The national catalina promotion for Chips Ahoy (Buy 1 get $1…) is working on the little to-go cups. And since the little cups are $1, you are buying four and getting back a $4 cat, which you can roll, since this is Jewel. So you pay food tax on each four. Enjoy!

I had a rain check for 80 of the Better Oats, where the sale and promo brought them down to 75¢ a box before the .75/2 coupon.  I waited a few weeks to redeem these – – until the store cats were a’runnin’. So, since I was ostensibly buying lots of groceries, I was able to use three FREE EE cereal cats, two FREE veggie cats, one $5 off cat, a $2 off bananas cat and a couple of $1 OYNOs that PITA found.  The ham was $13.25, so used the $10 in-ad coupon.  I still have a few of those store cats for more cereal and fruit.  Go PITA!  You don’t see 80 boxes of oatmeal because I’ll wait for it to arrive – Lisle prefers that you pre-pay special orders.

Between all the coupons and cats, I brought the total down over $160 – – ended up paying 86¢ OOP.  (savings of 100%) go Goddess.

Stopped at Starbucks to redeem the $10 Groupon. (Get a $10 Starbuck gift card for only $5 with this Groupon.)  I honestly don’t like SB, but MUM is nuts for the stuff, so I bought this French Roast for her.  There’s a promotion going through Sunday the 24th, where you get a $5 gift card when you purchase one pound of whole bean (the only type they sell – they grind it for you).  Note that the way it works is that you have to actually pick out a $5 card so they can add it to your bill.  The $5 is automatically subtracted by the register and you end up paying $1.95 plus tax.  Not a bad little promo!  Make sure you do this before the end of this weekend or you’ll be SOL.