Great Deals Today! :)

Little Mister and I "braved" the rainy day and went grocery shopping this morning.  Besides the fact that we looked like drowned rats (LM makes a very cute drowned rat, though, I must say!), we had a good time together.  He was a big help and it was a great opportunity to take all those math facts he's been learning in the books and put them to use in real life.  Not to mention he's just great company! :)

I bought Kraft cheeses for 17 cents each, Wheat Thins and Triscuits for 62 cents each, Manwich for 50 cents each and got Old El Paso fajita seasoning for free!  Just to name a few of my best bargains. ;)  I shopped at Meijer, and here's how I got those deals.

First of all, let me explain that Meijer is having a Catalina deal where, when you buy $15 worth of certain Kraft products (including cheese, Wheat Thins, Triscuits, 100 Calorie snacks, mayo, Miracle Whip and several others), you receive a $5 catalina to use on your next purchase.  You can do two of these deals in one transaction.

The Kraft 8oz bricks of cheese are on sale for $1.67 (3/$5).  To make this work, you have to buy 10.  But then you don't have to buy cheese again for a long time!  The date on it was December something, and it can always be frozen.  So . . . .
10 Kraft cheese at $1.67  =  $16.70
Print a $5/5 coupon here (actually, print 2, which is the limit).
So, when you take off the $10 from the coupons, you're down to $6.70 for 10 bricks of cheese.
Then you'll get a $5 catalina to use on your next shopping trip, which brings your grand total down to $1.70, or $.17 each, for 10 bricks of cheese!

Wheat Thins and Triscuits are on sale for $1.99 and are also part of the Kraft deal.
I bought 8 boxes--4 of each.  $15.92
If you "like" Wheat Thins on Facebook, you can print up to two $1/1 coupons for Wheat Thins.  Even if you "liked" them a long time ago and printed out coupons, try again.  They seem to have reset the coupon.
With my two coupons, the total came down to $13.92. 
I got the $5 catalina from Kraft, since the items totaled more than $15.  Down to $8.92 for 8 boxes.
THEN, the catalina machine spit out an extra $4 off coupon for my next shopping trip!  Fun surprise!  That brought the cost down to $.62 per box of crackers!

I paid for my groceries in two separate transactions.  I did all the Kraft products--the cheese and crackers--first, then used the catalinas from that when I paid for the remainder of my groceries.  The one thing I didn't know, though, was that you can only use one of the Kraft $5 catalinas per transaction.  If I had known that, I may have divided my remaining groceries into 2 transactions.  Or maybe not!  I have it to use for next time, which is just as good to me.

A couple other deals I can think of are the Manwich I got for $.50 a can (I totally forgot to look at the label until I got home and, unfortunately, it is sweetened with High Fructose Corn Syrup--yuck!).  But that doesn't bother everyone, so if you want a good deal on Manwich, go to the Meijer Mealbox, to "specials" and there you will find all kinds of coupons, including one for $1 off 2 Manwich.  They are on sale for $1 so, with the coupon, they are $.50 each, if you buy two.  And I think you can print off as many Meijer coupons as you wish.

I went here for a $.50/1 Old El Paso coupon.  I needed fajita mix, which was $.89.  My Meijer doubles coupons up to $.50, so they took off the extra $.39 and I got it for free!

Lots of beautiful produce at great prices and other deals that might work well for your household.  Worth a look! :)