CVS & Safeway

Yesterday, my husband and I had a "date day" which meant on my first day off in quite some time, I didn't do chores. We went to see a movie in the afternoon and then headed to a restaurant that I had a restaurant.com GC/coupon for. We had a really lovely meal for just around $25 including tax and tip (would have been $43 w/o tip with no coupon - $10 of the $25 was the tip). I wouldn't say it was a most frugal date... to date, but it was fun.

Anyway, today I've been doing laundry and went to CVS and Safeway to do some of the deals (and redeem my raincheck from the 2/$3 Lays deal that ended the 4th.

at CVS (slightly dissapointing since I was hoping to grab the Post granola cereal but they were all out):

$6.67 2 boxes of Cocoa Pebbles
$3.33 1 box of Honey Bunches of Oats
$.99 Dentburst
$1.29 Tums
$.89 CVS pantyliners

- $11 in Extrabucks

= $2.14 OOP
Received $5 from the Post deal and $.89 from the pantyliners.

Then Safeway:
$2.99 Nabisco 12-pack 100 calories packs (w/super coupon)
$1.99 Quaker Life cereal (w/super coupon)
$1.49 Dole pineapple bits (w/super coupon)
$1.99 Dole pineapple bits
$3.99 Tostitos multi-grain
$0.00 Tostitos snack size
$1.15 seltzer water
$2.00 box cheerios
$4.00 2 boxes cocoa puffs
$1.69 Diet Sierra Mist
$2.49 gallon skim milk (w/super coupon)
$3.00 2 bags of Lays potato chips

- $.75/2 Dole
- $1/3 GM cereal

= $24.34 OOP
I had used a coupon for free bottle of Pepsi with the purchase of 3 Lays or Tostitos products, but because my rain check was entered manually, the system didn't recognize the Lays... had to go to customer service to get the $1.69 back in cash, so really $22.65 OOP.

I received a coupon for a free gallon of milk up to $4.50 - thinking of going back tomorrow to do that deal again (buy 3 GM cereals get a coupon for free milk). Guess we don't have to worry about buying milk for the next few weeks.