Kroger deals: Week of January 30th

Kroger frequently has a store wide sale, where if you buy 10 participating item, you will save $5.00 off of your order instantly at the checkout. Basically, you end up saving 50 cents off of each of the ten items you purchase. If you can combine this sale with using a coupon for every item, you really maximize your savings.

Here is one of the endless combinations I came up with for this sale using coupons from this week's newspaper ......

#1. Ragu pasta sauce is $1.16 when you buy it in the 10 items you purchase for this sale. This weeks paper has a coupon to save $1.00 off of two jars. Final price will be aprox. 66 cents each at the check out. Buy 4 jars, using two coupons.

#2 Cheez-It cracker are marked down to $2.49 each. There is a coupon to save $1.00 off of two boxes, making the final price per box $2.00. Use two coupons and buy 4 boxes.

#3. Marzetti Veggie Dip is marked down to $2.50, and there is a coupon available in this week's paper to save 50 cents off off ONE dip. This coupon will double to $1.00, so the final cost of one dip will be $1.50. Dip the aforementioned Cheez-Its in said dip. Use two coupons and buy two dips.

So there you have it. 10 items purchased, with $5.00 instantly saved at checkout, and another $6.00 saved from coupons. The total for all 10 items should be about $13.00, which equals a savings of about 45% off of the original price.

This is what real couponing is about, there is no need to go all psycho extreme when you can build your stockpile little by little, each week.