Giant/Kelloggs Deal

Fantastic deal going on at Giant this week. The various Keebler/Kelloggs products are on sale for 2 for $4 or 2 for $5. This includes Eggos, cereal, fruit snacks and more–see your specific store for the items. Then they are offering an instant savings of $5 when you buy 5 items. Sounds good, huh?

Wait–when you purchase 10 items, you not only will receive $10 in instant savings, but a $10 catalina!

If you purchased 10 of the $2 items-$20. Minus $10 in instant savings, pay $10…..get $10 back. Then use that catalina to pay for the next set of 10. Lather, rinse, repeat until you run out of room for storage.

Of course you can use coupons, there was a Kelloggs coupon in this past Sunday’s paper.

Even though this is a great deal, I may sit it out. I am overloaded with Nutri Grain bars and not sure I can eat another bowl of Crispix.

This should include Super G and Martin’s and the other Giant stores, again, check your store for specifics. I don’t believe it stacks, so I would only do 10 items at a time. Feel uncomfortable have $0 out of pocket when you roll it? Then just do several back to back transactions, take to car. Return with your $10 catalinas to do your regular weekly trip. Or hang on to them to see if there is a deal next week that we can roll them on.

Superfresh, 8/3-Scrubbing Bubbles and J&J deals

As soon as my oldest son got on the bus this morning, I grabbed the little guy and headed to Superfresh. I had already logged in my savings card online.  Good deal alerts:

Scrubbing Bubbles-The catalina deal is buy 20, get 7
Shelf price-2.99, purchased 7-20.93
Sale price-2.50, now down to 17.50
Log in your card online, get $1 off every 2, for some reason, it deducted $3.43 instead of $3.50 ???
Now down to $14.07–THIS is the price you would pay without any other coupons.

But of course I had more coupons, from the paper 2 days ago:
I had seven of the $0.55 coupons, which doubled, so minus another $7.70.
Even if you have only one Sunday insert, use the $1 off 2 and the $0.55 to minus another $2.10.

Therefore, out of pocket payment-
with one set of inserts: about $12
with unlimited inserts: about $6

And guess what you get back? Yes, the $7 catalina for buying $20 worth of SCJohnson…..AND….you get a $2 catalina for every *2* Scrubbing Bubbles items. So I got $13 back, after only paying $7.xx. In hindsight, had I known that, I would have picked up an 8th bottle, used another $.55 and the $.50 online, plus would have gotten yet another $2 back.

This is still a good deal even without coupons, if you use the product. And Superfresh is part of a big family of stores, the other stores in the group may also be doing this catalina promo.

Johnson & Johnson, promo is buy 20, get 5 back
Bandaids, shelf price 3.59, unfortunately no Elmo ones!
Bought 6, 21.54
Sale price, 1.99, so down to 11.94

If you have one set of Sunday’s inserts, use the $3 off 3 coupon. I used two, so my out of pocket was $5.94

Got $5 back. With one coupon, 8.94, 5 back. Still cheap bandaids!

Baby wash, same deal, buy 20, get 5 back
Shelf price-5.49
Got 4, 21.98
Sale price-2.99
I had several $1/1 J&J coupons, not sure what insert they were from.
Out of pocket without coupons-11.96
My oop: 7.96

Got $5 back. Great price, as these are the big bottles of wash, which I use for bubble bath with the boys.

I was feeling pretty good about my deals, and was headed to Kmart…..which will be in the next blog post, I want to be able to c& p for hotcouponworld.

register your Superfresh card

Just like Acme has Avenu, a place where you can log in and save coupons to your card, so does the Superfresh/A&P family of stores. These stack–you can use a paper manufacturer’s coupon in addition to the e-coupon.

Right now the hot deal at Superfresh would be the Scrubbing Bubbles. Save the coupon to your card, use the paper coupons from Sunday’s paper, and use shelf prices to get to a $20 threshhold. Pay sale prices, minus all those coupons, get $7 back. There also has been an additional $2 catalina coming out, but I’m not exactly sure what triggers it.

Link for your SF/A&P card.

If I had to shop this week……..

I love getting the Sunday paper. In the winter time I curl up on the couch with my coffee, in the summer I go out on my patio in the morning with my coffee. I love Pennsylvania summers.

This morning I had time to look over most of the ads, overall a dull week. Lots of good deals to be had, but I certainly didn’t see anything that was “must do” in terms of a great freebie or moneymaker.

If I had to buy household essentials this week, I’d go to Kmart. They are offering several catalina deals, including a get $10 when you buy $35 Procter & Gamble. I would try stacking that, if you need the stuff, with the Hanes/Tide/Downy deal inside the flyer. Purchase what you need for that deal, and add to your P&G stack to get to $35, hopefully you’d get the $10 and the $5 back. I haven’t seen any reports yet of it working that way.

Hubby is brand loyal to Right Guard. So I’m going to do the Buy $20 get $5 for that, will only cost me $10 after coupons, get $5 back. Then I plan to get $35 worth of Natural Instincts, which I am brand loyal to. Use my $5 catalina from Right Guard, coupons–hopefully pay about $10, get $10 and $5 back. If that works, will turn around and do a diapers/wipes deal with Pampers stuff. They also have a good GM cereal deal. Purchase 4 boxes for $10, get another $4 off, or $6. $1.50 a box–and if you have coupons for it, even better. Lots of GM coupons in last week’s paper. Lots of P&G coupons in this week’s paper. Put together transactions of what you need, and after coupons and the $10 catalina, should be able to do well. Cashiers often get annoyed with me because I may do 2 or 3 back to back transactions when I get in line, but oh well. If it means I can roll my catalinas and get free or cheap stuff, too bad!

For groceries, I’d go to Superfresh. As I posted last week, they have several catalina deals going. Remember, at Superfresh (but not Kmart) you only need to get to your spending threshhold using shelf prices, not sale prices.

School/office supply deals galore this week–whatever you need, you should be able to find a good price on it at any of the big stores.

CVS and Walgreen’s leave me flat this week, which makes me regret even more not getting into CVS last week for diapers and photo books.

If you go to Acme, I have read online of shoppers being able to purchase an Acme gift card with the P&G catalina. Remember, works on shelf prices.