Just a Quick Grocery Trip

I had some more shopping fun last night. This was just a routine quick visit to Bruno's because they have 2 liter drinks on sale and my DH is "hooked" on Diet Pepsi Max. I wanted to stock up before they went off sale for $1/each. So I made a late night trip last night on the way home from a meeting and was pleasantly surprised. I had found coupons on-line for the Diet Pepsi Max for $.50/1 and thought that would be great. I also picked up a few other items, but ended up getting a better deal than I had thought I would. Here's the break-down:

Diet Pepsi Max - 8 @$1.00 (regularly $1.59) - I had 6 $.50 coupons

Diet Dr. Pepper - 6 @ $1.00 (regularly $1.59)

Margarine - regular price - just had to have some :-)

Mayfield Ice Cream - 2 half gallons - $6/2 - sale price

chicken Helper - 3 @$1.99/each - coupon for $1.10/3

1 Dozen Eggs - regular price

Anyway...the grand total before taxes was $42.96 and what I actually paid was $23.42. Now while this doesn't meet the goal of saving more than I pay, it sure did come close , especially for not shopping deals like I normally would. This was just a spur of the momnet trip. What actually saved me a great deal is that apparently Bruno's also doubles coupons up to $.50 and I didn't know that. So for 6 of the Diet Pepsi Max for my DH, they were FREE. Yipee!!!! Or as my wonderful 11 year old, JB put it last night, MY Diet Dr. Pepper's were FREE. (I like the way that boy thinks :-)

So...I get home with my haul and have to get help getting it all in and was just going to put things up because I was too tired to take a picture, but JB insisted on helping me get it all on the table. (He gets excited with me about how much we save doing this kind of shopping and we have a great time. ) We get to make great homeschool lessons about economics and use it for applying math principles, etc. So he wanted to make sure we got a picture. I think more than anything it was because of all the drinks. :-)

Well, that's all for now and I pray that you all have a blessed and beautiful day. Thanks for stopping by.

Mary Jane