Grocery Shopping....Triple Coupons

This week was the mother week of couponing.  I'm such a geek that I was really looking forward to go grocery shopping in SC because here all the major supermarket chains double coupons and that sounded amazing to me.  This week is even more special because Harris Teeter is tripling coupons (99 cents and under) this week.  The problem was that my coupon binder was pretty empty because I have not clipped coupons (or have inserts) since July when I moved to my parents' house.  Then the past two Sundays I have forgotten to purchase a newspaper thinking that I could get it later in the week like I did in Orlando but here that is not the case.  Turns out the paper rep picks up the unsold Sunday papers when he delivers the Monday paper. Boo!  But Grandma Mary and my mom came to my rescue and mailed me coupon inserts!!!  Yay!  Those inserts coupled with some internet printables made a couple of good shopping trips.  I had to go back for another trip because HT does have restrictions-- they will only triple 20 coupons per day and I had more than that so it took a 2nd trip.  

I'm not going to outline everything I got but the best deals I can remember were:

FREE packs of firm cubed tofu (this is our "meat" so I'm pretty happy I was able to stock up on this)

FREE pasta 

FREE Gain dish detergent

FREE Pad Thai seasoning  (to go with the tofu! yum)

FREE veggie burgers

FREE shaving gel

.34 cent loaf of bread

 .25 cents Peanut butter 

.25 cents breakfast Granola bars (Nick is stocked for a few weeks on these---he eats them like candy!)

.17 cents yogurt pack

.75 dinner rolls

I still have some coupons left so I may go back for another trip before Tuesday when the sale ends.  It was weird and it took me 2 trips to get the hang of this.  See, I'm used to only buying what is on sale and then using the coupons on top of it but when they triple coupons sometimes you don't need the item to be on sale for it to be free or really cheap.  So, on my first trip I only bought the things that were on sale and I didn't understand why I had printed all the coupons from the blog I follow when the items were not on sale.  Then I got home looked at the site again and I realized why she had listed all the stuff to buy.  So, I made another trip and got the rest of the goodies.  I don't know how often they do this special tripling week but I really look forward to coupons that are less than a dollar now b/c they will always at least double.  Good deals to come! :)