Deal of the Week: Use Your Coupons

Author: Tina | Posted: 15-12-2011 2

I already showed you guys what I bought at the grocery store earlier this week, but then I realized that I had a bunch of coupons that were about to expire at the end of the month, so I gathered them up and went to cash them in. Many of them are for FREE items or ones that I typically buy, so if I let them expire, it would be like I was wasting money.

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Check out the loot that bought! Original cost: $74. Cost after sales and coupons: $36! A savings of $38! Booyah!

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Items that were on sale:

  • Store brand egg whites
  • Kettle Backyard BBQ Chips (NuVal score: 24)
  • Kettle Krinkle Cut Chips Buffalo Bleu All Natural (NuVal score: 24)
  • Brown sugar (NuVal score: 1)
  • Clementines (NuVal score: 94)
  • Wilson Pepperoni Slices
  • Store brand shredded cheddar cheese
  • Wonderful Roasted & Salted Pistachios (NuVal score: 41)
  • Chobani Non-Fat Strawberry Greek Yogurt (NuVal score: 28)
  • Chobani Non-Fat Greek Yogurt Blueberry (NuVal score: 28)
  • Chobani Non-Fat Peach Greek Yogurt (NuVal score: 28)
  • Chobani Non-Fat Plain Greek Yogurt (NuVal score: 94)
  • Chobani Non-Fat Pomegrante Greek Yogurt (NuVal score: 28)
  • Chobani Non-Fat Black Cherry Greek Yogurt (NuVal score: 27)
  • Chobani Low-Fat Mango Greek Yogurt (NuVal score: 25)
  • Chobani Low-Fat Banana-Strawberry Greek Yogurt (NuVal score: 26)

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Items that I had a coupon for:

  • Arnold 100% Whole Wheat Bread (NuVal score: 37)
  • Arnold 100% Whole Wheat Sandwich Thins (NuVal score: 37)
  • Dole Endless Summer Salad Kit
  • Buitoni Braised Beef and Sausage Ravioli
  • Ristorante Pizza Quattro Formaggi Frozen Pizza

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Don’t forget to use your coupons before the end of the year! Many of them expire on December 31, 2011!

Deal of the Week: Store Food Without Worry

Author: Tina | Posted: 27-10-2011 1

Scoring items on sale at the grocery store is one of my favorite things, especially when it’s a product that I love and use often. Getting these deals slims my grocery bill quite a bit, but only if those purchases don’t go to waste. If they do, I’m just wasting money!

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Here are some helpful guidelines from AllYou.com to help keep items as delicious and fresh as they were on the day you bought them.

Keep your pantry items…

  • Bottled salad dressing (unopened): 1 year
  • Bread: 5-7 days
  • Canned goods: 1 year
  • Cereal (unopened): 1 year
  • Jams, jellies, honey, syrup (unopened): 1 year
  • Peanut butter: 6 months
  • Pasta: 2 years
  • White rice: 1 year

Keep your frozen food…

  • Beef steaks: 6-12 months
  • Bread: Up to 1 year
  • Butter: 6-9 months
  • Fish: 2-6 months
  • Ground meat: 3-4 months
  • Lunch meat: 1-2 months
  • Produce: Up to 1 year
  • Whole poultry: 1 year

Deal of the Week: Save Money with Printable Coupons

Author: Tina | Posted: 19-09-2011 0

Before you head to the store, don’t forget your coupons!

An easy way to find them is online. There are a ton of websites devoted to printable coupons. Stock up on printable coupons for groceries, health, and beauty products and more!

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Here are just some of the great websites out there that offer printable coupons!

Do you ever use printable coupons? What are your favorite websites to find them?

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