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Good Housekeeping is offering a free subscription to readers who purchase $20 or more in a single transaction of certain products at Kroger Family stores from Sept. 14 to Oct. 11.
Shoppers ar Bakers, City Market, Dillons, Frys, Gerbes, Hilander, Jay-C, King Soopers, Kroger, Owen's, Pay-Less, Ralph's, Scott's, Smith's and QFC will have a coupon print at the end of their transaction when they purchase the $20 of the following items:
Betty Crocker Au Gratin Potatoes, Butter Buds, Campbell's Red and White Adult Vaierty, Campbell's Select Harvest, Dreamfield's Pasta, Eggo Waffles, Minute Rice, Naturally Preferred, Private Selection, TGI Friday's Sizzling Steak Fajitas, Tilmook Cheese, Simple Harvest, Spam, Swanson Chicken Broth, Blue Diamond Almonds, Lay's Cracker Crisps, Minute Main Enhanced Juice, Nestle Carnation Evaporated Milk, Pepperidge Farm Cookies, Reese's Peanut Butter Cups, Snyder's of Hanover Pretzels and Snacks, Aussie Opposites Attract Spray Gel, Pantene, Secret Flawless, Alli, Commit, KY Liquibeads, Oxy Acne Solutions, Tampax, Angel Soft, Brawny, Dixie, GE Energy Smart Light Bulbs, Scrubbing Bubbles Mega Shower Foamer, Simple Geren, Vanity Fair Napkins and Woolite Oxy Deep.

Trip to Kroger

With Hurricane Ike coming through, gasoline in my town took a .48 jump today and they are rationing it to 10 gallons a person, so I tried to do all of my running while I was in town. My weekend shopping trips are on hold until this gas goes down!
So, while I was in town to pick up my daughter from school and go to Walgreens for shampoo, I made a trip to Kroger to use up some coupons before they expired. I had hoped to get some more Cottonelle, but they were out. I hope to get back to use them before they expire next week though. I could have done better if I hadn't needed the chicken, Handisnacks and the Pedialax, but those are essentials in this house! Anyway...here is today's haul.


Three bottles of French's Mustard at $1.30 each
Three bottles of Franks Red Hot at $1.18 each
One loaf of Sara Lee Bread at $2
Two boxes of Rice A Roni at $1.07 each
Four packets of Taco Seasoning at .89 each
One box of Pedialax at $5.79
One box of Handisnacks at $3.49
Not pictured are two half gallons of Soy Milk at $3.68 each and one pound of deli chicken at about $6.99.

Coupons Used
Three .50 off French's Mustard (doubled to $1 each)
Three Franks Red Hot (doubled to $1 each)
One $1 off Sara Lee (Mailed to Kroger Plus customers)
Two .50 off Rice A Roni (doubled to $1 each)
Two .50 off Old El Paso (doubled to $1 each)
One $1 off Pedialax
Two $2.25 off Silk Soy Milk

Check here for the Frenchs and Franks coupons. The Silk coupon is no longer active.

Total after coupons - $20.18

.36 at Kroger

I paid .36 at Kroger for all of this. All I paid for after the coupons was .18 on each bottle of Franks Red Hot Sauce! See my previous post here to see what coupons to take with you for this deal!

Free Toilet Paper and more at Kroger

I knew we could get free Cottonelle toilet paper at Kroger with the insert coupons, but I did find a printable here too. And, you can print these each month, so since Cottonelle is regularly priced a .99, this will mean free toilet paper for a really long time!
(Update-I found out during my trip today that these coupons are not for the .99 paper, but they are still a good discount.)
(Update again!-Some people at Centsable Sawyer are reporting that the Ultra coupons are working!)

Also, this coupon will give you a .50 coupon for French's mustard. It is on sale right now for $1, so free mustard too!

Soy milk can get expensive, so I was very excited when Silk put out this coupon for $2.25 off. It doesn't make it free, but it is very inexpensive this way!

WOW at Kroger!

Today at Kroger was awesome!!!!!
This photo will show you exactly what I came home with, and if you will see my previous post here, you can see how I managed to do this!
I was able to get two cans of formula (remember this is normally $24.99 per can), seven packs of Orbit gum, seven tubes of Chapstick, six boxes of Bagel Bites, five California Pizza Kitchen pizzas, nine double packs of Gerber baby food and three three-liter jugs of Ocean Spray Cranberry Juice.
My total before coupons was $165.48, and I paid $40.18!!!!! Still cheaper than just the two cans of formula! I also got a $5 Catalina for my next purchase since I bought two cans of formula along with $6.50 off my next purchase of three cans, .75 off my next four packages of baby food and $1 off Pampers!
The juice will go to the food bank, the Chapstick to the soldiers in Iraq and the rest to my newly straightened pantry!
Yeah!!!!

Facebook Coupons great at Kroger

If you were one of the lucky people like me who were able to print the high value coupons from Facebook before the values were reduced, Kroger definitely has some great deals right now! I just got back and was able to California Pizza Kitchen pizzas for less than .50 a piece, Bagel Bites for less than .50 a piece and Ocean Spray Cranberry Cocktail for less than $1 each. Vitamin Water coupons doubled to $1 off, so I paid less than .50 for each of those. I also got free Chapstick and free Orbit gum.
The cashier was amazed when my $225 total came down to $115 for all of my groceries today, and a good portion of it was due to that and the Nestle deal going on right now. If you buy $20 in select Nestle products, you receive $5 back. Lucky for me, Nestle makes our formula, baby food and dog food, so I was able to get the limit of $15 back on $60. I love it when a shopping day surprises me with even better deals than I had planned!

Kroger Trip and more coupons to giveaway

I was so excited yesterday! All of this only cost me $30.xx, and after I send in my rebate forms from this week's coupon inserts of Kelloggs, it will only be $10! I thought Kroger still had the ongoing deal with buying 10 certain items and getting $5 off your order, but that was over Saturday. If that was the case, this would have all been free!
I got four gallons of Kroger milk, four loaves of Kroger bread, four boxes of Rice Krispies Treats, four boxes of Yogo Bites, eight boxes of Eggo waffles, four boxes of Poptarts, and two bags of Keebler's cookies.
So, how did I do it? I used the insert with the $10 rebate form along with those coupons as well as several from a "Fuel for School" coupon brochure they were giving away. I picked a lot of them up, and I am going to be giving a few away. If you are interested, all you have to do is link back to this posting in your blog and then leave me a message to let me know you did it. If you subscribe to my blog, then you can have a second entry! I will pick winners in one week. Next Wednesday I will choose three winners to have these coupons! Then you can shop for next to nothing too!

Coupon Books at Kroger

I don't know if other stores have them or not, but when I was at Kroger yesterday, I found coupon books for $24 off everyday items when you purchase certain products like Kellogg's, Keebler or Sunshine. The discounts are on back to school items like binders, store brand juice and milk or produce. I grabbed a handful of them since they don't expire until Sept. 30. I will be giving away one in my coupon giveaway next week, so check out my contest on Monday morning for a chance to win one of these great booklets!

Sunday Shopping without the girls

My mom had both girls for the night, so I had all afternoon to shop and take my time. I didn't get to get a picture since dh was so good to get it all put away before I had a chance! :) What a day!

CVS

First Transaction

One CVS Baby Lotion at $2
Two Glade Air Fresheners at .88 each
Eight All Small and Mighty at $6.49 each BOGO
One Johnson and Johnson Baby Lotion (Didn't realize she put that on there until I got home. Must have been left by someone else. I am returning it.)

Coupons Used
Eight $1 off All
$1 off two Glades
Two $2 off CVS Skin Product (She pushed the second one and now I know why!)
$3/$15
$15.98 ECB from Photo Books

Total OOP - 2.81

Second Transaction

Two All Small and Mighty at $6.49 each BOGO
One CVS Baby Lotion

Coupons Used
Two $1 off All
$2 off CVS Skin Product
$3/$15

Total OOP - $3.76


Kroger

Unbelievable trip due to so many wyb coupons.

Milk at $4.09
3 Minute Maid Orange Juice (Clearance) at .99 each
Two Sunny Delight at $1 each
Dog Chow at $10.49
Kroger Sugar at $1.85
2 Beef Broth at $1.09 each
Two Kroger Cream of Mushroom at .88 each
Four Kroger Black Beans at .44 each
Eight Oscar Meyer Beef Hotdogs at $3.59 each
Eight Kraft Dressings at $2.29 each
One Azteca Tortilla at $1.89
Two Mini Tapioca at $3.29 each
Cucumbers at .59
Curry Powder at $2.24
3 Lunchables at $1.25 each
Green Peppers at $1.54
Cream Cheese at $1.26
Three Blocks of Kraft Cheddar at $5.99 each
Six Wheat Thins at $4.49 each
Kroger Buns at $1.09
Red Peppers at $3
Grape Tomatoes at $2.39
Three Kroger Enchilada Sauce at .99 each
Kraft Singles at $2.69
Yellow Peppers at $2.33
Tomatoes at $1.69
Bananas at $1.37
Grapes at $2.11

Total Before Coupons - $170.57

Total after Coupons - $58.02

66 percent savings!

Other than a $2 Dog Food coupon, the rest were purchased Kraft, Oscar Meyer, Nabisco WYB coupons. I had 110 worth of those! Purchased for less than $15 on eBay!

Walmart

Five Jars of Vlasic Pickle Relish at $1 each
Two boxes of South Beach Diet Drink Mix at $2 each
Two packs of Bic ink pens at .88 each

Coupons Used
Five $1 off Vlasic Pickles
Two $2 off South Beach Drink Mix
One $1 off two Bic products (See coupons bar on right side of screen)

Total OOP - .87 (Would have been less but they didn't have any Post Its!)

Total OOP for entire day - $65.46

Kroger paid me $5.50 to take all of this!

Can you believe it? Kroger paid me $5.50 to take this off their hands!





First Transaction

Three Oscar Meyer Jumbo Hotdogs at $3.59 each
Two Oscar Meyer Bunlength at $3.59 each
Four Kool Aids at .20 each
Three Planters Nuts at $3.15 each


Coupons Used
Five Free Oscar Meyer Hotdogs with purchase of three Nabisco/Oscar Meyer/Kraft products
Three $3 off Planters with purchase of Kraft products

Total OOP - $1.25

Second Transaction

Three Planters Nuts at $3.15 each
Four Kool Aids at .20 each
Five Wheat Thins at $2.99 each

Coupons Used
Five Free Wheat Thins with purchase of three Nabisco/Oscar Meyer/Kraft products
Three $3 off Planters with purchase of Kraft products

Total OOP - $1.25 each

Total OOP for Trip - $2.50

I should have received $4 for each purchase of three Planters, but since they didn't print either time, Kroger customer care paid me $8 cash! So I left with $5.50 more than I came in with!

Great Planters Deal at Kroger!!!!

I didn't know it when I started today, but Planters has an awesome deal going through July 13 at Kroger! If you buy five cans of Planters products, they pay you back with a $6.50 coupon for your next purchase. Four cans is $5 and three cans is $4. Since I didn't know when I started, I had to pay for one can out of pocket to get the last deal, but it still ended up saving me so much money!

I used 13 of the $3 off Planters products with purchase of three Kraft products after I bought three KoolAid packets each. They were on sale for .10 each! Yeah! So here is what it looked like...


First Transaction

Six cans of Planters peanuts at $3.15 each
18 packets of KoolAid at .10 each
Five Suddenly Salads at $1 each on sale
Two Rice A Roni Nature's Best at $1.07 each

Coupons Used

Six Planters $3 off
One .50 off two Suddenly Salads doubled to $1
Four .50 off one Suddenly Salads doubled to $1
Two .50 off Natures Best doubled to $1

Total OOP - $5.32
Coupons Received - $6.50 off next Kroger purchase


Second Transaction

Five Planters peanuts at $3.15 each
15 KoolAid packets at .10 each

Coupons Used
Five $3 off Planters

Total OOP - $2.25
Coupons Received - $6.50 off next Kroger purchase

Third Transaction

Three Planters Peanuts at $3.15 each
Nine KoolAid Packets at .10 each

Coupons Used
Two $3 off Planters (I only had two left!)

Total OOP - $4.05
Coupons Received - $4 off next purchase at Kroger


Fourth Transaction

One Can of Good Start Formula at $24.99

Coupons Used
$6.50 off
$6.50 off
$4 off

Total OOP - $7.99


Total OOP overall - $19.61
Total Merchandise Purchased - $99.33
Savings - More than 80 percent!!!!!

Check out Money Saving Mom and Centsible Sawyer for the Planters coupons!

This deal can also be found at Meijer. Check out Candace's post at The Savings Swap to find out more.