It's Super Doubles at Harris Teeter!!

It's Super Doubles at Harris Teeter.  That means stock up time on a lot of products.  Today was my big shopping day, where I spend a couple hours going through the store combing the isles for deals and freebies.  Wednesday I work out of the home at a job and so I only had about 30 minutes in the store to grab a few must have items and deals. Here is the run down of my scores from those two trips.

2 Tabasco pepper sauces
3 cans of Furmans crushed tomatoes
4 Martha White Muffin mixes
1 Lysol disinfectant wipes
2 Morton season salts
1 Kikkoman Soy Sauce
1 San Pelegrino Sparkling water
4 cans Blue Diamond flavored Almonds
2 boxes Celestial flavored teas
1 Hidden Valley Salad Mix
1 Buitonni 4 cheese and spinach ravioli meal
1 box of New York Texas Toast
1 tub of Haagen-Dazs chocolate ice cream
2 tubs of Philadelphia Cooking Creme
1 tub of HT Ricotta Cheese
2 doz HT large eggs
2 packages of Mission Artisan Multi grain Tortillas
4 bags of Krunchers Potato Chips
4 Boxes of Nut Thins
1 Carpet Fresh
1 A1 Steak Sauce
2 Dr Pepper 2L
2 pkgs Dentek Easy Interdental Brush Cleaners
1 Country Crock tub of butter
2 Best Life tubs of margarine


Spent Total OOP $26.30
received one catalina for $4 on next purchase

Retail Value $177.28.

Just a note on some of my tips and tricks of the trade.

Take advantage of catalina deals:  I used one $4 catalina "on your next purchase" yesterday that I received last week from the purchase of 4 boxes of Blue Diamond Nut Thins. Received another catalina yesterday from the purchase of 4 more boxes of Nut Thins. Rolled that one today and received another catalina from the purchase of 4 cans of Blue Diamond flavored almonds.  Since the Blue Diamond products are on sale B1G1 free, that is a great deal even without the coupons, but since I had $1 coupon on 2 (that doubles to $2 off) this deal makes me $2 each time I roll the catalina. Great way to decrease my OOP (out of pocket)!!

Check out other sites that offer coupons:
I also had a coupon for $10 off $50 spent from Recycle Bank. It's a great way to go green and earn points towards purchasing other savings coupons and prizes.  Check them out here.

One additional note here....I also use Swagbucks. They have a coupon section that is the same coupons on coupons.com and I receive 10 swagbucks for every coupon redeemed.  The swagbucks are awarded to my account a couple weeks after I use the coupon and then I redeem all my swagbucks for Amazon gift cards to purchase books for the kids' homeschooling  or books for my Kindle. Check out swagbucks here.

Take advantage of rebate offers and combine coupons when possible: There is a rebate for the Lysol wipes that will refund me $3 (the retail purchase price of the wipes was $2.99, but I had a $1 off coupon that doubled to $2 off making the wipes only $0.99).  That means I will make an additional $2 off this shopping trip when my rebate arrives.

Take advantage of your grocery store ad deals such as meal deals and make sure to check your member cards and receipts for additional savings:  HT had a meal deal this week where when you purchase the Buittoni meal for two, then you also get the San Pellegrino sparkling water, the New York Texas Toast, and the Haagen-Dazs ice cream all for free. The meals were priced $9.99 but I had a evic offer last week on my receipt saying I would get $2 off if I purchased a Buittoni meal by 11/15.  Then I also had a coupon ( I believe it may have came from the November All You magazine) for $1.50 off that doubled to $3 off the meal. That brings my total spent for all 4 items down to $4.99.

One final note: Make sure to watch the cashier ring up your coupons and double check your receipts. They will often miss coupons and things don't always ring up correctly. These mistakes could cost you a lot of money over time. Just today I found that my Texas Toast didn't come off my bill and the full price of the San Pellegrino didn't either.  I will have to make a trip to customer service tomorrow to take care of those charges. Also today I went to CVS and the cashier missed one of my ECB coupons. Luckily she realized  it and handed it back to me. That's about $10 in mistakes all in one day!

At the end of the day it was a great day couponing. I even got to be the coupon fairy while I was in the store. I had an odd number of coupons for the blue diamond deal and I shared the last coupon I had with a nice gentleman who was doing his grocery shopping and purchasing 2 cans of the Blue Diamond almonds. Great feeling when you can pass the savings on to someone!

How did you do with Super Doubles!???!!