Heinz Ketchup Printable Coupon

$1 off when you buy one 64oz Heinz Ketchup AND 1 Ore-Ida Frozen French Fries here. You can print it twice.

A Week of Free Dinners!

Funny what amuses a couponer...

I was looking back over my posts and noticed the free food that I had acquired over time. I wondered if it were possible to eat a week of dinners just with the free ingredients that I have on hand. So just for fun and as a personal challenge I came up with a menu using only my free items. I have listed the items and posts from which the items came at the bottom. The only rule is that I still had to have the ingredients on hand and that since I often get milk and eggs from CVS as fillers and pay with ECBs, I can include those basics.

I realize that I buy the coupons to make the deals, however, when I purchase the papers I try to only use register rewards earned at Walgreens to pay for them - so low or no cost.


Monday
Slow Cooker Sausage, Vegetable and Rice Soup
Decadent Sweet Milk Bread
Tea

Tuesday
Shepherd's Pie
2 Ingredient Chocolate Fudge
Milk

Wednesday
Southwestern Vegetarian Pot Pie
Lemonade

Thursday
Sweet and Spicy Sausage Stir-fry (using salad dressing)
Tea

Friday
Breakfast for Dinner: Pancakes with Chocolate Glaze
Milk

Saturday
Vegetable Frittata
Cake Mix Cookies
Milk

Sunday
Corn Sausage Muffins
Steamed Vegetables
Lemonade


Free Food:
Veg All Frozen Vegetables
Frank's Hot Sauce
Blue Bonnet Margarine
Lifesavers
Kroger All-Purpose Flour
Sweetened Condensed Milk
Nestle Baking Chocolate Chips
Fleischmann's Yeast
Betty Crocker Whipped Frosting
Lipton Tea Bags
Cheerios Cereal
Jimmy Dean Sausage Links
Daisy Sour Creams
Dunkin Hines Cake Mix
Betty Crocker Cookie Mix
Cattleman's Barbecue Sauce
Aidell Cajun Sausages
Betty Crocker Warm Delights
Deer Park Water
Idahoan Mashed Potatoes
Martha White Corn Muffin Mix
Martha White Lemon Muffin Mix
Pet Evaporated Milk
Uncle Ben's Long Grain & Wild Rice
Muir Glen Tomato Sauce
French Worcester
Green Giant Valley Fresh Steamers
Kraft Salad Dressings
Crystal Light Drink Mixes
Green Giant Valley Fresh Steamer Peas
Sarah Lee Breads
Milk (used as filler for CVS Deal, paid with ECBs)
Eggs (used as filler for CVS Deal, paid with ECBs)

Ho-Bo's

Do you have hamburger patties in your freezer? Do you forget to buy the buns so you can use the hamburger patties? Great, I'm glad I'm not the only one! LOL. Here is a cool recipe (and fun for kids) from Cooks.com that you can use from mostly stockpile ingredients.

Ho-Bo's

4 hamburger patties
1 pkg. frozen mixed vegetables
1 can mushroom soup or cream of celery soup
1 sliced onion
1 potato (partially precooked)

Place each hamburger on a square of aluminum foil. On each hamburger place a slice of potato, a slice of onion, 3 tablespoons of frozen vegetables and 3 tablespoons of soup. Bring ends of aluminum foil together and twist in ho-bo style. Bake in 350 oven for 45 minutes. Place Ho-Bo's on cookie sheet when baking.

$3 Off Any CVS Brand Product Coupon

Check out Deal Seeking Mom for instructions on how to print your $3 off of any CVS product coupon. There are a number of items that you can get for free at CVS with this coupon. You can only use one per transaction, but you can use it to up your total in order to use a $$/$$$ coupon.

New Year's Shopping: HT, Food Lion, Kroger

My dogs woke me up at 4 am to go out this morning. I really hadn't planned on getting up so early, and definitely not staying awake, but when you have a 110 lb, fourteen year old lab/airdale mix and a coonhound, the alternative of cleaning up the mess is a far worse situation! So after tossing around for a few more hours, I got up for the second time and decided to take advantage of Harris Teeter's triple coupon weekend that began today. It was the first time that everything was in stock and the store was only occupied by coupon toting men and women (yes, there was one man!). Too bad you can only use about 20 coupons at one time!

Here is what I bought:



3 Motts Applesauce, regularly 2.39, on sale 1.50 each
-3 blinkie Qs $1/1
Final Price: .50 each

3 Success Rice, regularly 2.59, on sale 2.00 each
-3 MF Qs .50/1, tripled
Final Price: .50 each

2 Thanksgiving Serving Platters, regularly 4.99, on sale 1.25 each (not pictured)

3 Del Monte Vegetables (cans), 3 for $4 or 1.33 each
-3 MF Qs .35/1, tripled
Final Price: .28 each

3 Glory Greens (cans), regularly 2.19, on sale 1.50 each
-3 MF Qs .35/1, tripled
Final Price: .45 each

3 Veg All Frozen Vegetables, regularly 2.00, on sale 1.50 each
-3 MF Qs .55/1, tripled
Final Price: Free

2 Purity Half & Half, 1.69 each
-2 MF Qs .35/1, tripled
Final Price: .64 each

1 Purity Lemonade, .99
-1 MF Q .35/1, tripled
Final Price: Free

1 Windex Cleaner, 2.99
-1 MF Q .75/1 (did not triple as expected)
Final Price: 2.24

3 Frank's Hot Sauce, 1.15 each
-3 MF Qs .50/1, tripled
Final Price: Free

Total before sales/coupons: $54.17
Coupons: $40.69
OOP: $13.48 (saving 75%)


Since I was out already, I stopped at Food Lion for their sales. They generally have great sales on Stouffer products (makes life so much easier on those occasional days you just can't stand to cook after work).

Here is what I purchased:


4 Hillshire Little Smokies, 3.99, BOGO (limit of two free)
-2 MF Qs $1/2
Final Price: 1.50 each

4 Carolina Pride Little Smokies, 3.69, BOGO
-2 MF Qs $1.50/2
Final Price: 1.10 each

10 Stouffer's Family Size Entrees, 2 for $10
-1 MF Q .75/1
-2 MF Qs $1/3
Final Price: 4.73 each

3 Canada Dry, 1.59 each
-1 Food Lion Q B1G2
Final Price: .53 each

9 Lives Cat Food, 1.67

Total before sales/coupons: 106.12
Savings: 40.30
OOP: $65.82 (saving 40%)


I thought I would also report on a couple of quick trips to HT and Kroger yesterday. Sorry, no pictures - took kids to the movies instead!

Kroger (taking advantage of P&G deal):

Kroger Milk half gallon, regularly 2.25, on sale 1.50

7 Blue Bonnet Margarine 4 pack, .77
-7 MF Qs .50/1, doubled
Final Price: Free

2 Olay Body Wash, 3.33
-2 MF Qs $1/1
-P&G eQ BOGO
Final Price: .67 each

2 Pantene, 3.29
-1 MF Q $1/2
(supposed to have P&G eQ BOGO but did not ring up?)
Final Price: 2.79 each

2 Herbel Essence, 3 each
-P&G eQ $2/2
-2 MF Qs $1/1
Final Price: 1.00 each

3 Dawn, 2.50 each
-3 MF Qs .50/1, doubled
Final Price: 1.50 each

7 Bags Lifesavers, on sale 1.00 each
-7 MF Qs $1/1
Final Price: Free

-$5.00 for P&G $25 purchase (before coupons)

Total before coupons/sales: 53.84
Sales: 8.86
Coupons: 30.72
OOP: $14.26 (saving 74%)


Harris Teeter:
I stopped at HT before the triple sale because they had Dannon Yogurt 10 for $4, and I had a coupon that expired yesterday which would not have been tripled anyway.

30 Dannon Yogurts, .40 each
-6 Blinkie Qs $1/5 (picked up at another store recently)
Final Price: .20 each

Total before sales/coupons: 25.93
OOP: $6.93 (saving 73%)

300GB Mini External Hard Drive for $69.99

This is a great deal, even techy husband thinks so! Buy.com has this mini external hard drive with 300GB of space for $69.99 (originally $430 - 86% off). It is USB powered and small enough to fit into a pocket. This would make a great back-up for all your documents on your computer. If you have ever suffered from a crashed hard drive, you know how valuable a back-up can be! If you go through ebates you can get 1% back!

Kroger P&G Deal Plan

Jenny at Southern Savers has been working really hard at delivering the deals this week! She has a great scenario on using the P&G Deal that Kroger is offering (buy $25 get $5 off at the register). I would love to copy it exactly but I have already used a few of the e-coupons that she has from the Proctor and Gamble site that you can load onto your Kroger shopping card (link to the right on my page). One of the things I really like about Kroger is their shopping card and the ability to add coupons to it on various sites (cellfire, P&G, etc.). Check out Jenny's site for links to IP coupons mentioned. So here is my plan:


If you wish to do the same, load the coupons onto your Kroger card, locate the manufacturer and internet printable coupons, print out the scenario, paperclip the coupons to it, and go shopping!