Target
Totino’s Pizza Rolls 15ct.
Sale price 63c ea.
Use your 40c coupons
23c each

Walgreens
Bounty Basic Paper Towels
In store coupon makes them 79c ea. (limit 3 rolls/coupon)
Manufacturer coupon is 25c
54c each

Kroger
Allen’s Frozen Vegetables
10/$10 ($1 ea.)
35c coupon tripled (use only 1 per transaction)
Remember: they only triple the first of like coupons, so you must make more than one transaction if you have more than one coupon.
5c overage each!

Happy shopping!

Thank you for contacting The Kroger Co. regarding our coupon policy.
The policy is as follows:

We reserve the right to limit quantities so that all shoppers may be
able to purchase all of their needs.

We will double coupons up to $0.50 and triple up to $0.39 everyday.

Coupons over $0.50 will be redeemed for face value.

We will redeem only one double or triple coupon per like item.

We do not typically accept printed coupons due to the high number of
fraudulent coupons that have been passed around the Internet. However, if the Internet-printed coupon has a scannable bar code printed on it, then our stores should accept them.

We hope this information is helpful. If you have additional questions
regarding our coupon policy, please feel free to speak to store management. They will be glad to assist you.

Thanks again for writing.

Sincerely,

Amy Galloway
Consumer Affairs

Today I went to Kroger and stocked up on Lender’s Frozen Bagels. The bagels are in the frozen food section (NOT the ones in the refrigerated section – there is a difference).

They are 10/$10 (usually $1.49 each). I bought two and used my 50c off 2 coupon, which they doubled. Each 6ct. package totaled 50c. I did several transactions and stocked my freezer full of bagels my kids love.

Don’t throw away those grocery store inserts! Tom Thumb has a store coupon in Sunday’s paper. Buy 3 boxes of certain Kelloggs cereals for $3 total. If it’s not posted on the shelves, or isn’t obvious when you get there, ask your store mgr. which cereals are in the deal. You may stack manufacturer coupons with the store coupon. To top it off, you’ll get a Catalina and you may go back for more cereal! A Catalina is printed with your receipt and it’s like cash. Just redeem it during your next transaction.

Buy 3-4 boxes, get a $3 Catalina
Buy 5-6 boxes, get a $6 Catalina
Buy 7 boxes, get a $10 Catalina

The Catalina and the store coupon make the cereal free. If you stack manufacturer coupons, you get an overage! Get paid to eat breakfast!

You must have a $10 purchase in order to do this deal. Take heart. Lucerne eggs are on sale (use your coupon from Sunday’s paper and they’re 99c/doz. Strawberries are buy one, get one(BOGO or B1G1). Jimmy Dean sausage is at a good price (blinky coupon machine right by it), Crunch ‘N Munch (with your Sunday coupon) is only 95c/box. Just bring your coupons and roll those Catalinas!!!

With all the cereal deals going on the last couple of weeks, I thought I’d post my one and only cereal recipe. It’s for yummy bran muffins. My family eats them any time of day, warm or cold. The batter keeps for up to six weeks (or up to the expiration date on the bottle of your buttermilk).

Mix in a very large bowl:
1 C Canola oil
4 Eggs, beaten
1 qt. Buttermilk
3 C Sugar

Then add to it:
5 C Flour
5 t Baking soda
2 t Salt
3 t Cinnamon

Finally add:
1 15oz. Box of bran, raisin bran (flakes) cereal, or any flake cereal.

Fill baking cups 1/2 full with batter and bake at 400 for 15min.

Supposedly May is National Toss Your Makeup Month at CVS.  If you get the Good Housekeeping magazine, your May issue should include “Exclusive CVS/pharmacy coupons on these and other products.”

Products listed include Curel, Garnier Nutrisse, Physicians Formula, Cover Girl, Oxy and Neutrogena.

I’m hoping these will be store coupons so we can stack them with our manufacturer coupons for extra savings and possibly overages after all is said and done!

I’m not a big Albertson’s fan (yet?), but they actually have some good deals this week.

Totino’s Pizza Rolls 7.5 oz
10/$10
Double that 40c coupon from last Sunday’s paper and it knocks the price down to 20c each (remember: 1 bag per transaction or the following Totino’s coupons will not get doubled).

Duncan Hines Cake Mix
10/$10 (same as Kroger deal)
use those 75c coupons and knock the price down to 25c each.
Since you’re not able to double/triple 75c coupons, you can get all your mixes in one transaction and use all your coupons.

The following are still good deals:

I Can’t Believe It’s Not Butter Spread 15 oz.
5/$10
Double the 40c coupon
$1.20 each

Super Pretzel Soft Prezels 13 oz.
5/$10
75c coupon (last month’s paper)
$1.25 each

Hormel Black Label Bacon 16oz.
3/$10
Double a 50c coupon (last month’s paper)
$2.33 each

Owens Roll Sausage 16 oz.
4/$10
double or triple the 35c coupon
Does Albertson’s triple coupons? If so, then you’re paying $1.45 each

Pillsbury Grands! Biscuits (select variety)
10/$10
Triple (?) 30c coupon for 2 (from last month) and pay $1.10 for 2

Check the front page of 24hourfitness.com Great deal. For today only (March 13, 2008 – last day of offer).  If you register online and are a first time member, you pay only $24 initiation fee. After that you only pay $24/month for as long as you continue to pay. No contract. Can quit when you like. Regular price is $44/month with $24 initial fee and $80 for processing. This deal is $312 for the first year and $288 each additional year.

This week at Kroger if you buy 4 of the following products, you get them $1.50 each. Applying manufacturer coupons makes this an even sweeter deal. Note: you can only do this deal once per transaction. If you buy 8 items, you’ll need to make 2 transactions.

Cheerios
Honey Nut Cheerios
Nature Valley Granola Bars
Betty Crocker Fruit Snacks

Fresh Express Salad Bags will also be on sale for $1.99. If you use last Sunday’s coupon (for 50c) it will be doubled and you’ll only pay 99c.

REMEMBER: Kroger only doubles and triples ‘first of a kind’ coupons. If you try to buy 3 salad bags in one transaction, they’ll only double the first. Make sure you make 3 separate transactions to only pay 99c/bag.

Kroger also has Colgate toothbrushes and toothpaste 10/$10. I have 10 50c coupons. I can get 10 free toothbrushes if I want to make 10 transactions. I guess I’ll just warn the people behind me (thanks for the tip Lisa D.). Though these sales are listed, they weren’t happening at my Kroger. However, they did have Aquafresh toothpaste 10/$10 (didn’t have coupons so I passed – I never pay for toothbrushes or toothpaste – see CVS posts) and I think they had some Oral B toothbrushes for same sale price.

Duncan Hines cake mixes 10/$10. I have 75c coupons for those, bringing the price down to 25c each.

Diet Coke, Sprite, Coca-Cola Classic 2 liter bottles are 10/$10. I have several $1.00 off 4 coupons which brings the price down to 75c/bottle.

Beef Brisket is 99c/lb (limit 2 with additional $10 purchase).

Just peruse your flier!

HOW TO READ A BOOK

by Mortimer J. Adler and Charles Van Doren

“Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed and some few to be chewed and digested.” Francis Bacon

I believe every high school/college bound student should be required to read this book. The authors define different types of reading and concentrate on the most demanding type, analytical reading. Analytical reading is the most active, mind-engaging reading there is.

Adler teaches us how to engage our minds and challenges us to tackle difficult works on our own, without aids. He states, “Good books are over our heads. They wouldn’t be good if they weren’t. Conquer them or they will weary you. The stretching of your mind won’t tire you unless it is unsuccessful because you lack skills to stretch effectively.” All you need is will and skill, and boy does he give you skill in large measure.

Adler has challenged and encouraged me in my own reading. However, I must admit that I can only tackle 1-3 books/year in this manner. Wish I had more time to read – really read.

After scouring the internet and my favorite sources today, this is the best list I could come up with.

If you just started clipping coupons this week, here are Walmart deals you just can’t pass up:

Ken’s 7 oz. Lite Accents Salad Dressing Spray
$2.12 sale price
$2.00 off coupon from paper
.12 each

Birds Eye Steamfresh Frozen Vegetables
$1.00 sale price
$1.00 off 2 coupon from paper
.50 each

Uncle Ben’s Long Grain and Wild Rice
$1.50 sale price
.75 off coupon from paper
.75 each

Now, if you have coupons from February papers, here are even more deals:

Suave Shampoo/Conditioner
.96 sale price
$1.00 off 2 coupon
.46 each

Colgate toothbrush
.96 sale price
.75 off coupon
.21 each

Sunsilk Creme or Styling
2.97 sale price
$2.00 off coupon
.97 each

Sure Antiperspirant/Deoderant
$1.96 sale price
Buy One Get One (BOGO) coupon
.98 each

If you clipped coupons this past Sunday, you can get the following items free:

French’s Classic Yellow Mustard (8oz.)
Reynolds Baking Cups (50ct.)

Kroger also has Hungry Jack Easy Mash’d Potatoes (3.5oz.) for free with this week’s coupon.

Only purchase one of each per transaction. This way all your coupons will be doubled. These stores only double the first of like coupons. So if you try to buy 10 mustards with 10 coupons in one transaction, only the first mustard will actually be free. Same with the baking cups. I made 10 separate transactions and only went through the line once. I had a very understanding and patient cashier. However, I still break out into a sweat each time I hold up the line like that.

I should tell you the stores won’t allow you to have a negative or $0.00 total, you will have to buy something else with each transaction.

Isn’t coupon shopping great?

Hope you saved the Walgreens inserts from your Sunday papers. They contain store coupons which you can stack with manufacturer coupons for even greater savings. Here is what I purchased in one transaction:

20 packs of trident gum (Walgreen’s coupon was buy one, get one. I also had a manufacturer buy one, get one coupon. So each time I bought two packs they were free. I purchased 10 Sunday papers, so I had 10 inserts and 10 manufacturer coupons in total.)
2 tubes of Aquafresh toothpaste (I stacked store and mfr. coupons so both were free)
3 boxes of Puffs facial tissues (stacked store and mfr. coupons and this was my only out of pocket expense – they won’t let me have a negative or $0.00 total.)
Total out of pocket: $2.31

Walgreens also has an excellent rebate program. Many of those deals you can actually make money from (you receive an overage when combining a coupon with a rebate deal). I don’t do the rebate program because I don’t like the paperwork – too detailed and time consuming – but I know several who do and love it.

Now there’s a hot topic.

My daughter is currently working on a speech for next year’s NCFCA competition. It isn’t exactly about going green, but it is all about how recycling is every Christian’s responsibility. She sites scriptural mandates of man being given dominion over the whole earth and talks about how we want the privileges without the responsibility of being good stewards. Her speech addresses the Green movement as a form of idolatry if people are putting the creation ahead of the Creator.

Her speech also addresses the argument, “The earth is not perishing, souls are!” While souls are perishing, and while we have the Great Commission of telling others about the love of Jesus Christ, we still have our normal daily responsibilities to tend to. We’re not to make “green” a god, but a daily responsibility.

I believe her speech is a very balanced view. In spite of it all, I still don’t recycle and use my canvas shopping totes nearly as much as I should. She’s a little voice in my ear that challenges me to better living as her final question is, “Is your disposal of garbage done in a God-honoring or selfish way?” Ouch.

I haven’t tried/confirmed this deal but here it is.

Safeway/Tom Thumb/Randall’s stores are having a special on granola bars & fruit snacks through 3/11. Buy 4 for $8, get $4 off your order instantly (at the register). No coupon required.

Participating products:

Nature Valley Granola Bars (includes sweet & salty & crunchy)
Curves Chewy Granola Bars
Caribou Soffee Bars
Fiber One Bars
Betty Crocker Fruit Snacks (includes fruit by the foot)

No restrictions.  You can do this as often as you like as long as you buy in quantities of 4.

There were coupons in last Sunday’s paper.

For a 60cent coupon on Fiber One go to www.eatbetteramerica.com