Picked up four Nature Valley granola bars.  Only one of the thin varieties was around, so picked up the regular ones – the coupon works on both types.  Four boxes are $10, less the four .75 coupons.  The double dip cats give you a $2 and a $5 cat.  You end up OOP about .20 in tax and pick up a cat for a gallon of milk.

And yes, the background shows bundles of inserts from 6/19 and 6/26, so lots of clipping ahead of me.

If anyone wants some KFC BOGO coupons, please let me know and I can mail some out:  Exp. is July 10, 2011.  I’m gonna need to get stamp money ’cause I’m going broke!

As you’re probably aware, that Scott paper deal is running once again – just when you thought it was safe to walk the paper aisle.  The same one from each category gets you a $1 OYNO cat.  In this case, I still had about 30 of the .50 coupons for the wipes from 5/22 S, so placed my special order.  Ran two transactions here:  first one was 5 Dannon, one wipe and one tp.  Total was $3.70 – got back a $2 cat for the Scott.

Next run was just one wipe and one toilet paper using the .50 and the previous $2 – ended up spending .59 (.21 high tax) for both, or about half the toilet paper alone.

I wanted to pick up some of the Tyson breaded chicken bags but they were completely out; got a rain check for 30.  Funny how that number doesn’t even strike me as odd anymore, how about you?  Do you find yourself thinking in terms of dozens where a few years ago it was one or two for the next couple of weeks?  Anyway, just so you know, the pdf coupon also works on the big (2.5 pounds) uncooked drumsticks and thighs bags (All Natural) that are also on sale for $4.99.  just sayin’

I wasn’t gonna post this ’cause it’s not as cheap as it’s been, but dayum, they are tasty, so here goes:  The Tyson breaded chicken bags are on sale this week for $4.99, probably about two bucks off.  However, here is a very nice $3 pdf  Tyson Chicken Tenders coupon to use.  Two bucks?  Not too bad, since these packs are almost two pounds.  Note that this coupon takes up the whole page with stupid pictures.  If you have a Mac, you can set the print to two per page and your coupons can be easily scanned.

I ran a few transactions just to make sure everything worked correctly.  Here’s what I found out:

1.  Trigger is, as has been reported, five yogurts.  When you scan the fifth one, an instant $4 savings pops off.  Throw in the five $1 coupons and you pay $1.11 (low tax on $10).

2. Deal does not stack.  While I’ve read about other people being able to stack this, I could not and would not recommend trying it.  Really, why make a big deal about just running a separate transaction (or 1000)?

3. Both coupons work on either product.  don’t ask…

So, there you have it.  I gave a heads up to CS at the Lisle Jewel to have plenty of stock brought in.  If you are looking for product AND a great environment in which to run your deals, please shop there.  If you want to special order, give them a call (630/964-5166).

This now concludes the Jewel (un)paid promotion.

Tomorrow (6/23) is the last day for wine tags at Jewel 🙁 and I’m not letting grass grow under my feet – tornadoes or no tornadoes.  Husband says he doesn’t know where all these pub burger are fitting, but it’s my game of Freezer Tetris and I make the rules.  And most people would have no problem with ice cream and pierogi for dinner – again.

So here you see my penultimate Jewel trip (unless I can score more wts, that is):  3 packs of clearance meat (clearance tags and $2 wts); 8 packs of 2-burger pubs; 1 Canada Dry green tea ginger ale; 5 bags of Doritos and 6 packs of pork chops for a grand total of $19.90.  I’ll hold on to the receipt and hope that a few $/$$ cats drop into my bag…

Obviously we’re getting down to the last stretch of the Wine Tags Open, and all future posts will probably consist of Doritos, pub burgers and clearance meat.  and life continues to be good...

Another quick run through Jewel to pick up wine tag items; I was able to score a slight bit of overage on the cube steak because it  had a $2 clearance coupon attached to it.  Ended up spending $2.78.

Seriously, I was just driving by and decided to run in for a few wine tag items.  I’m trying to pick up just a few at a time, instead of waving red flags to the beer mfrs – yooo hooo, look what I can do!  So here we have 4 Jays chips, 4 Doritos, two Craisins and two packs of pub burgers.  The Doritos are running me a buck each, ’cause the sale price changed, and I’m putting out $1.50 for each pub burger pack.  Total OOP was $7.70 and life is good.

We’re getting down to the wire on wine tags, so I’m trying to use up as many as I can.  Which explains my high OOP ($28.44 less my MIR of $6.99 or $21.45)).  All told, I ended up with:  2 watermelon cuts; 2 Planters nut-rition (delicious!!!); 4 Craisins ($2/4 – used $2 fruit wts); Biggest Loser Zing Chicken (I will mail in for the $6.99 rebate); 2 pkgs skirt steak; 2 Jays Kettle chips; 1 dz extra-large eggs; 3 2-pk pub burgers and 1 4-pk; bag of Farmstand peaches and finally, Jewel brand hot dog and hamburger buns.  Just noticed that my receipt shows coupons tendered:  $51.31 (includes a $5/$50 and free dozen eggs)!  Well, I would certainly hope so!