THE MARCH 2011 GROCERY CHALLENGE THREAD

[mizbear]

I have all kinds of Target beauty coupons and some decent P&G coupons that I will be posting for those who are interested. They have long expirations (The earliest are the end of July). My computer does not want to load my excel coupon file- I have to search excel and find out what my niece put the coupon file under. Or break down and call her when she gets out of school...

[dogmom]

I'm wondering about something. Maybe this isn't happening in your area, but it seems to be in mine. Today I stopped at the dollar store and picked up the early edition of the Sunday Tribune. I get one delivered (fifty cents per week Sunday only) and the CVS insert isn't in the early edition. It wasn't included last week either. It shows up in the local paper edition for Sunday, it appears in the delivered Tribune, but not the early edition. I wonder why. Does anyone have any ideas? You would think that when advertising, you would want as much exposure as you could get. Just curious. Happy Hounding.

[rubyslippers]

This was another good weekend to hound. I spent $44.52 OOP, saved $164.17 with coupons and rewards and will get back $17.75 in rebates.

Rite Aid: 2 dozen eggs, 10 cans tuna (raincheck), 3 Dixie plates (raincheck), 2 Physician Formula, 2 Revlon nail files, 2 Nutra Nails, 4 D. Pepsi: I paid
nothing but Q's, UPs and giftcard. I am officially out of UPs but still have over $25.00 on giftcard.

WAGS: 6 boxes Jello pudding: I paid $.04 using $1.00 RR and two $1.25/3 Q

Walmart: 7 Gain dryer sheets, 8 boxes Cascadian Farm cereal, bananas, lettuce, cabbage, celery and carrots: Paid $7.47 after using 7 $3.00 Gain Q's,
7 C.F. cereal Q's, 3 $1.50 produce Q's. The best part is I have $12.00 in produce Q's to use.

Dollar General: 4 Reach floss, 6 Gain dish soap, 2 Oral-B toothbrushes, 7 McCormick gravy packs, 4 cans mushrooms, coffee filters, 3-way lightbulb, 2
Glade solids: I had a $5/25.00 Q plus coupons for everything but lightbulb, coffee filters and mushrooms: I paid $1.53 OOP

Meijers: 4 Freschetta pizzas, 1 whole chicken, 1 beef brisket, 2 Sargento cheese, 3 McCormick pepper, 6 cans Dole pineapple, 1 Heluva dip, bread, milk,
and 2 Pepsi Max. I rolled two $2.50 cats from pepper to pay for the chicken. I paid $33.19 OOP

CVS: 2 Crest toothpaste, 1 Allegra and 1 L'Oreal Youth Code: I paid $2.29 OOP plus ECB's

[arkie]

Mar 26, 2011 13:17:19 GMT -5 rubyslippers said:

This was another good weekend to hound. I spent $44.52 OOP, saved $164.17 with coupons and rewards and will get back $17.75 in rebates.

Rite Aid: 2 dozen eggs, 10 cans tuna (raincheck), 3 Dixie plates (raincheck), 2 Physician Formula, 2 Revlon nail files, 2 Nutra Nails, 4 D. Pepsi: I paid
nothing but Q's, UPs and giftcard. I am officially out of UPs but still have over $25.00 on giftcard.

WAGS: 6 boxes Jello pudding: I paid $.04 using $1.00 RR and two $1.25/3 Q

Walmart: 7 Gain dryer sheets, 8 boxes Cascadian Farm cereal, bananas, lettuce, cabbage, celery and carrots: Paid $7.47 after using 7 $3.00 Gain Q's,
7 C.F. cereal Q's, 3 $1.50 produce Q's. The best part is I have $12.00 in produce Q's to use.

Dollar General: 4 Reach floss, 6 Gain dish soap, 2 Oral-B toothbrushes, 7 McCormick gravy packs, 4 cans mushrooms, coffee filters, 3-way lightbulb, 2
Glade solids: I had a $5/25.00 Q plus coupons for everything but lightbulb, coffee filters and mushrooms: I paid $1.53 OOP

Meijers: 4 Freschetta pizzas, 1 whole chicken, 1 beef brisket, 2 Sargento cheese, 3 McCormick pepper, 6 cans Dole pineapple, 1 Heluva dip, bread, milk,
and 2 Pepsi Max. I rolled two $2.50 cats from pepper to pay for the chicken. I paid $33.19 OOP

CVS: 2 Crest toothpaste, 1 Allegra and 1 L'Oreal Youth Code: I paid $2.29 OOP plus ECB's

How did you get the produce Q's?

[rubyslippers]

Arkie, on the back of certain Cascadian Farm cereal boxes are $4.50 in coupons to spend at Walmart. $1.50 produce Q, $1.00 cereal Q and $1.00 granola bars Q.

[picghaw]

HOUND ALERT: The Physician Formular IP from a few weeks ago... was that a pdf (thought a I read that here last weekend). If it was , can someone PM/email (my username at yahoo dot com) it to me?

Thanks!

[upstatemom]

Mar 26, 2011 13:17:19 GMT -5 rubyslippers said:

This was another good weekend to hound. I spent $44.52 OOP, saved $164.17 with coupons and rewards and will get back $17.75 in rebates.

Rite Aid: 2 dozen eggs, 10 cans tuna (raincheck), 3 Dixie plates (raincheck), 2 Physician Formula, 2 Revlon nail files, 2 Nutra Nails, 4 D. Pepsi: I paid
nothing but Q's, UPs and giftcard. I am officially out of UPs but still have over $25.00 on giftcard.

WAGS: 6 boxes Jello pudding: I paid $.04 using $1.00 RR and two $1.25/3 Q

Walmart: 7 Gain dryer sheets, 8 boxes Cascadian Farm cereal, bananas, lettuce, cabbage, celery and carrots: Paid $7.47 after using 7 $3.00 Gain Q's,
7 C.F. cereal Q's, 3 $1.50 produce Q's. The best part is I have $12.00 in produce Q's to use.

Dollar General: 4 Reach floss, 6 Gain dish soap, 2 Oral-B toothbrushes, 7 McCormick gravy packs, 4 cans mushrooms, coffee filters, 3-way lightbulb, 2
Glade solids: I had a $5/25.00 Q plus coupons for everything but lightbulb, coffee filters and mushrooms: I paid $1.53 OOP

Meijers: 4 Freschetta pizzas, 1 whole chicken, 1 beef brisket, 2 Sargento cheese, 3 McCormick pepper, 6 cans Dole pineapple, 1 Heluva dip, bread, milk,
and 2 Pepsi Max. I rolled two $2.50 cats from pepper to pay for the chicken. I paid $33.19 OOP

CVS: 2 Crest toothpaste, 1 Allegra and 1 L'Oreal Youth Code: I paid $2.29 OOP plus ECB's

impressive! Question on Dollar General, Do they let you use mutlple 5/25 for one 25 purchase? I hate to admitt, I do not take advantage of those coupons, I think I will now pay attention to them.

[mizbear]

We get those little tomato coupons and Cuties in our coupon papers, but no other produce qs unless they are like the cascadian bonuses.

[rubyslippers]

Upstatemom: No, you can only use one 5/25 Q per transaction. I try to get my order up as close as I can to $20.00 using mostly coupons and then the $5/25 comes in to pick up items I really need. You can do several transactions, though, if you have multiple $5/25 Q. Hope that helps.

[rubyslippers]

Mar 26, 2011 18:16:56 GMT -5 mizbear said:

We get those little tomato coupons and Cuties in our coupon papers, but no other produce qs unless they are like the cascadian bonuses.

We do too and that's why I jumped at the chance to take advantage of the cereal deal. I don't know which blog I read that told me about this. The neat thing about it is that the coupons don't expire until 1/1/2012. I just hope they keep coming out with this cereal. I can pricematch most of the produce at Walmart to get the best deals.

[leanna]

I my RA!

I went today to get the Snuggie deal. I'm figuring you fabulously frugal gals already have done this deal.

I had my $4 vv from February. The Snuggie's have been marked down 75% to $3.74.

So, I brought the Snuggie to the register, and advised the cashier she'd need to mark down the coupon. I did this, because that's what I was reading that I needed to do on all the coupon blogs. (Note: Normally when I have MQ's that are more than the purchase price, I just make sure I have other stuff to absorb the overage. But I thought in this case since it was a RA Q, this was what I was supposed to do.)

Well, she just looked at me like I was speaking another language, but said she'd call the Supervisor over. And I groaned to myself and thought, "Leanna, WHAT have you done?"

The Supervisor came up and after the cashier explained the problem, the Supervisor turned to me and said, "How about we give you a free candy with this?" as she grabbed a Cow Tale for .25. They marked it up a penny and -viola- FREE Snuggie and FREE piece of candy! LOL - tell me - is my RA seriously awesome or what?

[murphath]

deepindebt:
Re you question about the 3/$5 RR for purchasing Almay: The number of q's and/or RR's you use must equal the number of products you purchase. Thus, you have 3 RR's, you must purchase a minimum of 3 items in order to use all three. For example, maybe what you really want to buy is $13.00. Throw in 2 other items that equal $2 and you are good to use all 3 of your RR's. HTH.

[suziq38]

Mar 26, 2011 18:31:29 GMT -5 leanna said:

I my RA!

I went today to get the Snuggie deal. I'm figuring you fabulously frugal gals already have done this deal.

I had my $4 vv from February. The Snuggie's have been marked down 75% to $3.74.

So, I brought the Snuggie to the register, and advised the cashier she'd need to mark down the coupon. I did this, because that's what I was reading that I needed to do on all the coupon blogs. (Note: Normally when I have MQ's that are more than the purchase price, I just make sure I have other stuff to absorb the overage. But I thought in this case since it was a RA Q, this was what I was supposed to do.)

Well, she just looked at me like I was speaking another language, but said she'd call the Supervisor over. And I groaned to myself and thought, "Leanna, WHAT have you done?"

The Supervisor came up and after the cashier explained the problem, the Supervisor turned to me and said, "How about we give you a free candy with this?" as she grabbed a Cow Tale for .25. They marked it up a penny and -viola- FREE Snuggie and FREE piece of candy! LOL - tell me - is my RA seriously awesome or what?

Leanna,
I did this deal last week, but it is well worth mentioning again.
Same Snuggie (mine was camouflage), and I had the same VV $4.00 coupon.
The cashieer had to price adjust the coupon DOWN to $3.74. YAY.

Thanks for posting!

[suziq38]

Mar 26, 2011 13:17:19 GMT -5 rubyslippers said:

This was another good weekend to hound. I spent $44.52 OOP, saved $164.17 with coupons and rewards and will get back $17.75 in rebates.

Rite Aid: 2 dozen eggs, 10 cans tuna (raincheck), 3 Dixie plates (raincheck), 2 Physician Formula, 2 Revlon nail files, 2 Nutra Nails, 4 D. Pepsi: I paid
nothing but Q's, UPs and giftcard. I am officially out of UPs but still have over $25.00 on giftcard.

WAGS: 6 boxes Jello pudding: I paid $.04 using $1.00 RR and two $1.25/3 Q

Walmart: 7 Gain dryer sheets, 8 boxes Cascadian Farm cereal, bananas, lettuce, cabbage, celery and carrots: Paid $7.47 after using 7 $3.00 Gain Q's,
7 C.F. cereal Q's, 3 $1.50 produce Q's. The best part is I have $12.00 in produce Q's to use.

Dollar General: 4 Reach floss, 6 Gain dish soap, 2 Oral-B toothbrushes, 7 McCormick gravy packs, 4 cans mushrooms, coffee filters, 3-way lightbulb, 2
Glade solids: I had a $5/25.00 Q plus coupons for everything but lightbulb, coffee filters and mushrooms: I paid $1.53 OOP

Meijers: 4 Freschetta pizzas, 1 whole chicken, 1 beef brisket, 2 Sargento cheese, 3 McCormick pepper, 6 cans Dole pineapple, 1 Heluva dip, bread, milk,
and 2 Pepsi Max. I rolled two $2.50 cats from pepper to pay for the chicken. I paid $33.19 OOP

CVS: 2 Crest toothpaste, 1 Allegra and 1 L'Oreal Youth Code: I paid $2.29 OOP plus ECB's

Ruby slippers,
What a great "haul."

[herekittykitty]

Mar 26, 2011 13:10:09 GMT -5 dogmom said:

I'm wondering about something. Maybe this isn't happening in your area, but it seems to be in mine. Today I stopped at the dollar store and picked up the early edition of the Sunday Tribune. I get one delivered (fifty cents per week Sunday only) and the CVS insert isn't in the early edition. It wasn't included last week either. It shows up in the local paper edition for Sunday, it appears in the delivered Tribune, but not the early edition. I wonder why. Does anyone have any ideas? You would think that when advertising, you would want as much exposure as you could get. Just curious. Happy Hounding.

I rarely get the drug store flyers in my paper anymore...I thought it was probably a cost-saving measure for the stores. I always feel bad "trashing" so many flyers in the store just to use the in-ad coupons.

[dancinmama]

Mar 26, 2011 8:33:04 GMT -5 suziq38 said:

APRIL FREE AFTER SCR AT RITE AIDHopefully something more will show up before the end of April, but just looking at the April SCR Booklet, here's what I think will be free after SCR for the month:
Dancinmama,
Is there anything for me to buy this week to "roll" my UPs besides the Trident??
I bought 14 Trident for free with 7 BOGO coupons yesterday.

Thanks

suzi: Unless some huge MM materializes like magic, I am taking a pass at Rite Aid this week. Next week, though, I'm going to be REALLY busy there with the Tena and Polygrip SCRs IF WE GET THE sales prices IN CALIFORNIA!! Please let us know when you get your ad for Friday 4/1. I think the rebates are valid starting 4/3.

[leanna]

Mar 26, 2011 20:23:54 GMT -5 dancinmama said:

Mar 26, 2011 8:33:04 GMT -5 suziq38 said:

APRIL FREE AFTER SCR AT RITE AIDHopefully something more will show up before the end of April, but just looking at the April SCR Booklet, here's what I think will be free after SCR for the month:
Dancinmama,
Is there anything for me to buy this week to "roll" my UPs besides the Trident??
I bought 14 Trident for free with 7 BOGO coupons yesterday.

Thanks

suzi: Unless some huge MM materializes like magic, I am taking a pass at Rite Aid this week. Next week, though, I'm going to be REALLY busy there with the Tena and Polygrip SCRs IF WE GET THE sales prices IN CALIFORNIA!! Please let us know when you get your ad for Friday 4/1. I think the rebates are valid starting 4/3.

I think this will be the first Sunday in 2 months that I don't go to Rite Aid. I kept on looking & looking but couldn't find anything good.

But, next week...Tena, Physicians Formula & Scunci...yaaaaay!

[nickyleey]

Mar 26, 2011 5:11:09 GMT -5 The Home 6 said:

Thanks, suziq and murphath! I went to WAGS yesterday as well, I won't bore you all with the transactions...but the lady was really nice and told me that, "well, you need to divide it up into a couple different transactions so you get all the register rewards." I was buying a lot of Suave product, because when you buy $10, you get $3 in RR. I made a note of her name, so I can look for her the next time I'm shopping there, and put in a comment card about what a helpful employee she is!

the home 6 - you've found the "holy grail" of WAGS cashiers!! Good for you! You're right to look for her each time. I wish I had a cashier like that when I was starting out. Heck - I could use one like that now and I've been doing this for a couple of years!

[debinwa]

Mar 26, 2011 15:37:34 GMT -5 picghaw said:

HOUND ALERT: The Physician Formular IP from a few weeks ago... was that a pdf (thought a I read that here last weekend). If it was , can someone PM/email (my username at yahoo dot com) it to me?

Thanks!

picghaw: sent you a PM.

[p8nt]

Mar 26, 2011 22:38:33 GMT -5 debinwa said:

Mar 26, 2011 15:37:34 GMT -5 picghaw said:

HOUND ALERT: The Physician Formular IP from a few weeks ago... was that a pdf (thought a I read that here last weekend). If it was , can someone PM/email (my username at yahoo dot com) it to me?

Thanks!

picghaw: sent you a PM.

I am not sure how pdf coupons work, but I would love to have it too if that is possible. [e-mail]

[shelly527in]

Mizbear--- Thanks for the coupons!

[rubyslippers]

The only things I might get at Rite Aid this week are the American Greeting cards. I need some nice free graduation cards.

[Deleted]

HOUND ALERT!

DOUBLE DOUBLE DAZE! AT Pick'N' Save on Saturday, April 2nd.

Double up to 10 coupons with a value up to $1.00!!!!

This was posted in the Sunday paper here in SE WI. ;D

[Deleted]

Mar 26, 2011 22:38:33 GMT -5 debinwa said:

Mar 26, 2011 15:37:34 GMT -5 picghaw said:

HOUND ALERT: The Physician Formular IP from a few weeks ago... was that a pdf (thought a I read that here last weekend). If it was , can someone PM/email (my username at yahoo dot com) it to me?

Thanks!

picghaw: sent you a PM.

dabinwa: Please, could you also send the PF pdf coupon to me?? Such an awesome deal this week at CVS. Thanks so so much! If I can mail you anything- let me know.

[bobbysgirl]

Mar 27, 2011 6:57:56 GMT -5 rubyslippers said:

The only things I might get at Rite Aid this week are the American Greeting cards. I need some nice free graduation cards.

Ditto. I'll use the 1.00/3 MQ and the 3.00/3 in ad Q.

[princessleia]

Such good deals at WAGs this week and I got all the MQs to match - Colgate, Edge/Skintimate, Folgers, etc and I will be having a hard time to get rid of last week's RRs with this week's shopping..... I will need to look for fillers. Can sb tell me if Domino's Confectioner Sugar at 79cts a good deal? Don't tell me to get candy or easter eggs! I am trying to avoid paying for junk foods. Any good ideas for fillers at WAGs?

[dancinmama]

Mar 27, 2011 8:52:59 GMT -5 princessleia said:

Such good deals at WAGs this week and I got all the MQs to match - Colgate, Edge/Skintimate, Folgers, etc and I will be having a hard time to get rid of last week's RRs with this week's shopping..... I will need to look for fillers. Can sb tell me if Domino's Confectioner Sugar at 79cts a good deal? Don't tell me to get candy or easter eggs! I am trying to avoid paying for junk foods. Any good ideas for fillers at WAGs?

princessleia: I usually look for confectioner's sugar @ 2/$1, but if you have RRs to burn and want to stockpile some I don't think $.79 is too bad. I even considered burning a RR on the brown sugar, but I opted for coffee instead.

[princessleia]

'but I opted for coffee instead'

Is it Folgers Coffee 11.3 oz? There is a MQ already....do you have it? Folgers $2 coupon from their email-club.

[dancinmama]

Mar 27, 2011 9:27:37 GMT -5 princessleia said:

'but I opted for coffee instead'

Is it Folgers Coffee 11.3 oz? There is a MQ already....do you have it? Folgers $2 coupon from their email-club.

No, I got the Maxwell House that was on ad last week. I had $4RRs from the Reach deal. I bought two cans of Maxwell House @ $2.59 ea. I used a $4RR and a $1/2 coupon. OOP was $.18 for two cans.

I was able to do the Reach deal (5) times between (2) stores. I rolled three of them into the Neuragen and had two left. They only had two of the Maxwell House Lite on the shelf so I bought them and got a rain check for two more.

[dancinmama]

ooty: I just noticed your "friend" request on HCW. How old is that? I never even pay attention to the PMs on there cuz I don't post on there very regularly.

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