MONEY MAKER deal at Martin's

This deal is too good to NOT post. Thanks to Scott, who discovered it first!

Martin's is having a deal on several products this week, where you buy 5 and get $5 back at the register. Here is a list of those products:

Buy any 5 of the selected items listed below and instantly get $5 off your shopping purchase

• Kellogg's Cereal or Family Size Pop Tarts (Frosted Flakes, Apple Jacks or Fruit Loops, Corn Pops, Pop Tarts 20.3-22 oz Box) 2/$5
• Kellogg's Fruit Snacks 2/$5
• Kellogg's Rice Krispies Treats 2/$4
• Kellogg's Nutri Grain Bars 2/$5
• Keebler Sandwich Crackers 2/$4
• Keebler Club Crackers 2/$5
• Cheez-It Crackers (Excludes Twisterz) $2.99
• Keebler Caddy Packs $4.79
• Eggo Waffles (excludes Nutri-grain and Special K Waffles) $1.99

IN ADDITION, if you buy 10 of these items in one transaction, you will ALSO receive a $10 Catalina coupon (the little coupon thingys that print out at check-out) good on your next order. So, if you have NO COUPONS, you will get the $1.99 items for FREE if you do this deal. However, if you have coupons also, this will be a MONEY MAKER for you! Here is a database that lists where to find or print all the coupons I used....just search for the items you're looking for.

Here's what my shopping trip looked like today:

Transaction #1:
10 boxes of Eggos @$1.99/each
-5 $1/2 coupons
- $10 Martin's discount
Total = $5.xx
PLUS I earned the $10 catalina (which doesn't print until after you sign the CC slip! I got nervous there for a second....)

Transaction #2:
10 boxes of Keebler crackers @ 1.99 each
1 gal. 2% milk
-5 $1/2 coupons
-$10 Martin's discount
Total: $7.xx
PLUS another $10 catalina
I SHOULD have thought this through a little more and bought something else to equal over $10 for that transaction so I could use Cat #1 on Transaction #2, but oh-well....

Transaction #3
4 boxes of Nutri Grain bars @ $2.50
2 boxes of Cinnabon bars @ $2.50
4 boxes of Pop Tarts @ $2.50
-2 $1/2 Nutri Grain Printables
-1 $1/2 Cinnabon printable
-2 $1/2 Pop Tart printable
-$10 Martin's discount
- $10 cat from Transaction #1
Total $2.xx

So, all told, I spent $15 on EVERYTHING.. .. And came home with $20 to spend.

Don't you just love making money to shop??? :O)

Have fun!!

Target deals 8/1

Sorry I've been slow on the deals the last week or two~ I keep thinking I won't be shopping since I'll be having a baby, but so far~ no go. I'm 5 days late today......

So I started perusing the Target deals for this week, and this one stood out:

Juicy Juice 8 pk on Price Cut for $1.99
-$1.00/2 coupon from yesterday's RP
-$1/1 Target printable
= .50 cents/pack when you buy 2 and use 2 Target Coupons (so, don't go to Forest Hill to do this deal!)

If I see any other stand-out deals, I'll add them here!

Fresh to Frozen, Wed. 7/28

Here's a quick update of the top dairy and produce deals at Fresh to Frozen today:

1. Seedless watermelons $1.00 (these are GOOD! We had one for dinner)
2. Blueberries .65 cents/ pint
3. Strawberries, 3 pounds for $2.00
4. Hanover tomatoes, .50 cents/ lb
5. Sorrento mozzarella cheese $2.00 for a 1lb block
6. loose apples, .88 cents/lb
7. Honeydew melons $1.00

That's all that sticks out in my brain~ either the other stuff there wasn't that great of a deal, or I just missed it.

Over and out!

There are good shopping trips, and then...

I had a Kroger high yesterday morning. It was a great trip: I got:

2 Welch's Grape Juice 100%
1 Gatorade 32 oz
1 Wishbone Dressing
5 Kraft shredded cheeses
1 Dixie Ultra plates
2 Philadelphia Cream Cheese Minis
4 Dan-o-nino yogurts
2 bags of Tyson frozen chicken
8 Quaker Rice cakes
1 L'Oreal hair detangler
2 Motrin PM's

And I paid $8.xx out of pocket, and got $7 in Catalinas back to use on my next order.

Better yet, the check-out clerk was nice, all my coupons scanned without beeping, there was no line, AND I got to go without kiddos! The trip couldn't have been better!

Let's contrast that to tonight when I went to the FOREST HILL TARGET.

I had coupons for about 10 different things. (Merona shirts for D, C9 apparel for me, Red Baron Pizza-by-the-slice, Granola bars, Nexcare tattoo bandaids, etc.). The only things I came to the register with was 8 Sobe (I DID find 4 of my favorite flavor~ Orange Tangerine!), and 2 Stride Gum. I had b1g1 Target AND Manufacturers coupons for both items, which would have made everything free.

I knew I was in trouble when after successfully scanning all my coupons the total was .54 cents (tax), and the check-out girl said, "Hold on, I have to go check these with the manager" and she walked off with all my coupons. Oh boy. This is the SAME store where the manager stole my coupons last week (see below post). I had done nothing wrong, but when cashiers start acting as if I have, it always makes me nervous. She came back with the grumpy manager who said I could only use ONE Target coupon per transaction, AND they weren't going to give me free products, so I couldn't use both the Target and Manufacturers coupons at one time on the Gum (That is NOT correct, I've done it before numerous times at other Targets, but whatever.). I was determined to remain pleasant, I put 4 Sobe's back, let her run my 2 transactions separately, gathered up all the coupons I wouldn't be using, and I went on my way. Feeling like a criminal.

I did ask her why some Targets will allow this and some (they) won't, and her reply was that "We strictly enforce Target coupon rules here.". Mental note and lesson learned: don't go back to the Forest Hill Target with coupons.

The bigger lesson, though, is this: How should we react when the cashier is blatantly wrong, or we have been "wronged" with our deserved savings, or someone is unpleasant behind us in line, or ...or...or.....I'm sure you guys could come up with other similar scenarios. I came away reminded that in ALL things the savings doesn't matter~ but my witness for the Lord does. So, I ate $2.34 cents at Target last night, but I hope my attitude toward the grumpy manager and suspicious cashier was worth much more.

But today I'm going back to Kroger.

Free Kraft Shredded Cheese at Kroger!!

I love free. I love cheese. I love Kraft cheese (NOT the 2% though...Yuck). This is a deal made in heaven!

Here's how to get your Kraft cheese for FREE through Saturday at Kroger:

1. Buy 5 Kraft 8oz shredded cheeses for .99 cents each. I've heard that some of the weird ones won't work~ like the Fat Free, etc. You gotta get the real, full-fat stuff, or the nasty 2% if that's your thing. You *could* also get Philadelphia cream cheese bricks~ those are also included in the deal.

2. Buy 5 other items that are part of this week's "mega" sale. My current (cheap) favorites are the Pasta-Roni for 49 cents, or the 32 oz Gatorades for 49 cents. There are lists and lists available to peruse if you're interested in the forums at afullcup.com.

At check-out, your total will be approx. $7.50 (if you buy 5 of the .49 cent items also), and you will get a Catalina coupon right there on the spot for $5 off your next order. That basically makes the cheese FREE!!

I tried doing two transactions today and rolling the Cat I got from the first transaction onto the second and it worked like a charm. My second transaction total for 5 cheeses and 5 gatorades was approx. $2.50.

.50 cent Tombstone Pizza @ Kroger

There's a $2/1 coupon on Facebook right now for Tombstone Pizza. Unfortunately you have to "post" a brief comment about what you'll be doing this summer to your, and your friends, pages~ but I just went and deleted it immediately so hopefully it won't be too pesky. :O)

Anyway, Tombstones are part of the Mega Deal at Kroger this week~ which means if you combine the coupon with the purchase of 10 items from the Mega Deal list, you can get the pizzas for .49 cents each!

Happy Slurpee Day!

One of my most favorite days of the year is here! Stop in to any 7-11 store to get a 7.11 ounce Slurpee for FREE!