Ran three transactions – strictly Herbal Essence and Febreze. The main point is that I followed all the Limit 4 coupon rules! quel surprise… Buy 8 HE bottles (I use shampoo in my hand soap dispensers) and either 2 or 4 Febreze products.  I ran it with 4 Febreze, but grabbed the $2.38 clearance cans.  Used four $3/2 HE coupons from August P&G, 2 Febreze BOGO coupons from August P&G and only a couple of $1 Febreze coupons from July P&G inserts since I’d used almost all during Monday’s shopping trip.  OOP was $7.54

Note:  The Febreze BOGO coupons will automatically bump off the $1 coupons at the register – you’ll see them scan in for the correct amount, then flop to zero.  Cashier can manually override; best guess is that the BOGO coupons are coded for two products and it shows too many coupons.

Note 2:  The P&G $5 instant came off automatically on the first order, but had to be manually entered for transactions 2 and 3.  Why, when each transaction was identical!?

Jewel has Febreze on 2/$5. I grabbed “a few” and used the BOGO coupon from the August P&G stacked with the $1 coupon from the July P&G. I also got $5 off instantly but don’t know why.  There is an instant deal showing in Wednesday’s ad, so maybe it got programmed in already!  My OOP was about 50¢ a can.

Dietz & Watson sausages are either 3/$10 or 2/$6, depending on variety.  Use the $2 D&W coupon in the current Big Book of Savings for some really, really cheap lunches and dinners!  Check the dates (you have to pull the sausages out of the cardboard sleeve to see them – some people are reporting expired packs.  These freeze great and will work very well in Fall dinners of stews and jambalaya… Don’t delay ’cause the sale ends tomorrow.

Bacon (applewood smoked) was on sale for $4.99 with $1 peelies and since we’re heading into prime BLT season…

Until July 13, Jewel has the Friendly sundae cups 10/$10 – use the $1 off Friendly novelty product (no size restrictions) in 6/1 S for FREE ice cream! The Kauai coffee was on the clearance cart for $3.99 – use the $2 coupon from 6/08 S and pay $1.99 for a 10 oz bag of Hawaiian coffee. Lots of Barilla on the cart, but these were the best deals for gluten-free folks: $1 each less the .55/2 coupon from the 5/18 S (these go to Rachel ’cause we don’t suffer from food allergies).

Jewel has Dietz & Watsons hot dogs on sale for $7/2.  Use the $2 coupons from the new Big Book of Savings and get each pack for only $1.50!   No issues scanning; I’ve always considered the beef varieties of hot dogs to be gourmet ’cause they usually don’t include them in the sale prices!  Check the dates ’cause they are coming in short codes – I freeze mine so we’ll have enough to last the summer!

Been doing rather well at Jewel lately on the clearance front! Stopped in for more fruit and cherries (PITA seems to have devoured most of yesterday’s bag) and found lots more goodies in the clearance end caps. These Simply Potatoes were $1.10 with dates in July and August! They also had boxes of Bertolli chicken ravioli with portobello mushrooms, which I grabbed at $1.75 until someone saw them in my cart and mentioned they’d had them and they weren’t all that.  Sorry, but even for only $1.75 I’m not gonna bother.

In my defense, though, I did get an awful lot of groceries for my $29.40:

Big ole bag of cherries – these are sweet and firm and well-worth the $1.99/lb price!
4 12-pks 7up TEN
2 Perdue Short Cuts + FREE Fresh Express spinach. Note that the ad is a misprint – no 16 oz bags, only the usual 9 oz ones.
2 Perdue whole grain chicken breast nuggets $6.99 BOGO
5 jars Planters dry roasted peanuts
2 9 oz cups of cut up pineapple.

Here’s the link to yesterday’s post with all the coupons I used.  Everything worked just as it should, meaning the instant savings came off automatically, the BOGO came off and the spinach came off the Short Cuts purchase of two.

Stopped at Jewel to make sure they had enough Perdue chicken ordered since it’s gonna really move fast – meat man is doubling up his order!  While waiting, I checked out the clearance cart and the clearance freezer end cap – both were huge hits!  The Reese marinated artichoke hearts were only a buck and the larger glass jars were $2 – kick-ass  price.  No coupons, but we will wait and see.  The French’s cheddar onion rings were $1.75 and those have a 50¢ coupon in the 5/11 S to ease the pain.  The large bags of EE ravioli (sausage and beef varieties) were $1.78 – – I did leave a few of those ’cause there were tons.  Picked up the two last bags of the EE stuffed pasta shells for PITA for  $1.98 each.

There’ll be plenty of stock on the Planter’s nuts, too; and they were pretty sure that the 7UpTEN would be included in the 4/$9 promotion, so $1.25 a pack after coupons!  Here’s the original post with coupon links.  Don’t wait, because there aren’t any insert coupons and you don’t want to see the dreaded “Print Limit Reached” …

Today only, strawberries are 99¢ a pound – both organic and regular – when you utter some phrase akin to “I’m having a berry blast.”  Yeah, precisely my sentiments…but we love berries, so I’ll debase myself for my family.  Blueberries were $1.50 a pint.

Check very carefully to make sure you aren’t getting some moldy oldies in the clamshell – – a couple of berries looked like they needed a shave.  Produce manager said that’s how they’re coming from the warehouse (mostly the organics), which leads me to believe that Jewel isn’t concerned so much for my fruit health as with clearing out their warehouse of non-moving perishable fruit…so call me a cynic…