Rite Aid 2/14 - 2/20

Olay Skin and Bath Care Products 3 for $18
Buy 3, use (3) $1.00/1 coupons from 2/14 RP
Pay $15.00 OOP, mail in rebate form (found here)*
Final Price: 3 for FREE
*Note - Several months ago I did a deal similar to this for a $20.00 Olay rebate. My rebate came quickly, in about two weeks.

Motrin PM, 20 count $2.99
Use $1.00/1 any Motrin product coupon from 1/3 RP
Pay $1.99 OOP, enter receipt for SCR* of $2.00
Final Price: FREE, .01 Money Maker (MM)
*Please see my Coupon Basics page to learn about Single Check Rebates (SCR); under "Rite Aid", under Pages, on the right of my Coupon Basics page.

Here's a scenario for you:
18.00 3 Olay Products
2.99 1 Motrin PM
Total 20.99
- (1) 5/20 Rite Aid (RA) coupon (for watching Video Values ads; see my Coupon Basics page under Rite Aid)
- (3) 1.00 Olay coupons
- (1) 1.00 Motrin coupon
Total $11.99 OOP
- 2.00 SCR
- 15.00 Olay Rebate
Final Price: FREE plus $5.01 MM

Good Deal at Giant

Just wanted to share what I found at Giant last night. Kraft is having their cat promotion which is buy 5 Kraft products and get a $5.00 cat at checkout. This will be going on until 01/24. Giant has Breakstone Cottage Doubles on sale for $1.00 each this week. Breakstone is a Kraft brand, and even though the Breakstone sour cream had the Kraft promo label on the shelf, the Cottage Doubles didn't. I decided to try it anyway, and it worked. I bought 5 Cottage Doubles, paid $5.00, got a $5.00 cat at checkout, then rolled that to pay for the next 5. So, as long as you want to stand in a checkout line for a while, theoretically you could keep rolling those cats to get free Cottage Doubles for your initial $5.00. The only thing I have found is that at Giant the $5.00 cats always beep at self checkout. Last night I went to a cashier because the self checkouts were closed, and she had to override all of them. So you have to decide which is worse - having somebody come over to clear you at self checkout with every transaction, or possibly holding up a checkout line with massive amounts of Cottage Doubles and rolling cats!

Woo hoo!

I just had to share! I decided to make the most of the last day of the Conagra cat deal at Giant so here's what I put together:

T1:
4 Healthy Choice (HC) meals
Used (2) $1/2 coupon
OOP: $6.00, got $5.00 cat

T2:
5 HC meals
Used $5/5 coupon
Used $5.00 cat
OOP: 0.00 (just love seeing that receipt!)

T3:
5 HC meals
2 gallons milk
1/2 gallon chocolate milk
Used $5/5 coupon
Used $5.00 cat
Used Free Choc. Milk WYB 2 Gallons coupon
OOP: $1.58

So, I got 14 HC meals, 2 gallons of milk and 1/2 gallon of chocolate milk for $7.58. I'm pretty happy! At the first transaction the Healthy Choice coupons beeped (I used self checkout). Tom and Andy were with me and Tom told the man that came over to help that he should probably stick around because we had two more transactions to go. Every HC coupon beeped, so I'm glad he did stick around, but everything went through just fine.

Food Lion 01/13 - 01/19

Here are a few things I saw at Food Lion this week. I'll post again if I find more. Don't forget that the Food Lion brand sale and cat deal are still going on until 02/02.

Betty Crocker Fruit Shapes BOGO
Buy 4, $5.58
Use (4) .40/1 IP (make sure you look for this one; there is also a .50/2 on there; you don't want that for this deal)
Total OOP $3.98 for 4, or .99 each
Receive cat for $2.50 at checkout, making these .37 each

Chef Boyardee Pasta and Microwave Bowls 7.5-15 oz $1.00
Use $1.00/2 14.5 oz Microwave Bowls in 01/10 SS
Final Price .50 each

Campbell's Soup At Hand $1.19
Use $1.00/2 in 1/10 SS
Final Price .69 each

Giant Conagra Deal Update

It is official. I'm a dolt. After I went to Giant the other day and did this deal, I received another $5.00 cat at the end of the second transaction. I knew I hadn't spent the required $15.00 in Conagra products, but there had been major problems with my coupons that day (I did other transactions besides this one), and I figured something just got mixed up somewhere. Now I realize that the $15.00 requirement to get a $5.00 cat is based on pre-sale prices which at my store were $3.99! So, just buying 5 Healthy Choice meals (actually 4 if you're not using the $5.00/5 coupon) will get you to your needed $15.00. Wish I knew that earlier!

Okay, so everyone but me probably knows this, but just as I was mourning the loss of the Food Lion cat deal because my budget is depleted for the week, I discovered that this promotion is actually going on until 02/02. Yay! I see more Food Lion trips in my future.........

Food Lion Trip

Yes! It worked! The scenario I worked out earlier worked well, with a few minor changes. The prices were a bit different at my store; the beans were actually .50 instead of .69, the pot pies were .75 instead of .69, the potted meat was .45 instead of .33, milk was 3.09 instead of 3.49 and the sugar was 1.85 instead of 1.99. So, final OOP was $28.30 which worked out to .40 per item.

In the interest of full disclosure though, I paid $5.00 more than that figure because they were out of the Kraft cheese and I didn't have that catalina to use on the second transaction. Then my wonderfully smart husband suggested that I ask if they had any more in the back. Of course they did. So, after my three transactions, the cheese was rung up and I received my $5.00 cat which I will use on a future trip. That's why I'm figuring it as coming off my total above. If your store has the Kraft cheese on the shelf then you should be fine. Or don't be like me and wait until you're finished to ask!