My Food Lion Store Brand Super Sale Field Report!

I stopped in to Food Lion today to take advantage of their Store Brand Super Sale.  I scanned my MVP card at the Savings Center kiosk and received a coupon for 75 cents off My Essentials rice, so I grabbed a small bag of brown rice for 82 cents. I was unable to find the single bottles of ME water, so instead I selected 3 jars of ME tomato paste. My total came to $1.49.

However, when the cashier rang me up, I did NOT receive a $1.00 catalina for buying 4 store brand items. I know the cat machine was working, because the customer in front of me received one. So, I went to customer service, where I got no help. I was told that they could not force the cat to print and they didn't have any extras to give me. I could have asked them to return and rebuy to see if it would print, but sometimes a dollar isn't worth the hassle. I strongly suspect that my use of a store coupon somehow messed up the deal.

 

So, I went back and picked out 4 cans of ME tomato pasta, paid $1.44 and got my $1.00 catalina.

I never used anything but store bought pasta sauce until I ran out one day and was too cheap to buy more. I had no idea it was so easy to make your own homemade pasta sauce. This recipe serves six:

2 teaspoons olive oil

2 cups chopped onion

8  garlic cloves, minced

1 cup dry red wine or 4 tablespoons balsamic vinegar

2 tablespoon sugar

4 tablespoon chopped fresh or 1 teaspoon dried basil

4 tablespoons tomato paste

1 teaspoon dried Italian seasoning

1/2 teaspoon black pepper

4  (14.5-ounce) cans diced tomatoes, undrained

4 tablespoons chopped fresh parsley

Heat oil in a saucepan or large skillet over medium-high heat. Add onion and garlic; sauté 5 minutes. Stir in wine and next 6 ingredients (wine through tomatoes), and bring to a boil. Reduce heat to medium, and cook, uncovered, about 15 minutes. Stir in parsley.