printables summary

It’s still near the beginning of the month, so most printable coupon sites have not met their print limits yet. Keep in mind that most do have print limits, so if you want printables, do it early in the month.

Some highlights:

coupons.com:
~~Lots of General Mills coupons if you didn’t get the inserts
~~$1 off Listerine, which is 50% off this week at CVS
~~$1 and $2 Reach coupons which should mean free toothbrushes and floss at some point
~~$0.75 Crisco spray, will double at many stores
~~$2 on Pedigree Good Bites–higher value coupons always catch my eye!
~~$1 off one Welch’s-you all know I have little ones, always need cheap juice
~~BOGO Greenies-lots of stores let you use a bogo coupon with a bogo sale, now we just need to find one to match!
~~$5 off any one Nature Made, these are bogo right now at Acme, and you can use two coupons.
~~35% off Entertainment Book offer; (note to self: ask Heidi for another copy of her guide to this)

What’s also interesting about coupons.com is that when you scroll through the coupons, you may not actually see them all. Click on the different categories of coupons and more appear.

redplum.com:

Kind of a dud right now. The $1 Quaker oatmeal has already reached print limit. Several Sally Hansen coupons and that is on sale everywhere right now–CVS, Rite Aid, etc.

allyou.com:

Many of the same General Mills coupons as coupons.com. And a lot of their coupons/cookies crossover, so if you printed your limit of 2 on coupons.com, cannot print them here. Always worth a quick look though.
~~Buy 2 Get 1 Hefty zoo pals, we use lots of paper plates in summer, with kids eating outside.
~~$1 off 2 Muir Glen, and their organic canned tomatoes will often go on sale at Acme, 3 for $2.

smartsource.com:
~~lots of Aveeno and J&J coupons, on sale now at CVS and other places
~~$2 off of Listerine Whitening, hope this is included in the CVS 50% off sale
~~$1 off Over the Moon milk
~~$0.55/2 dozen eggs, egg coupons are not common

All the sites also have some online offers like Vistaprint, I’ve blogged about them before.

Aveeno coupons & offers

Lots of Aveeno deals this week, and HERE is a link to some Aveeno printables that just came in my email. If it doesn’t show up, you may have to register on the site. Take note, the last coupon down on the right. Not a coupon but a mail in offer.

Acme: Aveeno is 15% off retail price this week
CVS: Buy one, get one 50% off, can you a coupon on both items.
Rite Aid: on sale, I think 20% off retail price?

Nobody bakes a cake as tasty as a………(and another contest!)

Tastykake! Remember that commercial? And you all know how I often talk about supporting local businesses, sooooo….

Go out an buy Tastykakes! They are in financial trouble. In true facebook fashion, there are now groups forming to “Save Tastykake.” To be honest, I have no idea how dire the situation is. But I’m already upset that my favorite Quaker Instant Oatmeal (maple & brown sugar) has been reformulated to taste like crap, so I will be extremely upset if we lose Tastykakes too.

The boxes are 1.99 at Acme this week. A few years ago at Acme I bought this mouse:

I sent one to my brother out in Colorado too. In fact, I’m using it right now! I hate the little finger pad mouse things on laptops, so for home use, I plug this in. When I’m out & about with my laptop, I love hearing people say “Is that a Krimpet attached to your computer?”

Anyway, on to the contest. Today I’m giving away another FREE magazine subscription and a FREE movie rental in the form of a Redbox code. All you have to do is leave a comment telling me what your favorite Tastykake is. If you are unfortunate enough to live in a part of the country without Tastykakes, just look here and tell me what you think your favorites might be.

Mine are the Butterscotch Krimpets, my favorites for over 35 years!

Contest ends at midnight tonight, random winner picked tomorrow.

Is it worth it? My cheap eats

Yes, I think couponing and bargain shopping is worth it.

This is what we had for dinner the past two nights:

Saturday-
3.99 broiled turkey tenderloin (Favorite four at Acme, minus $1 coupon)
Cheesy hash brown casserole-
2.50 hash browns (still on sale at Acme for this price)
free can of chik soup (coupons that doubled)
free shredded cheddar cheese (Kraft catalina deal combined with coupons)
0.33 sour cream ( a third of a 0.99 container)
free box of Green Giant veggies (GM catalina deal combined with coupons)
1.00-incidentals, pat of butter for casserole, salt, pepper, seasonings

Final-$7.82, total of six servings or $1.30 each.
BTW-I really liked the Hash Brown Casserole. I left out the onions because hubby didn’t want them, and I wasout of corn flakes. Very yummy!

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Sunday-
2.83 chicken scallopini (clearance chicken!)
0.59 box of penne
free jar of alfredo sauce
0.88 fresh broccoli
1.00 incidentals, bit of olive oil for sauteeing, garlic, salt, pepper

Final-$5.30, fed the four of us tonight, enough pasta left over for boys to take for lunch one day.
So about $1.25 per serving.

Yes, this is why I think it’s worth it. The boys had free Eggos for breakfast, topped with almost free syrup (I think it was $1 a bottle, but I really limit how much they can use). And a banana, but what does a banana cost? And milk. For lunch they had a free gogurt, a PB&J with free PB&J, I only paid for the bread. And milk and they split an orange which was $0.50. And above I listed our dinners. So yes, I absolutely think it’s worth the extra effort. Now, if I can just keep up with the boys as hungry teenagers!