Weekly Roundup #12 - March 20-26

This week my shopping trips focused on the Harris Teeter "Triple Coupons" event and the continued Frozen Food Month promotion at Giant. I was able to "roll" my $10 frozen food catalinas at Giant into several deals producing more catalinas, then spent the last one on Gatorade for my husband - an item for which I rarely find coupons.

Purchases  
Food

- Gallon milk (1)                                                                     

- Celery (1)

- Fiber One Cereal (1)

- Planters Nutrition Bars (18)

- DeWafelbakker    Blueberry pancakes (2)

- Kraft Bagel-fuls (4)

- Maruchan Yakisoba noodles (8)

- Nasoya Tofu (2)

- Starkist Tuna (4)

- Campbell's Tomato Soup (12)

- Hormel Chili (4)

- Hormel Compleats meals (11)

- Chex Snacks Mix (1)

- Land O Lakes Half and Half (2)

- Minute Maid Pomegranate Blueberry juice (1)

- Simply Orange juice (1)

- Silk Almond Choc Milk (1)

- Gatorade, 32 oz bottle (6)

- Gatorade powder (1)

- Tetley Tea Bags, family size (1)

- Mentos gum (7)

- Sweethearts (1) - big bag I found on clearance for 22 cents

Health and Beauty

- False eyelashes for my daughter's part in the Wizard of Oz

Household

- Mardi Gras Napkins, 250 ct. (2)

Refunds:

- Minute Maid Enhanced Juice

I purchased this Minute Maid Pomegranate Blueberry Juice on impulse at Harris Teeter, even though I didn't have a coupon for it, when I saw this "Love It Or It's Free" hangtag. The inside of the form says "Try 59 oz. Minute Maid Enhanced Juice or Enhanced Lemonade. If you don't love it, we will refund your purchase price. While I may like the juice, I don't like the price of $3.69!

Expenditures     

Rite Aid - $4.96

Giant - $20.42

Harris Teeter - $13.46

Total: $39.84

I'm pleased to be under budget this week since I went over the first week of March. My running total for the month thus far is $153.82.

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

Get a Coupon for Any Brand of Eggs!



Just in time for Easter, you can print a coupon good for 55 cents off 2 dozen eggs. Click here to "like" Incredible Edible Egg on Facebook. You can print it twice!







Here are some ways you can use the coupon best: 

- Wegmans has an everyday low price on eggs of $1.59 for a dozen large eggs.
Final price = $1.04 a dozen

- Giant will double this coupon to take off $1.10, and eggs are on sale there this week for $1.99 a dozen through 3/29/12.  

Final price = $1.44 a dozen

OR

If you got a coupon on your hand scanner at Giant for 75 cents off 2 dozen eggs, you can combine it with this manufacturer's coupon.     Final price = $1.07 a dozen

- Harris Teeter has Grade A eggs on sale for $1.69 a dozen starting 3/28/12 and will also double this coupon to $1.10.     

Final price = $1.14 a dozen

- Shoppers charges $1.89 for a dozen eggs and will double the coupon to $1.10.
Final price = 1.34 cents a dozen
 

- Walmart charges $1.88 for a dozen eggs.    

Final price = $1.60 a dozen

- Food Lion eggs run $1.94 per dozen of large, white eggs.

Final price = $1.67 a dozen

- Safeway eggs are $2.79 a dozen and they will double the coupon.
Final price =  $2.24 a dozen

 

And if you really feel like splurging:
- Target eggs run $2.84 per dozen.

Final price = $2.56 a dozen

 

Food Lion - Free Pistachio Nuts!

This is my first Food Lion post since the Bloom in my area converted, so I am still learning about them. You can sign up for Food Lion’s MVP Rewards card here to get automatic savings, specialized promotions, and load coupons to your card here. Food Lion sales run from Thursday through Wednesday.

In the produce section you will find some 1.5 oz bags of Wonderful Pistachios for $1.00. You can get them for FREE by printing the $1.00 coupon here!

Weekly Roundup #8 and #9

I am combining two weeks of purchases into my weekly roundup this time, since I was gone for a week of vacation in the middle (during which I did no grocery shopping!) So, these are my stats for the period between February 23rd and March 5th:

Purchases                            Food

- Half Gallon milk (3)
- Gallon milk (1)

- Honey Wheat bread (2)

- Cucumber (1)

- Onion (1)

- Lettuce (1)

- Celery (1)

- Grape tomatoes (1)

- Chi Chis Tortillas (7)

- Old El Paso Refried Beans (6)

- Mentos UP2U Gum (3)
- Ore Ida Easy Fries (12)

- Wasa Crispbread (2)

- Think Thin power bar (2)
- General Mills Reeses Puff cereal (1)

- New York Garlic Toast (3)       
 - Blue Bunny Ice Cream (1)
 - I Cant Believe Its Not Butter (2)                         
- Smithfield Bacon (1)                            - Coca-Cola 12-Packs (9)
- Kraft Grated Cheese (3)                      - Harris Teeter Shredded Cheese (1)
- Sorrento Mozzarella Cheese (1)          - Snickers candy eggs (4)         

Household 

- Ricola Cough Drops (1)

- Whista Lickins Cat Treats (2)

- Gud Handwash (1)
- Skintimate shaving lotion (1)
- Vaseline lotion (2)
- Colgate Total toothpaste (5)
- Tena Serenity Pads (1)
- Soft Lips lip balm (2)
- Seabreeze astringent (1)
- Sally Hansen Tweezers (1)
- Playtex pacifier (1)
- Copy Paper (1)
- LCD Snooze Alarm (1)

Refunds   
- Betty Crocker Try Me Free offer
- Kelloggs Cereal Rebate for $10 prepaid debit card
                                             

Expenditures     

Rite Aid - $1.50
CVS - .69

Giant - $19.54

Harris Teeter - $15.85

Total: $37.58

Total for February = $151.16

This month I averaged $38 per week! I received a prepaid gift card in the mail for Rite Aid from a previous refund that absorbed most of the tax on my purchases there in February. I used some of my coupons for free 12-packs of Coke at Rite Aid to take advantage of their promotion to earn $1.50 in UP rewards when you buy 3, so that was a money maker. I also stocked up on free milk at Harris Teeter Super Doubles and splurged on some fresh produce. I am now slowly building a stockpile of candy for upcoming Easter baskets!

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.