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Grocery Ads and Coupons

February 9th, 2011 at 05:35 am

Well, apparently I am in a very talky mood today. This is my third entry and I guess I am doing a lot of thought organization as I go. Anywho the grocery flyers came out today. Their Valentine's savings are actually pretty incredible, way, way better than their super bowl ads last week, except on beef.

I don't tend to use coupons often on groceries as we don't buy too much in the way of processed foods because of my son's allergies to additives, preservative, stabilizers, food colorings, grapes, raisins, and apples. It's shocking how much that is healthy is sweetened with apple juice or raisin juice, unfortunately.

But there are a few things we buy like Healthy Choice chicken noodle soup if there is a good coupon or sale. I like to have canned soup on hand for those times when I just feel too sick to cook or have an interminable case of the lazies. I won't pay more than a dollar a can for HC (but up to $1.29 for TJ's). Usually it's too expensive. This week they have a special on that if you buy any ten of certain items you get $3 off produce. Well, the soup is on special 10 cans for $10 and it qualifies for the ten items. And since broccoli and cauliflower prices finally fell to $1 a pound I can get three pounds for free. My kids love both of these things, but since they've been hovering near the $2 per pound mark I haven't bought them for a while. They also have cameo apples on sale for .59 a pound. It is so rare to find apples anymore for less than a dollar a pound (even in an apple state like this one). Even if my son can't eat them my daughter can. Also organic chili powder for 3.99 for 6 ounces. I don't use it enough to buy it in bulk, but I use it enough to keep a bottle around and I'm out. The sale is on the 11th through the 14th so I will go first thing Friday morning after dropping my son off at school.

Another store is having a sale Wednesday through Sunday with a bunch of produce coupons. 5 pound bags of yellow onions for $1.48, 15 pound bags of russet potatoes for $1.98 (ten pound is almost $4 on a non sale price lately), .68/lb for navel oranges, 1 lb of fresh strawberries for $1.98 a pound (limit 2, and that's rare to find even in season from the local farms), salad blends for .98 (limit 2, but cheaper than two heads of lettuce at the moment), and .98 cents a pound for fresh tomatoes (cheaper than what I can find canned for at the moment which will mean club sandwiches sometime this week for me for lunch, yay).

They have 4 ounce lobster tails on for $3.98 per pound. Per pound not per tail. $3.98 for four servings of sea food is an awesome price. I can make lobster tails for my birthday without breaking the bank! It's a nice surprise. I certainly wouldn't have thought to get them otherwise. Valentine's Day, I guess you are good for something after all!

They also have a store coupon for Bryer's ice cream for $2.87 (limit 2) and since my son can have the Black Label vanilla I'm going to get some. That's cheaper than the ingredients (and the time effort) to make homemade. It's on for $2.49 at another store but it would require a fifteen minute drive there and then a fifteen minute drive back and I don't think it's worth the gallon of gas to go clear over there for one item to save 56 cents when gas is over $3 a gallon. That's penny wise, but pound foolish.

I'm pretty excited about the produce sale. I should be able to have enough produce in general for the next two weeks and the potatoes and onions should last a month. I'm definitely going to be under the $500 grocery budget goal this month!

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