Fresh Market Deals

Thanks to UtahDealDiva for THIS POST about Fresh Market's Grand Opening sales this week. I have never been to a Fresh Market store myself since there isn't one super close to me. But her post tempted me to make a trip in.

The closest store to me that was participating in the Grand Opening sale (see the list HERE) was the Riverton store so I went there today. I was able to get chocolate chips for $.98, Yoplait yogurt for $.27 each, 2 lbs blocks of Tillamook cheese for $3.98, grapes for $.98/lb and 4 lbs of strawberries for $3.98 as well as a few other items.

B1G1 Free Bonnie Plants at Lowe's

It's getting to my favorite time of year ... when the tomato plants get planted in the garden. So I was very happy to see this on deal AThriftyMom (thanks!). Lowe's is having a B1G1 sale on their Bonnie plants/herbs and seed packets this week (valid thru Monday 4/26). I checked their ad for my area and it is there so yeah! I usually don't plant most of my plants until Mother's Day but I will probably grab most of what I need this week and just hold off on planting them for a couple weeks.

School Uniforms

Target has many of their school uniform items on clearance right now. Sizes and colors vary since they are clearance but I was able to find most of what I needed for my son who is starting kindergarten in the fall. So if you have a child in a charter school or other school that requires a uniform you might want to check THIS out.

Pop-Tarts = Free Movie Tickets (or other freebies)

Pop-Tarts has a promo going on right now where if you buy 5 specially marked boxes of pop-tarts, of 5 different varieties you can enter the codes on the inside of the boxes online and redeem those codes for either a free movie ticket, 5 music downloads, more poptarts or a couple other prizes. Just go HERE for more details.

Macey's has these on sale this week for $.98 each with in-ad coupon. Combine that store coupon with the $1.25/3 coupon from the 3/28RP to make these just $.56 each. Just make sure you buy different varieties because once you have entered the code for a certain variety it won't let you enter that type again. I do have to say, I went to the Macey's by me today and was disappointed by the lack of choices they had. So I think I will probably hit Walmart later this week and price match there so that I can have a larger flavor selection. **Keep in mind, depending on what checker you get, they may or may not be willing to price match to a coupon deal. I have had both good and bad luck with this so sometimes it's just a matter of luck. :)

The nice thing about this promo is that you do everything online. You don't have to save receipts or UPCs or mail anything in. And you don't have to buy 5 at a time. Just enter the codes as you get them and once you have 5 you can redeem them. And the promo goes until 9/29/2011 so there is no reason to rush out and buy 5 packs. Just be sure to enter codes as you get them and redeem them when you have enough for a reward. Sounds pretty good right!

Rite Aid

Well I had hoped that my diaper stash would last until Kyle was potty trained but since neither he or I are ready for the joys of potty training I needed to put the $3/1 Huggies coupons to use. Most places have packs of Huggies on sale for $8.99 this week but I chose to go to Rite Aid since you can use the $5/$25 or $5/$20 Rite Aid Video Values coupon on your transaction saving you just a little more money.

Here we have a little boy who didn't want to just "hold" the chocolate, but he wanted to unwrap and eat it all. :)

I got all of the above (there are 2 packs of diapers there) for $9.66 and used my rebate check from last month making this cost $0 out of pocket!

2 packs of Huggies diapers, $8.99 each
Used two $3/1 coupons
Used one $5/$25 coupon since my transaction total was just over $25.
Final cost factoring in the Rite Aid coupon = $3.49 each!!

2 NYC nail polishes on sale B1G1 50% off
Used one B1G1 free coupon from the May issue of All You Magazine
Used one $1/1 coupon from 4/18 RP on the one you are not getting for free.
Final cost a $.51 moneymaker!

8 single Hershey bars on sale $2/1
Used four B1G1 free coupons from 4/18 SS
Final cost only $.25 each.

4 large Hershey bars on sale for $.99 (stock piled for summer camping trips ... s'mores!!)
Used four $1/1 coupons from 4/18 SS (**This coupon is for the Hershey Extra Dark bars but they didn't have any of these and were fine to substitute these)
Final cost FREE!!

Check out Hip2Save's current Rite Aid posts HERE for more available deals this week.

Bountiful Baskets Produce Co-op

I have mentioned Bountiful Baskets produce co-op before but I wanted to post what I got this week.

These co-ops are non-profit organizations who are able to "Use collective purchasing to get high quality food at prices usually reserved for grocery stores and restaurants."

There are many co-op organizations out there but the one that I use and LOVE is Bountiful Baskets. The cost for a "basket" is $15 and you get a variety of fruits and veges. You never know what you will get and so it's always a nice surprise to see what you get that week. I then plan my meals around what I received. I also always keep a vege tray in my fridge for Eric, my vege eater so that when he is hungry for the 50th time that hour he can go and get out his vege tray and feed himself.

Some details you might need if you want to try this out:

The cost for a basket is $15 but you can order multiple baskets. The site will let you order up to three baskets per order. They do charge you a $1.50 handling fee per order so I always order with two other friends so that we can split that fee.

They often have add-ons like bread, granola, or additional fruits and veges (ie. a case of mangos, a a case of strawberries, etc.) that you can add on to your order.

The pick ups are on Saturdays. I pick up at the West Jordan location which is at the West Jordan police station on Redwood and 80th South but there are pick-up locations all over the valley.

Some locations, such as the one that I pick up from only have pick-ups every other week, some you can pick up at every week. I do the WJ pick-up the two times a month and then if I feel we need a little more I will buy a basket from one of the SJ pick-ups on the off weeks.

Pick up is really easy. You can access the Site List HERE which shows you the locations you can pick-up at and the time of the pickup. Then you just go there, give them your name and pick-up your produce.

Ordering is done online on Monday's (the Monday before the Saturday pick-up) for my location. This organization covers 5 states so the times that you can log-on and order depend on your location.

Because of high demand some sites fill up really fast. In my case, my area can log on on Monday's at 4pm MDT and I make sure that I do it right at 4pm so that I can be sure to get my basket. The site is slow because so many people log on but it's certainly worth it!

I have really loved doing this. I find that we have fresh fruits with almost every meal and I am often going onto recipezaar and finding recipes for ingrediants that I wouldn't have thought to have bought otherwise. And the nice thing is that you can do this year round so even in the winter you can eat fresh fruits and veges.

Let me know if you have any questions. I also included some pictures of the things we got on other weeks. Thanks to my sister-in-law Alisa who does it with me and is much better at taking pictures ... I stole some of the pics from her. :)

Smiths Quaker Update

I didn't want to post this until I tried it myself to make sure it worked but if you buy 10 Quaker Instant Oatmeals in one transaction and use two $3/5 coupons from the AFS ads you will end up paying $4 for 10 boxes of oatmeal PLUS you will get a catalina coupon with a code for a free movie ticket. 100 packets of instant oatmeal and a free movie ticket for $4 ... WOW!!

See THIS post for more details.

Huggies coupon $3/1

This coupon has been popping up a lot and the one HERE on coupons.com has reset for me. Hopefully you will be able to print off this high value coupon again!

Quaker Deal at Smiths

This morning I was able to get 10 boxes of Quaker Instant Oatmeal at Smiths for $4 total (or $.40 each) and so did my friend Liz!

Smiths has a promo right now where if you buy 5 participating Quaker products ($2 each) get $5 off instantly making each item essentially $1 each. Participating items are Cap'n Crunch and Life cereals as well as Quaker Instant Oatmeal.

Make the deal even better by using the $3/5 coupon that can be found in AFS store ads (such as Harmons, Macey's, Reams). You should've received these in the mail yesterday. Using these coupons makes each 5 items only $2 or $.40 each!!

There is also a $1/1 Oatmeal coupon HERE or a $1/1 Quaker True Delights Oatmeal coupon HERE. If you can print off 5 of these coupons you would get 5 packs of oatmeal for FREE!!

Walgreens 4/13

I got a few good freebies and deals at Wags today.

#1: Two Shick Hydro Shave Gels $2.99 each, get back a $3 RR = FREE. Reports are that it is rolling but I didn't try it because I had other RRs to use and I only got a couple since we don't go through it very fast.

#2: Four TGI Friday's Snacks on clearance for $1.39 each (weren't marked that low, be sure to price check). Used four $1.50/1 coupons from HERE making them an $.11 moneymaker on each!

#3: Four boxes of Kashi Cereal 2/$5. Get back a $1RR on each two you buy making them $2/4. Used three $1.50/1 vocalpoint coupons as well as one Free Box vocalpoint coupon making all four boxes only $1.30 total or $.33 each!!!!

Target 4/12

All this cost me $6.09 at Target today PLUS I can mail in for a $5 rebate from SC Johnson for the Scrubbing Bubbles cleaners making the cost only $1.09! Without coupons and rebates this would've cost me $33.05!

Check out Hip2Save's most recent Target posts HERE for available deals.

The Special K Granola worked out to be $.39 each, the Scrubbling Bubbles Automatic Shower Cleaner ended up costing only $2.99 and the three Scrubbing Bubbles cleaners worked out to be only $.22 total OOP with a $5 rebate making them a money maker!!

Smiths CaseLot Sale

There are caselot sales going on at AFS (Macey's) right now as well as Smiths. Thanks to UtahDealDiva for THIS post that compares some of the prices. Personally, there wasn't any great deals at Macey's this time around that I wanted to take advantage of. So I went to Smiths today and took advantage of a the case lot sale (2 week sale) for a few things that I was low on.

The one deal that I wanted to highlight is on Skippy Peanut Butter. We go through PB like crazy so I almost always need more. Smiths has a case of 12 Skippy PB's on sale for $15.60. That works out to be $1.30 each. There are also a $.75/2 coupon in the 3/28RP that came in your mail box. This would make them about $.93 each. I actually went onto ebay at the beginning of the week and ordered a batch of 15 higher value coupons, $1/2 for a grand total of $.99. That makes them $.80 each if you buy them in the case. NOW THAT BEING SAID, there has been some discussion on the PYP threads about whether they will allow you to use coupons on a case item as they are often times skewed my the case, not individually. So you will want to ask at the store before you check out to find out if you can use your coupons. Some items at Smiths can be bought individually at the same lower price as they would be in the case and some can not.

Okay so onto the Skippy deal. The individual Skippys are marked at $1.30 each (the caselot price). If you buy 10 of them you will get a catalina that prints out for a free Digital Choice Reward which is you choice of 15 free music downloads, 1 free movie ticket OR 15 free ringtones.

So for me it was worth it to just buy 10 seperate Skippy's instead of a case of 12.

10 Skippys for $1.30 each
Used five $1/2 coupons (from ebay)
Paid $8 for 10 Peanut Butters and one free movie ticket!