I hit up Albertsons last night after doing some homework and coupon clipping. I don't have a picture for you because I was just too tired to bring it all in from the car and line it up. I also don't have a complete breakdown because the manager had to keep several of my receipts (with my permission) since the $10 catalina was being temperamental in coming out and he had to prove (via my receipt) that I deserved it. But in the end I purchased:
12 Betty Crocker Warm Delights
2 Betty Crocker cookie mixes
2 Betty Crocker Frostings
1 Betty Crocker brownie mix
16 Progresso soups
4 Campbells soup at hand (not in catalina sale, but CHEAP)
20 Pillsbury Grand biscuits
9 Pillsbury cinnamon rolls
10 Pillsbury toaster strudel
16 Fruit flavored-shapes
12 Fruit Gushers
I spent about $55 OOP and still have two catalinas for next trip: $10 off next order and $3.50 off next order (which is printing out because of a concurrent promotion when buying fruit snacks). So if you factor in the leftover coupons I spent about $40 for all of the above items!
A couple of things that made my shopping trip smooth:
1. I wrote out my transactions separately, so I knew what I wanted to buy when in order to maximize savings.
2. I also made a second list (which might be too much) where I wrote "20 Progresso soups", etc. so even though the soups were broken up into multiple transactions, I knew how many I had to get in the end which saved me LOTS of shopping time in the aisles.
3 I made sure my first transaction would leave me as little OOP as possible, so I that I had more cash to use for the other transactions.
4. I communicated what I was doing with the one cashier on duty, asking if maybe there was another lane they could open so I didn't hold up the line. I found that this time (as with almost all of my shopping trips) that being polite and flexible pays off. Even though I had many separate transactions, due to my positive attitude and willingness to be considerate to other customers the managers made sure to be very helpful and cheerful during my checkout.
Friday, February 20
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2 comments:
Are you able to freeze the Pillsbury Biscuits? I wanted to buy a lot of them but i knew i wouldn't be able to use them before the exp. date.
-Alisa
I don't think you can freeze them, but if you look at the can it says "better if used by", NOT "expires on". There is a big difference; they don't go bad. Just this week a friend pointed out to me that there are actually dates on the cans; I never knew! So I guess I have been eating stale biscuits all of my life and I never had any idea. Ha ha! If I were you, go ahead and keep them in the fridge without worry past theat pesky date.
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