Yesterday's Shopping Deals

I was a shopping maniac last night! I hit up Smith's, Walmart, Target and Walgreens on my home home from work. Sometimes I'm seriously efficient when hubby is gone for the evening. :)

Smith's
3 Quaker Quakes @ $0.99
2 Land O Lakes @ $1.49
2 Fiber One Bars @ $1.99
2 Betty Crocker Potatoes @ $1.49
1 Pam Cooking Spray @ $2.49
-$5 instant savings
-$0.40 Betty Crocker Potatoes found HERE x 2
-$0.60 Fiber One Bars found HERE x 2
-$0.55 Land O Lakes found HERE x 2
-$1.00 Quaker Quakes MFQ (SS RP 1/18) x 3
-$1.00 Shortcuts Fiber One coupon
-$0.75 Shortcuts Fiber One coupon
-$0.35 Shortcuts Betty Crocker Potatoes coupon
= $2.20 for 10 items! ($0.22 each!)
(Saved $16.50)

I honestly forgot I had any shortcuts coupons on my Smith's card, those were a surprise!



Walmart
2 Yo-Plus Yogurts @ $2.08
2 Progresso Soup @ $1.25
1 Healthy Choice Mixer @ $2.74
1 Glade Plugin @ $1.78
2 J&J Softlotion @ $0.97
4 J&J Buddies @ $0.97
4 Jergens Lotion @ $3.27
-$1.50 Yoplus found HERE x 2
-$1 Healthy Choice (from a mailer)
-$1.78 FREE Glade coupon (mailer)
-$1 J&J coupon x 6
-$3 Jergens x 4
-$1.10 Progresso found HERE x 2
= $4.10 (Saved $25.98)

Target
2 Broccoli @$1.50
1 Beef Chuck Steak @ $4.75
1 Beef Chuck Steak @ $4.07
1 Beef Chuck Steak @ $3.75
-$1 Broccoli TQ x 2
-$2 Meat TQ x 3
= $7.57 (Saved $8.00)

My freezer is pretty full of meat now! Time to get crock-potting!
So apparently Broccoli is $1.50 and not $0.99 in my area. :( Bummer.

Total spent for February: $29.45
Total February coupon savings: $325.53

Freebie Roundup

• Free Arby's Roast Burger with the purchase of any drink until 3/14/09

• Free pair of Aerie undies at American Eagle until 3/18/09

• Free workout towel from Garnier with the purchase of 2 products until 4/6/09 (Garnier is FREE at Walgreens this week!)
  

• Free Rachel Ray's Big Orange Book with the purchase of any one of the following products: Crocs, Snyder's of Hanover, Pepperidge Farm Puff Pastry Sheets. Send a UPC and receipt from one of the following products to:

Every Day with Rachel Ray
Attn: Spring Ahead
16 East 34th Street
New York, NY 10016

(Snyder's pretzels are $1.99 - $1 MFQ (SS 2/22) = $0.99 each at Smith's this week!)

Walgreens: Converting your RR's

Now that I've got $60's in RR's (register rewards) in my pocket from all the Huggies deals this week, I decided I needed to either buy things I need or convert them into cash!

To convert a register reward to cash:

• Purchase monthly FAR (free after rebate) items using your register rewards
• Request your rebate in the form of a check!

Yesterday I bought a bottle of the Memory Formula Vitamins ($19.99) and 3 packs of orbit (3/$99 after ESQ). I paid for these items using two $10 RR's, and voila! I'll be getting a check for $19.99 back at the end of the month!

$19.99 Memory Formula
$0.99 Orbit gum x 3 (after ESQ)
-$10 RR
-$10 RR
= $0.95 + tax!
(And I'll get a $19.99 easy-saver rebate check!)

You can purchase one bottle of Memory Formula per rebate account.

Total spent for February: $29.91 (I've got $20 in RR's still in my pocket!)
Total saved for February: $260.xx

Monday Drugstore Deals

I skipped Rite Aid yesterday in order to hit up 4 Walgreens on my way to work yesterday morning. By the time I was done, my trunk was CHOCK FULL of Huggies! It was so great!

Huggies Jumbo $10
Huggies Jumbo $10
Huggies Jumbo $10
-$5 Huggies MFQ x 3
-$1 Walgreens activity book Q x 3
= $12 + tax
(And get back $10 RR and $2.25 Caregiver's Rebate)

Glade Sense & Spray $7.99

Glade Sense & Spray $7.99
-BOGO MFQ found HERE
-$4 Easy-saver Q x 2
= FREE

I didn't even get around to buying any of the free Fructis yesterday because I was so intent on the diapers. There are lots of other great deals at Walgreens this week, so I'm going to have to go back and spend my RR's! To see this week's Walgreens deals, go HERE.

Total spent for February: $67.19 (But I've still got $60 in RR's in my pocket!)
Total February coupon savings: $218.77

Ritzy Chicken Recipe

Here's the Ritzy Chicken recipe I'm going to cook this week, using the Ritz crackers I got for free at Walgreens last week! It's actually a kids recipe so even your children will eat it, but it's yummy enough to serve to company.

Ritzy Kids Chicken
8 boneless skinless chicken breasts, thawed
2 cups crushed Ritz crackers
1/4 cup Parmesan cheese
2 tsp garlic salt
1 tsp seasoned salt
1 cup plain yogurt
1/4 cup butter, melted (optional)

Combine crushed crackers, Parmesan, garlic salt and seasoned salt in shallow dish. Pat chicken dry, then coat with yogurt. Dip each piece in crumb mixture and arrange in 9"x 13" baking dish. Drizzle melted butter over top, if desired. Bake at 350 degrees for 45 minutes.

Coupon Class Reminder

This is a reminder about the coupon class being held tomorrow night in Cottonwood Heights! If you'd still like to come, send me an email!

Bring a friend! We promise not to bite!

slavetosave at gmail dot com

Coupon Redemption

I stumbled across a few blog posts about coupon redemption today. Southern Savers explains every step of the coupon life cycle, from when it shows up in your newspaper, to when your store gets reimbursed for a redemption. If you don't know how this all works or need a refresher, it's a great post to read!

Common Sense with Money explains why manufacturer's put out high-value coupons and how they do make money from it. So when a cashier gives you a hard time for using a coupon and getting an item almost free, don't fret! You're not bankrupting them!

*The one thing I would like to emphasize after reading these two posts is that using expired coupons is not okay. I don't know of a single store in Utah that allows the use of expired manufacturer's coupons. I've also heard some stores bag their coupons up by week and send them to redemption centers. If a coupon is found in that batch that expired previous to the dates on the bag, the stores don't get reimbursed for it. We all need to be careful not to use coupons past their expiration.

Chili's Guiltless Grill Winner

Congratulations, Brooke! You are the winner of the Chili's Guiltless Grill giveaway!

You have 24 hours to respond with your mailing address. Thanks to everyone who participated!