As part of my continuing effort to clear out my freezer…presenting steak fajitas – ¡olé!

Four round steaks from Jewel, sliced thin, one TGIF steak fajitas package meal (clears out freezer space), one onion and the leftover GG corn.  Simmered with added water.  Rice in the cooker and tada!

Obviously the big splurge was the TGIF (although I can’t remember the exact cost…but it was cheap…)

Sometimes you just have to spend some $$$.  Or in this case $.  Wanted to check out another Jewel’s cheap meat section (and no, they haven’t installed a wine bar), but nothing cheap enough for me. Ended up getting one more pork chop and these two vitamin B-6.  I found both the Red Box cat and a $3.50 cat on any Equaline vitamins or mineral supplements and noticed that these were BOGO at $4.49.

Keep your eyes peeled for the BOGO Mentos coupon (I found mine on a tearpad by the register), since they go BOGO frequently and the exp. date is 12/31/2011 (!).

Read about this on CW, so thought I’d check it out.  The boneless pork chops are on sale for $.99 each (or $2.49/lb).  Right on the butcher counter there are Go Hog Wild! booklets that contain $1 on fresh pork.  Hmmmmm!  So I tested it out a couple of ways:  each pork chop individually wrapped for .99 and 2 pork chops at $1.98/package.  Then I saw that there was a BOGO coupon for Stockman & Dakota beef products, which seemed to line up nicely with the beef in the new clearance meat section.

To recap: 12 boneless pork chops and 4 eye of round steaks, plus the rolls for the Papa Charlie’s Italian beef (which we’ve been devouring like flesh-eating ghouls), worked out to be less than a buck.

and I got my pot stamp…

NOTE:  Don’t forget that the $12.99 sale price at Jewel ends Sunday, 10/24.  If they don’t have any in stock, make sure you get a rain check for however many you can cram in your freezer.  The printables expire 10/31.

As I mentioned in an earlier post, registering with the fine folks (open for pay-offs here, peeps) at Papa Charlie’s would get you a pdf coupon for $5 off the 5 lb tub of Italian beef.  People who registered earlier also got a BOGO pdf coupon and there were rumors that the manufacturer would be sending out another one.  Nothing new has turned up, so, as promised, here is my gift to you:  Papa Charlies BOGO coupon.  Make certain that you register before you use this coupon since Papa Charlie’s has said that if considerably more coupons are redeemed than actual people registered, they will yank them all (and, obviously, make changes to future coupons).  Hurry to Jewel where the 5 lb tubs are on sale through 10/24 for $12.99, which gives you 10 lbs for $7.99 ($12.99 x 2 less BOGO q less $5).

This is seriously good Italian beef, folks.  While not as good as my homemade (clap, clap, clap), you can add a little bit of olive oil and a dash of hot sauce (free Franks) and it’s now become your own!

Side note:  Jewel coupon policy allows redemption of printables up to and including $5; a BOGO printable is allowed, even if it’s for more, since you are required to purchase one item to get the second (it’s not “FREE”).  now to play freezer tetris with the GG…

CW reports that the GM catalina is still printing as of this morning – based on past experience, if it works in the am, it’ll last all day (Con Agra deal was the same).  Unfortunately, many of the prices have changed (Progresso is now $1.50 preferred), so double-check the shelf tags before you start ringing.

One thing still at the old price is the $1 brownie mix.  I know most stores sold out of this, so if your store restocked overnight, hit ’em hard and fast.  This is the regular box, not the deluxe.  Buy 11, pay a buck.  If you want frosting with this mix, pick up 4 frosting and 7 mixes, pay $13 get back $13 (a double dip here).  If you want the deluxe mixes, take 6 and add  4 frosting to get back the $13.  (Note that this one will be $5 OOP, still a great deal).