Food Lion Literally Paid Me .70 For 5 Tubs of Butter And 2 1lb. Boxes of Sphagetti

I got so excited Tues. night when looking at the Food Lion ad I saw where Bestlife Buttery spread 15 oz tubs were going to be on sale 5/$5. I had taken advantage of this sale last time and scored lots of free butter with my coupons. So since then I made sure I clipped all the coupons I saw for it. Wed. I went to Food Lion and bought 5 tubs of BestLife Buttery Spread at 5/$5 and had 5 $1/1 coupons which made them all free. I also had 2 $1/1 coupons for ronzoni pasta. Ronzoni sphagetti 1lb. boxes are on sale for Buy 1 Get 1 Free. Regualr retail was $1.19, At Food Lion you are allowed to use 2 coupons on BOGO sales. I used 2 coupons. I ended up paying no tax on the entire order. I can't believe the cashier handed me .70 back. She is one of the lead cashers so it's not like she didn't know what she was doing. The manager who knows me personally and is a great guy was standing in line behind me. He was shocked that I got 5 tubs of butter and two boxes of pasta totally free. He said he was actually impressed. Bummer was she didn't give me my receipt and it was pouring down rain so I didn't go back in to get it. So I don't know exactly how much I saved but I'm guessing at least $10. Don't forget you don't have to buy 5 even though the sale says 5/$5. You can buy 1 for $1.

Paid .31 tax for 4 Nivea Lip Gloss

A few weeks ago Rite Aid had Nivea lip gloss on sale for $1. I found a coupon online for $2/2 nivea lip items. I printed two coupons and got for lip gloss free and only had to pay .31 tax! They are regularly priced at $2.99 each!

Healthified Spicy Cashew Chicken

Start to Finish:30 min

makes:4 servings

2 2	tablespoons bottled oyster sauce
1	tablespoon reduced-sodium soy sauce
1	tablespoon packed brown sugar
2	teaspoons cornstarch
1/3	cup water
1	tablespoon canola oil
2	medium red and/or green sweet peppers, cut into bite-size strips
1	medium onion, sliced
3	cups coarsely shredded bok choy or napa cabbage
2	to 4 fresh red hot chile peppers, seeded and finely chopped
1	clove garlic, minced
12	ounces skinless, boneless chicken breast halves, cut into bite-size strips
2	cups hot cooked brown rice
1/4	cup lightly salted roasted cashews, coarsely chopped

1.	For sauce: In a small bowl, stir together oyster sauce, soy sauce, brown sugar, and cornstarch. Stir in the water. Set aside.
2.	In a large wok or very large nonstick skillet, heat oil over medium-high heat. Add sweet peppers and onion; stir-fry for 2 minutes. Add bok choy, chile peppers, and garlic; stir-fry for 1 to 2 minutes more or until peppers and onion are crisp-tender. Remove vegetable mixture from wok and set aside.
3.	Add chicken to wok. Stir-fry for 3 to 4 minutes or until no longer pink. Push chicken to side of wok. Stir sauce; add to wok. Cook and stir until thickened and bubbly. Return vegetable mixture to wok. Cook and stir for 1 minute more or until heated through. Serve over rice and sprinkle with cashews.

Nutritional Information

1 1/4 cups: Calories 350 (Calories from Fat 90); Total Fat 10g (Saturated Fat 1 1/2g, Trans Fat 0g); Cholesterol 50mg; Sodium 440mg; Total Carbohydrate 41g (Dietary Fiber 5g, Sugars 10g); Protein 26g Percent Daily Value*: Vitamin A 90%; Vitamin C 230%; Calcium 10%; Iron 15% Exchanges: 2 Starch; 0 Other Carbohydrate; 1 1/2 Vegetable; 2 1/2 Very Lean Meat; 1 Fat Carbohydrate Choices: 3
*Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet.

www.eatbetteramerica.com

Where To Find Upcoming Sales and Printable Coupons

Hey Everyone

This post may be random but I'm going to share some couponing tips and websites to find coupons and upcoming sales.


All 3 of the local drugstores in our area have websites where you can go and view the upcoming sales ads. This is a great way to see if the items you're going to be needing are going on sale anytime soon and where the best place to buy them is. Also I enjoy looking at the ads to see what coupons I need to find for the upcoming sales.

Rite Aid: www.iheartriteaid.com

Walgreens: www.iheartwags.com


CVS: www.iheartcvs.com

The upcoming ads are listed on the right hand side of the page.

Angie asked the question in the recent Q&A contest, Where do I find high value coupons online. There are many coupon sites online where you can print coupons. The sites I recommend are coupons.com, smartsource.com, and redplum.com Keep in mind the smart source and redplum sites have a lot of the same coupons that are in their inserts in the paper.

Coupons.com resets their coupons every month, some coupons don't last a whole month on there. You can only print most printable coupons twice per computer. I do know that if the same coupon is on the site again the next month you may print it two more times.

Spent $3.95 and Saved $48.48

Yesterday I had another record day at Harris Teeter I did 2 transactions and both transaction together I only spent $3.95 and saved $48.48. The only thing I paid for was a pack of pampers I got on evic for $2.99 after my $1.50 coupon doubled. The rest was tax.

I got:

5 hormel compleats
1 box of krusteaz cake mix
4 jars of welch's grape jelly
2 colgate toothpaste
2 pouches of cat treats
1 single roll 7th generation papertowels
3 boxes of green giant frozen veggies

I got all the stuff listed above for free!

I went back today and did a much smaller transaction and got 3 zone perfect bars, 2 pouches of cat treats, and another box of cake mix and got it all for .67. I got the cat treats and cake mix free and paid very little for the zone bars.

Spent $3.44 Saved $54 At Harris Teeter Super Doubles

My Harris Teeter trip today was much more positive than yesterday's trip. Yesterday they decided they were going to analyze my coupons to make sure I got the exact thing that was listed on the coupon. Not to mention the same cashier took the same coupons the day before for the same items without a problem. Oh well, on to today's successful trip.

Today I bought:

3 Activia yogurt on sale $2 each

used 3 $1/1 coupons doubled= free

2 bags purina cat food

used 2 $1/1 coupons
these were on sale Buy 1 get 1 free, I bought these in 2 separate transactions so they would each ring up half price, then my $1 coupons doubled making them .72 each!

5 pouches of purina cat treats

used 5 $1/1 coupons doubled= free

5 edward's singles 2 pack pies sale $2 each

used 5 $1/1 coupons doubled= free

6 tony's pizza's used 3 1off 2 coupon doubled= $1 for 6

I did not get all this in one transaction. Since you can only use 3 like coupons per order I went through the checkout twice.

I spent only $3.44 on all this and saved $54!!

How Does Super Double Coupons Work?

I thought I would go ahead and answer this question prompt since Harris Teeter is starting super double coupons Wed.

How does Super Double coupons work? Which coupons are the best to use?

Harris Teeter will only double 20 coupons per day per household. Only 3 identical coupons can be used in 1 transaction. During the super double events Harris Teeter will double any coupon with $1.98 face value or under. For ex. $1.50 coupon will double to $3. They will double any coupon under $1 every day, so for the super double event you need to focus on the coupons that are $1-$1.50. This can score you tons of free stuff.

It's Giveway Time!!!!

If you haven't already you should go read the previous post about a Fresh Start. We're going to be making a fresh start here at JJ Frugal Friends and going to get serious about blogging as well as sharing other tips and ideas besides what all you can get free with coupons. We really want to see our followers grow and return on a daily basis.

The first giveaway you can enter is ask me you Coupon Questions. I've had several people ask about my extreme couponing lately and how I get all that toothpaste or a year's worth of femine products free. There is no dumb question. Leave any question you may have about couponing how to get started, how to find the deals, or anything else.

The 2nd giveaway you can enter by leaving me a comment telling me what you would like to see on the blog. I want to blog what you want to see. I know I did a post about a year ago asking the same thing but I will try to listen this time! lol

The winners will receive great surprises! The drawings for the winners will take place Thurs. morning. If I don't have your contact info please leave your e-mail address in your comment.

Tell all your friends about the giveaways. The more people that enter, the more fun it will be.

A Fresh Start

After a while we all get tired of the same thing, whether it's the same clothes, same food, same clutter. We just want to throw out and bring in the new. Well, that's about how I'm feeling about the blog. I love the blog and the concept of the blog but I've been slack. I think you guys want more from this than to just only hear about all the free stuff I get. I want to give you more than that too. I want this blog to keep you coming back daily for more and to invite your friends to come join. I hope to bring more frugal living post to the blog and other fun post not totally related to coupon deals.

I follow several of the bigger coupon/savings sites and I would love to see our blog become 1/2 of what these sites are. I realize I have to do my part on blogging but will you do your part of coming back and giving us feedback and comments to make the blog more exciting?

Spent $1.83 and Saved $29.84

I'm loving this beautiful weather outside today. Spent half the afternoon outside in my glider with a good book.

I had to share my freebies of the day with you. I spent $1.83 ( all but .30 was tax) and saved $29.84! I paid .30 for 2 zone perfect bars and everything else was free. I got 7 tubes of colgate that were on sale at Harris Teeter for $1.09, I had .75 coupons which doubled making them free. I bought 2 chewable 90ct. maalox bottles at Rite Aid on sale for $4.99, I also bought 1 liquid maalox for $4.99 too. I used 3 $5 maalox coupons and got $3 up rewards back. Up rewards are coupons to use off your next order. I went to Food Lion and got a roll of marcal paper towels free with a $1 coupon. The paper towels were regularly $1.19 but were on sale for $1.

How You Can Get Free Dove Deodorant

Don't throw out Jan. 30th's coupons so quick. There is a $2 off Dove deodorant coupon in the Red Plum from last Sunday. All month at Food Lion the Dove deodorant is on sale for $2 regularly over $3. Use the coupon and you can get it for free paying only tax this month at Food Lion.

Free Femine Products!!

This week I was loving the BOGO deal at Rite Aid with the Stayfree pads paired with the BOGO free coupons that came out a few weeks ago. For those of you who may not know you can use a buy 1 get 1 free coupon with a buy 1 get 1 free sale and get 2 for free! You can't beat that! I got 12 packs for free this week and only had two pay $2.32 for tax. I went back later in the week and got an additional 2 packs the were the 40ct. I only paid .99 plus .54 tax which = $1.53 for these large packs.