A $3.98 Harris Teeter Super Double Trip

This is my beautiful daughter, Charlie, with all the things I got at Harris Teeter during my 2nd Super Doubles trip.

Prior to shopping, I had downloaded the Gain detergent and the Gain fabric softener e-Vic coupons to my Vic card, and they BOTH came off my purchase. Also, my first $1.00 IP coupon for the Life Savers went through, but the second one beeped. The manager pushed it through, and since the Life Savers were on sale for $1.50, I ended up with overage!

Here you can see my receipt - coupons tendered: $63.62

I was especially happy to get milk, bread, and cheese for this price. The milk alone normally costs $3.99!



While shopping I noticed an interesting sign in the greeting cards section. It said: Buy 4 American Greeting cards (minimum $1.99) and get a free Flowering Hanging Basket. Four plant styles from which to choose. I don't know how long this deal is going on, but it sounds like a good one to me - $8.00 for a hanging plant (regularly about $15) and four nice quality cards. Mother's Day will be coming up soon!

Earth Day Freebies - Sunday, April 22

This Sunday, April 22nd is Earth Day. Many companies are offering freebies to encourage you to waste less and be more green in your shopping habits. Here are a few in Loudoun County:

Jo-Ann Fabric – is giving the first 50 customers who stop by on Sunday a FREE tote bag! 

Michaels Arts and Crafts store is offering a FREE tote for kids when they “Make-It-Take-It” from 4/22/12 from 1:00 to 3:00 PM. 

Target is also giving out a FREE reusable shopping bag on Sunday! Did you know that Target gives you a bag credit of 5 cents off your bill for each bag that you bring to the store when shopping?

Harris Teeter - More Super Doubles Info!

I had an aweseome trip to Harris Teeter yesterday during the first day of Super Doubles week. Upon arrival I immeditely bought a gift card. I used a coupon from Recyclebank for $10.00 off any $50.00 Harris Teeter purchase, and only paid $40.00 for a $50.00 gift card!! The coupon costs 100 Recyclebank points and is mailed to you.

Next I used the gift card to purchase all the following items for a total of $9.90:

The McCain Purely Potatoes were 69 cents after coupon, but I will also receive a $1.00 refund from Saving Star with this ecoupon:

Buy (1) McCain Purely Potatoes®, Save $1.00

Here are some more great deals that I didn't include in my original Harris Teeter matchups:

Taster's Choice Instant Coffee (6 pack) -  99 cents
FREE with the 75 cent Internet printable coupon here

Mentos Gum - 99 cents
FREE with the 55 cent coupon in the 3/25 Smart Source insert

Carefree Liners - $1.59
FREE with the $1.00 coupon from the 3/18 Smart Source insert

Uncle Bens rice cup - 1.00
FREE with the $1.00 coupon that you can print at coupons.com

I Can't Believe It's Not Butter - $2.49
FREE with the $1.25 coupon that you can print at coupons.com

Maruchan Yakisoba - $1.19, Buy One Get One free
FREE with the $1.00 off 2 coupon from the 3/11/12 Smart Source insert

Ortega Seasoning Packet - $1.15

15 cents each with the $1.00 coupon off two at coupons.com

Vlasic Pickles Spears - $1.74, Buy One Get One Free
24 cents with the 75 cent coupon in the 4/1 Smart Source insert

Country Crock - $2.29
29 cents with the $1.00 coupon that you can print at coupons.com

 

ALSO: There is a coupon in this coming Smart Source (4/22) insert to save $3.00 on a Revlon cosmetics item when you buy a Revlon beauty tool. You could combine this coupon with the $1.00 Revlon beauty tool coupon that makes the nail clippers free at Harris Teeter this week for some cheap makeup!

Weekly Roundup #14 - April 3-9

This is the 14th week of my attempt to monitor my weekly spending and show how I feed our family on $50.00 per week or less. You may notice that when I find a good deal on something, I buy a lot of it. This doesn't make sense to someone who makes out a weekly menu, then buys the items on their shopping list, but it pays off for me. I never run out to buy something full price, and I rarely run out of things since I have a nice stockpile. This week I found:

 

Gumby does the Loudoun County Limbo!



Purchases 

Food
Gallon Milk - 1
Sorrento Ricotta Cheese - 1
Barilla Lasagna Noodles - 1
Maruchan Yakisoba Noodles - 2
Kelloggs Corn Flakes - 1
Kelloggs Rice Krispies - 3
Fiber Plus Cereal - 4
Special K Cereal - 3
Onions, 3 lb bag - 1

Dozen Eggs - 4

Bumble Bee Tuna - 4

Stovetop Stuffing - 10

Kraft Homestyle
    Mac & Cheese - 10
Capri Sun, 10 pk - 16
Gold Peak Tea, 18 oz - 4
Snickers Eggs - 21
Mrs. Smith Pie - 2
Mentos Gum - 2

Health & Beauty
Gold Bond Medicated Foot Powder - 1
Daily Necessities Bath Salts - 6
Revlon Nail Polish - 4
Scunci Hair Elastics - 1
Allegra, 5 ct. - 4
Depend Silhouette - 1
 

Expenditures

Rite Aid - $5.12

Walgreens - $3.00

Giant - $21.46

Food Lion - $10.56
Total: $40.14

Rebates

Rite Aid SCR #1 - Get back $2.00 when you buy any variety Gold Bond medicated foot product

Free Shopping Bag at Giant

Check your Giant account here to see if you have an offer for a free reusable shopping bag. Click on the My Giant tab to see exclusive offers for your card. Load the coupon to your Giant card and then grab one at the store when you check out and it will automatically come off your bill!

All Giant stores sell reusable bags for 99 cents and insulated bags for $1.99. In addition, they will deduct five cents for every shopping bag a customer brings from home to use from your shopping bill!


Here is a photo of the bag I found on a rack in the freezer section of my store - I filled it up with $1.00 Mrs. Smith pies and 25 cent Fugdesicles!



Food Lion Shopping Today!

Yesterday I received coupons in a trade for $1.00 off 1 Kraft Homestyle Macaroni & Cheese in the mail, so I took off to shop at Food Lion. The mac & cheese was on sale 3/$5.00 or $1.66 each, with a Big Deal discount of $5.00 when you buy 10 in one transaction. When I got to the store, I found that the mac & cheese had "peelie" coupons to save $1.00 on a box of Stovetop stuffing when you buy a bag of Kraft Homestyle. The Stovetop was on sale for $1.50 a box. I impulsively decided to buy 10 boxes of that as well, then threw in a 3 lb. bag of onions on sale for $3.13 that I needed for dinner.

Here you see the groceries that I got for a total of $10.55, including tax. I paid for most of it with my prepaid debit card from the Kelloggs gas card deal, so my out of pocket expense was only $2.54!

Also in the photo, you can see the ticket I received for "spending" over $20.00 this week at Food Lion. You can read more about the ticket and how to use it for a $10.00 savings on your groceries here.

Today, April 10th, is the last day of the Big Deal.

Food Lion - The Big Deal!

The "Big Deal" is at Food Lion from March 28 - April 10, 2012.

Look for Big Deal Signs throughout the store and save instantly when you buy:

10 items in one transaction - $5.00 off your bill

20 items in one transactions - $10.00 off your bill

30 items in one transaction - $15.00 off your bill

Click here to see a list of all the items that qualify!

This is my plan for today:

Buy 2 boxes Sunshine Cheez-It crackers - on sale $3.99, Buy One Get One Free, and use 2 coupons for 70 cents off one box that you can print here. That will make my final price $1.30 each.

Buy 1 box of Kelloggs Crispix and use a peelie coupon that I found at Giant to get a free box of Crispix when you buy two boxes of Cheez-It crackers.


Buy 4 Hormel Compleats at $2.00 each and use 2 coupons to "buy1 get 1 free" that you can print from Facebook here, plus a coupon for $1.00 off two Hormel Compleats from the 2/12/12 Smart Source insert. That will make my cost for four $3.00.


Buy 4 Green Giant boxed vegetables that are on sale 10 for $10.00 and use 2 coupons for 50 cents off two that you can print  here. That will make my final price $3.00 for four.
 

My total will come to $8.59 after coupons minus the $5.00 instant savings = $3.59 for everything!

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

Weekly Roundup #11 - March 13-19, 2012

I shopped like crazy this week at Giant to take advantage of their Frozen Food promotion. Not only are both my small and large freezers full now, but I earned a catalina coupon for 10% off my next grocery trip for having spent $75 on frozen foods. Check the bottom of your receipt to see where you stand - this program is going on all month!





My big freezer



           

Purchases         

Food

- Gallon milk (1)

- Special K granola bars (5)        

- Special K Fruit Crisps (2)

- Breyers Ice Cream (15)           

- IHOP at home breakfast (3)

- Mrs. Paul's Parchment fish (2)  

- Birds Eye Steamfresh veggies (16)

- Farm Rich appetizers (8)          
- Ellio's pizza (29)
- Superpretzel (1)                    
- McCain's potatoes (1)
- Bertolli marinara sauce (2)        
- Yakisoba noodles (8)
- Smucker's Uncrustables (18)    
- Pepperidge Farm Swirl bread (4)
- Mentos gum (12)
- Philadelphia Cream Cheese (5)
- Cabbage (1)

Health and Beauty

-  L'Oreal Youth Code Cleanser

Refunds:

- DGUSA Save $5.00 on meat (No Beer Purchase Required)  

Expenditures     

Rite Aid - $ 1.71

Giant - $48.28

Total: $49.99

This week I barely stayed within my $50.00 budget, but I got so many great deals, I won't have to worry about buying certain foods (Elio's frozen pizza and Uncrustables) for a long while!

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!

Weekly Roundup #7 - February 15-21

This week I managed to stay just under my $50 budget, thanks to some nice money makers at Rite Aid. I used the UP rewards that I earned to buy snacks for my daughter's volleyball tournament at the Washington Convention Center.

I also got some great deals at Harris Teeter super doubles and stocked up on cheap Mexican foods (tortillas, chips, and refried beans) and cheap dog food at Giant.

Purchases

Food
- Gallon milk (1)
- Half Gallon milk (3)
- Activia Yogurt 4-pack (2)
- Loaf of bread (2)
- Cucumber (1)
- Red Bell peppers (2)
- Green Bell peppers (2)
- Onion (1)
- Iceberg lettuce (1)
- Celery (1)
- Banana (1)
- Gorton's Fish Sticks (1)                                                - Bumble Bee Tuna (2)      
- McCain Hash Browns (1)                                              - Pennsylvania Dutch noodles (6)  
- NY Texas Toast (3)                                                      - Chi-Chi's tortillas (8) 

- Old El Paso refried beans (6)                                       - Grande tortilla chips (4)
- Zone Perfect Bars (3)                                                  - Mentos UP2U Gum (3)    
- Coca Cola 12-packs (6)                                               - Chocolate covered cherry (1)
                                                                                       - Snickers candy egg (1)

Go Team Inferno!

Snacks for daughter's weekend volleyball tournament
- Rite Aid Beef Jerky (1)
- Nature Valley Granola Thins (2)
- Nature Valley Granola Bars (1)
- Cereal cups (3)
- Gold fish (1)
- Ritz Crackerfuls (1)
- Kelloggs Nutrigrain (1)
- Strawberry Crips (1)
- Hawaiian Punch (1)
- Fig Newtons (1)
- Oreo Cookies (1)
- Pringles chips (1)
- Poptart (1)
- DM Cherry mixed fruit 4pk (1)
- Gatorade (5)
- Cherry Coke (1)
- Plastic Water Bottle (1)

Household 

- Purina One Beyond dog food (9)
- Foster Grant glasses (5)
- Hefty One zipper bags (2)
- CFL lightbulbs (5)

- Airborne Immune Support (1)

- Neutrogena makeup wipes (2)

- Thermacare heatwraps (9)

- Ricola cough drops (1)

- OneTouch Ultra Mini Meter

- Hylands Teething Gel (3)

- Chapstick (27)

                                                                                       - Got2Be Hair stylers (4)

Refunds                                                                       - Colgate toothpaste (4)

-  Pfizer - Buy 3 products, get back $10.00                     - Brainstrong Toddler (2)

                                                                                       - Vaseline Lotion (2)
Expenditures     

Rite Aid - 6.02

Walgreens - 2.89

Giant - 33.68

Harris Teeter - 6.25

Total: $48.84

Giant Shopping Trip - Feb 7, 2012

Today I decided to spend $50.00 at Giant in order to use the Bonus 300 Gas Points coupon that I posted about the other day. Only I didn't want to actually spend that much, so I put together a deal with some high value coupons that I had.

 If you use the hand scanner to scan the price of items as you shop you can make sure that you get to the amount you want without going over too far. Here are my dogs Ziggy and Hugger with the items I purchased, which normally would have cost $50.26. (Ziggy is eating a dog treat that she got for posing).

Ziggy and Hugger with their dog food

I used $34.18 worth of coupons and got a discount of $4.36 from Giant because Hershey bars are on sale this week (Buy 2, Get 2 Free). So my total savings came to $38.54, which means my bill was only $11.82 plus $1.75 tax, or $13.57 out of pocket.

I could have spent less, but I really wanted that Chef Boyardee Ravioli!

If you have 2 of the coupons from the Smart Source insert of 1/8/12 to get a free Hershey's Air Delight Aerated Candy Bar free when you buy any Hershey Bar, you can get 4 chocolate bars for free at Giant this week. Two will be free from the store and 2 will be free with your coupon!

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!

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.

Giant Bargains - January 19-25, 2012

There are more great deals at Giant this week!
     

Zone Perfect bars on sale for $1 (10/$10) and FREE with the .55 coupon doubled from the Smart Source insert of 1-22-2012.




Campbell's Soup at Hand is on sale for $1 each (10/$10) and there are coupons for $1 off 2 cans in the Smart Source insert of January 8, 2012. While .50 per can is a decent price for soup, there is a catalina deal running that makes it work out to .17 each!

Here are the details:
Buy any Campbell's microwaveable bowls or Soup at Hand (excluding Healthy Request varieties) between 1/23/12 and 2/19/12 and save on a future order.

Buy 4 and get $1.25 OYNO
Buy 5 and get $1.50 OYNO
Buy 6 and get $2.00 OYNO

You can buy 6 Campbell's Soup at Hand for $6.00 and use 3 coupons to pay $3.00 out of pocket. Then get back a catalina for $2.00 making your total purchase cost $1.00!

There is also a catalina deal on Kleenex tissues (50 ct. or larger) running from 1/23/12 to 2/19/12. Kleenex is on sale this week for $1.50 (2/$3.00). There were coupons in the Smart Source insert of the January 1, 2012 issue of the Washington Post for $1.00 off when you buy two boxes. The catalina details are:

Buy 5 and get $1.00 OYNO

Buy 6 and get $1.50 OYNO
Buy 7 or more and get $2.00 OYNO

If you bought 6 boxes for $9.00 and used 3 coupons for $3.00 off, you would pay $6.00 out of pocket, then get back $1.50 for a total cost of $4.50 or .75 a box. Other newspapers got a coupon for .50/1 box, that would double to $1.00, making your final cost .25 per box.


You can save $5.00 instantly when you buy 7 specified Kellogg's products.

Here is what I plan to do:
Buy 6 Kellogg's Raisin Bran Cinnamon @ $2.50 each = $15.00
1 Kashi Go Lean cereal =  $3.00
Total = $18.00

Use 1 Recyclebank  coupon off the Kashi cereal -   $2.00
Use 6 coupons for .70 Kelloggs Raisin Bran Cinnamon from Kelloggs.com  = $8.40 when doubled
Get Instant Savings - $5.00
Total discounts = $15.40
Pay $2.60
Get $1.00 from  Saving Star  wyb any 3 Kellogg's cereals

Total = $1.60 for 7 boxes of cereal or .23 a box!

Barilla Whole Grain Pasta is on sale for $1.00 (10/$10).  The Washington Post had coupons in the Smart Source insert of 1-8-2012 for $1 off when you buy that would make it .50. However, other newspapers carried a coupon for .55 off that would make it FREE when doubled!



Still on sale this week:
(see my last Giant post for details)
- Ricola Dual Action -  2/$3.00 - .75 coupon doubled = FREE
- UP2U Gum - 10/$10 - use $1 coupon - FREE
- Purina One Beyond Dog Food - $6.00 - use $5.00 coupon = $1.00