Lately, Jewel is just not showing me the total love package: I get a teaser on one or two items, but frankly there’s more thrills in shopping my basement.  and sadly this will continue…

Next week’s Buy 10 get $5 off instantly was supposed to have had a few very nice price points, but between the time I first learned about it and today (when I saw the ad) the products changed.  Currently there are only three Old El Paso products whose price points make sense after the discount:  .99 seasoning packets (down to .49), 1.49 can of chilés (down to .99), hard shell tacos or rice pouches.  After all the Hamburger Helper rice blends that were almost free, I just can’t see spending cash on a tiny pouch of rice.  And pay a buck for hard shell tacos?  hahahahaha.  Best bet for me is the chilés, since the instant .50 discount off ten will bring them down to .99 and the .50 IP coupons from coupons.com will reduce them to .49.  (Told you to print them – while you’re there, print out the $1 Simply Juice coupons [two of each] for free juice) This is a great price for canned chilés.

The rest of the items?  If I don’t believe a $2.50 box of cereal is a deal, you are certainly not gonna get me to drool over ones at $2.88 (after *instant discount*).   Do we need more Nature Valley bars?  How about Fiber One?  So except for the chilés, I’m sitting this dance out.

all bets are off, however, if an unadvertised cat promotion suddenly appears…