Lettuce eat more lettuce!

I wasn't able to do my regular Friday shopping at Publix, ALDI, and the produce store last Friday, as I was waiting for the air conditioning repairman to show up at my house. They finally did come and ah, our air conditioning is working again. But there was no time to shop then, or over the weekend, so Monday it was!

Since the produce store usually has cheaper lettuce that ALDI, I bought two heads of iceberg lettuce there.  Then I went to ALDI and found bags of Italian salad mix on sale for 50¢ each.  Well, I can't pass up a bargain like that!  So I bought four.  Let's just say that we'll be having a lot of salads here this week...

Here's what I got at those stops:

Publix:
4 Nutri-Grain bars @ BOGO $3.49 = $6.98
- 2 $1/2 Kellogg's Nutri-Grain Bars Target printable
= $4.98 for four, or $1.25 each

1 Cottonelle @ $3.99
- 50¢ off Cottonelle printable
= $3.49

2 Post Selects cereal @ BOGO $4.29
- 2 $1/1 Post Great Grains Cereal, exp. 7/18/11 (Blinkie)
= $2.29 for two, or $1.15 each

A note on that last one: I found two boxes of Post Select cereal with the Post Great Grains blinkie coupon glued onto the box, as if it were a peelie coupon, which was presumably done by Publix itself.  So I was in a quandary: do I use those coupons, even though they were for the wrong product, or do I take the coupons off (which I would never normally do with a peelie coupon) and get the right product?  As you can see, I chose the former.  I'm still not all that comfortable with my decision.

Tax: 24¢
Total spent: $11.00
Total saved compared to Publix full prices: $16.57

The produce store is having fewer and fewer bargains lately.  I spoke with one of the managers and he said that the local Florida farmers don't grow anything in the hot and humid summer, so most of the produce is being trucked in from outside the state.  Therefore, many of the prices there are higher than they used to be.  I only chose a few things and decided to get the rest of my produce at ALDI.

2 heads lettuce @ $1.19 = $2.38
1 gigantic cucumber @ 50¢
4 tomatoes @ 99¢/lb

Total spent: $4.01

ALDI:
4 Italian salad mix @ 50¢ = $2.00
1 bunch bananas @ 87¢
1 bag apples @ $2.99
1 celery @ $1.29
2 strawberries @ $1.29 = $2.58
1 onions @ $1.69
2 cottage cheese @ $1.99 = $3.98
2 refried beans @ 79¢ = $1.58
1 raisins @ $1.69
1 chocolate syrup @ $1.39
1 apple juice @ $1.49
1 chili powder @ 99¢
1 whole wheat bread @ $1.29
1 flour tortillas @ 99¢
2 milk @ $2.19 = $4.38

Total spent: $29.20