Food Lion Coupon Matchups - 3/27-4/3

I am venturing into Food Lion this week for the first time since mine converted from a Bloom grocery store. Below you will find a list of all their advertised sale prices from March 27th through April 3rd with coupon match-ups.

SS - Smart Source insert
RP - Red Plum insert
P&G - Proctor & Gamble insert
GM - General Mills insert
NLA - No Longer Available
IP - Internet Printable coupon

My Essentials Brands
Potato Chips - 2/$5
Drinking Water, 24 pack - $2.99
Soda, 2 ltr bottles - 89 cents
Ice Cream, 1 gallon - $4.99
Foam plates, 50 ct. - $2.19
Half & Half, 32 oz - $2.59

Buy One, Get One Free
Nature's Own Butterbread
Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream
$1.00/2 Mfr Catalina
Red Baron 12 inch Pizza
Tyson Any'tizers
$1/2 SS 1/22
$1/2 SS 3/4
Purex Liquid Landry Detergent (60-72 oz)
.50/1 RP 3/11
Doritos Tortilla Chips (also part of the Big Deal)
Sunshine Cheez-It (also part of the Big Deal)
$1/2 Peelie
Free Kellogg's Crispix cereal wyb 2 Cheez-It Crackers peelie
Mueller's Pasta (16 oz)
.55/1 when you register here
Mrs. Smith's Fruit Pies
Food Lion Shrimp (16 oz, cooked)
Hormel Black Label Bacon


The Big Deal (March 28 - April 10)

Look for Big Deal signs on products throughout the store

Buy 10 products, receive $5 off instantly
Buy 20 products, receive $10 off instantly
Buy 30 products, receive $15 off instantly


Included products:
Kraft BBQ Sauce - 99 cents
Kellogg's Frosted Flakes/Mini Wheats - 2/$5.00
$1/2 Kelloggs Frosted Mini-wheats - IP NLA?
$1/2 Frosted Mini-wheats - found in package
$1/3 Kelloggs Cereals - RP 3/4
$1/2 Kelloggs Cereal & fresh fruit - found in package
Hormel Compleats - 2/$4
$1/2 SS 2/12
$1/1 IP (NLA) - Kid's Meal
Kraft Homestyle Mac & Cheese - 3/$5
.75/1 IP - No more prints
.75/1 Tearpad
Nabisco Snack Crackers - 2/$5
$1/2 Tearpad
$1/2 Booklet called "Your Party's Winning Game Plan with Guy"
Starbucks Coffee - $7.99
$1.50/1 SS 3/25
Spam - 2/$5
Quaker Instant Oatmeal - 2/$5
PopTarts - 2/$5
$1/2 Found in Package
$1.00/2 Peelie
$1.00/3 Found in Package
.70/1 IP No More Prints
$1/3 RP 3/4
Del Monte Fruit (4 pack) - 5/$10
Fresh Step Scoop Cat Litter - $7.99
Viva Paper Towels- $7.99
.60/1 SS 3/11
.50/1 IP here
$1/1 Booklet/Pamphlet
Cottonelle Bath Tissue - $7.99
$2/1 Blinkie
$1/1 Peelie
.50/2 SS 3/1
Betty Crocker Muffins or Cookies - 2/$4
.40/1 GM 2/5 cookie mix
.40/1 SS 3/25 cookie mix
$1/2 SS 3/25 muffins
$1/2 Found in Package muffins
Vanity Fair Napkins/Dixie Plates or Cups - 2/$4
.50/1 Dixie Plates, Perfect Touch Cups, Bath Cups - Found in Package
Kingsford or Match Light Charcoal - $5.99
I think there was a $2 IP for this recently that is NLA
Maxwell House Coffee - $8.99
$1/2 Found in Package
$1.50 off wyb 1 pkg of Dixie PerfecTouch Cups
Bush's Best Baked Beans or Grillin'Beans - 3/$5
Doritos Tortilla Chips - Buy One, Get One free
Sunshine Cheez-It - Buy One, Get One free
$1/2 Peelie
Tyson Bagged Chicken - $6.99
.55/1 or $1/1 SS 1/8
Yoplait Go-Gurt - 2/$4
.55/2 Peelie
.75/2 GM 2/5
.75/2 SS 3/11
$1/2 Found in package
Green Giant Box Vegetables - 10/$10
.50/2 Booklet/Pamphlet fm Weight Watchers
Pillsbury Cinnamon or Crescent Rolls - 2/$4
.40/2 GM 1/8 crescent rolls
.40/4 SS 1/29 crescent rolls
Totinos Pizza Rolls - 2/$6
$1/2 GM 1/8
.35/1 SS 1/29
.40/2 SS 1/29
Depend Pants - $11.99
$3/1 Found in package
$2/1 IP - NLA
$1/1 SS 3/25
Poise Pads - $11.99
$2/1 Snail Mail
$2/1 Found in package
$1/1 IP here
Head & Shoulders Shampoo - $4.99
$1/1 Found in package
$1/2 P&G 3/4

Other Sale Items
Chuck Roast - $2.99
Holly Farms Chicken Breasts or Tenders - 50% off
Whole Pork Spare Ribs - $1.99
Green Grapes (Seedless) .99 (my personal stock-up price)
Berry Patch (Strawberries, Raspberries, or Blackberries) - 2/$4
Johnsonville Grilling Sausage & Brats - $3.99
$1/2 SS 1/22
$2/1 Catalina mfr q fm Safeway
Pepsi Products (12 pack) - $3/$10
.75/1 SS 3/18
Budwiser, Miller or Coors Family (24 pack) - $14.99
Kraft Shredded or Chunk Cheese - 2/$4
Stouffer's Dinners or Entrees (6-21 oz) - 4/$10
$1/4 Tearpad
Kraft Salad Dressing (14-16 oz) - 2/$4
.50/1 Peelie
Prego Pasta Sauce - 3/$5
.50/2 or $1/2 SS 1/8
.50/2 or .75/2 SS 2/26
$1/2 Campbell’s, "Make Game Day A Snap" Booklet
$1/3 Tearpad
Lance Crackers - 2/$4
$1/2 Tearpad
Huggies Jumbo Diapers or Pull-Ups & Goodnites - $8.99
$2/1 Found in Package Huggies
$1/1 Booklet/Pamplet Huggies
$2/1 Pull-ups IP here
$2/1 Pull-ups Found in package
$2/1 Booklet/pamplet Pull-ups
$1.50/1 Pull-ups SS 3/18
$1.50/1 Huggies SS 2/12
Purina Dog Chow - $10.99
$1/1 SS 3/18
Bounty 6 Regular Rolls - $4.99
$1/1 Found in package
.25/1 P&G 3/4
Charmin 9 Large Rolls - $4.99
$1/2 Found in package
$1/1 Found in package
.25/1 P&G 3/4
Rice A Roni or Pasta Roni - 10/$10
Waggin' Train Chicken Jerky Tenders - $9.99
Gain Liquid Fabric Softener - $4.99
$1/1 Essence magazine
$1/1 Found in package
.50/1 RP 3/18
$1/1 RP 2/19
Ro*tel - 10/$10

Beverages:
Coke Products (6 pack, 1/2 liter bottles) - 4/$11
Buy 4 6-packs and get an 8 pack, 20 oz Powerade FREE
Pepsi Products (2 ltr bottles) - 3/$5
.55/1 Diet Pepsi 2 ltr SS 3/18
Coke Products (2 ltr bottles) - 3/$5
Gatorade (32 oz) - 10/$10
Lipton Tea (12 pack)/Starbucks Frappucino (4 pack) - $5.99
Buy 1 Frappuccino 4 pack, Get 1 Refreshers Beverage 12 oz can free - Tearpad
Pepsi Next (12 pack) - $2.99
Capri Sun Juice Drink (10 ct) - 2/$5
B3G1 up to $2.60 SS 3/18
Heiniken/Amstel Light/Shock Top Beer (12 pack) - $12.99
Yuengling Beer (12 pack) - $8.99
Blue Moon Beer (12 pack) - $14.99
Pabst Blue Ribbon Beer (12 pack) - $6.99
Leinenkugel or Woodchuck Cider (6 pack) - $7.29
CK Mondavi Wine - $9.49
Casillero Del Diablo Wine - $9.49
Livingston Cellars Wine - $9.99
Flip Flop Wine - 2/$11
* Save 10% when you buy 6 bottles of Wine*

Deli & Bakery
Food Lion Fresh Deli German Bologna - $2.49 lb.
Kretschmar Ham - $7.49 lb.
Fresh Deli Pre-Sliced Cheese (8 oz) - 2/$5
8 inch Sub Rolls or 6 ct. Kaiser Rolls - 2/$6
Food Lion Danish - 2/$7
Fried Dark Meat Chicken (10 piece) - $5.99
Nature's Place Breads - $2.99 each
Lofthouse Frosted Cookies - 2/$7

Dairy & Frozen
Nestle Refrigerated Cookies - 2/$5
$1/1 SS 3/25
$1.25/? IP here
Tropicana Orange Juice - 2/$6
Farm Rich Snacks - $5.99
.75/1 Blinkie
$1/1 SS 11/13
Daisy Sour Cream - 2/$4
I Cant Believe Its Not Butter - 2/$5
.75/2 RP 3/25
$1.50/1 IP fm Coupons.com - NLA?
Hot Pockets - 5/$10
$1/2 IP - No more prints
$1/1 IP - NLA?
Banquet Dinner Entrees - 10/$10
.60/3 Pot Pies - found in package
.25/1 Homestyle Bakes - found in package
Michelinas Dinner Entrees - 10/$10
$1/2 Snail mail
$1/5 IP here
Sister Shuberts Dinner Rolls - $2.99
$1/2 Tearpad
.75/2 Blinkie
$1/1 Blinkie
.75/1 All You magazine
.50/1 IP - NLA?
International Delight Creamers - 2/$5
.55/1 IP here
$1/2 International delight Blinkie found at Bloom
.40/1 Snail mail

Health & Beauty
Secret Solid or Old Spice High Endurance Deodorant - 2/$5
.50/1 P&G 3/4 Old Spice
$1/2 found in package Old Spice

Produce
Dole or Fresh Express, 12 oz - $1.29
Green Bell Peppers - $2/$1
Cucumbers - .59 each
Wonderful Pistachios, 8 oz - $3.99
Matchstix Carrots, 10 oz - $1.49
Red Delicious or Granny Smith, 3 lb bag - 2/$5
Yellow Onions, 3 lb bag - $1.99
Palm Sunday Bouquet - $9.99

Meat
Ribeye Steaks - $8.29 lb
Pork Back Ribs - $3.99 lb
My Essentials Spiral Sliced Ham - $1.49 lb.
St. Louis Style Pork Ribs - $3.49 lb.
Jennie-O Turkeys - .99 lb.
Taste of Inspiration Pork Chops - $5.49 lb.
Armour LunchMakers - 4/$4
Oscar Mayer Beef Bologna - $3.99
Gwaltney Great Dogs Turkey Franks - .99
Hillshire Farm Sausage - 2/$5
.55/1 RP 3/25
$1/1 Winetag
$/2 Peelie
Oscar Mayer Deli Fresh Tubs - $4.99
$1.25/2 fm Kroger's My Magazine "Basketball Madness"

Seafood
Flounder Fillets - $6.99 lb.
Tilapia Fillets - $3.99 lb.
Food Lion Imitation Crab Meat - 2/$5
Quality Whiting or Trout (24 oz) - $4.99

Weekly Round-Up #5 - February 1-7

I've been tracking my spending on groceries and toiletries since the year started, and I've been averaging about $45 per week. I did very little shopping during the first week of February.
Here is what I bought:

Purchases



CVS Freebies

Food
- Gallon milk (1)

- Half-gallon of milk (1)
- Loaf of bread (1)
- Pom Wondeful bars (4)
- Combos (8)                               
- Market Pantry Mac N Cheese (4)
- Cadbury Creme Egg (1)
- Ghirardelli chocolate (1)

- Sunshine Cheez-Its  (2)
- Planters Trail Mix (2)
- 4 lb bag of Oranges (2)
- Gatorade 32 oz (2)
- Lipton Onion Soup Mix (2)
- Knorr Pasta Sides (3)
- Hillshire Farms Beef Kielbasa (2)                                                          



Michael's Freebies

Household 
 -Roll of Camoflauge Duct Tape
- 3-Pack of Sachets
- Speed Stick deodorants (6)
- Stayfree maxi pads (4)
- Hallmark cards (3)
- Ricola cough drops (4)
- Brainstrong Gummie vitamins
- Pure Spring hand lotion

Other

 - 2 Free Onion Rings at Burger King

 - 2 Free Big Macs and French Fries at McDonalds with coupons
                                                                                                          from Living Social 

Refunds

- Blue Moon NBPR Oranges - $3.00

- Colgate-Palmolive Black History Month Promo - $5.00  (See my post of February 2nd)



Rite Aid Freebies


Expenditures    
CVS - $1.46
Rite Aid - $5.36
Safeway - $4.25
Giant - $4.09
Bloom - $9.87
Target - $1.08
McDonalds - .45
Michaels - .50
                               
Total: $27.06




I made a few mistakes this week or I wouldn't have spent so much at Rite Aid and Safeway, but overall I'm happy. The deodorant and Stayfree pads will be going to the food pantry with me tomorrow. Food stamps cannot be used for toiletries, so these are frequently requested items.

Weekly Round-up #4 - January 25-31

This week I again achieved my goal of staying under $50.00 for food and toiletries and even eating out!

Purchases

Food                                                     

-Lemon (1)

-Bananas (2 lb)

-Egglands Best Eggs, dozen (2)

-White Milk, gallon (2)

-Chocolate Milk, gallon (1)

-Loaf of Bread (1)

-Sugar, 5 lb bag (11)

-Bar-S Hot Dogs (1)

-Hormel Party Tray (1)        

-Kashi Go Lean Cereal (1)
-Kelloggs Crunchy Nut cereal (1)
-Zone Perfect bars (18)
-Kelloggs Raisin Bran Cinnamon Almond Cereal (5)
-Pom Bars (9)
-Ritz Crackers (2)
-Nissin Cup Noodles (30)
-Hannaford Wheat Elbow Macaroni (1)
-Fleischmann's Homemade Bread Kit (3)       Household 
-Mariani Dried Pineapple (2)                         - Brawny Paper Towel, single roll (1)
-Pie Shell (2)                                                 - Purina One Beyond dog food, 3.5 lb bag (2)
-Ground Mustard (1)                                                              
-Hershey's Chocolate Bars (16)
-Twizzlers (4)
-Skittles (3)
                                              Other

 - 5 Free Hot Chocolates at Dunkin Donuts

 - 2 Free ice cream cones at McDonalds

 - Dozen Donuts at Dunkin Donuts

                                                          

Refunds

Coors Deli Party Platter, NBPR rebate for $8.00

Expenditures
 Rite Aid - $1.01
 Giant - $1.65
 Bloom - $30.30
 Safeway - $5.05
                                                Dunkin Donuts - $7.58

                                                               Total: $45.59

Monthly Total for January: $182.43

I averaged about $45 per week for the month of January. We had plenty of good meals by combining these purchases with items already in my stockpile, and we have a good supply of cereal to last us until the next great deal comes along.

My Super Bloom Shopping Trips!

Here is a photo of my son, Jake, with the deals that he helped me to "hunt down" on Saturday morning:

On our visit to the Bloom in Purcellville, VA for Super Doubles we spent $5.33 on noodle soup cups, a pack of hot dogs, a box of elbow noodles, a bag of sugar, 3 homemade bread kits, and a Hormel party tray from the deli. I'll be getting an $8.00 rebate on the party tray.

Next we visited the Bloom in Leesburg that is closing where we picked up ten 5-lb bags of sugar, two frozen pie crusts, a canister of dried mustard, and two big tubs of ice cream. The sugar was only $1.50 per bag, so I stocked up. Our total there came to $24.62.

Finally, we visited the other Bloom in Leesburg for a few more noodle cups, 2 lbs of bananas, and a roll of paper towels. My total receipt there came to 35 cents!

As Jake was loading the noodle cups into the cart for me, I asked how many were left on the shelf. He replied that he wanted to leave some for other shoppers, since clearing the shelf would be like "camping" in a video game. When I asked what he meant by that, he replied that it meant hiding in a corner with a gun and waiting for someone to walk into the room to shoot them. It isn't illegal, but it is sort of unethical and takes the fun out of the game.

Bloom will be holding ANOTHER Super Doubles event this Saturday, February 4, 2012!

Bloom Super Double Matchups for January 28, 2012

Here are Match-Ups for the best deals at the Bloom Super Doubles event on Saturday, January 28, 2012.

Rules for Super Doubles at Bloom:
- Scan your Breeze card to get sale price and double coupons.
- Bloom will double a maximum of 20 coupons in the same transaction, up to $1.99 each.
- You may not use more than 10 identical coupons per transaction. 
- Get to the store early if you want to find any freebies!

Key:

SS - Smart Source insert

RP - Red Plum insert

BOGO - Buy One, Get One Free (really means 1/2 price)

 

Beech Nut Baby Food - .65
- $1/3 IP: HERE

= 3 FREE
*

Muir Glen Tomato Paste - $1.85
- $1/1 IP: HERE (must register)
= FREE
*

Nissan Big Cup Noodles - 2/$1.00
- $1/3 Nissan Big Cup Noodles (SS 11/06)
= FREE
*
Fleischmann’s Simply Homemade Bread Starter Kit - $2.49
- $1.50/1 Fleishchmann’s Bread (SS 11/13)
= FREE
*

Bic Pens, 10 ct. - $1.99
- $1/1 Bic Stationary Item (SS 1/08)
This coupon has the new bar code and may not double automatically
= FREE
*
Bounty Napkins, 50 ct. -  .89
- $1/2 Bounty Napkins (PG 1/01)
= FREE
*
Activia Yogurt, 4 pack - 2/$4.00
- $1/1 Activia Yogurt, ALL YOU magazine, February Issue,  pg. 88
- $1/1 Activia Yogurt (SS 1/15)
= FREE 
*
Reynold’s Slow Cooker Liners - $2.50
$1/1 Reynold’s Slow Cooker Liners (SS 1/22)
or $1/1 Reynold’s Liner IP: HERE
= .50 each
*
Alpo Dog Food -  .75
- $1.50/10 (SS1/8)
= .45 each when you buy 10- $1/8 IP: HERE
= .50 each when you buy 8
*
Aunt Jemima Pancakes or French Toast (BOGO @ $2.89) -  $1.49
- $1/2 IP: HERE
= .49 each, WYB2

Mueller's Elbow Macaroni - $1.69
- $1.00 off 2 Mueller’s Whole Grain Pasta (SS 1/08)
= .19 each AND get Hannaford Whole Grain Elbow Macaroni FREE with coupon from ad!

The two Bloom stores in Loudoun County that are closing (Leesburg/Ft. Evans Rd. and Ashburn) will be discounting all merchandise by 75% on Saturday, January 28th!
Your coupons will not double there but will be accepted at face value.*

Bloom Stores Markdown to 50% Off

The two Bloom supermarkets that are closing in Loudoun County - in Ashburn (on Farmwell Rd.) and in Leesburg (on Fort Evans Rd across from the Outlet Malls) - discounted their entire stock of merchandise by 50% today!

Those two stores are no longer doubling coupons, but will accept manufacturer's coupon at face value. They will not accept Bloom store coupons. They are open seven days a week, from 8:00 a.m. until 6:00 p.m.

Next week the stores will discount merchandise to 75% and the percentage will continue to drop weekly until they close around February 12, 2012.
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Here are some HOT store coupons you can use at the stores that are remaining open:

• $1.00 off any purchase of $1.00 or more from Meat Department
• $2.00 off purchase of $2.00 or more from Deli department
• $3.00 off any  purchase of $40 or more (Entire store)

You can print these coupons from your computer at Coupons.com. Plug in your zip code, then click on "local coupons" on the left hand side of the page. Then look for the coupon that says: Bloom - Football Frenzy - Save $6 with an all-star lineup of coupon savings! These coupons do not expire until February 7, 2012.

Weekly Roundup #3 - January 18-24

I went a bit over budget this week because there were some really great catalina deals that I wanted to take advantage of, but I am still under budget overall for the month of January.

Here are the results for this week:

Purchases

Food
- Bloom whole wheat bread (1)

- Fleischmann's Homemade Bread Kits (7)
- Pepperidge Farm cinnamon Bread (2)

- 5 lb bag of sugar (1)
- Quaker Oats (2)
- Quaker Grits (1)

- Campbell's Soup at Hand (18)

- Can chicken broth (1)
- Kelloggs Raisin Bran Cinnamon Almond cereal (7)
- Activia Yogurt 6-packs (8)
- Gallon white milk (3)
- Gallon chocolate milk (1)
- Pepsi 6-packs (6)
- V8 Fusion Smoothie (1)
- V8 vegetable juice, 6-pack (1)
- Coke Zero, 2-liter bottles (2)

- Hatfield ham steaks (2)

- Marie Callender's frozen dinners (2)
- Totino's pizza rolls (12)
- Fig bars (1)
- Goldfish crackers (6)
- Quaker chewy granola bars (3)
- Zone Perfect bars (2)
- Jello Mixchief (3)
- UP2U gum (18)
- Chocolate covered cherry (1)

Health and Beauty
- Ricola cough drops (9 )
- K-Y Jelly (2)

Household 
- Hartz Hamster food (1)
- Purina One Beyond dog food, 3.5 lb bag (5)
- Reynolds slow cooker liners (2)
- Finish Powerball dishwasher detergent (2)

                                                          
                    Refunds
                    Activia Yogurt
                    Novartis Recall


                     Expenditures
                     Rite Aid - $4.44
                     Giant - $47.36
                     Bloom - $5.12

                 Total: $56.92

Monthly Total to date for January: $136.84

I have quite a few catalinas left over for next week's shopping, so I should easily stay under the $200 mark this month!

My Bloom Super Doubles Trip

Here the results from my trip to Bloom for Super Doubles yesterday:      

• 7 Fleishmann's Homemade Bread Kits    
•  8 Activia Yogurt 4-packs
•  2 Marie Callender's Frozen meals
• 2 Reynolds Slow Cooker liners
• 1 V8 Juice 6-pack
• 1 5-lb. bag of My Essentials Sugar 

My total came to $2.74 including tax and the bag of sugar alone cost $3.19.

Definitely worth braving the icy roads yesterday!!

It has been confirmed that there will be another Super Doubles at Bloom this Saturday, January 28th. If you couldn't make it this week because of the weather or the shelves were bare of things you wanted to buy, many of the same items will be free again this weekend.

Best Deals for Bloom Super Doubles

Rules for Super Doubles at Bloom on Saturday, 1-21-12:
- Scan your Breeze card to get sale price and double coupons.
- Bloom will double a maximum of 20 coupons in the same transaction, up to $1.99 each.
- You may not use more than 10 identical coupons per transaction. 
- You can do multiple transactions in one day.
- Get to the store early if you want to find any freebies!

Key:

SS - Smart Source insert

RP - Red Plum insert

PG - Proctor & Gamble insert

Nissan Big Cup Noodles - 2/$1.00
- $1/3 Nissan Big Cup Noodles (SS 11/06)
= FREE
*
Fleishchmann’s Simply Homemade Bread Starter Kit - $2.99
- $1.50/1 Fleishchmann’s Bread (SS 11/13)
= FREE
*

Bic Pens, 10 ct. $1.99
- $1/1 Bic Stationary Item (SS 1/08)
= FREE
*
Bounty Napkins, 50 ct., $0.89
- $1/2 Bounty Napkins (PG 1/01)
= FREE
*
Activia Yogurt, 4 pack - 2/$4
- $1/1 Activia Yogurt, ALL YOU magazine, February Issue,  pg. 88
or
-  $1/1 Activia Yogurt (SS 1/15)
= FREE 
*
Aquafresh premium toothpaste - 2/$5.00
 - $1.00/1 (RP 1/1)
= .50 each
*
Grande Chips - $2.50
- $1/1 Grande Chips (SS 1/15)
= .50
*
Reynold’s Slow Cooker Liners - $2.50
$1/1 Reynold’s Slow Cooker Liners (SS 1/22)
or $1/1 Reynold’s Liner IP: HERE
= .50

Rumor has it that Bloom will be holding another Super Doubles event on January 28, 2012. Let's keep our fingers crossed!

Bloom Update - Super Doubles

Bloom is holding a Super Doubles event again on January 21, 2012!

Start clipping coupons for the last Super Doubles event before Bloom begins the conversion to Food Lion on February 15, 2012. Super Doubles will only occur at the stores in Loudoun County that are not closing.

The stores that ARE closing  - in Ashburn (on Farmwell Rd.) and Leesburg (on Fort Evans Rd.) - will begin marking down their merchandise by 25% beginning on 1-8-2012. Coupons will not be accepted for marked-down merchandise.

Facebook Freebie - Coca Cola Zero

Click here to "like" Coca Cola Zero on Facebook.

Then print out a coupon for .99 off one bottle.

Take it to Bloom, Giant, Safeway or Harris Teeter where it should double to make a 2-liter bottle FREE!

Say Goodbye to Bloom

Delhaize America, the parent company that owns Bloom supermarkets has decided to "retire" the Bloom banner and close many of their stores in the country, including one in Ashburn and one in Leesburg, VA, within the next 30 days.

The rest of the Bloom stores in Loudoun County, VA will be converted to Food Lion stores beginning immediately.

Although Food Lion has lower prices in general than Bloom, they do not double coupons or host Super Double events as Bloom does. Click here for the full press release.

Good Deals at Bloom

Here are a couple of items worth stopping into Bloom for this week:

- Dr. Pepper 2-liter bottles are on sale for .99 each. Some of the bottles have square "peelie" coupons on them to save $1.50 when you buy two. That makes them .24 each!



When I purchased my Dr. Pepper last night I got a whole bunch of "catalina" coupons. They are called catalinas because they spit out of a machine next to the register provided by the Catalina Marketing company. They are good OYNO - On Your Next Order.  If you want to know what purchases will trigger a catalina, you can find out at the Coupon Network website.

Here are the catalinas that I received:

- $2.00 off your next Sheffield Beef purchase of $9.00 or more
- $1.00 of your next bathroom tissue purchase of $5.00 or more
- $1.00 off your next refrigerated juice purchase of $4.00 or more
- $1.50 off your next laundry detergent purchase
- $1.50 off your next frozen dinners or entrees purchase
- $1.00 off your next packaged salad purchase

These catalinas all say "Store Coupon" on them, which means they can be "stacked" with a manufacturer's coupon!

I plan to pick up a free bag of Fresh Express Salad tonight, on sale for .99 with the cat for $1.00 off my next salad purchase, then pay .50 for a Lean Cuisine dinner, on sale for $2.00 each, with the $1.50 frozen dinner cat.