Wonderful World of Winco

My husband wanted me to title this post "Clean-up in the piñata aisle!" Have any of you ever been to a store that has a dedicated piñata aisle? I hadn't. Until Sunday!

The Piñata and beverage aisle.

Winco is kind of crazy. We made the trek to the new Tacoma store to take advantage of the free coupons and scope other deals. My opinion is the deals were great, but I wouldn't usually go from Gig Harbor to Winco when a lot of these deals can be had at Safeway, QFC, Fred Meyer and Albertsons with coupons and sales. But if you live in south Tacoma and don't mind the chaos, it's worth it.

You won't find Pig's Feet at Albertsons.

FREE items

• 2 Shasta two liters (husband chose Tiki Punch)
• 2 pounds of LGB (lean ground beef)
• 2 bottles of Kraft BBQ sauce (gave my dad one, since I got 3 bottles on the Sweet Baby Ray's deal)
• 2 cans of Pork and Beans (ew, both went to my dad)
• 2 bottles of Ketchup (great for camping because I can leave it behind)

 Under 50 cent items

• 3 bags of brown rice ($0.10 each after coupon)
• Lunchable with fruit ($0.48 after coupon)
• Bulk peanut butter
• Bulk cumin and paprika
• Bulk gummi worms
• Cilantro ($0.38)
• Tomato paste ($0.44)

Other sweet deals

• Earthbound organics salad small clamshell ($1.98 after coupon)
• Buttoni refrigerated linguini ($0.94 each after coupon)
• Nalley pickles ($0.98 after coupon)
• Philadelphia cooking creme ($0.98 after coupon)
• Chipotle peppers in adobo sauce ($0.98 each)
• McCormick red pepper flakes jar ($1.15 after coupon)
• 12 ounces of Driscoll's raspberries ($2.98!)

So I took great photos of all these items (and more) but of course I deleted them, but I do have all these awesome photos my husband took while I was shopping... :-)

We did not buy these fruit cakes. Ewww.

I wanted to get Oscar Meyer weiners for 50 cents each after coupon, but Peter wouldn't let me because he said they're made of snouts and a$$. So I left my coupon for the next person. Coupon etiquette!

You bag your own groceries, duh.

For a list of Winco deals and how I found these match-ups, go on over to The Coupon Project!

Au revoir Winco! Until we meet again...probably not that soon though!