I had a great day at Publix today. I wasn’t totally overwhelmed with happiness over this week’s sales ad and yet looking at the picture above, I see that I actually did a pretty good job. I did make one fatal error. Well, truthfully, I almost made two, but I caught the first error while shopping (I almost bought two Cole’s garlic bread with only one store and one manufacturer coupon – when I realized I needed two manufacturer coupons I put the garlic bread back. 
) The second error, however, was a pretty big one. If you look at my picture above, you may be able to see that above the Jimmy Dean sausage is three Old Orchard frozen juice containers (they have green lids). On the right of those three containers, you may notice a Welch’s frozen juice container with the yellow lid. What did this error mean? This error meant that I paid for two Old Orchard juice and only got one free AND I paid in full for a Welch’s juice. UGH. Not a big deal in the scheme of life and not a big enough error for me to trek back to Publix. Lesson learned that I have to really look at each and every item I put in my grocery cart. My fatal flaw cost me an extra $2.19. When all is said and done, I’m pretty pleased with my trip. I also went to Winn Dixie after Publix and bought some produce since they have good produce sales this week (go HERE and HERE to see their ad).
The items I purchased today coincide with this week’s Publix Weekly ad. To see this week’s ad & coupon matchups, go HERE.
If you are new to saving money at Publix, read my Intro to Publix post!
Here’s the rundown and how to do what I did for today’s Publix stop:
4 Power of Fruit Frozen Bars on sale B1G1 $3.39 for two Minus four $1.00/1 Power of Fruit Frozen Bars printable Total Due: $2.78 or $0.70 each 1 Sorrento Ricotta priced at $4.59 Minus one $1.00/1 Sorrento Ricotta or Mozarella blinkie Minus one $1.00/1 Sorrento Ricotta Publix Store Coupon Yellow Advantage Flyer Total Due: $2.59 1 Dozen Publix Eggs on sale $1.09 Total Due: $1.09 3 Old Orchard Juice on sale B1G1 $1.50 for two 1 Welch’s 100% Juice not on sale (UGH) $2.19 Minus one $1/4 Old Orchard Frozen Juice Concentrates (IE) or Printable (FF) Total Due: $4.19 or $1.05 each (UGH) 1 Zucchini on sale $0.99/lb 1 Yellow Squash on sale $0.99/lb Total Due: $3.10 4 Jimmy Dean Sausage on sale 2/$5.00 Minus two $1/1 Jimmy Dean Product – Facebook Minus two B1G1 Jimmy Dean Sausage Roll, Any, – 06-13-10 RP – valid up to $4.49 Total Due: $3.00 or $0.75 each 1 Digiorno Deep Dish Pizza on sale 2/$5.00 Minus one FREE Digiorno Deep Dish Pizza coupon (offer no longer available) Total Due: FREE 4 Whitehouse Vinegar priced at $1.39 Minus four $1.00/1 Whitehouse Vinegar Publix Store Coupons Smart Savings Booklet Total Due: $1.56 or $0.39 each 2 Starbucks Ice Cream on sale B1G1 $3.39 for two Minus two$1.00/1 Starbucks Ice Cream printables Total Due: $1.39 or $0.70 each 4 Cascadian Farm Chewy Granola Bars on sale B1G1 $3.99 for two Minus two FREE Cascadian Farm coupons (I received this from Cascadian Farm & Blog Spark in return for the giveaway I from two weeks ago) Total Due: FREE 4 Sundown Vitamins totalled $12.86 Minus two $6.00/2 Sundown Vitamins Publix Store Coupon Green Advantage Buy Flyer Minus two $3.00/2 Sundown Vitamins Printable Total Due: FREE plus $5.14 overage 2 Visine Adv Relief priced at $3.99 Minus two $1.50/1 Visine Publix Store Coupon Green Advantage Buy Flyer Minus one $5.00/2 Zyrtec/Benadryl/Visine/Sudafed PE/Tylenol Sinus any products 4/11/10 RP (exp 7/31)* Total Due: FREE plus $0.02 overage 6 Yakisoba priced at $0.79 each Minus three $1/2 Maruchan Yakisoba Products 5/16/2010 SS Insert (exp 7/31/2010) Total Due: $1.74 makes it $0.29 each 1 Suave Shampoo priced at $2.19 Minus one FREE Suave Shampoo Naturals coupon (promotion has ended) Total Due: FREEMinus one $5.00 off of $30.00 Winn Dixie Recycle Bank Coupon
Total Due (incl tax) $10.99, Total Saved $92.67, Percentage Saved: 89.4%
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How do you earn more points with Recycle Bank? Are you just using up old points since they no longer have an association with Kashless? Thanks! I just signed up and managed to order one $5 Winn-Dixie coupon but feel like I missed the boat for anything else.
Me too! Can’t seem to earn more points!
I joined but dont see the $5 winn dixie coupon. CATHY, where did you find it. i looked under Food, Supermarkets but only Sams Club came up.
I found the coupon under grocery. It cost 50 points.
I had a great time at Publix too, I spent 48.41 and saved 74.30. Bummed that we don’t have Winn Dixie in Chas,Sc.
For the jimmy Dean Sausage….Isn’t that two manufacturer’s coupons? (Still learning.
Hi Michelle – In my scenario, I bought 4 Jimmy Dean sausage. I used two B1G1 coupons. The B1G1 coupons covered the two free sausage. So, I then had two sausage not covered by a coupon. I then used the $2/2 coupon which covered the two sausages I had to pay for. Does that make sense? This can be very confusing so let me know if you want me to explain differently! =)
Great day for me at Publix today!! Spent $2.82 and saved $94.04 so I’m a very happy camper! I used my overage for 1 lb. of Boars Head Salsalito Turkey Breast! Thanks for all the posts and help Liza!
Yeah! Great job Cynthia! You saved more money than me this week!
What zipcode for the fruit bars? I don’t see it in my area and tried several other zip codes.
34986 (just saw it on iheartpublix)
Liza, you bought 4 vitamins
but only used 2 publix and 2 manufactures?
is the green advantage a manufacture?
also which vitamins did you get I can’t tell by the picture just looking for the right price match ups to copy you for the overage savings
thanks
scratch that sorry read it again I see now I read it to fast.
but still interested in which vitamins you got…
the cheapest ones.
I would guess 3 bottles of vitamin A which are 3.29 and 1 vitamin D at 2.99 = 12.86
Mark great job guessing! You are exactly correct
Liza have I ever told you how much I love your website and your show & tell pictures!!!!
I did my shopping yesterday (saved 70%) but had to go back today for the vitamin deal and see how much I could get for FREE. Some of the vitamins had $1.00 peelies…WOOHOO!!! I spent a total of .17 CENTS for 4 vitamins, 2 jimmy dean sausage, 2 poptarts, 2 ears of corn, 1 vinegar, 1 sabra hummus, 14 sprout baby food (will donate), mardi gras napkins and a dozen eggs!!! The girl behind me in line, the cashier and bagger were amazed!!!
I had a good trip to Pulbix last night: $115.68 for $8.30.
I saved $128 and only spent $98. Thank you for you website.
Ummm….
I went shopping today & they had to grab a 2nd manager to “approve” my $3/2 vitamins. I asked for them to adjust my last coupon down & she said, don’t worry about it & gave me $0.19 change. I’m still kind of giddy, though I never expect for that to happen again & tried to get them to fix it. I guess after my dealing with the issue of overage, they were kind of done with me. They were civil leaning towards nice about the coupon issue.
So, what % is it when they pay you to shop??? LOL
Last week, a tag was marked incorrectly (marked $2.79 but was actually $2.29 for a sale that was ending that night)& I literally had to buy the lady behind me’s banana to get to a positive amount! Her $.26 banana gave me a $.13 total for my order!
Thank you LIZA!!!!!
Liza – in your defense, all the frozen juices look the same! I almost picked up the wrong one too tonight when I did my shopping.
Thank you. You helped save me some $ with the added links.
Much appreciated!
Sunday’s trip to Publix
Spent $44.07
Saved $216.57
They let me use one $5 off Save-a-lot
and one $5 off Winn-Dixie