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.

Drugstore Deals - Jan 29 to Feb 4, 2012

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Hershey's Milk Chocolate Bunny, Cadbury's Egg, Reese's Single Egg -  .87 each
Get an ECB for .87 -  limit 1
 *
Hallmark Cards -  .99 each
Get a $3.00 ECB when you buy 3, limit 1*

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RA TRUEresult Meter
 FREE after Mail In Rebate
*

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St Joseph Enteric Aspirin - $2.00
Get a $2 RR
*
Pur-Absorb Iron Supplement - $10.00
Get a $10 RR
*
Blink Tears Eye Care - $8.00
 $1.00 coupon: here or in Smart Source insert of 1/15/12
Get an $8 RR
*
Snicker's Creme Hearts - 2 for $1.00
Use the $1.00/2 coupon the Red Plum 1/29/12
*
TRUE2go Blood Glucose Monitor - $9.99
- $9.99 rebate in package

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!

Weekly Round-Up #2 - January 11-17, 2012

This was a good week for milk and cereal at Giant - things we use a lot of. I ended up with 5 catalinas worth $3.75 each on a gallon of milk AND a catalina good for $7 on my next shopping trip!

Here are the results for this week:

Purchases

Gift Cards
Subway $25 gift card - I received a free 6" sub sandwich for buying it.

Food
- 1 loaf of sandwich bread
- Cinnamon Toast Crunch cereal (5 boxes)
- Multi-grain Cheerios (11 boxes)
- Beechnut stage 2 baby food (12 jars)
- Quaker Chewy granola bars (3 boxes)
- Pepsi 20-can multipack (2)
- UP2U gum (4 packs)
- 3 chocolate covered cherries (Rite Aid fillers)
- 2 candy canes filled with M&M's (Walgreens clearance - .24 each)
- 1 jumbo sized candy cane (Walgreen's clearance - .24)

Health and Beauty
- Ben Gay (4)
- Visine (2)
- Theraflu Warming Caplets (3)
- Ricola cough drops (4)

 Household
- 1 Zippo candle lighter
- 1 4 lb. bag of Kibbles & Bits dog food
- 1 scented pencil (clearanced at Walgreens for .24)
- 3 Hallmark greeting cards (CVS)

Other:
- 4 FREE Medium Hot Chocolates at Dunkin Donuts
- 2 FREE Oatmeals at McDonalds (with coupons I received from  Living Social)
- 2 lunches at Subway during my daughter's volleyball tournament with gift card

Refunds:
- Theraflu  -  $5.00 gift card
- Rite Aid  SCR #25 - $5.00

Expenditures
CVS - $1.32
Rite Aid - $13.27
Walgreens - $1.24
Giant - $27.29
Subway - $25.00
Total: $68.12

Okay, I went 18.12 over budget this week, but I don't mind because I did so well last week.
Also, I still have about $20 left on my Subway gift card!

We had plenty of good meals this week from my stockpile and freezer, so even though I didn't buy anything except for dog food, cereal, milk, soda, and candy we didn't starve! The baby food will be donated.

I did have to spring for a loaf of bread with no coupons - I hated doing that, but my kids pack sandwiches for their school lunches every day, and I didn't have enough drugstore rewards to get a free loaf this week, which is my usual strategy.

Total for January to date:  $79.92

Giant - Cereal and Milk

The sale week is almost over at Giant (the new one starts every Friday) and I was so busy with the Harris Teeter Super Doubles that I didn't have time to focus on their cereal and milk deal.

Tonight I stopped in to buy 3 boxes of cereal and a gallon milk for $1.97.


Here is what I got:

$3.29 Multigrain Cheerios (9 oz)

$3.29 Multigrain Cheerios (9 oz)

$3.29 Cinnamon Toast Crunch (12.8 oz)

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$9.87 Total

- $4.00 Instant Savings when you buy 3 GM cereals

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$5.87

- $4.00 in coupons

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$1.87 plus .10 tax

You can find coupons for .75 off any Multigrain Cheerios (that will double to $1.50) and .50 off any Cinnamon Toast Crunch (that will double to $1.00) at  Coupons.com.