Grocery Smarts!

So about a month ago I went to a home class on Grocery Shopping. I had heard of "pinching you pennies" before but I thought it was to much time for the benefit. Well, this class was "Grocery Smarts". I was telling the girls about it at scrapbook, and I told them I would post about it so they could all do it if they wanted so here ya go.

The link to the website is http://grocerysmarts.com (Sorry, I don't know how to make it so you can just click here and go to it. If you know tell me!)

When you go onto that page you will need to put in a code: the Utah code is g84css

After it will have a drop down bar in the middle. You select the store you want to go to. There is a red box in the upper right after you select your store that says Start.... click on this and scroll down. There are stars to the left of the items on sale. You really only care about the red four and five star deals. They are good and great deals. A three star is about what you would pay at walmart all the time. Anyway.... Click on the items that you think you want to buy. The color should change slightly if you have pushed the start button showing you have this item selected. When you have selected all the items you want to buy.... you go back to the top and select the Shrink button. It should shrink your list to only the things you want to buy....

Next to the description of the item is the price it is now. Then there is a column that is were you can find the coupon. Most of these coupons come on Sunday in the news paper. A lot of people will get five papers on Sunday to get more coupons. I collect them from work. Anyway, You can save the ones you get and only have one and try the online coupons or call your paper. When you get them out on Sunday.... DON'T CLIP THEM!!! Just write the date on top with a black marker and put away in cronilogical order in a file box.

When you look on the site. It will look like this.

***** Mars fun size candy bars 9-22 oz. 1.66 M&Ms, Snickers, Milky Way, 3Musketeers, Twix, Skittles, Starburst, any 9.5 oz. or larger bags $1/2 (10-31-08) RP-10/12, M&Ms, Snickers, Milky Way, 3Musketeers, Twix, Skittles, Starburst, any 9.5 oz. or larger bags $1/2 (10-31-08) RedPlum-9/28

This means that you can buy and of these candy bar bags, 9.5oz or larger. They are on sale for 1.66 and you would look at the Red Plum coupons you recieved on 10/12/08 and 9/28/08 ( both coupons expire on 10/21/08) and clip only the coupons you need for these candy bars. The coupon is save $1.00 on Two bags. Count your coupons. Say you have five coupons. That means that you can buy 10 bags and save 5 dollars. The final price you would pay is 1.16 a bag. That is much cheaper than even the big bags at Sams Club for Halloween candy.

If you don't want to collect coupons, sometimes you can print them. There would be a link next to the item so send you to where you can print them.

Anyway... Then you take your shrunk up printed list and write out to the side of each item how many of them you need. Take your list and only the coupons that you have clipped or printed to the store. Go through you list pick up the number of items you have and check out. If they are out of the product you can get a rein check. Hand ALL of your coupons to the casheir. Even the ones you know you did not get anything for. When she runs them through they will beep taking the money off.... you will hear a different beep when she get to the thing you did not buy... this reminds you to get a rein check for that item.

Anyway, I have saved a lot of money! It has helped to stock up my food storage! A few things to remember! Don't buy what you wont use! Unless it's free! Yes, about once a week there will be an item or two that are free.

Albertson's and Smiths have the most selection and often the best deals.

Last week Kmart had double coupon day. The doubled the amount of money the coupon is worth. When I went to check out my bill was about 220.00 after all my coupons I paid 37.00!!!

Good Luck to those who want to try it!

There is also the pinching you pennies web site. I don't like to look at it except for the online deals. Here is that link http://www.pinchingyourpennies.com/forums/forumdisplay.php? then scroll down and click on online deals. I got a great deal on some DVD's for Megan. BOGO and free shipping.