Don't throw out your Sunday paper

Just wanted to let everyone know there is a great coupon in the Sunday paper this week so don't throw it out before grabbing the coupon!

On the back page of the Variety/A&E section of the Star Tribune there is a $2/1 Golden Plump Chicken coupon. This is a great coupon. It can be used together with the BOGO Cub coupons that are frequently in the cub ad.

If for some strange reason you don't happen to want your coupon, let me know. I would be happy to trade you or pay you for it. :)

Overage on Post cereal at Cub

Cub is offering a Cat for buy 5 Post cereal (over 10oz) get $5 OYNO. Post Trail Mix Crunch is on sale for $2.50 this week. There is a $2/1 IP here. If you use 5 coupons your total will be $2.50 and you will get a $5 OYNO back. Your able to print at least 3 coupons per computer, but some people are reporting that they have been able to get 4.

I haven't tried it yet so I have no idea if the cereal is any good, but I figure if they will pay me $2.50/5 I can just bring it to the food shelf. Might be something to consider if you don't really want the cereal, but won't mind an extra $2.50

Kraft Cheese deal at Cub this week

Just wanted to let you know about a good deal at Cub this week with the buy $25 get $10. Credit goes to Vicki Oldfather for letting me know the details. Thanks Vicki!

This is what you need to buy;

4 - Kraft 2% cheese - $10
3 - Crystal light 12 qt - $9
3 - Nabisco 100 Calorie Packs - $7.50
$26.50 total
Less - .75 x 4 - Kraft cheese
Less 2.00 x 3 - Crystal Light/100 calorie pack
$17.50
Get back $10 OYNO, $2 OYNO, $3 OYNO

Net - $2.50!!!!

The $.75/1 are blinkies for Kraft 2% cheese. They were in store the past two months, but are gone now. I'm sure many of you picked some up.

I haven't ever seen the $2/crystal light and 100 calorie pack, but I've heard that it is a new tearpad found at Cub this week.

Hope some of you have the cheese coupons and can find the tearpads. It makes for a great deal. I'm sad to say that I had a ton of cheese coupons, but used them all up on Sunday so I'll be missing out on this deal.

Cub shopping trip yesterday

I finally made it to Cub yesterday. Mom was nice enough to take Noah and I, plus bend and lift all the various things I was getting.

We were able to do ten rounds in just over an hour and a half. I was pretty pleased with that being it usually takes much longer then that with this type of deal. We did a set of 3 transaction, 4 transaction, and then another 3 transactions.

The one thing I was disappointed in was that when my coupons came in the mail yesterday the fruit snack coupons were only good on Betty Crocker Fruit Roll-up Fruit Stackers fruit snacks. I had read the description on the website wrong and thought that they would be good on Betty Crocker Fruit Roll-ups, Fruit Stackers, or Fruit Snacks. Not a huge issue, but a I was looking forward to some Gushers and thought Noah would have had fun picking out different types of fruit snacks.

Round #1
5 Fruit Stackers $2 x5=$10
4 Progress Soup $1.50 x4=$6
1 Frosting $1.69
Total before coupons =$17.69 +$.69 sales tax for fruit snacks =$18.38
2 $1/2 Fruit stackers=-$2
$.50/1 Fruit Stackers= -$.50
4 $1.10/1 Progresso= -$4.40
$.50/1 Frosting = -$.50
Total after coupons $10.98
Recieved $10 OYNO + $3.50 OYNO

Round #2
3 Grands Biscquits $1.67 x3=$5
1 Pillsbury Cinnimon rolls $2
6 Cresents $2 x6=$12
Total before coupons $19
3 $1/1 Grands= -$3
1 $1/2 Any Pillsbury IP= -$1
4 $1/1 Various Cresent homemailer coupons= -$4
1 $1/1 Any Regular or Grands Cinnimon rolls= -$1
-$10 OYNO
Total $0
Recieved $10 OYNO

Round #3
10 Betty Crocker Premuim Brownies $2 x10=$20
Total $20
5 $1/2 MF= -$5
-$10 OYNO
-$3.50 OYNO
Total after coupons $1.50
Received $10 OYNO


Round #4
5 Fruit Stackers $2 x5=$10
4 Progress Soup $1.50 x4=$6
1 Chex Mix $2
Total before coupons $18 +$.69 in tax =$18.69
2 $1/2 Fruit stackers=-$2
1 $2/4 Progresso= -$2
$1/1 Chex Mix= -$1
-$10 OYNO
Total $3.69
Received $10 OYNO and $3.50 OYNO

Round #5, #6, #7
5 Fruit Stackers $2 x5=$10
4 Progress Soup $1.50 x4=$6
1 Chex Mix $2
Total before coupons $18 +$.69 in tax =$18.69
2 $1/2 Fruit stackers=-$2
1 $2/4 Progresso= -$2
$1/1 Chex Mix= -$1
-$10 OYNO
-$3.50 OYNO
Total $.19
Received $10 OYNO and $3.50 OYNO

Rouns #8, #9
5 Fruit Stackers $2 x5=$10
4 Progress Soup $1.50 x4=$6
1 Cheerios Mix $2
Total before coupons $18 +$.69 in tax =$18.69
2 $1/2 Fruit stackers=-$2
2 $1/2 Progresso= -$2
$1/.20Cheerios Mix= -$.50
-$10 OYNO
-$3.50 OYNO
Total $.69
Received $10 OYNO and $3.50 OYNO

Round #10
1 Chex Chocolate Mix $2
2 Chineese Dinner Kits $3.99 x2=$7.98
1 Gardettos $2
4 Betty Crocker Cake mix $1.29 x4= $5.16
2 Grands Biscquite $1.67=$3.34
1 Sara Lee Soft and Smooth Bread $2
1 Cub twin pack milk $$5.58
Total before coupons=$28.06 + $.14 sales tax =$28.20
$1/2 Any Pillsbury IP= -$1
$1/1 Dinner Kit= -$1
$1.10/1 Dinner Kit = -$1.10
$1 Off milk WYB Sara Lee Soft and Smooth bread= -$1
$2.30 off milk, Cub coupon= -$2.30
-$10 OYNO
-$3.50 OYNO
-$3.99 Free Chex Chocolate Mix (Coupon should have been for $2, but register too off $3.99 max value automatically so cashier could not change it.)
Total $4.30

In the end my total OOP was $22.42 and I still have a $10 OYNO coupon left, so my final total for everything is $12.42. The really sad thing is that $4.97 of this is sales tax on the fruit snacks. If it wasn't for that my total would have been $7.45 Either way it was a great deal!

I think that I am going back tonight for some more soup. Other then that I am done.

Just wanted to add that the only other grocerys this week were on Wednesday at Rainbow. Jason stopped for me on his way home and this is what he got

2 gallons milk $1.68
4 Roundy's cheese $.99
2 Chicken of the Sea $.39
5 Nesquick 20oz chocolate milk
Used 5 $.50/1 Nesquick coupons that doubled
After coupon total was $8.10

That means this week we spent $30.52
Total so far this month $81.37
Total left to spend $3.63 + $10 OYNO

I'm thinking that I will be just a bit over this month if I go back for more soup. I'm planning on getting at least 20 cans for a total of $5 after coupons. I'll probably grab one more two pack of milk if the date if far enough out. I have enough milk right now till mid March so they need to have a pretty good date on it for me to grab one.

Free Fruit Snacks at Cub

Just wanted to let you all know that Betty Crocker fruit snacks are free this week at Cub. They are part of the Buy 10 get $10 OYNO deal. There is also a seperate Cat printing for $3.50 OYNO WYB 5.

The best way to make this deal work is to buy 5 fruit snacks at a time as part of the 10 items needed for the $10 OYNO.

5 Fruit snacks $2, -2 $1/2 MF=10/$8
-$1 per item for the OYNO deal=-$5
-$3.50 OYNO WYB 5 fruit snacks=-$3.50
Total $.50 overage on 5 boxes after you divide out the $10 OYNO coupon per item.

It seems like I work so hard to buy healthy items and then stores go and tempt me with yummy things that have no nutritional value, yet they will give them to me for free! It's pretty hard to resist sometimes.

Cub $10/$100 plan update

Cub is having a 3 Day sale on their 3lb bags of frozen chicken breast. They are $4.99.

Being I still have $8 something to make it to my $100 I am planning on grabbing 2 of these for the chicken instead of finding small packs of chicken for around $2. That means I will be able to use the 3 $2 off chicken coupons from buying the Kraft dressing on them.

It will add in 9lbs of chicken breast and bring my pre-coupon total to $100.77. My post coupon, post $10/$100 total should come out to be $17.81 if everything works the way it should.

I am a little nervous about using so many kraft coupons at a time, and about using more then one of the MF in ad coupons also. We'll have to see how it goes. I'll try to post what I end up with. Hopefully they aren't out of things like the OJ and stuff like that. Also hoping I can bring the $1/1 Keebler cracker IP. I haven't tried yet, but Jason wasn't able to print it from work so we'll have to see.

My Cub shopping list for the week

Last week Cub and Holiday ran a dual promotion that if you bought 12 gallons of gas you received a coupon for $10/$100 at Cub. The coupon is good through Saturday. I've been thinking about what to get and how to make it to the $100 mark without actually spending much OOP.

I thought that it might be helpful if I posted my plan. That way if any of you have are looking for ideas you can see what I am planning on doing and what the actual OOP will be.

The $100 is pre-coupon if you give the $10/$100 coupon first. This is helpful to know being there are some BOGO coupons in the new Cub book.

Right now, my goal is to spend less then $20 OOP. I would really like to keep it to about $10, but that seems a little unrealistic even for me. To make it easy to keep track of I am going to put the pre-coupon total in RED and the post coupon total in GREEN

This is what I have so far:
Raincheck for Brownberry bread $1 per loaf, 4/$4 $4
Land of Lakes 1 Gallon OJ $4.99, -Cub BOGO coupon book, -2 $.50/1 MF=2/$3.99 $9.98
Sabra Hummus $3.99, -Cub BOGO coupon Book, -2 $1.50/1 MF=2/.99 $7.98
Keebler Zesta saltines $2.79??, -3/$4.98 Cub book coupon, -3 $1/1 IP=3/$1.98 $8.37
Soup $1.00, -Free soup WYB 2 Keebler Zesta crackers Tearpad MF=1/Free $1.00
Daisy Sour Cream 6oz, $1.39, -$.68 in ad Cub coupon, -$.50/1=1/$.18 $1.39
Carlita refried beans $.66=6/$3.96 $3.96
Carlita seasoning mix, Taco, Enchilada or Fajita $.33=3/$.99 $.99
Pre-coupon tota: $37.67
Post Coupon total: $16.09
The following probably won't be much of a help to you unless you still have left over B3G1 Kraft coupons from this summer. They expired on 8-31-09 so I know that I threw a few of them away. I still have some so it will help me bump up my total by quite a bit.

Wheat Thins, Family size $4.29?, -4 B3G1 Free Kraft coupons=4/Free $17.16
Kraft Shredded Cheese 5-8oz, -Free WYB 3 Nabisco crackers, in ad MF=1/Free $2.22
Kraft 16oz dressing $2, 9 B3G1 Free Kraft coupons, receive $3 OYNO WYB 5=9/$3 overage $18
Chicken $2, 3 Free Chicken up to $2 WYB 3 Kraft Dressing in ad MF=3/Free $6
Produce $1, -4 $1 free produce WYB 2 Kraft Dressing, Tearpad MF=4/Free $4
Kool-Aide $.25, -2 2 Free WYB 10=27/$5.75 $6.75
Pre-Coupon total: $91.80
Post coupon total: $18.84

I have $8.20 left to make it to $100. Even if you don't find anything else with coupons that would bring my totals to $100 pre-coupons and $27.04 post coupons. Take the $10 off of that and my final total should be no more then $17.04.

I think I might just add in some of the apples or pears that are on sale if I don't find anything else. Hopefully some of you will be able to get some ideas on who to maximize your $10/$100 coupons.

Cub in Eden Prairie

I was in Eden Prairie last weekend and stopped at Cub. I asked about their expired coupon policy and was told that they take expired MF coupons for up to 5 MONTHS past the date. This is great news if you are like me and always seem to have some really good coupons that don't seem to get used. It's also bad news if you are like me and already have more coupons then you know what to do with and are now faced with the decision on what to do with an extra 2 months worth of expired coupons. Looks like it's time for me to add another binder. :)

General Mills cereal deal at Cub

I don't think I will be getting a list made this week. I wanted to make sure everyone knew about the cereal deal going on this week at Cub.

If you buy 10 boxes of General Mills cereal, Betty Crocker Fruit snacks or General Mills granola bars you get 3 $5 OYNO coupons plus a coupon for $4.50 off a gallon of milk.

There were about 8 typed of cereal for $2.50 this afternoon in Shakopee. None sale prices ranged from $2.99-$4 plus.

The best way to think about the deal is to look at the price of the cereal and take $1.50 off per box to start with. After this add in any coupons you have. There are many expired $1/2 MF. This means that each box is $2 off the shelf price.

For me, I add in the price of the milk when I am thinking about the cereal. I would be buying the milk anyway so I figure how much the milk would cost me and divide that by 10 boxes of cereal. Usually I get the twin pack at Cub unless another store had milk on sale. No sale this week that I know of so that would be $6.58 for two gallons or ruffly $3.30 per gallon. Divide that by 10 for each box of cereal and you get another $.33 off per box.

I got 10 boxes today. After coupons, $15 OYNO, and deducting the cost of a gallon of milk it worked out to $2.18 for the 10 boxes, or $0.218 per box. I think the size ranged from 10.x oz to 14.x oz. Not very big boxes, but it the larger boxes were almost $2 more so this was the best use of coupons.

Also check out the Pilsbury deal. I think it is listed on the second to last page in the ad. It's buy 10 get $5 OYNO. Makes a good price for cake mix. I haven't looked too hard for coupons on that one. I'll see what I can find on Thursday when I have a little more time.

Done, finally done!!!!

All in all I make it to 4 different Cub stores this week. I did 17 different transactions for the $30/$15. I didn't seem to find much I needed in the $20/$10 section so I only ended up with 2 transactions of that.

All in all I spent $41.73 for simple supper and $74.25 and 2 $4 OYNO on things for us. I still have $26 to spend later on. This would make the actual cost of all our groceries and health and beauty items $56.25.

Here is a breakdown on what I ended up with.

Simple Supper
20 40ct bags of Pizza Rolls
40 bags of Betty Crocker cookie mix
24 bags of Lipton sides
Total $41.73

This is everything that I ended up with for us.
48 boxed Green Giant veggies
21 Progresso Chicken Broth
7 Yoplait Kids
28 Progresso soups
2 Betty Crocker boxed potatoes
10 Macaroni Grill dinners
2 Dove conditioner
8 Suave haircare
28 Betty Crocker cookie mix
2 Hunt's Tomatoes
4 Hunt's pudding
8 Orville Redenbacher popcorn
5 Lipton Soup mix
3 Grands Mini cinniman rolls
6 Pizza Rolls
3 Betty Crocker Frosting
4 dove deodorant
6 Degree deodorant
12 Swiss Miss hot chocolate
6 Hellmanns mayo with olive oil
2 Pam cooking spray
1 Marie calander hot pie
1 10oz Vasiline Men's lotion
1 Solo 20ct plactice cups
3 24oz Vasiline lotions
6 Suave body wash
4 Suave deodorant

What's the deal with Cub this week?

That's what everyone seems to want to know. What's this deal? What coupons do I need? I know it's taken a while, but I'm going to try to get it all down for you.

First, there are two different deals. The first is buy $30 of the specified products get $15 back. The $15 prints in 3 $5 OYNO coupons. The list of products is located on the inside of the half sheet. The front is an ad for Cub's new Holiday Bucks promotion.

The second is buy $20 of the specified products get $10 back. The list is on the inside of the ad, it's about a half page long.

I'm a little at a lose for how to do this, but I'll give it a hand. Please feel free to call or email if I don't answer all your questions.

There are way more coupons available then I could possible list. I gave away all the coupons that I wasn't going to use on this deal so I no longer have them to look at as I type this up. I just don't have the energy to do a data base search for all the coupons each item will have. I'll add in links to the IPs that I found and try to point out some other great coupons if I can remember them. Everything is starting to blend together, I've been working on this since last Saturday.

Remember that you just need to get to $30, you don't have to buy 10 of one item if the price is listed as 10 for $10, or 6 if it is 6 for $6. Just buy the amount you want of each as long as your final total is $30 of the participating products.

I'm going to list the prices for each item after the money back and then add the coupons I can remember. I'll Bold each new item because the list will be quite long. Just remember the price in bold if BEFORE COUPONS so most items will be much cheaper then the bold price. I will change the color of all items that are free or make an overage after coupons.


Spend $30 get $15 back OYNO

40 ct Totino's Pizza rolls $1.67
$1/2 MF
$.35/2 MF
Green Giant Vegetables $1.67
-Create a meal $1/1 MF
-Just for one
-Vegetables and sause
There are coupons for the others, but I gave them away so I don't know the values
48oz Breyers ice cream and 6-8ct Klondike bars $1.67
$.50/1 Breyers MF
$1/2 Klondike
12.4-25oz Frozen Pillsbury baked goods $1.67
$1.25/1 IP
$1/1 peelie
Other MF from inserts
12oz Dove Shampoo and Conditioner $1.67
$1.50 home mailer
I know there were some really good Dove coupons a couple weeks ago, but I already used them so I'm not sure what they are.
Romano's Macaroni Grill $1.67
$1/1 MF
County Crock Side Dishes $1.67
I couldn't find any coupons for this.
6pk Slim-Fast Snack bars $1.67
I didn't see any coupons for this, but there might be some
28oz Skippy Peanut butter $1.67
$.75/2 MF
All Laundry Detergent $1.67
$1/1 Small and Mighty in August 27th All You Mag. I have three to share and might have more
18-18.25oz Betty Crocker Cake Mix-selected varieties $.50
no coupons found
Knorr Lipton Sides-Not veggie plus $.50
$1/3 MF
Others also, but again, I gave them away
3.6oz Ben and Jerry Cups $.50
Possibly $.50/1 MF, but they might only qualift for the pint size
2 oz. Lipton Onion Soup Mix $.50
No coupons found, but this is a great price. It is the regular 2pk box. I checked the one I had at home.
4.5-7.2oz box Betty Crocker specialty potatoes $.50
$1/2 home mailer
$.35/1 MF
7.5-10oz box Green Giant Vegetables (does not include asparagus) $.50
$1/2 MF
$.50/1 IP
$1/2 IP
Other MF also available
5lb Gold Metal Flour $1.25
$1/1 IP
24-30oz jar Hellmann's Mayo $1.25
$1/1 Olive oil variety MF
Other MF also available
General Mills Cereal $1.25 only varieties shown in ad
Tons of coupons out there
12-45oz County Crock $1.25
There are a couple of coupons for this one, not sure what they are though
Vaseline Intensive Care or Suave loation $1.25
$1.25/1 Vaseline lotion Product MF
$1.50/1 Vaseline lotion Product MF
$1.50/1 Vaseline Men lotion Product MF
Lipton Tea $1.25
100ct regular bags
40ct green tea bags
10ct to go boxes
Not sure if there are coupons. I don't think I had any for it in my stash
16-16.5oz refrigerated Pillsbury Cookie dough $1.25
$1/2 MF
$1/2 IP
$1/2 IP
Chex Mix, Bugles, gardetto's or Chex 100 Calorie $1.25
There are coupons, not sure the value
500ct Q-tips $1.25
No coupons found
Toaster Strudel $1.25
some people have been finding this for less the then 4/$10 advertived price. One store had it for $1.98 per box. This can mess up your $30 plan so that you will need to add more items, but it can also make for free toaster strudel with the $1/1 IP.
$1/1 IP
Other MF also available
6-8pk Yoplait Ypgurt $1.25
$1.50/1 Yoplait kids IP
$1/1 Home mailer
There are other MF also
3 pk Pop-Secret $1.25
Some MF, the Orvile Redenbocher with the $20/$10 deal is a much better price
Dove and Degree Deodorant $1.25
$1/2 MF for Degree
$1.50/2 Dove MF
Knorr Lipton sides Plus Veggies $.83
$.60/1 IP
$.40/1? MF
Betty Crocker Traditional Brownies $.83
no coupons found
Suave $.83
Kids, Professional hair care
$1.50/2 MF
$1/2 MF
Hamburger, Tuna, or Chicken Helper $.83
$.75/3 MF
Other coupons also available
Betty Crocker Frosting $.83
$.50/1 MF
Betty Crocker bagges cookie mix $.83
$.75/1 IP
$.50/1 MF
$1/2 MF
Bisquick Shake-n-pour $.83
No coupons
Wish-bone or western salad dressing $.83
$1.25/2
Ragu $.83
$1/3 MF
Progresso traditoinal Soup or Broth boxes $.83
$1/1 Broth MF
$.50/2 MF
$1.10/1 Soup IP
$1/2 Soup IP
$2/4 Soup IP
Suave Deodorant $.83
$.75/1 MF

That's the end of the first list. I'll try to get the $20/$10 deal typed up tomorrow.

Internet coupons for the Cub foods sale Novemer 2-8

I've been working on the Cub ad for next week all day long. There are two great promotions so I am been trying to find coupon match-ups. Below are some IP coupons for items that are part of the sale.

I know that many of the coupons have the same link to coupons.com. I'm not sure if you are able to print them one at a time or if you will need to select all the coupons you are looking for and them print them all together.

I'll be working on a write up of coupons and final prices for the two promotions, but for now these are some coupons that will be great for the sale.

$1/1 Orville Redenbacher's

$1/1 Orville lime and salt

$1/2 Wesson, Pam, Peter Pan, Orville,

$1/2 Any hunts

$1/2 and $2/4 Progresso Soup

$.50/1 Green Giant Boxed veggis

$1/1.25 Pillsbury frozen Grands cinnamon rolls

$.50/1 Pillsbury Frozen Grands, Mini Cinnamon rolls, Cinnamon rolls or dinner rolls

$.50/1 Pillsbury Frozen Grands, Mini Cinnamon rolls, Cinnamon rolls or dinner rolls

Betty Crocker boxes Potaoes $.40

$1/1 Pillsbury Toaster Strudel

$1.50/1 Yoplait Gogurt, trix, drinkable, kids multi pack

$.75/1 Betty Crocker Cookie Mix

Cheap or Free Curly's BBQ meat tubs-Cub in Shakopee

Update I found a $1/4 IP for the Yoplait. It's a Brinks so you should be able to print 2 from each computer. If you are able to get 4 IPs then it will bring your OP down to $2.50 on 20, plus you will get the coupon for 2 free at checkout. Brings the per cup cost down to just over $.11 each. Great Price!!!

Was at the Cub in Shakopee after church this afternoon and they had tubs of Curly's pulled pork, beef, and chicken on sale for $1. There are blinkie coupons out from a while ago for $1/1. I had two coupons and used both, but I think the expiration date on them was sometime in December.

They are only available until the supply is gone. At 1:00pm they were fully stocked, but I saw lots of employees going back to get them as they went on break.

The tubs are a little over 1lb so even without the coupon it is a great price. The expiration dates on the tubs I grabbed were all in December so there is a long time to use them up. I believe they also freeze well.

There is also a good deal on Yoplait Yogurt. Buy 20 for $10, get $2 off with the in ad coupon. You also get a Catilina coupon at the register for 2 free cups of Yoplait. There are also coupons out for them. I think the best coupons I could find were $.40/6 cups and then also 1 free cup WYB 6.

This is what it would look like
21/$10.50
$2 off 20 in ad coupon
-$.40/6
-$.40/6
-$.40/6
-Free WYB 6
-Free WYB 6
-Free WYB 6
Total =$5.80 + 2 free coupons catilina
23 cups total for $5.80=$.25 per cup

What's good this week?

There are a lot of good deals this week. I've been looking all day so that I could get my coupons ordered. It seems like I am ordering coupons every week now. I either get something for myself, or something for church. This week is was 65 coupons for $1/1 Green Giant Valley Fresh Steamers, and 20 BOGO Glade Gel Plug-Ins.

Both of these are for deals found at Cub. The veggies are on sale for $1 this week, meaning free after the coupon. It will help keep costs down for Simple Supper at church. The Glade Gel Plug-Ins have been on sale for $1.69. Each one purchased prints a $2 OYNO. It makes them a slight money maker of $.31 without any coupon. With the BOGO coupon each set of 2 will cost $1.69 and I will get 2 $2 OYNO for a total of $2.31 overage for each. This is banking that they will still be $1.69 by the time the coupons get here. If so I will have a total money maker of $41.85 if I deduct the $4.35 paid for coupons and shipping.

I think for now, considering my headache and the time of night or morning as it may be, I am going to leave it at this and hope to get back to all the deals a little later.

This week is super busy with a Seminets meeting tomorrow night, Double coupons and Simple Supper on Wednesday, Wedding setup Friday, and then the wedding on Saturday. I'll do my best to get a list typed up. It will depend on nap time on Tuesday and Thursday.

Night

Cheap Dinner on the Grill

There is a really good deal at Cub if you like brats and have the coupons left.

HillshireFarm sausage is BOGO in the Cub book for 2/$3.98. There is a tear pad on the Sara Lee bun display in the meat department for $1 off HillshireFarm sausage WYB 1 Bun. There also used to be blinki and tearpad coupons for one free bun WYB 2 of the sausage. Pear that with the Free whole watermelon uo to $3 WYB 1 sausage and 1 bun and get you quite a bit for $3.98. There are also peelie coupons for $1 off any store brand meat WYB 1 Sara Lee bun so you can use two of those and get some other meat too.

This is what I did on Friday
2 Sara Lee hot dog buns $2 each
2 HillshireFarm sausage (cheddarwarst and brat) $3.98 each
2 Personal size watermelon $3 each
2 packages boneless country style pork ribs $1.51 per lb. $2.10, $2.37

Used
2 $1 HillshireFarm WYB 1 Sara Lee bun
1 Free Sara Lee Bun WYB 2 HillshireFarm sausage
2 Free watermelon up to $3 WYB 1 HillshireFarm and one Sara Lee
2 $1 off any store brand fresh meat WYB Sara Lee Buns (mine were packaged buy CUB, but did say Hormel on it, two cashiers checked and both throught it was alright)
1 Cub BOGO coupon from the current Cub coupon book

Total OOP $6.45

Homelife Paper Products

Noah and I went looking for the HomeLife products today.

They didn't seem to have a spot on the shelf for the 120 count napkins. I did find the $.99 rolls of paper towels the coupons did beep on these, but the CSM said just to put them through. I also find small square boxes of tissues. The regular are 88 count and the "with aloe" kind are 66 count. I opted for the with aloe. It says "compare to Kleenex with aloe." I don't think they are quite as good, but they seem a little softer then just regular Kleenex.

The rolls of paper towels seemed to be much smaller when compared visually to Bounty, but the number of square feet per roll was pretty close. I don't remember exactly what each one had, but I want to say it was something like 88 for HomeLife and maybe 100 for Bounty. Like I said, not real sure.

I didn't find any paper plates that were less then $2.50, not a great deal, but not bad after the coupon if you need them. They also had paper cups, 24 for $1.99, still not great, but alright after the coupon if you need them.

I checked on the toilet paper, but the cheapest I could find was $2.59 for 4 rolls. Not a good deal at all. I have heard that there is a 4pk for $1.49, might just be that my Cub is smaller and doesn't carry that variety.

Free Paper Products

There is a new coupon out at some Cub stores. It looks like a blinkie, but is in a small cardboard box instead. The coupons is for $1/1 Any Homelife Paper Product. The boxes have been found next to the paper towels.

There are three or four different homelife products that are $.99 or $1. Some of them are on sale this week and some of them are regular price.

These are the items that I have found to be free so far.

120 count napkins $1.00(sale price for just this week)
Small roll of "Awesome" paper towels $.99
Kleenexes $1

I'm hoping to get a change to scout things out without Noah some time within the next few days. I'll post an update with what I find.

$3 off Planters Nuts coupons

By now I'm sure that all of you are wondering what in the world I had you print 12 coupons for nuts, right?

So here's the deal. Right now the nuts are on sale at Cub for $3. This makes them free when you buy 3 participating products. Koolaid packets just happen to be a participating product. They are made by Kraft and are not single serve they acutally make 8 servings.

Koolaid is on sale for $.20 this week. So a can of nuts would be $.60. Good deal, but it gets better. Right now there is a Catilina that print out for $ off OYNO. If you buy 3 planters nuts you get $4 OYNO, 4 nuts $5 OYNO, 5 nuts $6.50 OYNO.

The breakdown looks like this.

3 Nuts $9
9 koolaid $1.80
Use 3 $3 off nut coupons=$1.80 Total OOP
Get coupon for $4 OYNO
Total profit=$2.20

4 nuts $12
12 koolaid $2.40
Use 4 $3 off nuts copons=$2.40 Total OOP
Get coupon for $5 OYNO
Total Profit=$2.60

5 Nuts $15
15 koolaid $3
Use 5 $3 nut coupons=$3 total OOP
Get coupon for $6.50 OYNO
Total profit=$3.50

If you are planning on getting any of the buy 10 items get $5 off your order you can work the nuts into the plan also. Just remember that for each 5 nuts you buy you need to have 15 participating products in order to use the $3 off coupons. Translation, if you are buying 10 of the buy 10 get $5 off products you will need to buy 10 koolaid to go with it.

There is also a tearpad coupon for buy 10 koolaid get 2 free. I've only found them at Rainbow, but if you are going to be there take a look. 2 free isn't much money saved, but it is still a savigns.

Print these links!!

Here are 7 links to the save $3 on planters WYB 3 participating products IP coupons. Each link should print twice. I haven't figured out all the ins and outs yet, but these are a definate money maker this week at Cub. If you have a Cub around print the links I will get more directions figured out soon.

I haven't tried each link yet, but have the talk is that they all work. A few people have had problems with #5 and #7.



Link #1 http://bricks.coupons.com/Start.asp?tqnm=rfxrbvg93628257&bt=wi&o=52990&c=KT&p=6I7jTfsH

Link #2 http://www.kraftfoods.com/kf/Promotions/July4thPromo

Link #3 on right hand side of page http://print.coupons.com/Couponweb/Offers.aspx?pid=13306&zid=iq37&nid=10

Link #4 http://bricks.coupons.com/Start.asp?tqnm=rf4edpj75015559&bt=wi&p=3L6NrDxJ&o=53034&c=KT

Link #5 http://bricks.coupons.com/Start.asp?tqnm=rf4gbto4747736&bt=wi&o=53032&c=KT&p=7NiaXGQH

Link #6 http://bricks.coupons.com/Start.asp?tqnm=rgagcbt36819833&bt=vi&o=53175&c=KT&p=dMRQXmKO

Link#7
http://bricks.coupons.com/Start.asp?tqnm=rgcoagq51699742&bt=wg&o=53034&c=KT&p=3L6NrDxJ

Good deals worth looking into this week.

I haven't gotten the list made up yet, but there are a couple of deals that I thought I would let you know about. I posted them on HCW so I'm just going to take the post from there and ad it here. Yeah, can you tell I'm feeling lazy and tired tonight?

Cub as a deal going through 6-24 where if you buy 5 specified Sara Lee, Ballpark, or Hillshire Farm products you get a $5 OYNO coupon at checkout.

This is what I did today. It's a great price in the end.

4 Johnsonville brats $10
2 Sara Lee Buns $3

-2 B2 Johnsonville, get 1 buns free= $3
-$5 print out
Total OOP $5 for 4lbs of brats. I know the ad says sausage, but it pictures cheddarwarst as does the coupons. I got the Cheddarwaurst and it worked just fine.

I think there are MF for the brats, but not sure. Maybe $.35/1. That would mean an extra $1.40 off if you have 4 of them. It would make it less then $1 per lb + the free buns.

Rainbow also has buy 6 cereal get $10 off + 1 free milk. If you have some good coupons this can be a good deal. I thought I had it all figured, but just realized I had it all wrong. Maybe I can work up another plan and post it later.