Coupon Days

Jumbo shrimp 2 pound bag $5.99 a pound
4 pound bag of California navel oranges $1.99
Skippy peanut butter two for $3.00
10 ounce bag of fresh spinach $.99
fresh corned beef brisket $1.99 a pound for flat cut or $.99 a pound for point cut
Hormel refrigerated entrées $1.00 off -$3.99 with coupon(I tried these and do not care for them, so don’t stock up if you’ve never had them before!)
$2.00 off your minimum $5.00 bakery purchase
get Giant soft breadsticks free when you buy Giant Grab and Go Packaged Soup
Get $1.00 off When you buy Six Giant canned vegetables
Get Giant pancake syrup free when you buy two Giant pancake and waffle mix
Snyders pretzel pieces to for $4.00
Dr. Oetker Ristorante pizza $2.49
Lipton tea bags two for $4.00
There are several more coupon deals, but they don’t look that promising to me.

Instant Savings Deals

By any seven save $3.00 instantly:
Bordon individually wrapped cheese slices 2/$4
Stoneyfield Yo Baby Meals 2/$4
Hot Pockets 5/$10
Kellogg’s fruit snacks or Yogos 2/$4
Kellogg’s pop tarts family pack 2/$5
Krusteaz pancake, bar, or muffin mix $1.99
Celeste pizza for one 10/$10
Boston Market dinners 5/$10
Ore-Ida fries 2/$5 *
Nabisco 100 calorie snack bars 2/$5
Quaker Mini Delights $2.39

There is also a buy any four save $3.00 instantly deal. It doesn’t look that great, so I’m not going to list everything that qualifies. The same with a buy any 3 save $5 meat deal. The meat is more per pound than I usually pay, so it isn’t that great a deal.

Regular Deals

Four cans of Campbell’s tomato soup (must buy 4) $2
Turkey Hill ice cream 4/$10
Giant tote bag of apples 99 cents a pound
Hass avocados 5/$5
Giant green cabbage 29 cents a pound
Banquet Brown N Serve sausage 10/$10 (We use these in spaghetti sometimes.)
Barilla pasta or Tuttorosso tomatoes 10/$10
White House apple sauce 46-48 ounce jar 2/$3
Dole fruit bowls 2/$4
General Mills cereal 8.9-13 ounce Cheeries, Reese’s Puffs, or Golden Grahams 2/$4
Post kids cereal 2/$4
Kashi cereal 4/$8 Must buy 4 (If you scored some coupons and a sample in the mail the other day, you can really do well. We love the apple cinnamon sample and are excited to get some more at a good price!)
Sargento shredded cheese 2/$4
British Blends Tetley tea bags 2/$5 (We love this tea. Sort of like a mild English breakfast. If you do, too, I think there is a 30 cents off coupon out there somewhere.)
Scotties facial tissues 10/$10 (Check your coupons for additional savings.)

• Del Monte veggies for 49 cents a can. There’s a limit of 8 on this amazing deal. To make it better, look for the $1 off 5 coupon I found in my paper this week. (The flier stated that the deal was for peas, corn and green beans, but in the store, you can also get potatoes, beets and  other veggies for the sale price. Check the tags to find the sale items.)
• Betty Crocker Super Moist cake mix for 79 cents each.
• Scotties tissues for 79 cents each.
• San Giorgio pasta for…You guessed it! 79 cents each.
• Giant brand kidney beans 5/$3.

There’s also a buy five, get $3 off instant savings deal going on. I got Danimals yogurts and used some $1 off one coupons I got from somewhere…a magazine, I think. I ended up spending $5 for five items.

I won’t list everything else I bought, but there are some good frozen and dairy deals, too. How are you doing on your $50 grocery challenge this week?

Photo: Cindy Kalamajka/SXC

2 boxes of Betty Crocker Chex Mix Bars for $5 – 50 cents off each = $4 (Should have doubled, but didn’t. More on that later.)

2 Kraft Salad Dressing – $1.69 each – $1.25 each coupon = 88 cents

2 Quaker Quakes or Chips – $1.29 each – $1 each coupon =58 cents

2 Betty Crocker Supreme Brownies – $4 – $1 coupon =$3

A total of $8.46 – $4 instant savings = $4.46.

If you have more Quaker or Kraft coupons, you could do much better. Like having them pay you to remove food from the store better! Unfortunately, I’ve only been buying two papers lately, so didn’t have more coupons on hand.

On to the rest of my purchases:

2 bottles of A-1 (free after coupon in Sunday’s paper)

Sunchips

2 bags cheese curls

2 boxes of Mini Wheats

1 box Special K Berries

2 packages of chicken

2 packages of ravioli

2 packages of Capri Sun Sunrise drinks

a half pound of splurge cheese (Wenslydale with blueberries. Insanely expensive at $7.82.)

Vanilla

2 lbs of bananas

Kashi waffles

Milk

3 packs of string cheese

2 loaves of bread

Now, the bad news. It was 8 o’clock at night and I was trying to get out of the store, so I didn’t realize what a mess the kid made of my coupons. He shorted me about $10 – didn’t even use my free cereal coupon for the Special K and only rang up my $4 Mini Wheats at $2 for the b1g1 free coupon. He also neglected to ring up my $3 cheese coupon for the string cheese and only doubled one of the 50 cent coupons on my order. How I didn’t see that last night…Anyway, I spent $50.60 and saved $46.59, but the bill should have been a bit less than $40. At least he used my $5 off $50 and the $3 off $5 for the meat that Martins sent me in an email, though. I’ll have to go in to the customer service desk to see if they can fix it. His drawer was probably a wreck last night.