Shopping Trip #1: HEB

This weekend, in total, I got about $46 in free groceries. The two big lessons I learned are:

1) At Kroger (not at HEB, as I found out) you can use 1 coupon per item.
So that yogurt coupon for $.40 off a purchase of 6 yogurts, is totally valuable!
6 yogurts at $.60 = 3.60
6 coupons= -2.40
Kroger doubles!= -2.40 This means that Kroger pays YOU $1.20 to buy 6 yogurts!

In reality, I only had 3 coupons, so instead of paying $3.60 for 6, I paid $1.20.

2) At Kroger, you can use paper coupons AND electronic coupons on the same item. It's just that the electronic coupons don't double or triple. So I bought Charmin (huge pack) for 16.99, and used a paper coupon (.25 x3) plus electronic coupon (.50) and ended up paying 15.74 or .24 a roll. I actually got $1 off of Bounce using .55 paper and .50 electronic coupons, too.

Here's the cool deals I got at HEB:

Total cost: $50.41 Coupons saved: $23.49

Colgate Toothpaste 2.98 (original)
- $1 off coupon
- free reusable shopping bag

Secret Clinical Deoderant 7.57 (original) (very odd combination for sale)
- $1.50 off coupon
- free frozen HEB meatballs ($2.99)

Two Marie Callendar's Pasta Frozen Meals 2.69 x 2 (original)
- Free 1 pint HEB ice cream ($1.49)
- Free Fresh Express Lettuce ($2.29)
- $1 off Lettuc Coupon


There were other deals, but these were the ones that I combined in store coupons with manufacturer coupons, based on the list from The Grocery Game.


I'll post Kroger's when I find my reciept.