Shaw's!

Total Before Savings: $68.61

Total Coupons Used: $15.98

Total OOP: $32.28

Total Toward Grocery Spending: $18.23

2 Shaw's Ice Cream Cones - $1 ea ($1/2 Shaw's Coupon) .50 cents ea!

2 Shaw's Cool Whip - $1.69 ea ($1/2 Shaw's Coupon) $1.19 ea

2 Asian Sensations - $2.50 ea (BOGO Shaw's took $3.99 off) .51 cents ea!

1 Hood Ice Cream - $2.50

1 Mama Rosie's Lasagna - $4.19 ($1/1 Shaw's Coupon) $3.19

2 Tropicana 50 - $3 ea (2 $1/1 MFCs) $2 ea

2 Tropicana OJ - $3 ea (1 $1/2 MFC) $2.50 ea - Got MIR for free OJ

3 Stoneyfield Yogurts - .75 ea ($1/3 MFC) .42 cents ea

2 Shaw's Shredded Cheese - $1.99 ea

2 Shaw's Block Cheese - $1.99 ea

1 Sorento String Cheese - $3.49 (.50/1 MFC) $2.49

1 Smart Balance Spread - $2.50 ($1/1 MFC) $1.50 ea

1 Smart Balance Milk - $2.99 (Free if you buy Spread MFC) FREE!

Things I have Learned:

-Good thing I'm not lactose intolerant!

-My kids are getting more demanding food wise. I know that sounds silly, but really. My soon-to-be 3 year-old is getting a lot more vocal about what he wants to eat. Darn.

-Asian Sensations BOGO automatically takes off $3.99 - more than what it should! Woooot!

-Here's a coupon trick for you - I think it looks like coupon fraud but I don't think it is. Maybe someone can set me straight if it is in fact coupon fraud (just don't call the po-pos on me!)...So I had a coupon "Buy Smart Balance Spread, Get Smart Balance Milk for Free" - great coupon. Now that MFC is for the MILK. I had another coupon for $1 off any Smart Balance Spread. That MFC is for the SPREAD. That is how I got away with using both MFCs. Make sense? If that $1 off MFC was for the milk, I wouldn't have been able to use it because I already had the MFC for the free milk. But I didn't have any coupons for the spread, so I was able to use the $1 off the spread. So the butter and milk cost me $1.50! This is one of those tricky situations where you can pull shady stuff like this - it doesn't happen often, but when it does, Wooo Hoooo! I figure, if it wasn't allowed, the register would have beeped at me. It didn't.

- I got 4 Tropicana OJ's - so the register generated a mail-in-rebate to get a free one. Woohoo! If you want to do this, note that you do not have to buy all 4 Tropicana's in one transaction. It's over a period of time but I don't know the period of time off the top of my head.

- I forgot my "free" coupons - but if you still have your Shaw's freezer coupons, they don't expire until 4/2! Remember to use them!

- I have used up my "free $30" on my Shaw's Gift Card. I have $281.77 left on it.