Wednesday, March 30, 2011

Vons & Ralph's Deals & Coupon Match Ups 3/30 – 4/5

This Frugal Life posts the weekly deals for Vons on her blog. Check them out here.  Here's just a couple of this week's sweet deals:

Spring Reward Event
  • Spend $75 or more in a single transaction using your Vons Club Card & you’ll earn a $10 Catalina coupon at checkout that you can use to pay for pretty much anything you want on your next shopping trip to Vons. An important fact to note:
  • $75 minimum spending requirement is calculated after Vons Club Card savings are applied but before manufacturer coupons. Remember, a coupon isn’t a discount, it’s a form of payment. If for whatever reason your catalina doesn’t print, read this post for help.

Anthony’s Pasta, 16-oz. | $0.88
- $1/2 from SS 3/27
 Final Price: $0.38 each when you buy 2

Sweet Strawberries, 1-lb. | $1.28 each

Bar-S Jumbo Meat Franks, 16-oz. | $1.00

- $1/2 from RP 1/30
 Final Price: $0.50 each when you buy 2

Oscar Mayer Carving Board Lunchmeat, 7 to 7.5-oz. | BOGO ($4.99)
$2/1 Oscar Mayer printable coupon
 Final Price: $1.50 each when you buy 2

Duracell Batteries | $2.00 off
(No Limit, with in-ad coupon)
-  $0.50/1 from PG 2/27 (exp 3/31)
Final Price: $3.00 off

Charmin (24-rolls) or Bounty (12-rolls) | $11.88
(Limit 2, with in-ad coupon)
OR – 25¢/1 from PG 2/27 (exp 3/31)
 Final Price: as low as $8.88



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Friday, March 25, 2011

FREE Happy Baby Product!



For those of you with babies or toddlers, here is a coupon for a free product from Happy Baby. The coupon expires March 31st. This is for HAPPYBELLIES, the only cereal that is organic with probiotic protection and DHA, HAPPYMELTS freeze-dried organic yogurt snack for babies, and HAPPYBABYPUFFS, the only organic self-feed baby snacks. 


Click here for the coupon.




{UPDATE: The link has changed! I have updated the links in this post.}




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Monday, March 21, 2011

Sierra's Sweet Savings- I saved $358.79!

I went over 2 weeks without doing any shopping trips. (except I did stop in to get milk and a little produce one day). It was nice to just live off of our stockpile for a while. Then yesterday, my hubby Kurt, my 6 month old Brady, and I went out and did a BIG shopping trip. We went out in the pouring rain like crazy people- as if the mile high pile of coupons didn't make us look crazy enough :)  We shopped at 2 grocery stores and 1 drug store.

We bought $569.90 worth of groceries, and paid $211.11! That's a savings of 358.79! 63% savings! 

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Vons: We bought $344.53 worth of groceries for $135.32. We saved $209.21- a savings of $60%. Some of the best deals we got were:

- 4 whole chickens for $1.50 each
- a variety of clearance frozen meals for $0.49 each
- Philidelphia Cooking Cream for $1 each
- Hormel Entrees for $1.50
- Windex and Mr. Clean for $0.99 each
- Classico Pasta sauces for $0.99
-10 pk Tortillas for $1
- Kraft dressing $0.99
- Rancher's Reserve steaks for $.88/lb
- a bunch of cereal for $1 - $1.50





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Ralph's: We bought $119.41 worth of groceries for $51.03. We saved $68.38- a savings of $57%. Some of the best deals we got were:

- Honey Nut Cherrios and Chex cereal for $1.18
- Classico pasta sauce for $1
- Franch's mustard for $0.19
- Land o Lakes butter for free
- Challenge Butter with garlic & herbs mixed in for $1. 



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Rite Aid: We bought $105.96 worth of groceries for $24.76. We saved $81.20- a savings of $57%. Some of the best deals we got were:
- 10 Johnson's baby products FREE (used a rain check for $1, and a coupon for Save $1
- Dry Idea deoderant BOGO
- Buy 1 Old Spice deoderant, get one body wash free
- Abreva (normally $18.99) got for 13.99 plus got $3 RR towards next purchase


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I want to make sure you guys know that we go through food quickly. Besides myself and my hubby, we have a guy who rents a room from us that we purchase food for as well. We also cook for my father-in-law who comes over for dinner 2-3 times a week. So we make food for me, baby food for my baby, and 2 or sometimes 3 grown men. So I don't want you to look at all the food and think we're pigs. We just go through food fast and we always purchase lots of extra to add to our stockpile. We also try to share our stockpile with others that are struggling financially. I'll share more on this later.

Anyway, we are pretty happy with the deals we got yesterday! That just shows the power of combining sales and coupons! What's the most you have saved on a grocery trip?


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Here's some links that helped me prepare for this Shopping Trip:
Rite Aid Deals
Vons Deals
Raplhs Deals


I also use The Grocery Game. It gives me the best deals matching up sales and coupons- both advertised and unadvertised deals. Go to www.thegrocerygame.com and if you sign up, please give my email in the referral section. My email is theuniqueone@mac.com.



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Thursday, March 17, 2011

FREE Earth's Best Baby Food!



The Frugal Girls posted tips about how to get FREE Earth's Best baby food on Amazon! Check it out for details!


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Get Lucky with free 11 Free Swagbucks!



Happy St. Paddy's Day from Home Sweet Frugal Home! I hope you're wearing something green! Swagbucks just posted a code worth 11 points in their blog. Go get it before it expires at 3pm Pacific time!

Click here to learn about how I use Swagbucks to get free gift cards all the time! Sign up today and you'll get 30 free points when you sign up!

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Saturday, March 12, 2011

Albertsons Deals and Coupon Match-Ups 3/9-3/15

Here's some of this week's best deals at Albertsons. I shop at Albertsons in Southern California, so you may want to double check the deals at the Albertsons in your neck of the woods.

Albertsons Whole fryer or chicken thighs- $.67/lb

Albertsons Split chicken breasts- $1.69/lb

Bar S Hot dogs- $1.25 eachUse $1.00/2 from 1/30 RP
Final Price= $.75

Green seedless grapes- $.99/lb

All laundry detergent, 32 loads- $2.99 with in ad manufacturer coupon

Buy 4 GM cereals at $2.50 each in a single transaction and get a coupon at checkout for FREE milk up to $3.75 on your next order.  Participating cereals include: Cheerios, Lucky Charms, Cocoa Puffs, Reese’s Peanut Butter Puffs, Mulitgrain Cheerios or Golden Grahams.
Use various coupons from 
coupons.comcoolsavings.comsmartsource.comTarget printable coupons (manufacturer coupons), 2/13 GM, 2/6 or 3/6 SS, bettycrocker.com,pillsbury.com or eatbetteramerica.com
Out of Pocket= as low as $7.00
Get back coupon for free milk up to $3.75
Final Price= $3.25 for 4 boxes of cereal  or $.81 each so a great price

That was just a few of this week's best deals. Click here to see the full list from Save at Home Mommy.


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Someone I Love Needs A Cure

My mom has Multiple Sclerosis. She is 50 years old and got it when she was 26. Her MS has progressively gotten worse over the years. She now has no use of her arms or legs. She only has very little use of a few fingers on one hand. Her brain was affected starting in November and her MS took a pretty extreme nose dive. She is bed-ridden right now because of an infection. She has been in bed for for past couple weeks. It's so hard to see my momma going through such a hard time and slowly lose more and more of her abilities. Please keep her in your hearts and prayers. 

I am arranging a team to walk in the MS Walk this year in honor of my mom. So far, I have a team of 4 people, but I'm hoping to add to that. Our team goal is to raise $1000 to give to the National MS Society to support finding a cure and assistance to those affected by MS. We have raised $550 so far. If you are local to me, the MS Walk will be in Westlake Village, CA on April 16th. I would love to get more people to walk with us. If you would like to support us by adding to our team's tax-deductable donations, we would be so grateful. We have set up a Facebook page for our team. Please Like our page to show your support and get more info. 
We are going to be doing a couple fundraisers to raise money before the walk also. We are thinking about doing a multiple family garage sale with 100% of the profits being donated. We also have made arrangements with California Pizza Kitchen in Simi Valley, CA to do a fundraiser on March 28th. 20% of all the sales that day will be donated to our cause. If you go, please print this flyer and present it to your waiter.

I'm sure most of the people who read this blog don't know my mom. So I don't expect you to donate. But just know that if you do, you will help the world be one small step closer to finding a cure for MS. Remember to Like the page on Facebook to show your support and get more info.


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Friday, March 11, 2011

Red Cross: Japan Relief Aid and FREE CPR Classes


The American Red Cross is helping out with the disaster relief for those affected by Japan's Earthquake and Tsunami. If you would like to learn more or donate, click here

You can also text REDCROSS to 90999 and a $10 donation will be sent to the Red Cross. Your $10 will appear on your next cell phone bill.

On Saturday, March 19th, in more than 100 locations across the nation, the Red Cross will provide fast and easy classes to teach the basics of hands-only CPR, the treatment of shock and how to treat wounds. The classes will be shortened versions of Red Cross training courses, lasting approximately 45 minutes to one hour and offered multiple times during the day. Best of all, the courses, which normally cost $25, will be FREE! Click here to find a location near you.

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