How I got six boxes of popcorn for -$1.50

(Doesn’t she just look like a great product model?  Especially with that dirty face!)

When we were college students, a lady came to our Enrichment and taught a class on how to use coupons to combine with store sales to get really great deals.  I thought it was great and tried to start, but soon found that I fizzled out on the whole couponing thing.

I’ve gotten back on the bandwagon now and I am finding great deals.  The other week at Albertsons, I bought 6 boxes of popcorn for an overage that was applied to the rest of the groceries I bought.  And the other great thing about shopping there is that they give you five cents off a gallon for every $50 of qualifying groceries that you buy.  When I needed gas this week, I had earned enough to pay only $1.10 a gallon.

Finding great deals like this help me build my food storage more quickly than if I had been working on it without any sales.  It takes a little work to research the sales and find the coupons, but it has been worth my time and effort for the last three or four months that I have been working on this.

My favorite site to find deals is Pinching Your Pennies.  That’s where I usually find the grocery store deals for the week.  They have a star method of ranking where four and five star items are the best deals.  They also match up coupons for you and give you a final price including sales and coupons.

There are also a number of blogs that are devoted to finding great grocery deals.  Being Frugal is Fabulous, Money Saving Mom, and The Obsessive Shopper are just a few.

And if you are looking for ways to decrease your grocery budget (that doesn’t include what is on sale this week) check out Be It Ever So Humble…she has a great list today of common sense ways to cut back.