Publix 5/6/2011 $49.09 spent with a $50 BP gas card!!!

Well, I've been very slack on my posting lately. The life of a full time mom & college student. But since my semester is over & I'm out until August it's time to get my tail in gear with my couponing. So hopefully I'll have more time to blog. But now, down to business...

So today was payday which means I knew I would be getting at least $50 in gas. This week Publix has a coupon in their salepaper to get a $50 gas card for $10 off ($40) when you buy $25 in groceries. So I decided since I needed gas anyway to see what kind of deal I could work out. I went to southernsavers.com to get the weekly Publix sales & coupon match ups.

Here's what I came up with to get my gas card with a few other items that we use.

6- 10 lb. bags of Tidy cats liter (B1G1 sale-$1.15 each)
6- Publix colas (no coupons) $.50 each
1- Glad Flex Force trash bags 38 ct. $5.49
1- Zantac 150 24 ct. $9.99
2- Heluva Good french onion dips $2.09 each (in fridge-forgot to put in pic)
1- 3bar pk Ivory soap $1.29
1- Pepperidge Farm cake (no coupon-on sale B1G1) $2.10
1- Publix reusable bag (not pictured-left in car) $.99
1- $50 BP gas card

coupons used:
(6) Tidy Cats printable coupons $1.10/each
(1) Glad trash bags printable coupon $1.00
(1) Publix Zantac store coupon $3.00
(1) Zantac printable coupon $5.00
(1) Publix B1G1 Heluva Good dip store coupon (took off $2.09)
(2) Heluva Good printable coupons $.50/each-doubled by store
(1) Ivory soap coupon from sunday inserts $1.00
(1) Free Publix reusable bag store coupon (from a Publix fridge magnet Bri got last week)
(1) $10 gas card coupon from the Publix sales paper
(1) $5 off $30 Publix store coupon (found in Walmart parking lot-thanks whoever dropped it!)

Total $85.57 (with store sale prices on items)
Total oop (after coupons) $49.09

Total savings $49.55 (includes sale prices & all coupons)

I paid my $49.09, loaded up the car then drove across the street & used my $50 gas card. Getting all this for $49.09 was a lot better than just pulling up to the tank & dropping $50 without getting anything else.

If you haven't checked out southernsavers.com & want to learn how to save big, I suggest you go there to get started. Jenny posts the store sales with the coupon matchups weekly. And of course if you have any questions, just email me or call me. I'll be glad to help all I can. Oh, and I can't find my camera charger so I used my little video camera to show my stuff.

Happy shopping...Lori