Upon review of the receipt…I still don’t understand what the sale price actually was! Here’s a shot of the receipt, so good luck.  The coupon must have been the $1/2 (customer service clipped them ’cause I brought the entire stack and left the coupons for staff use – I just grabbed the two).

I like to wait until the last day for many deals ’cause I’m primarily interested in picking up rain checks and hoping for more coupons.  In this case, I wanted rain checks for the Nivea lip balms at Dominicks for 99¢ – use the $3/2 (10/27 rp) for some tasty overage or extra product.  In my case, I have tons already, so these will get dropped off at the food pantry with the pasta side dishes from Target and some EE cleaners as soon as Dominicks gets more products in stock.  If you add the Dial foaming hand soaps to your JFU card, you’l get $1 off per bottle; use the $2/2 from 10/6 rp and you’ll end up paying 88¢ for the four bottles (well, depending on your high tax, of course).

EDIT: Forgot to mention that Danada has an entire freezer coffin of dinners, like Amy’s and some ethnic Indian dishes. Still too high-priced at 50% off, but not as crazy-high as the 8 oz of Organic Biodynamic coffee at 50% off the $17.99 price. I’ll swallow cellulite cream before I pay that much for caffeine…

Seriously?  I was at Jewel a couple of hours ago and no one thought to mention we out of milk (oh, wait, there were approximately 30 drops left, so technically weren’t out).  Decided to hit Dominicks after checking my J4U – I had a B2G2 on 7-Up 2L products and that’s just what’s on sale…four free bottles of pop!  I chose ginger ale and 7-UP, but I don’t see why the root beer and Squirt wouldn’t work.  The register rings them up as $1.99 each and then takes them all off when you scan the fourth.  Cool beans.

Found lots of cheese in the deli clearance section; alouette is on sale for 2/$7 so 50% off $3.50 makes for some very cheap spreadables.  And pot stickers…sigh.

Stopped at Dominicks because, well, frankly, we were completely out of Tai Pei chicken potstickers!  I know, I know, it just doesn’t seem possible, but there it is, and I must feed my addiction.  Decided to redeem the rain check for seven Dole, since the coupons expire in a few days, saw the clearance English muffins on the way back with eight boxes from the Tai Pei freezer, so tossed those into the cart, as well.  On the clearance table were nine boxes of 40 oz Ultra Tide, marked $7.99 with 50% off stickers.  In a wonderful fluke, I had the 9/29 inserts in the car, so I was able to clip the $2 coupons from the P&G insert and ended up paying $1.99 a box (although you’re able to post-redeem up to a few weeks at the Woodridge store)!

And you know you live in weird times when a quart of Organic half & half is cheaper than a quart of Coffeemate, which, to the best of my knowledge, contains nothing natural at all.

OOP was $28.90 – only saved 80% (damned potstickers!).

Some site, whose name I won’t mention (mum’s the word) likes to make a big deal about gluten-free scratch baking – Goddess says just buy the stuff on clearance!  Stopped at the Dominicks on Ogden in Downers Grove, looking for more TAI PEI coupons – not even a friggin’ blinkie!  But I was able to score some major clearance:

4 16 oz packages of bison for $5.00 a pack
7 tubs of Pillsbury gluten-free (and dairy-free) dough for $2.15; there is a 75¢ printable that I’ll try to post-redeem with.
3 1/2 dozen organics eggs for $1.25 each; great price for organics
4 8 oz packs of lucerne pepper jack shredded cheese for 84¢ each
5 6 oz packs of Eating Right roast beef for 79¢ each
1 pack Land O Frost smoked ham & oven roasted turkey for 10 sub sandwiches for 79¢
5 Tai Pei cartons, mostly potstickers, ’cause they are awesome! at $1 each

Still spent waaaaay more than I’m used to, but since I’m sticking Rachel with a large part of the tab…total was $57.12 (the balance I’ll take out of DH’s table since he falls asleep before I do…oh, like you don’t do the same! except with your own DH I mean)