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Post by rubyslippers on Apr 16, 2014 15:56:28 GMT -5
Freesalsa, Walgreen's has eggs for $.99 a dozen this week. If you have the $.55 IPQ from a week or so ago, it comes out to $.72 a dozen when you buy 2.
I had a pretty good run at Kroger and Meijer today on most of my items. At Kroger I got a pineapple, 1 Colgate,1 hand sanitizer, 12 pk. Nestea, and 2 Birdseye recipe starters all free after coupons. I got 4 canned Dole for $.50 each,1 Cool Whip, $1.00, 2 English Muffins $.99 each, bread $1.00, and 4 . Pepsi 12 pks. $2.75 each. I spent $17.33 OOP and saved $13.80 with coupons, ecoupons, and senior discount.
At Meijer I used $15.00 in mperks rewards and got 2 bottles of Pompeian olive oil, 2 Bob Evans Italian sausage rolls, 8 cans DelMonte tomatoes and 2 cans Delmonte fruit for $1.29 OOP.
Then I finished my shopping and got a ham, 1 Wesson oil, coffee, 3 boxes of cereal (huge boxes),1 gal. milk (free) and a can of black beans for $28.37 OOP. I need to go back with my receipt as I got overcharged $2.16 on a box of cereal.
We got our beef that we ordered from a local farmer. With processing we paid $2.81 lb. which has gone up $.20 lb. from last summer.
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Post by dancinmama on Apr 16, 2014 16:04:04 GMT -5
I was just going to ask about hams. I,ve never bought one. What,s the difference between a good ham and a crap ham? In the same Ralph's /Kroger ad I ave the following. 88c lb. farmer john full half ham, fully cooked, bone in 3.99lb. Private selection quarter sliced ham, boneless, hickory or honey 2.99 fj or ps spiral ham, fully cooked, bone in at Von's/safeway Safeway spiral sliced half ham 1.99 lb. fj smoked shank half ham, bone in 99c lb. primo taglio applewood ham $5/lb. Friday only what,s the difference between these? I was just getting excited about getting some new, cheap meat, when dh said he doesn't really like ham. Great. We'll I can get some for soup. vons also has leg of lamb $3.99lb., open nature brand, whole, semi boneless, imported. That,s a good price, right? What the heck is semi boneless?? If you're going to use it for soup, I'd definitely buy the ham that is $.88/lb. Quite frankly, I cannot tell one ham from another and I don't know which cut they use when they do the spiral cut hams. I see shank cut and butt cut and I looked them up on the internet. The shank cut is supposed to be easier to slice; the butt cut is supposed to be more "flavorful". I've never had a ham that wasn't flavorful, have you?
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Post by rubyslippers on Apr 16, 2014 22:39:00 GMT -5
My step-mother is a great cook and always serves a spiral ham for holidays but said to choose a butt or shank ham if you want the best flavor. I usually buy the cheap ones and pick it off the bone for other meals and then freeze the bone to use when flavoring soups. I was curious too and found a lot of info on ham at seriouseatsdotcom. The site also had a different way of preparing a ham by using a beer cooler, hot water and a cooking bag which is supposed to make a very moist ham. Sorry, I don't know how to post the whole link.
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Post by marvholly on Apr 17, 2014 4:20:08 GMT -5
I cannot believe the ‘sale’ price of eggs for Easter week. Several of my stores are running jumbo eggs for $1.50/dz. Makes the WAG 0.99 for large (which is what most recipes are based upon) look GREAT. While I am using a LOT of eggs this week I still have just under 2 dz in my fridge. However, I am planning on buying another dz before the ad expires. It is the cheapest protein out there and I do not mind having them for any meal but I do keep it down to 3-5 eggs/week.
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Post by skubikky on Apr 17, 2014 7:16:44 GMT -5
Looked at this weeks and next weeks CVS ads and decided to use the $15ECB this week.
(2) Speedstick 2/$5 ==> $1.99 ECB (1) L'Oreal hair mask $4 (2) Colgate Total TP 2x $3 $6 (2) Kleenex 2 x $0.77 $1.54 (1) Palmolive Dish soap $.99 (1) Almay makeup remover $5.99 ==> $2 ECB (5) Lindsay olives 5 x $.99 $4.95 (2) Caramels 2 x $.33 $0.66 (Filler) Total $29.13
-$1/2 Colgate MC -$2.50/1 Colgate CRT -$4/1 Almay MC -$2/1 L'Oreal MC - (2) $2/1 Speed Stick MC - $0.50/1 Palmolive MC -$15 ECB Subtotal = $0.13 tax = $0.16 Total = $.29 OOP + $1.99 ECB + $2 ECB
Feels like the old days.
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Post by murphath on Apr 17, 2014 9:49:16 GMT -5
Well, at my house we will be serving home made jambalaya for Easter dinner. Yes, a really traditional dish. DD2 will be the only child able to come and that's what she requested. I'm still thinking about getting a Honey Baked ham as those are my absolute favorite and worth every penny. Not for Easter dinner, but my mom used to make what she called a "New England boiled dinner". Think corned beef and cabbage but using the butt ham. It's really good--just remember to cut off all the fat which is much easier to do once it's been in the boiling water for awhile. An hour before ready, put in the potatoes, cabbage and carrots. My bargain of the week: buying 3 boxes of Kelloggs mini-wheats for .25 each at Target using the coupons.com $3/3 Kelloggs cereals IP and the 50% off Target Cartwheel. Still time to do this deal as the Cartwheel promo is good through 4/19. In other news, my downstairs floors are done. So pretty! I'll be ripping out carpet upstairs next week for flooring phase two. My trim painting hasn't happened as we are babysitting a cat and she's all over the window sills. I can just see little white cat paws all over my new floor! Yikes! I did manage to paint the downstairs hall closet with my free quart of Kelly-Moore paint. Why does free make it look sooo good?!!!
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Post by FreeSalsa on Apr 17, 2014 22:17:33 GMT -5
Thanks for all the ham and egg advice. (Btw, ham and eggs are two of the very few things I can say in French.) I'm going to Vons/Safeway tomorrow for the $5 Friday giant sandwich so I will check out the ham. I also need to check my J4U and see if there's anything good there. Thanks for the heads up on the Kettle Chips. As for eggs, I wasn't able to print the IP but I'll take the 99c price. I haven't seen anything less than $2.50 in weeks.
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Post by marvholly on Apr 18, 2014 6:15:04 GMT -5
Free Salsa I have not been able to print ANY smart source coupons since I got this computer in Nov 2012. Was able to download & install the couponsdotcom application but the smart source does not 'take.' One of these days I might try to track down why & how to fix, esp now w/not buying newspapers.
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Post by dancinmama on Apr 18, 2014 9:49:45 GMT -5
I finally got to WAGs yesterday to pick up some eggs. I grabbed 6 dozen. When I got to the check stand the lady in front of me was buying a really pretty Easter lily and I commented on it. Then it was my turn and the cashier said that there was a limit of 3 dozen on the eggs. I apologized and said that I did not realize that there was a limit. The lady with the Easter lily hadn't walked out yet and offered to buy (3) dozen on her card for me. Wasn't that nice? The cashier told me that she was told about the limit when she started her shift so I don't know if they've been limiting all week or if there was a run on eggs at WAGs (since no one else seems to be having a deal) so they had to start limiting. I am kind of shocked at the lack of deals on eggs for Easter because it seemed like in previous years EVERYONE had a sale on them. I thought Smart & Final might have a deal, but the only other ad that I saw them in was CVS @ $1.79/dozen!! They are not even in the ads from my grocery chains or the ethnic markets. This is not an item that I can get cheaply at the Grocery Outlet or the 99 Cent Store and we use eggs regularly.
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Post by murphath on Apr 18, 2014 10:00:48 GMT -5
Dancin: About a month or so ago, the stores in NorCal were having difficulty getting enough eggs. At the time, Safeway had given me a $1.99 price on Eggland eggs which is the brand I prefer. When I went to the store, all the eggs were gone and the shelves were empty. There was a sign explaining why. I stopped at Raleys on my way home: same thing. Don't know if that has anything to do with the few egg promos or not.
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Post by dancinmama on Apr 18, 2014 10:00:55 GMT -5
Thanks for all the ham and egg advice. (Btw, ham and eggs are two of the very few things I can say in French.) I'm going to Vons/Safeway tomorrow for the $5 Friday giant sandwich so I will check out the ham. I also need to check my J4U and see if there's anything good there. Thanks for the heads up on the Kettle Chips. As for eggs, I wasn't able to print the IP but I'll take the 99c price. I haven't seen anything less than $2.50 in weeks. I hope you have the J4U price in your personalized deals. $1.17/bag is hard to beat.
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Post by dancinmama on Apr 18, 2014 10:57:10 GMT -5
Dancin: About a month or so ago, the stores in NorCal were having difficulty getting enough eggs. At the time, Safeway had given me a $1.99 price on Eggland eggs which is the brand I prefer. When I went to the store, all the eggs were gone and the shelves were empty. There was a sign explaining why. I stopped at Raleys on my way home: same thing. Don't know if that has anything to do with the few egg promos or not. Well, that puts a new light on things. Whatever the issue is, I hope it gets resolved soon. I'm wondering if there are some new regulations on the egg industry or perhaps the cost of chicken feed has skyrocketed. It's too bad because eggs used to be a relatively cheap protein. That's the one thing that I dislike about the J4U program - they don't offer rain checks on those prices even if they are OOS. When I went to my Safeway to use DH's $5/$30 to buy the ham and Lays kettle chips they we completely OOS of the applewood smoked variety (40% less fat). They didn't even have any of the kettle chips barbecued variety (not less fat). Fortunately we had to go to a rockery in the next town over so I stopped at the Safeway there and they had the exact amount that I needed on the shelf. My $5/$30 was going to expire and would have been a little miffed if I hadn't been able to do the deal as a result of stocking issues AND no possibility of rain checks. I hope something changes so that they will start offering rainchecks on J4U promotions. Just like the ads, they use them to get you in the door; they ought to make sure they have enough stock to honor them.
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Post by rubyslippers on Apr 18, 2014 21:21:07 GMT -5
I have the gold status at Rite Aid which allows me to get 20% off everything not on sale. When no one else has a good deal on eggs, I can get mine for $1.59 a dozen. Right now, I don't need eggs or have any UPs to spend since I used UPs to get a couple of jars of Jif peanut butter and a couple bottles of Mentos. Last year there was a store that had eggs for $.39 a dozen. I price matched several dozen at Walmart at that time and several other people did too.
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Post by FreeSalsa on Apr 18, 2014 22:43:55 GMT -5
Marvholly, I haven't been able to print anything Smart Source or Java for probably two years. The Java update does not work for me at home or at work. Even the IT guys are stumped. One said that Java knows that people are having problems with it but they are taking their time fixing it. It bums me out because I have missed out on years of Earthbound Farms organic Qs. They put out a new one every few days so it's a gold mine that I can't use.
I guess I'll take DH along to Wags in case they limit me on eggs.
Vons/Safeway: I looked at the lamb and even at $3.99/lb. the cheapest one started at $20 so forget it. The 99c hams were also large and about $10, but didn't look that great, to my inexperienced eye. I'll get it at Ralphs/Kroger tomorrow instead. And I didn't get the chips Q so I skipped that. What I did get was the $5 Friday deals:
$5 giant sandwich $5 teriaki chicken wings $5 Quilted Northern - 10% J4U Q (there's also an MC but I didn't have it on me and I needed it now) $5 family size cheese pizza To the pizza we added the 50c package of pepperoni ($ store - MC) and free can of black olives (CVS MM) I had already. DH liked this pizza better than any of the other frozen ones we've had. He's got a sensitive stomach so I'll ask him again tomorrow if he still feels the same way. (Good thing I got the TP, right?! Ha ha. I think we lost most of our gross joke fans.) I put a slice of pizza in the freezer for a lunch another day. I'm trying to make my own frozen dinners to save time and money.
We ate the pizza with cherry tomatoes from the garden (free, since these plants just keep popping out of the ground, I didn't even use seeds!) And I came home to find two boxes of fruit from the fruit of the month club, which was a gift. Yay!
The guy behind me in line at Vons had lettuce, spinach, berries, yogurt, and water. Boy did I feel like a pig with my cart full of junk food! It's ok though. I eat well most of the time.
Happy Easter and Passover, Everybody!
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Post by saveinla on Apr 19, 2014 0:10:49 GMT -5
Had a great run at Vons (SW) today - Had to use a 10$ cat I got when I exchanged one 100$ Visa GC for another 100$ MC.
Wesson Oil - 2.49*2 - 2*0.75 IPQ Pam Spray - 1*2.49 Kens Salad Dressing - 1*2.12 - 1$ MQ BE Chef's Variety - 1*1.67 minus 50c MQ BE Recipe Ready veggie - 1*1/67 minus 1$ MQ C&W Stir Fry veggies - 1*1.66 minus 1$ MQ One small cup of Dreyers icecream - 1*0.99
Paid 59C after the 10$ catakina Q. The cashier was really god about all my Qs, since the store was completely full on Friday evening.
-- Wish I had more of the Birds Eye & C&W veggie Qs. My boss gave me his insert, so I just used one set of the Qs.
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Post by rubyslippers on Apr 19, 2014 7:58:54 GMT -5
Saveinla, good job on your grocery deal! How do you use the recipe ready vegetables? I have a few bags in my freezer and was going to use them for soups but do you use them for anything else? I got the onions and green peppers.
Marvholly, I can only print smartsource coupons if I use Chrome. I only use it for printing coupons otherwise I use IE.
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Post by dancinmama on Apr 19, 2014 10:06:24 GMT -5
I have the gold status at Rite Aid which allows me to get 20% off everything not on sale. When no one else has a good deal on eggs, I can get mine for $1.59 a dozen. Right now, I don't need eggs or have any UPs to spend since I used UPs to get a couple of jars of Jif peanut butter and a couple bottles of Mentos. Last year there was a store that had eggs for $.39 a dozen. I price matched several dozen at Walmart at that time and several other people did too. $.39 a dozen for eggs!! Wow, the lowest I can remember getting them for in recent years is $.59/doz. and that hasn't been for a few years. That's an amazing price.
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Post by dancinmama on Apr 19, 2014 10:20:14 GMT -5
Marvholly, I haven't been able to print anything Smart Source or Java for probably two years. The Java update does not work for me at home or at work. Even the IT guys are stumped. One said that Java knows that people are having problems with it but they are taking their time fixing it. It bums me out because I have missed out on years of Earthbound Farms organic Qs. They put out a new one every few days so it's a gold mine that I can't use. I haven't been able to print coupons on-line for years either. I tried to install Target's coupon printer when they switched software a couple of years ago and it just put me in a loop; Java does the same thing. My DBIL is an IT guy (more hardware than software, but still....) and he couldn't get them to load either. I finally just gave up. And that's why I'm totally coupon-less except what I might ask my mom to send me cuz I have no inserts and I can't print. I haven't been coupon-less for decades and it feels rather strange. If it weren't for the fact that I do most of our shopping at the GO and the 99 Cent Store, neither of which even take coupons, I'd be really bummed. My latest "find" was 48 oz. Tree Top FruitFull Smoothie for $.55/bottle (after my 5% discount). I bought the strawberry flavor and mix it with tequilla and crushed ice to make a quasi-strawberry margarita. It is quite good!!
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Post by dancinmama on Apr 19, 2014 10:21:10 GMT -5
Free Salsa: I've been meaning to ask you. Did you ever make your way to the GO? I wondered if you happened to find anything decent.
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Post by saveinla on Apr 19, 2014 13:02:20 GMT -5
Saveinla, good job on your grocery deal! How do you use the recipe ready vegetables? I have a few bags in my freezer and was going to use them for soups but do you use them for anything else? I got the onions and green peppers.
Marvholly, I can only print smartsource coupons if I use Chrome. I only use it for printing coupons otherwise I use IE. ruby, I too usually buy the peppers and onion blend and use them for making scrambled eggs or for stir fry.
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Post by dancinmama on Apr 20, 2014 9:04:33 GMT -5
Wishing all you Grocery Challengers a most excellent Easter Sunday and Passover!! Have an awesome holiday.
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Post by FreeSalsa on Apr 20, 2014 11:03:44 GMT -5
Free Salsa: I've been meaning to ask you. Did you ever make your way to the GO? I wondered if you happened to find anything decent. No, not yet. I got sick the weekend I was supposed to go so we rescheduled. And I'm planning to take my brother and DH with me so I doubt they'll have the patience to go with me. But I'll try.
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Post by FreeSalsa on Apr 20, 2014 11:16:47 GMT -5
The bad news is that Ralphs was completely out of the cheap ham. I was told they were "devastated" on Friday and sold out. They kept saying, we can give you a rain check but it won't do you any good, since we won't be getting them again. I guess I should have gotten it at Vons when I had a chance. Live and learn. It's not a big deal though, since neither of us are big ham eaters. It was just going to be backup meat and for soup. Maybe next year.
The good news is that at Wags I was able to get the last three tuna and the last four unbroken cartons of eggs, AND was able to get a rain check for 6 more of both! Also got rain checks for the 39c Sharpie and 99c Wags cream cheese.
If you have Jons, Philly cream cheese is 99c this week CA strawberries 99c Herbs for under $1 They regularly have inexpensive produce (5 lb carrots 99c on Thursday only this week) but a lot of it comes from Mexico. Hurray for any produce year-round, but in Mexico, they spray pesticides on the food that are illegal to use in the U.S. You can't spray them here, but you can spray them in Mexico and then import the sprayed food. Doesn't make much sense. But Jons is on the way home so I'll swing by for the cream cheese and 4-ingredient bread they carry from local bakeries.
I think it was Food 4 Less (Kroger) that had twin-pack, Sanderson Farms whole chickens for 69c/lb. That's the cheapest I've seen for a while. It's a little out of the way but everything's just a bit cheaper there than at Ralphs so I may go.
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Post by FreeSalsa on Apr 20, 2014 12:06:52 GMT -5
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Post by dancinmama on Apr 20, 2014 23:10:56 GMT -5
The bad news is that Ralphs was completely out of the cheap ham. I was told they were "devastated" on Friday and sold out. They kept saying, we can give you a rain check but it won't do you any good, since we won't be getting them again. I guess I should have gotten it at Vons when I had a chance. Live and learn. It's not a big deal though, since neither of us are big ham eaters. It was just going to be backup meat and for soup. Maybe next year. The good news is that at Wags I was able to get the last three tuna and the last four unbroken cartons of eggs, AND was able to get a rain check for 6 more of both! Also got rain checks for the 39c Sharpie and 99c Wags cream cheese. If you have Jons, Philly cream cheese is 99c this week CA strawberries 99c Herbs for under $1 They regularly have inexpensive produce (5 lb carrots 99c on Thursday only this week) but a lot of it comes from Mexico. Hurray for any produce year-round, but in Mexico, they spray pesticides on the food that are illegal to use in the U.S. You can't spray them here, but you can spray them in Mexico and then import the sprayed food. Doesn't make much sense. But Jons is on the way home so I'll swing by for the cream cheese and 4-ingredient bread they carry from local bakeries. Have you tried the WAGs brand cream cheese? IMO, it's okay for something like clam dip, but the rich, creamy flavor is not there for something like spreading on bagels. You might feel differently, but we're not very picky and we didn't like it.
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Post by dancinmama on Apr 20, 2014 23:12:47 GMT -5
Thanks for the heads up, but I don't like mine with lime. I just fill the glass with ice, pour in the tequilla, and add margarita mix. No lime; no salt for me.
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Post by dancinmama on Apr 20, 2014 23:15:13 GMT -5
Free Salsa: I've been meaning to ask you. Did you ever make your way to the GO? I wondered if you happened to find anything decent. No, not yet. I got sick the weekend I was supposed to go so we rescheduled. And I'm planning to take my brother and DH with me so I doubt they'll have the patience to go with me. But I'll try. It's really hit or miss there. Sometimes I hit the jackpot and sometimes I walk out with little or nothing.
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Post by marvholly on Apr 21, 2014 6:18:20 GMT -5
Free Salsa I have Food4Less a mile or so from me. I only wish they had whole chicken for 0.69. Mine also has fairly inexpensive gasoline (comparativly).
Dancin i do use Aldi/WAG/store brand cream cheese and don't mind it. NOTE: I am Jewish so grew up when there was ONLY Kraft. Also, cream cheese is one of those items in BAM - means it HAS to meet certain minimum standards to be labeled cream cheese. Other BAM items include OJ, milk, ice cream, assorted juices. i KNOW there are WAAAY more BAM items-just don't recall. I am a NO salt person too but like my limes which have already >3x in price here.
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Post by dancinmama on Apr 21, 2014 9:10:06 GMT -5
Free Salsa I have Food4Less a mile or so from me. I only wish they had whole chicken for 0.69. Mine also has fairly inexpensive gasoline (comparativly). Dancin i do use Aldi/WAG/store brand cream cheese and don't mind it. NOTE: I am Jewish so grew up when there was ONLY Kraft. Also, cream cheese is one of those items in BAM - means it HAS to meet certain minimum standards to be labeled cream cheese. Other BAM items include OJ, milk, ice cream, assorted juices. i KNOW there are WAAAY more BAM items-just don't recall. I am a NO salt person too but like my limes which have already >3x in price here. I've never tried the Aldi's brand of cream cheese because we don't have that store here. I have tried several other generics and never noticed any difference until I tried the "Nice" brand when it was on sale at WAGs for $.99. Luckily cream cheese has a long shelf life so I just used what I had purchased for making clam dip. I recently found Philly for $.50/8 oz. brick so I won't have to worry about purchasing any for quite a while.
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Post by emhalf on Apr 21, 2014 14:02:35 GMT -5
Saveinla, good job on your grocery deal! How do you use the recipe ready vegetables? I have a few bags in my freezer and was going to use them for soups but do you use them for anything else? I got the onions and green peppers. I like them in tacos and bolognese sauce, where I can mix them in with the meat while I brown it. This weekend I had them in hashbrowns. I think the onion/garlic might be good in burgers, but I haven't tried it. I've been getting a lot of the onion/green pepper and onion/garlic for free with coupons because they come in smaller bags and are on sale for $1 all the time around here.
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