This is why I coupon

I did my first hard-core Shop N Save coupon/sale/10-50 thursday extravaganza today. For those of you outside of St. Louis or who don't know, that means I collected the coupon matchups for the sales at Shop n Save this week, collected my coupons, and shopped on Thursday, when they do a $10 off $50 purchase BEFORE coupons. Here was the result

4 Banquet frozen meals (for school lunches)

5 green giant steamers

2 coffee mate creamers

4 boxes of kashi cereal

2 4-packs Yoplait Yoplus yogurt

3 boxes Quaker granola bars

2 boxes of Quaker Life cereal

Oreo cakesters (free item)

2 20 count Cottonelle double rolls

On my receipt it says:

Total after tax $24.79

Advertised savings $10

Manufacturer Coupons $17.77

Red Tag Savings (Sales) $28.48

YOU SAVED A GRAND TOTAL OF..............$56.25

THAT IS A SAVINGS OF..................................70%

I haven't analyzed too closely this feeling I had coming out of the store. It's like the feeling when you win a game of Agricola against Doug Serven. Triumph. All went according to plan. Only with couponing I saved us $50.