"1" shopping at Sam's

I went "1" shopping at Sam's today.

If you have no idea what I'm talking about, it is when you peruse the aisles for any prices ending in a "1"~ that means that item has been discontinued and is on clearance. You have to know your prices, though~ sometimes the deal isn't that great.

But I found 2 things at the Midlothian Sam's I thought were worth a post. The first was a 6 pound, 9 ounce of De Cecco pasta. It had 3 bags of spiral pasta, and 3 bags of the small tube kind (I dunno what that is called!), and it was on clearance for $2.51! That's less than .50 cents a pound.





Second, I found boxes of 24 Cinnabon cinnamon bars for $4.51 a box. Each box had 3 smaller boxes of 8 each, and that comes out to $1.50 a box, or .19 cents a bar. Not stellar, but still a good deal. My kids LOVE LOVE LOVE these things!








Third, they had boxes of Chocolate Chunk Chex Mix bars on clearance~ I want to say they were $6.xx for a pack of 24. Not as great of a deal as the Cinnabon, but still good. I didn't buy those...something about the chocolate CHUNK of them made me think that they defeated the purpose of a "granola bar' type snack, which in my family means that there is SOME kind of health benefit to it. Even as I'm typing this I realize that the Cinnabon bars don't follow this "granola bar" definition at all either, so just ignore me. I didn't buy the chocolate ones, that's all.

Anyway, happy "1" shopping, everyone!

Gotta Get It! Martin's 6/27-7/3

Here's my "Gotta Get It!" list for Martins for this week. This is not an exhaustive list of all items on sale and the coupon match-ups~ there are other people that do this much better than I could. It is just a list of things that you SHOULD get because they are rock-bottom prices....or FREE!....with coupons.

Remember: Martin's only doubles one coupon per item per day. I found out the hard way this weekend...I thought I was being smart and sneaky by going to 2 different Martins in one day to get twice the doubling power, but DRAT those pesky computers! They only let you double one per like item, per MARTIN'S CARD. Double drat!

Also, any coupon that is for .55 cents or more will double to $1.00. So, a .75 cent coupon will really be $1.00. Again, only one per like item, per MARTIN'S CARD, per day.

1. French's brown mustard $1.49 - .50/1 (doubles) from 5/9 SS FINAL PRICE (FP): .49 cents each
2. Fresh Corn~ 12/$1.99. Or, 6/.99 cents. Or, 1 for 16.5 cents. :O) You don't have to buy 12.
3. Hellmann's Mayo: $2.00 - .75/1 (doubles to $1.00) printable = FP $1.00
4. Eggs~ 1 dozen Giant Large .50 cents!!
5. Suddenly Salad $1.00 - .50/2 (doubles) from 5/23, 6/6, or 6/27 SS = FP .50 cents each
6. Sweet Baby Rays barbeque sauce $1.00- $1/2 from 5/23 SS = FP .50 cents each
7. Hefty Cups/Plates/bowls $1.66 - $1/2 from 5/16 RP = $1.16 each
8. Dole canned Mandarin Oranges $1.00 = .50/2 (doubles) from 6/20 SS = FP .50 each
9. Skinny Water $1.00 - .50/1 (doubles) printable = FP FREE!
10. Clif Mojo Bars $1.00 - .50/1 (doubles) from Mambo Sprouts booklet (available at Ellwood Thompson) = FP FREE!
11. Dixie Plates $2.00 - .50 1 (doubles) from 5/23 SS = FP $1.00.

BONUS:
If you happen to have the little coupon bookets that have been available in store (NOT the ones mailed out~ these are available at the CS desk if you ask) then the following deals are good for you:

1. Nature's Pride pasta $1.25 - $1/1 NP item = FP .25 cents
2. Smart Living BBQ Tools B1G1 - $2/1 Smart Living Product = FP (varies)
3. The Giant eggs listed above for .50 cents become FREE plus .50 cents overage if you use the $1/1 Giant coupon. The registers WILL give you overage on these booklet coupons.

~Lissa

Sobe Instant Win game

I've been playing the Sobe Instant Win game daily, and I'm pretty impressed with how many things I've won! I think I have gotten 4 b1g1 coupons, 3 "free" coupons (to be mailed to me), and today I won a pair of SoBe flip-flops! You can play once per day, and the game runs through September. Let me know what YOU win!

Target printables

Slick Deals has a dangerous page. It is a page where people have uploaded full pages of Target printables (scroll about half way down and you'll see where it says in red "Multiple Page Coupons"). So, after you have printed your 2 per computer from the Target website, you can go print the same coupons @ 5 or so per page. I used a page of SoBe coupons tonight (5) to buy 10 Sobe's for $1/each, and then I got a $5 gift card. I still felt funny using them, but my (more) honest friend Marie went to customer service before she used them and asked if they were legit, and the CS lady said "yes". So, I'm going with that. :O)

Fresh To Frozen, 6/23

Here's a run-down of all the deals I found at F2F today (Wednesday).

Produce

1. Bing cherries, 2lbs/$2

2. Grapes (marked $1.17/lb) but rang up .77cents/lb

3. Zucchini & summer squash 25 cents/lb

4. Raspberries, 4 boxes/$1.00 (these were looking a little borderline, but I found a few that we could use for a quarter.)

5. Strawberries, $1/lb

6. Bunny Luv baby carrots, .68 cents/bag (1 lb)

7. Peppers, red and orange, 2/$1.00

Dairy

1. Light and Lively cottage cheese .50 cents/tub

2. Sargento shredded Wisconsin Cheddar and bacon, $1/bag

3. Kraft Colby/Jack short cuts cracker slices, 5oz 50 cents/pkg

4. Kraft Meltdowns, taco flavor 33 cents/pkg

5. Organic Valley asceptic milk boxes~ Strawberry, Vanilla or Regular $2.00/case (of 12)

6. Eggland's Best eggs, .98 cents/carton (not too many of these were left)

7. Milk, .98 cents/ half gallon

8. Refrigerated canned biscuits, croissants, pizza crust, 10/$1.00

Frozen

1. 100% juice cans, .89 cents

2. I haven't bought this yet, but they have cookie-dough play-dough in the frozen section~ 4 different colored pints for $2.99. This looks like fun and we may try it for a rainy day~ if we ever get one of those again...... :O)

I think that's it! Enjoy!