Freebie Roundup

• Free one year subscription to Woman's Day Magazine.

• Free Arby's food...again!

• Free Leapfrog Didj Games at Walmart using this $5 coupon (if your store has them on clearance for $5 like most Walmarts).

• Free Little People DVD at Toys R Us on Saturday, March 21st in-store. More details HERE.

Target Deal Updates

I just added some updates to the Target Deals page!

-Free Archer Farms mini-bread loaves
-Free Pledge Furniture Wipes
-Free GE Energy Samrt Light Bulbs


Check out the updates HERE.

How I Get Free Groceries

I got some free cheese at Smith's last night. Here's how you can get some too!

I was doing my regular shopping and I came across some marked down cheese on the dairy aisle. The Cache Valley shredded cheese (4 cups) was marked down 50% to $2.99 because it was getting close to the sell by date. By close I mean April 15. Not that close -- still plenty of time to use or freeze.



In front of the cheese was a tearpad of $0.55 manufacturer's coupons for any Cache Valley product. When I turned the corner I found a giant Budweiser display with some beer tearpad rebates. I LOVE these! Here is what a beer rebate looks like:


It basically states buy $15 worth of certain grocery items and we'll mail you a check for $15. How cool is that?!? No beer purchase necessary! Budweiser comes out with rebates like this about once a month in Utah, usually coinciding with holidays (Halloween, Thanksgiving, the Superbowl, etc). I've done these 10 or 12 times and never had one denied, they always come. If you ever have a question about what items qualify, call the number on the rebate and ask -- their support is super helpful.

So, with my rebate in hand, I went back to the cheese aisle and grabbed 6 bags of the marked down Cache Valley cheese, and 6 of the tearpad coupons. My total came to $15.18 after coupons and tax. The rebate uses the pre-coupon price, so I was still over the $15 mark for the rebate. Here's what the receipt looks like:



Now I've got a freezer full of free cheese (that would have cost me $36 retail) and a $15 rebate on it's way to me!


I have two extra rebates that I'd love to give away to two people who can use them. To be entered in the drawing, leave me a comment with your email address. I'll choose two winners Thursday morning at 8AM (3/19/09) and the winners will be notified via email to get mailing info. Good luck!

Monday Drugstore Deals

I went to Rite Aid yesterday morning to pick up a few good deals. Dove products are buy one get one 50% off this week, plus get a $5 Rite Aid gift card when you buy $15! Here's what I came home with:

Dove Shampoo $4.99
Dove Conditioner $2.49 (50% off)
Dove Shampoo $4.99
Dove Conditioner $2.49 (50% off)
Samy haircare $4.99
6 Mentos gum $0.99 each
-$5/25 RAQ
-$1.50 Dove MFQ (RP 1/18) x 4
-$1 Mentos MFQ x 6
= $8.89 + tax
(And get back $9.99 in Rite Aid rebates!)

My Dove product total is only $14.96 in this scenario, so I'll have to wait and see if Rite Aid will qualify this for the rebate. If they don't, I'll go buy a $1.69 single soap bar to push it over the $15 total. I saved a total of $17 in coupons on this trip. Not bad!

Total spent for February: $42.96 (Plus I still have a $10 RR for Walgreens)
Total February coupon savings: $363.xx

Cheesy Broccoli Recipe

My husband's very favorite Thanksgiving dish is this Cheesy Broccoli recipe that his aunt makes. Since we all got some cheap broccoli last week, I thought I'd share!

Cheesy Broccoli

1 T lemon juice
1/2 cup mayo
1 cup shredded cheddar cheese
1 can cream of chicken soup
2-3 heads of broccoli

In a large pan boil broccoli for 10 minutes. Mix other ingredients together & pour over broccoli. Bake uncovered for 30 minutes at 350 degrees.

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