Pinching My pennies

So I've tried a few different grocery shopping services to help me save money but I had to pay for them. I'd heard of pinching your pennies but I never really got how to use it. Well with the help of my cousins fabulous website I got the hang of it. Initially I would get very frustrated because the crazy coupon ladies (not me...I mean the REALLY crazy coupon ladies) would clear the place out before I could get there. Plus shopping with my kids was AWFUL!!! Last week I decided to go early in the morning. On one of my trips to Albertsons I spent $70 and saved $90 and got 2 free movie tickets.

Tonight I was making my game plan for this week when I realized that one of my coupons expired today. I had an inner battle...Steven is out with friends so should I ask my mom to listen for my sleeping kids while I shop or should I do the dishes. I chose to go shopping and this is what I got....

Oh and I also got 24 bottles of water but I left those in my car. I like to have water in the car during the summer so that I don't have to end up spending $5 on a bottle of water at the zoo because I forgot. So....once she was done ringing me up my total came to $122.+ Then she scanned my prefered savings card & my coupons and my total came to $59.82. This isn't as amazing as deals I've seen others get but it is still great! I plan my meals around what I can get on sale...so I will be eating Oreos & tortilla chips for dinner this week. :) Don't worry I have more shopping to do. Most of this will go into my very full food storage bins (I only have 2, I need to get more) for when the swine flu takes over the earth. We will lock up in our house and live off of cereal & evaporated milk (that was a dumb caselot to buy).