$2.11 for groceries... Not impossible!

Monday was a great mail day at our house- we received 4 coupons for free products.

Uncle Ben's Rice coupon (Uncle Ben's website)
2 Stouffer's frozen entree coupons (Facebook game offer)
Kraft Cheese with Philly cream cheese coupon (Kraft First Taste)

I also had free product coupons for: Sauve Professionals hair care, Cafe Breve creamer, Frank's Red hot Sauce, Philly Cooking Creme.

Wednesday the baby and I had a day of free shopping. We planned to hit up Target because I had 2 $10.00 gift cards and a handful of high value and free product coupons, plus Target has $5.00 gift card WYB 10 Weight Watchers Smart Ones. Combine the gift card with the $3.00 off 10, and the 5% off with my Target Red Card, the Smart ones were less than $1.00 each. That's a pretty inexpensive lunch!

My OOP after the $5.00 gift card to use on my next purchase was... $2.11!! WOO HOO!  We now have lunches for the next two weeks, plus the misc. ingredients I needed for the meals for the rest of the month.

This was all that we got on Wednesday.  The second trip we made was to Ralph's because Target didn't have the Cafe Breve creamer or the Kraft Cheese.  I also bought 2 bags of marked down Salad while I was there. My OOP at Ralph's was $1.44.

We also stopped at 99 Cents Only to pick up a bunch of Bananas (it's the cheapest place in town to buy Bananas).

Someone asked if I was an extreme couponer, and honestly I have to say NO.  Here is why: The people that you see on that TV show bring home tons of food and HBA and display/store it in their home.  I don't need 40 tubes of toothpaste, even if they are free.  I don't have room in my house, and there is no way I'd use them before they go bad. None of the stores around here give overage either, so buying stuff I'd never use for the overage money isn't possible here.

I only buy what we will use within a reasonable amount of time.  I use coupons that I find online, find on products or in stores, in the newspaper or that I request from companies whose products I use regularly.  If there are coupons for free products that we won't use, I give the coupons away to friends or leave them on the shelf at the store.

I am a sensible couponer and I'm proud of it.