Want to Save $ on Gas?

As most of you know, when you spend $50 at Shaw's you will be rewarded with a coupon for 0.10 off/gallon of gas. This promo comes and goes... but at the moment, there is a supplemental deal where if you buy 5 of the following products, then you will gain an addition 10 cents per gallon:

• Shaw's all beef patties
• Shaw's salad
• Ken's Steak House Dressing
• Klondike Bars
• Hood or Popsicle Frozen Novelities
• Mt Olive Pickles ($1/1 6/28 newspaper insert)
• Chatham Village Croutons
• A1
• Knorr/Lipton Pasta or Rice Sides
• Shaw's Cheese Curls
• French's Mustard ($1/2 coupon - 6/21 newspaper insert)
• Cain's Sweet Relish
• Hefty OneZip Bags
• Homelife Everyday Napkins or Cutlery
• Sargento Sliced Cheese
• Pepsi 6-pk bottles
• Grey Poupon Deli Mustard
• SoBe Life Water
• Pepperidge Farm Goldfish
• Homelife Party Cups
• Schweppes 1ltr bottles
• Smartfood Popcorn
• Kool-Aid Jammers
• Honey Maid Graham Crackers
• Shaw's Marshmallows
• Hersey's Chocolate Bars ($1/2 6/28 newspaper insert)

THEN to make the deal even sweeter, if you register your coupon or Shaw's card at override.com, you will get ANOTHER 10 cent's per gallon for a total of 30 cents off per gallon of gas which would be $6 if you were to buy 20 gallons of gas. Not bad considering that gas is creeping up in price lately...

Free Toothpaste at CVS this week...

and not much else worth mentioning in my opinion.

Colgate is on sale for $0.99 and there was a $1 coupon in yesterday's newspaper = FREE toothpaste.

Other possible deals...

2/$1 Campbell's Tomato or Chicken Noodle soups

2/$1 Bumble Bee Chunk Light Tuna

2/$4 General Mills Cereals - $1/3 coupon in 6/28 Smart Source
The offer is 1 per household, but if you bought 3 boxes, you'd pay $9 - $1 coupon - $2 ECB = $2/box which is about as much as I'm willing to pay for cereal, because you can usually find deals on it.

If you REALLY need papertowels, Brawny come out to be less than $1 per roll after ECB's (6.99 - 2 ECB = 5.99 after ECB.

What I would do is... IF you need these items, buy the papertowels and the cereal. Take those out to the car and then go back in to get the soup and tuna, so that you can pay for those items w/the $4 ECB's that were earned on the cereal and papertowels.

After the past few months of horrible sales at CVS... I might start looking at Walgreen's & Rite Aid deals... stay tuned! :)

Coke & Kielbasa

So... you want to get the coke & kielbasa deal at Shaw's this week, but don't know what to do with the kielbasa? WELL, I can help!! I've just posted three kielbasa recipes on my cooking blog.

Check it out!
http://cookingchristy.blogspot.com

Shaw's Sale Starting 6/26

Just browsing the circular and saw a few things of interest...

• Sweet Baby Ray's BBQ Sauce 10 for $10 -$1 off 1 Smart Source 6/21... so FREE!!!
• Coke 5/$12 AND with that 2 FREE packages of Hillshire Farms Kielbasa or Smoked Sausage - coupon in sales ad - should be able to combine this with $1 off 2 Hillshire Farms products coupon from Red Plum 6/7 to make this an even better deal

• $0.99/lb Eggplant, Zucchini, Summer Squash (eggplant parm would make an inexpensive dinner! check out my cooking blog for an easy recipe http://cookingchristy.blogspot.com/)
• 10 for $10 - Coolwhip (time for some tasty summer desserts!)
• Sweet Corn - 10 ears for $1.99 ...MMMmmm...
  

Need soap? If so, it's a good week to stock up on Dove Products!
Spend $15 on Dove and get a $5 coupon towards your next shopping trip.

• Dove Bar Soap (6pk) $6.99 (shelf = 7.99)
• Dove Body Wash $6.99 (shelf = 7.99)
• Dove Body Mist 2/$6 (shelf = 4.99)
• Dove Shampoo 2/$6 (shelf = 4.99)
• Dove Conditioner 2/$6 (shelf = 4.99)
• Dove Deodorant 2/$5 (shelf = 4.69)

Just keep in mind that this deal is based on shelf price.

Scenario Example #1
1 Shampoo
1 Conditioner
1 Body Wash (or bar soap)
Shelf total = $17.97
Sale price = $12.99 and you would get a $5 coupon back.

Go back and either get the same products OR...

Scenario Example #2
2 deodorants
1 bar soap (or body wash)
Shelf total = $17.37
Sale price = 12.99 BUT you would use the $5 coupon and only pay $7.99 and get another $5 coupon

Scenario Example #3
2 Body Wash (or bar soap)
Shelf total = $15.98
Sale price = 13.98 BUT you would use the $5 coupon and only pay $8.98 and get another $5 coupon

I think you get the point...

BOGO's - generally a pretty good deal, but if you can find coupons for these products, then even better...

• Friendly's Ice Cream
• Lay's Potato Chips
• Arm & Hammer detergent (I'm a Tide snob, but just thought I'd mention it)
• Peri Italian Sausage (good for adding to spaghetti or lasagna)
• Hatfield Bacon
• Hatfield Hamsteaks
• Ken's Cocktail Sauce
• Nature's Pride Bread
  
• Shaw's Light Bread
• Wise Cheese Doodles or Popcorn
• Jolly Time Popcorn ($1 off 2 printable HERE)
  

Shop Online?

If so... do you know about www.retailmenot.com?

This site collects online discount codes and all you have to do is type in the site where you're shopping and it will give you a list of possible codes. Sometimes, you will find codes for free shipping, a percentage off of your order, or even free gifts with purchase. I ALWAYS check this site before checking out.

We recently used this site to find coupon codes for Domino's Pizza. Definitely check it out!

Free Yogurt!

Yoplait is giving away free yogurt to promote a new product.

Check it out!
http://www.redplum.com/pages/SweetFinds.aspx

One more helpful hint...
Create a new email address that can be used only for signing up for product newsletters, freebies, etc. Most legitimate sites will NOT bombard you with junk mail, but it's always a good idea to have a separate email address so that you don't have to page through pages of emails that you might not be interested in.

Like to Eat Out?

I do!! I do!!
Despite how much I've been savings on groceries, I still like to eat out once a week or so. Ok, maybe more often, but I just wanted to let everyone know that www.Restaurant.com has an 80% off sale this week.

www.Restaurant.com generally offers discounted restaurant gift certificates. The usual price is $10 for a gift certificate worth $25, however from time to time, they offer 70-80% off specials. The current discount code is DISH and it's good for 80% off, which means that you pay $2 for a $25 gift certificate. Of course, there are some restrictions, but I've had great luck with this site. Some examples of the restrictions are that you have to spend a minimum of $35 and you can't use more than one certificate at a time. No restriction on day of the week or time from what I can tell.

I've bought and used certificates for The Blue Mermaid and Radici in Portsmouth and Jonathon's in Ogunquit. I just bought a couple more so that I could test out the discount code before posting it and it worked like a charm.

One warning, you will sometimes see other *deals* when you are in the process of checking out. I'd recommend ALWAYS clicking 'no thanks' to those as they can be services that will automatically charge your card.

AND make sure you have a way to print, because you will need to print out your gift certificate for redemption.

So, go buy those gift certificates and treat yourself to an extra glass of wine with dinner since you've saved so much on the food! :)