THÊ JÚLY 2011 GROCERY CHALLENGE

[leanna]

Dogmom,

With a PDF you are allowed to print unlimited (you can't copy the q though).

With PDF coupons, I just save 'em on my computer until I need 'em. No sense in wasting ink.

It often seems that there will be limits on a particular item that is on sale, so that's where your limit will come in. For example, this week at Office Depot there were some kind of post-it notes for .99 with a limit of 3. There's a PDF for $1, but you can see how you end up getting limited.

[suziq38]

Hi all:
I needed to "burn" some bucks so I found some markdowns:
Huggies Natural newborn size diapers #30 or #33. $3.12.
I used a coupon for $? and paid the rest with EB's. I bought 4 packs.


Izod men's cologne $7.49.

Vera Wang Cologne $4.49, Celine Dion Cologne $7.49. I also bought $30.00 worth of GM cereals (16 boxes) and used the appropriate coupons.

My order came to at least $50.00, so I could use the $10.00 off of $50.00, and in the end, I got the gas card for $10.00.

[sealy]

I'm going slow on buying but couldn't resist these deals.

I swiped my cvs card and got a $3/$15 Q. Laundry soap was on sale for $1.49 then I noticed
another Q that gave $2 off shampoo. I needed to stock up on my DD's shampoo & conditioner
so since it was on sale 2/$6.97 I bought some also.

Transaction #1
6 Xtra laundry soap $1.49 each
2 Pantene pro v $3.48 & $3.49
2 little lotions 0.25 each
used $2 and $3 coupons got back $2 EB
OPP $10.35

Transaction #2
went home to get $1/2 Q I remembered I had 2 of them
bought 2 Pantenes used my Q and the one I got for scanning
cvs card. got $2 EB
OPP $2.48

Transaction #3
scanned card but didn't get shampoo coupon. I noticed that someone tossed their coupons in a bin
next to the machine. I checked to see if there was a $2 shampoo Q and found an EB for $3.50. I guess she didn't need it cuz she just tossed it in a bin.
Bought 2 Pantenes used $1/2 Q I had and the EB. got $2 EB
OPP 0.72

[jeep108]

Frys is no longer taking competitors coupons as of July 31, I will have to shop around for groceries again.

[constanz22]

Jul 22, 2011 19:36:23 GMT -5 sealy said:

I'm going slow on buying but couldn't resist these deals.

I swiped my cvs card and got a $3/$15 Q. Laundry soap was on sale for $1.49 then I noticed
another Q that gave $2 off shampoo. I needed to stock up on my DD's shampoo & conditioner
so since it was on sale 2/$6.97 I bought some also.

Transaction #1
6 Xtra laundry soap $1.49 each
2 Pantene pro v $3.48 & $3.49
2 little lotions 0.25 each
used $2 and $3 coupons got back $2 EB
OPP $10.35

Transaction #2
went home to get $1/2 Q I remembered I had 2 of them
bought 2 Pantenes used my Q and the one I got for scanning
cvs card. got $2 EB
OPP $2.48

Transaction #3
scanned card but didn't get shampoo coupon. I noticed that someone tossed their coupons in a bin
next to the machine. I checked to see if there was a $2 shampoo Q and found an EB for $3.50. I guess she didn't need it cuz she just tossed it in a bin.
Bought 2 Pantenes used $1/2 Q I had and the EB. got $2 EB
OPP 0.72

Wow...they let you use someone else's EB's and coupon from the red machine? They are all card specific and most stores would never allow that. You must have a VERY coupon friendly store!

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[leanna]

Wow...RA is dead for me the week of 7/24.

But looks like we'll get some deals the week of 7/31. I can't remember who, earlier today, said they have a survey coupon they need to use.

Deals I see for 7/31:

Bic Razors - .99 after coupons & ups
Oral B TB's - Free after coupons & SCR
Gillette razor - .99 afer coupons & SCR

So the $3/$15 could make some of these items free. Only thing is, if you have no UPs left, you have to pay cash.

I have no UPs at the moment...hence I'll be passing on the Reach toothbrushes.

But I think I'll jump back in next week. Hoping to get my June rebate soon, so I can use that to jump in. I'd like to avoid spending cash otherwise, because it just seems silly to do so when I've got a shelf of razors.

ETA: You can see the ad for 7/31 on www.iheartriteaid.com

[The Home 6]

Hi ladies! After a week of vacation bible school in the morning and ballet princess camp in the afternoons I am POOPED. And guess who volunteered to make the goodies for VBS? This girl.

I was checking out the upcoming deals for CVS, and wanted to do the "get $10 EB WYB $20" of Schick intuition. As a busy mom of 2, I am in LOVE with Intuition. Who has time to bother with shaving cream, amiright? If anyone has any extra coupons please pm me, and I'll send my address! Thanks so much guys!

[dancinmama]

Jul 22, 2011 19:36:32 GMT -5 jeep108 said:

Frys is no longer taking competitors coupons as of July 31, I will have to shop around for groceries again.

jeep: I'm so sorry to hear this. I know how big a set back it must be for you.

[leanna]

Jul 22, 2011 20:38:29 GMT -5 The Home 6 said:

Hi ladies! After a week of vacation bible school in the morning and ballet princess camp in the afternoons I am POOPED. And guess who volunteered to make the goodies for VBS? This girl.

I was checking out the upcoming deals for CVS, and wanted to do the "get $10 EB WYB $20" of Schick intuition. As a busy mom of 2, I am in LOVE with Intuition. Who has time to bother with shaving cream, amiright? If anyone has any extra coupons please pm me, and I'll send my address! Thanks so much guys!

You are too cute. I PM'd you.

[weaselfer]

Jul 22, 2011 15:55:44 GMT -5 misspt said:

Weaselfer: Do you still get double coupons?

Luckily, I still do, and triples up to .35 and .36 to .50 doubles, so the 25 cent P&G aren't bad for me. They really have to here as there is a lot of competition now (no one else doubles). I'll enjoy it until it ends as many other places in Texas are losing them.

[babss74]

I am so happy I read this board! I think I did my best deal ever from reading you all. I went to giant and since they have no rule about bogo coupons on a bogo sale I got 4 packs of schick disposable ladies razors and 4 packs of men's razors and three boxes of cheerios ( we go through tons the kids seem to think cereal is a snack total was $68 and walked out paying $4.24! I'm so happy. I have a few more bogo coupons so I am heading back to get more for donation purposes.

[munjoyhill]

Leanna and Nickeey, I have to buy special trash bags from the city I live in, a lot of cities in Southern Maine require this. I have two options -- 10 regular trash bags for $10.00 or 5 large trash bags for $10.00. The intent is to get people to recycle. I usually go through 1 regular trash bag a week, and sometimes it's not even full. Recycling is a good thing.

Around here are Shaws and Hannafords grocery stores -- Shaws and Hannafords carry the bags, I don't think Walmart does. So I'm glad CVS carries them, and hopefully can use some ECB to pay for them. I was at Walgreens today, and didn't see them.

Speaking of Walgreens, I had to go today and get the Folgers coffee (on sale for $8.99), and I had a Q for it. You know what I found? My local Walgreens takes the Q's from the inserts that are leftover from the Sunday papers, and when it's slow, they cut them out and tape them to the products! I was shocked. So I picked up two tubes of toothpaste with the Q's taped to them, that ended up being free. Gotta love Walgreens!

[rubyslippers]

I had fun hounding with DH tonight after he was promised a nice pizza when I was done. These were my best deals:

Meijer: $3.77 OOP for 1 rotisserie chicken & 4 jars Chi Chi's salsa (thanks to Constanz)

Rite Aid: $5.77 OOP for 3 Diet Pepsi 12 pks., 4 Revlon emory boards, 2 Kotex U and I got another survey reward (both rewards were received after buying Pepsi products). My OOP was higher than normal but my $3.00 UP wouldn't go through so I had cashier initial it. I wasn't at my usual Rite Aid.

Staples: $0.00 OOP for 1 Hammermill paper ream and 1 photo paper. Paid with my $16.00 in rewards and will get a rebate check for $14.48.

ABC Warehouse: $0.00 OOP for a video cable. Paid with $19.99 cashback from not using service plan when I bought my TV a few years ago.

Kohls: $8.51 OOP after using Kohls cash for a collage frame.

I have a CVS question for anyone: Would I be able to use a $5/20 facial skin care to do the Schick deal?
$23.97 (3 pkg. Schick razors)
- 5.00 CVS CRT
- 7.99 BOGO MQ
- 2.00 MQ(2)
- 6.00 CVS IPQ's (3)
OOP= $2.98 + tax
ECB's earned: $10.00

[saveinla]

Jul 22, 2011 21:06:49 GMT -5 babss74 said:

I am so happy I read this board! I think I did my best deal ever from reading you all. I went to giant and since they have no rule about bogo coupons on a bogo sale I got 4 packs of schick disposable ladies razors and 4 packs of men's razors and three boxes of cheerios ( we go through tons the kids seem to think cereal is a snack total was $68 and walked out paying $4.24! I'm so happy. I have a few more bogo coupons so I am heading back to get more for donation purposes.

great job babss!!

[saveinla]

Kroger shoppers,

Keep your eye out for a small booklet in the frozen section that has coupons for Morningstar items along with 1$ of Ronzoni garden vagetable pasta that is free with this Q. HTH

[dancinmama]

Jul 22, 2011 21:06:49 GMT -5 babss74 said:

I am so happy I read this board! I think I did my best deal ever from reading you all. I went to giant and since they have no rule about bogo coupons on a bogo sale I got 4 packs of schick disposable ladies razors and 4 packs of men's razors and three boxes of cheerios ( we go through tons the kids seem to think cereal is a snack total was $68 and walked out paying $4.24! I'm so happy. I have a few more bogo coupons so I am heading back to get more for donation purposes.

babbs: AWESOME JOB!! That is EXACTLY why we are here. I can't tell you how thrilled I am that someone is finding good deals. Thanks for posting to let us know and keep up the good work.

[jeep108]

Jul 22, 2011 21:06:49 GMT -5 babss74 said:

I am so happy I read this board! I think I did my best deal ever from reading you all. I went to giant and since they have no rule about bogo coupons on a bogo sale I got 4 packs of schick disposable ladies razors and 4 packs of men's razors and three boxes of cheerios ( we go through tons the kids seem to think cereal is a snack total was $68 and walked out paying $4.24! I'm so happy. I have a few more bogo coupons so I am heading back to get more for donation purposes.

WTG.

[dancinmama]

Well, tonight DH made a beer can chicken (on the grill) from one of the 13 whole chickens that I bought for $.50/lb. I took the carcass and boiled the heck out of it. Tomorrow we will be having home-made chicken soup (luckily it's not too hot here) and biscuits for dinner. On Sunday or Monday I will make a double recipe of chicken spaghetti with the rest of the leftover cut up chicken. That ought to give us (4) meals out of one $2.75 chicken. ;D

[dancinmama]

Jul 22, 2011 21:42:09 GMT -5 rubyslippers said:

I had fun hounding with DH tonight after he was promised a nice pizza when I was done. These were my best deals:

Meijer: $3.77 OOP for 1 rotisserie chicken & 4 jars Chi Chi's salsa (thanks to Constanz)

Rite Aid: $5.77 OOP for 3 Diet Pepsi 12 pks., 4 Revlon emory boards, 2 Kotex U and I got another survey reward (both rewards were received after buying Pepsi products). My OOP was higher than normal but my $3.00 UP wouldn't go through so I had cashier initial it. I wasn't at my usual Rite Aid.

Staples: $0.00 OOP for 1 Hammermill paper ream and 1 photo paper. Paid with my $16.00 in rewards and will get a rebate check for $14.48.

ABC Warehouse: $0.00 OOP for a video cable. Paid with $19.99 cashback from not using service plan when I bought my TV a few years ago.

Kohls: $8.51 OOP after using Kohls cash for a collage frame.

I have a CVS question for anyone: Would I be able to use a $5/20 facial skin care to do the Schick deal?
$23.97 (3 pkg. Schick razors)
- 5.00 CVS CRT
- 7.99 BOGO MQ
- 2.00 MQ(2)
- 6.00 CVS IPQ's (3)
OOP= $2.98 + tax
ECB's earned: $10.00

rubyslippers: I don't THINK the CVS CRT will beep, so I think it will depend on your cashier. I think it would help if you had some of the Skintimate shave cream in there.

[finnime]

Jul 23, 2011 0:24:55 GMT -5 dancinmama said:

Well, tonight DH made a beer can chicken (on the grill) from one of the 13 whole chickens that I bought for $.50/lb. ;D

Dancin, recipe please? We have 2 oven stuffers in the freezer and a few cans of beer leftover from Thanksgiving - we don't drink beer, but DB does.

[marvholly]

Interesting. I have NOT been getting $/$$ coupons on my card in FOREVER. However, I have gotten a $3/$15 2 weeks in a row on my Dad’s card (I do his shopping these days). Thinking about ‘mothballing’ my card for a while.

Suziq
I have not found anything to make me shop at Food4Less in about a month. Have you been finding any decent deals there?

Dogmom
Re: PDF coupons. I generally save these to my documents file and ONLY print as needed. That is generally 1-2. I have printed one I use for my Dad a time/2 more.

[rubyslippers]

Jul 23, 2011 0:28:16 GMT -5 dancinmama said:

Jul 22, 2011 21:42:09 GMT -5 rubyslippers said:

I had fun hounding with DH tonight after he was promised a nice pizza when I was done. These were my best deals:

Meijer: $3.77 OOP for 1 rotisserie chicken & 4 jars Chi Chi's salsa (thanks to Constanz)

Rite Aid: $5.77 OOP for 3 Diet Pepsi 12 pks., 4 Revlon emory boards, 2 Kotex U and I got another survey reward (both rewards were received after buying Pepsi products). My OOP was higher than normal but my $3.00 UP wouldn't go through so I had cashier initial it. I wasn't at my usual Rite Aid.

Staples: $0.00 OOP for 1 Hammermill paper ream and 1 photo paper. Paid with my $16.00 in rewards and will get a rebate check for $14.48.

ABC Warehouse: $0.00 OOP for a video cable. Paid with $19.99 cashback from not using service plan when I bought my TV a few years ago.

Kohls: $8.51 OOP after using Kohls cash for a collage frame.

I have a CVS question for anyone: Would I be able to use a $5/20 facial skin care to do the Schick deal?
$23.97 (3 pkg. Schick razors)
- 5.00 CVS CRT
- 7.99 BOGO MQ
- 2.00 MQ(2)
- 6.00 CVS IPQ's (3)
OOP= $2.98 + tax
ECB's earned: $10.00

rubyslippers: I don't THINK the CVS CRT will beep, so I think it will depend on your cashier. I think it would help if you had some of the Skintimate shave cream in there.

Dancin: Thanks for the suggestion. I might add a couple since I got the $1.50 IPQ.

I picked the chicken off from my rotisserie chicken and cooked the rest overnight in the crockpot for stock. That's what I'll be doing this morning. I love having cheap, homemade chicken stock in the freezer. There are so many things you can do with it.

[dancinmama]

Jul 23, 2011 5:29:38 GMT -5 finnime said:

Jul 23, 2011 0:24:55 GMT -5 dancinmama said:

Well, tonight DH made a beer can chicken (on the grill) from one of the 13 whole chickens that I bought for $.50/lb. ;D

Dancin, recipe please? We have 2 oven stuffers in the freezer and a few cans of beer leftover from Thanksgiving - we don't drink beer, but DB does.

finnime: If any different from this, I'll update (DH is still asleep); but I think all DH does is season the chicken and sets it on the beer can that is filled 1/3 with liquid (it doesn't have to be a beer; it can be a soda can with OJ or wine, or almost any liquid in it). Set on the grill so that the chicken is "standing up" for about an hour. The chicken comes out exceptionally moist and juicy.

EDIT: Rub the outside of the chicken with oil. Season with any all-purpose seasoning. Place the chicken on the can and put in the middle of the grill (no direct heat). So if you have gas, use the outside burners and if you do coals, move the coals to the outer edges of the barbecue and place the chicken in the middle. Close the barbecue and let cook for an hour. You could probably do the exact same thing in an oven.

[leanna]

Good job Babbs!

[nickyleey]

Did ya'll see that the Pioneer Woman is now on Food Network? I knew it was just a matter of time!

[finnime]

Thanks for the recipe, Dancinmama. I know what we're having tomorrow. DS will be happy; he's trying to follow a high-protein diet to build muscle.

[rubyslippers]

Has anyone else received their Rite Aid SCR for June? Mine was sent July 7 and I still haven't received it. Usually they come pretty quickly.

[constanz22]

Jul 23, 2011 18:55:03 GMT -5 rubyslippers said:

Has anyone else received their Rite Aid SCR for June? Mine was sent July 7 and I still haven't received it. Usually they come pretty quickly.

Nope! Still waiting on mine too...some months they seem to come really fast, and others take way too long!

[leanna]

Glad you brought this up RubySlippers - I was getting a bit concerned too. Mine also says sent July 7th.