Grocery shopping

Meat prices are quite high here in Jerusalem.  Boneless, skinless chicken breasts and chicken legs (with bone & skin) both run about $7.40 a kilo.  A turkey thigh about $13.70, and beef mince (hamburger) about $12 a kilo.  A chunk of beef starts at about $20 a kilo and the price goes up depending on the quality...  Anyway, with prices like these, the important thing is to watch for sales.  The most common sale our local Co-op has is you get the discounted price if you are buying 100 shekels (NIS) of items that are not on the same (100 NIS) sale.  Tonight I was doing my pre-weekend shopping and I got some of the chicken that was on sale.  Now I decided when I purchased the chicken that since I was going to the effort of purchasing 100 NIS in other grocery items, I may as well get extra amount of the meat and freeze it for later.  I did this and went around getting my other items.  When I was at the checkout I set out the items in order so that I could make sure I had 100 NIS of products before the chicken was rung through.  Of course, when everything was being rung up, I found out I had mis-calculated and was about 2 NIS short.  So I stopped the casher, looked around quickly and saw tomato paste was one of the promotional items the cashier was supposed to push this week.  So I quickly grabbed some tomato paste and handed it to the cashier.  She of course was happy that I was getting it, but she figured the chicken had to belong to the person behind me in line.  When I told her that the chicken was mine she looked at me very confused, then looked over at her computer, saw the amount I had spent was now listed at 104 NIS, and it was like a light bulb went off as understanding dawned...  I wanted to make sure I was purchasing enough to get my discount!  Pretty significant when the chicken was run through and almost 43 NIS came off my grocery bill... :)