good friend of mine has mastered the art of coupons and she taught me a thing or two.
One year later I have a bit of an obsession with food shopping.  It totally relaxes me.  And it is a bit of a high to buy something on sale with a coupon that doubles and only pay a few cents for it.  Maybe I should mention this in therapy sometime.
But anyway...tonight I went to Shoprite.  Which aside from Adam's, it is my favorite place to shop because the prices are reasonable and coupons double.

This is what I bought.
The produce, loaf of bread, and organic yogurt I did NOT have coupons for.  I did for the rest of the items.  My total purchase was $21.76.  Had I NOT purchased the produce, bread, and yogurt I would have paid about $10.00.

The Purex was $1.99 and I had a $1.00 coupon making it $0.99.
The eggs were $1.97 and I had a $.35 coupon that doubled making them $1.27.
The Juicy Juice was 2 for $5.00 and you HAD to buy 2.  So, I used two $1.00 off coupons making them $1.50 each.
The French's Mustard, which is the best condiment on Earth, cost me $0.30.
Nothing spectacular but decent deals.
I'm most excited about the following.

Happy Baby organic fruit and vegetable purees were on sale for $1.09.  I had two coupons for $0.50 and paid $0.09 for each one.

Beechnut Fruities on the Go.  They were $1.00 each.  I had one $0.75 on 3 (which doubled) and two $1.00 on 1.  So I ended up paying $1.50 for all 5 of them.  

Finally, my favorite deal of the day.  Beech Nut Stage 2 baby food was on sale 12 for $3.30.  i had four coupons for $1.00 off 3.  So, the store paid ME $0.70.  Rocco does not need pureed baby food any more. But he hates vegetables and the only way he gets them is by dumping puree into his pasta sauce or mac and cheese.  

So...this was my Saturday night.  And I look forward to doing it again next week.  

People roll their eyes and say they don't have time for this.  

But I'm so good at it now, it takes me longer to check out at the register than it does to do the clipping and shopping.