Superfresh Ad, Feb 11-17; some highlights & matchups

What a boring week, here are a few highlights:

Axe stuff-buy $15 worth, get 2 free movie tix; assuming it’s based on shelf price, plus the bogo coupons from the 1/31 paper, might be able to get some cheap movie tickets

Perdue chicken nuggets-1.99; I can’t remember if there are still coupons out for this, I used all mine, but will be $0.50 or $0.99 depending on which coupons you have

Maxwell house, big container-5.99, additional quantities 6.99; if you have the $1/2 coupons from Super Bowl booklet, not bad-5.99 each; the dark roast really isn’t too bad

Horizon organic milk-3.50 half gal, there are $1 printables out for this

Total-free gallon of milk wyb 3 Total cereals-$3 each; coupons from 1/23 and 1/30

Nestle Purina catalina, get $5 wyb $25 worth of:
Beneful-13.99
Friskies-3.99
Fancy feast-$1
beggin strips-9.99
fancy feast medleys-8.99

Lots of coupons to go with that deal; should work on shelf prices, check 1/16 inserts for dog, 1/30 for cat

Tropicana Pure Premium on sale for $2.50 which is a good price, but I’m not going out to SF just for OJ, I’ll get the Simply OJ at Acme this week instead.

Acme ad, Feb 11-17 matchups; cheap chips, Conagra deal & possible $5 moneymaker!

Ok, I don’t have much time this evening, so I’m just going to do a quick, 15 min onceover. My favorite TV show is The Middle, on at 8 est. It’s really the only tv show I like, so I want to watch it. I’ll come back tomorrow & add more to the matchups and then I’ll repost the link on Facebook, so you know it’s fresh.

First, there is a $5 catalina offered wyb $25 in participating gift cards. Visa and Master Card are listed as participating! As long as there is no activation fee for these, this is an instant $5 moneymaker! If I think I’m going to spend $100 at the grocery store this week and $50 on gas, yep, I will stand at the Customer Service counter and buy six separate $25 gift cards, and get a $5 catalina for each one. That extra ten minutes of my time will pay for almost half of my weekly grocery bill. If someone tries this on Friday, please report in to us. Not a deal. There’s a $3.95 or $4.95 activation fee for the Visa and MC gift cards. Bummer.

Herr’s chips-1.99, hopefully you snagged the $1 printable I posted last week. It’s still up if you didn’t.

Meat-Perdue, Lancaster Brand and Hatfield, lots on sale. I posted a link to some Hatfield printables not long ago, search through old posts and it should come up. Lancaster Brand–still using those $1 coupons in the Heart Healthy Tailgating books. Perdue, there are insert coupons plus some printables out..

Simply Orange-$3, use this $1 printable (was on page 5 for me)

General Mills/BTFE products on sale-check the BTFE resource page at top of this blog for links to lots of corresponding printable coupons. Also, if you are registered on the BTFE website, they just sent me (today) a rebate form for $10 wyb 10 products. You can choose to either get the $10 for yourself or the school, I’m going to pick the school :)

Green Giant veggies-$1, use the $0.60/3 coupon that is out, and pay just $0.60 per box wyb 3 boxes.

Select cereals, BC fruit snacks, gushers, rollups, chex/cheerio treats-$2

Yoplait-$0.50 each, interesting, DOES NOT INCLUDE Light or Thick & Creamy varieties, which are the ones I usually get. The stupid Whips are only 4 oz, no thanks!

Whole beef tenderloin-7.99; I posted a similar deal a long time ago and a reader posted a video link on how to carve one up yourself, I’ll see if I can dig it up

4 oz lobster tail-4.99

Think–beef tenderloin, lobster tail………send the kids out and have a very nice meal at home!

Conagra deal-get $10 back when you spend $25 on selected products. Remember, will work on either shelf price or knockdown price, then you pay sale price/knockdown price, minus any coupons.

Healthy Choice soup-$1
Manwich/Chefboyardee pasta-$1 (shelf is 1.29, I have $1 off 5s for this)
Banquet dinners-$1
Hunts tomatoes/sauce-$1 (I know there are $1 off 3s or 4s out there)
Gulden’s mustard-$1
Hunts ketchup-$1
Blue Bonnet-$1
Peter Pan PB-1.69
Hunts pudding-$1 (I think there are $1 off 3s and 4s out for this)
Andy Capp fries-$1
Kid Cuisine-$2 (I have $1 off 2s, but they were home mailer coupons)
Healthy choice soup in micro bowl-$2
Poppycock-$2.50
Health Choice/Marie Callenders fresh mixers-$2.50
Pam-$2.50 (I know shelf is 3.99, I have $0.35/1s for this, recent insert coupon)
Reddi whip-2.99
Healthy choice/marie callendar complete meals, dinners, steamers, fresh flavor-3.50
Snapple 12 pk plastic, 6 pk glass-$5 (I think shelf price is $7.xx)
Wesson, 64 oz-5.29 (shelf is $8.xx)

Ok, first, as far as deals go Conagra is my least favorite company because I just don’t eat much of their stuff.

But….at least at the Avondale store, there are “try me free” rebate forms for the Snapple. So if you see those forms, you can at least add that in towards your $25 and know that you’ll get it all back. Good start. But you can only get one–because you’d need them on separate receipts if you were going to submit more rebates. I have those rebate forms and they say “one per person” on them but they say all submissions must be mailed separately.

And, I read on another blog that this catalina is actually printing today, so if you’re brave you may want to try it. Also, supposedly the Wesson, this week, is 3.99–so all you would need is 3 oils and one cheap $1 filler item like pudding, and you’d hit your $25 threshold. Pay roughly $12 or $13, get $10 back. Good price, but keep in mind, then you have three giant containers of oil-do you really need that much before it expires?

The only thing I’d really need is the Chef Boyardee Microwave pastas, to send with K for his lunch. So I may get one Snapple for the rebate, and $17 Chef Boyardee, use a few coupons, probably pay around $20 for my total. Get a $10 catalina and $5 rebate. Not bad. $5 for 17 micro pastas for K’s lunch is a good deal. Plus, maybe I’ll pay for it all with my shiny new Visa gift card that I just got another $5 catalina for purchasing.

And here is another rebate form that you can send in. Spend $10 on Conagra stuff, get a home mailer booklet of coupons.

Adding more links to printables for Conagra products and some more coupon matchups.
$1.00 items-Healthy Choice soups

Healthy Choice Soups (Micro Bowls or Cans) – 01-02-11 SS – $1.00/2 – EX 2/28/2011

Chef boyardee- cans and microwave

Chef Boyardee can or microwave pasta, any – 01-02-11 SS – $1.00/5 – EX 2/28/2011

Chef Boyardee can or microwave pasta, any three – 01-02-11 SS – $0.35/3 – EX 2/28/2011

manwich

banquet dinners

hunts – pasta sauce and fire roasted tomatoes and diced tomatoes

Hunt’s Canned Tomatoes, 11 oz or larger – 01-23-11 SS – $0.40/2 – EX 3/13/2011

Hunt’s Whole, Diced or Crushed Canned Tomatoes, any – 01-23-11 SS – $1.00/3 – EX 3/13/2011

Hunt’s Canned Tomatoes, 11 oz or larger – 01-23-11 SS – $0.45/3 – EX 3/13/2011

gulden’s mustard

hunts ketchup

blue bonnet-quarter and spreads

hunts snack pack pudding

Hunt’s Snack Pack Pudding, Any – 01-02-11 SS – $0.60/3 – EX 2/28/2011

Hunt’s Snack Pack Pudding, Any – 01-02-11 SS – $1.00/4 – EX 2/28/2011

swiss miss cocoa

andy capp’s fries

$1.69-Peter pan peaut butter

Peter pan Peanut Butter – 01-02-11 SS – $0.50/1 – EX 2/28/2011

Peter Pan Peanut Butter Jar, Any – 01-02-11 SS – $1.00/2 – EX 2/28/2011

5/$10 ($2.00ea)

Healthy choice lunch steamers,natural entrees,select entrees

Healthy Choice Frozen meal FREE WYB 5 Healthy Choice Frozen meals – 01-02-11 SS – up to $3.00 – B5G1 – EX 2/28/2011

kids cuisine

2/$4 ($2.00ea)

Healthy choice bowl

Healthy Choice Soups (Micro Bowls or Cans) – 01-02-11 SS – $1.00/2 – EX 2/28/2011

2/$5 ($2.50ea)

poppycock popcorn

pam cooking spray

Pam Cooking Spray, Any – 01-23-11 SS – $1.00/2 – EX 3/13/2011

Pam Cooking Spray, Any – 01-23-11 SS – $1.50/2 – EX 3/13/2011

Pam Cooking Spray, any – 01-23-11 SS – $0.35/1 – EX 3/13/2011

healthy choice fresh mixers

Healthy Choice or Maire Callender’s Fresh Mixers, on any – $1.00/2 TP – EX 8/31/2011

marie callender’s homestyle creations mixers

Healthy Choice or Maire Callender’s Fresh Mixers, on any – $1.00/2 TP – EX 8/31/2011

$2.99

Re
ddi wip

2/$7 ($3.50ea)

Healthy Choice

complete meals

cafe steamers

Healthy Choice Frozen meal FREE WYB 5 Healthy Choice Frozen meals – 01-02-11 SS – up to $3.00 – B5G1 – EX 2/28/2011

Marie callenders

dinners

fresh flavor steamers

2/$10 ($5.00ea)

snapple 12 pk,6 pk

Snapple, any 6-pack – 01-30-11 SS – $1.00/1 – EX 3/14/2011

$5.29
Wesson oil 64 oz
http://www.readyseteat.com/brand-coupon.do
http://www.healthychoice.com/news-special-offers/

http://www.reddiwip.com/index.jsp

My readers are too cool to whine, right?

Notice: there are no deals or bargains in this post, lol.

I have just had it with all the online whining, particularly on facebook. Earlier today, I posted a deal to get a free tub of wipes. But there were only 5000 available and then went so quickly, I immediately took the post down. Omigosh, you should see the whining that is taking place over not being able to score a free $2 tub of wipes. Gimme a break!

Earlier this week I posted some links to watch some Super Bowl commercials and if I was one of the Top 100, I would’ve won a free Flip. I didn’t try that hard, posted it once and forgot about it.

You really should see the whining taking place over not getting the Flip phone. “It’s not fair, wah wah wah…” If you’re a bzzagent, go over to that page and look.

Oh, and the House Parties! Good grief, every time they announce the winners of a House Party, you should see the whining that takes place over NOT being chosen. There was one recently with a coffee maker and the carrying on about not getting a free coffeemaker was just hysterical!

Hey, I like a good freebie as much as the next person. But get over it. With social media, this stuff goes fast. If a blog has 75,000 followers, and there are only 5000 samples of something being offered–do the math. Odds are that you’re not going to get one. This is why I don’t post too many of these types of offers, there are hundreds of millions of people on Facebook, so it’s kinda hard to win one of 2500 something. And at the end of the day, not worth it, imo.

I’d rather spend my time trying to do matchups and deal stacking. I got tons of freebies this morning at CVS–a mascara, two eyeshadows, a big pack of diapers, 1 bottle of Excedrin, 1 moisturizer and 1 cleanser–all for about $3 out of pocket. So which is a smarter use of our time–figuring out deals at CVS, or sitting on facebook trying to click on a page for a free wipes coupon and the page never loads…..?

Great CVS trip: Excedrin, Cover Girl & more!

I love surprises! For my Wednesday morning trip, I chose to stop in at CVS. Stuck my CVS card under the magic card scanner, and out came–the $3 off $10 cosmetic purchase (advertised in sales flyer), $1.50 off any Cover Girl, and $2 off ANY Excedrin.

Guess what–the Excedrin is on sale this week for $1.99. And, check your coupon binders, I had $1 and $2.50 coupons off any Excedrin 20ct or higher. And it’s the 20ct that is on sale for $1.99. The cashier adjusted my $2.50 coupon down to $1.99, so combined with the store coupon, I got $2 in overage for that purchase.

The Cover Girl is on sale this week, buy a mascara item, get eyeshadow free. I used the $1 off any CG coupons from the last P&G inserts. It’s a bogo sale, and I was able to use a $1 coupon on each item. So a mascara and an eyeshadow cost me $5 (paid for with ECBs) and it goes towards my next cosmetics $50 threshold. I chose the CG Lash Blast mascara in the purple tube. I did a bzzcampaign for them a while back and really liked it.

Speaking of…..when I scanned my card, I also got another $5 Extra Bucks for reaching another $50 in cosmetics purchases. Which means that according to CVS, I have spent over $100 so far in cosmetics, but my total year to date spending on my receipt says $28.11. The Beauty Club is calculating our totals on whatever price it scans at, and not taking into consideration any coupons or Extra Bucks, which is awesome!

I also chose to do the Garnier deal because I need an SPF moisturizer. The deal is spend $20, get $10 back, I spent $14.xx on the moisturizer and $6.xx on a cleanser, used a $2 coupon on each (not sure what inserts they were in) so after ECBs, I only had to burn about $6 in ECBs to get the stuff which was worth it.

I’d rather spend Extra Care Bucks on items instead of real bucks! Down side is now I am down to just $4 in ECBs, because I rolled mine into the Huggies deal, because you all know that for me, this is all about the free diapers. So I  need to keep my eyes open for more opportunities to build my ECBs back up.