Stopped at Dominicks for the cereal, milk, fruit deal; the Imagine free soup deal and the pretty darned cheap Kraft Big Slice cheese. Oh, yeah, tossed in a bakery container of herb and cheese croissants for $5 – spending money like a drunken sailor over here!

Total was $16.95 for which I got the 4 boxes of Cocoa Crispies, 6 Imagine soups, 6 Kraft cheese, 1 Horizon organic milk, 3 mangos, large bunch of bananas and the croissants.  Fruit was pretty much free with the two $2 fruit coupons, the cereal was 3/$5 ($1.67 each), Kraft was 3/$5, so I got 6 and used 3 of the $1.50 printables, milk was free when I bought 4 cereals on my J4U and the cheese & herb croissants were $5 for a 15ct carton.  Still seems high, but that’s because I can never decipher the Dominicks’ receipts – you kind of have to put your trust in God and the cashier!  Here’s the Kelloggs printables again from an earlier post.  The Kraft or Cracker Barrel $1.50/2 coupon is near the cereal coupon, but for some reason I can’t pull it up now.

I’m heading back tomorrow for the Eggos because they’re on sale for 3/$6 and there are two discounts I can use together with the $1/2 coupon in tomorrow’s rp:  $5 off instantly with $15 frozen purchase on J4U and the same value paper coupon in last Thursday’s ad.  So let’s do the math:  Buy 8 boxes for $16, the $5 off frozen comes off instantly and then the $5 off frozen paper coupon and then four $1 coupons = $2.  Well, that would sure be sweet!!!!  We’ll see how it goes, but it’s supposed to work with both discounts.

I’d like to find some way to use the insert $3/3 coupon with the J4U $3/3 eCoupon on Fruttare or Magnum, etc. bars, but if they’re not on sale they’re crazy-high priced.  Any thoughts?

Picked up this Vera Bradley tote, hard glasses case and Euro waller for $5 – I only paid this much because it’s new and Jill had the mother of all Vera Bradley totes at BlogHer – I think she had a case of White Cloud and a pot-bellied pig in there…

Here’s the Ocean Spray juice deal and the way it works using two Dominicks:  The first Dominicks, in Woodridge, only had one flavor of juice, so I grabbed 6, the Dinty Moore beef stew for FIrstBorn and the Johnsonville sausage.  Used coupons on all and paid 21¢.

Stopped at the MUM Dominicks in Glen Ellyn for the other 6 bottles of juice – the Mango one – plus four boxes of rice.  Why the other stuff?  Well, I had the Spend $20 get $5 off on my card, and I needed something to eat up the overage; we sure need rice (flood rice just doesn’t taste right).  Kind of went crazy with that rice and bought four boxes using 3 35¢ peelies.  Total OOP was $2.82, which means my grand total OOP for the day was $3.03.

Total this time around was only $5.41 because I used the $5 store cat from the earlier transaction.  A friend also picked up 20 packs of Oreos and 10 waters – my card is glowing!  Pretty soon I’m gonna have Safeway’s nutritionist calling me…