Bribes (Snack) Stock-Up

I just love when Catalina deals come along and allow me to stock up on items I would normally never buy for very little OOP.  The lure of new goodies makes for excellent leverage in the bribe department.  If I had gotten to the store and done the deal before they ended on Wednesday, I would have picked all of this up for the same price plus 5 free gallons of milk.  It's true what they say, You snooze, you lose. 

Anyways, here is what I picked up over two days at my favorite Jewel for a grand total of only $13.32 after all my cats and q's plus I had $7.00 left over in cats to buy some butter and buttermilk for another round of cupcakes and some fried chicken from the deli for dinner since my stove was temporarily out of service...that's a long story that ended up with two 911 calls to the fire department, a Carbon Monoxide meter, a cleaning and tuning of the stove and a new carbon monoxide/fire alarm.

Here was my first trip to the Jewel...I had to do three transactions:

Transaction #1:

• 4 boxes Nature Valley Granola Thins $10.00.  Used 4 .75/1 = $7.18.  Got back $7.00 in cats.

Transaction #2:

• 4 boxes Nature Valley Granola Thins $10.00.  Used 1 .75/1 and 3 .50/1 plus the $7.00 in cats from the previous order = $0.93.  Got back $7.00 in cats.

Transaction #3

• 4 boxes Fiber One 90 Calorie Brownies $10.00.  Used 4 .75/1 printables and $7.00 in cats from the previous order = FREE.  Got back $7.00 in cats.
• 2 bags Jay's potato chips $4.00.  Used $1/2 = $3.25

I had to go back to the Jewel to pick up the butter, buttermilk and chicken for dinner, so I did the deal two more times:

Transaction #1:

• 4 boxes Nature Valley Granola Thins $10.00.  Used 4 .60/1 printables plus the $7.00 in cats from the previous day's order = $0.78.  Got back $7.00 in cats.

Transaction #2:

• 4 boxes Fiber One 90 Calorie Brownies $10.00.  Used 4 .50/1 printables and $7.00 in cats from the previous order = $1.18.  Got back $7.00 in cats.

Transaction #3:

• 2 lbs unsalted butter = $7.38
• 1 pint buttermilk = $1.39
• 8 piece fried chicken = $5.99

Used $7.00 in cats from the previous order and $1.00 cat left behind at the register that the cashier gave to me and allowed me to use (super nice of her as they can just as easily throw them away) for a total of $7.36 OOP.

Overall, I spent $10.07 on 20 boxes of granola thins and fiber one brownies...that is only an average of $0.50/box.  My overall including the chips and other misc items was $20.68.  With all my q's and card savings, I saved a grand total of $73.55.

Here is what my cupcakes for the 4th of July turned out like:

Have a happy and safe 4th of July!