Yesterday was perhaps one of my most successful shopping days ever. I bought $109.86 worth of groceries for just $32.22! That’s a savings of 71 percent!

I usually avoid Marsh, a local, overpriced grocery chain, but when roasts are on sale, I venture in because the one advantage they have over Meijer, my usual grocery store, is they have better sales on roasts.

This week, though, they had an amazing sale on more than just roasts. On select items, they marked them down plus they were offering $5 off at the register for every 10 items of there “mega sale” products you purchased. Amazingly, the items they had on sale were actually items Josh and I use and had coupons for. I carefully went through the ad and my coupon collection and matched coupons for items listed.

Here’s what we got:
• 10 Healthy Choice frozen meals (this was my big saver because I had 2 coupons from the Healthy Choice Website for $5 off 5 meals, so I saved $10 just on these with coupons)
• 4 cans of Progresso soup
• 3 boxes of Honey Nut Cheerios
• 2 boxes of Green Giant frozen veggies
• 1 bag of Yoplait frozen smoothies (which I typically wouldn’t buy, but I had a coupon and was saving so much money, I thought it would be a nice treat for Josh and it boosted us to our 20th item, giving us another $5 off)
• 10 pounds of Russet Potatoes, not a “mega sale” item, but on sale for $1.88
• 4 boneless rump roasts for a total of 10.77 lbs at 1.98/lb. Three will go in the freezer, and one will be Monday’s supper.

I’m quite pleased with our purchases. They should last us quite a while, and it always makes me happy to save money, especially that much money!

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