A quick update on my Jewel-ing so far: Didn’t get home until after 11 last night. 11 pm is the witching hour – anyone running cat deals after that is playing Russian Roulette (that’s when Catalina Marketing starts routine maintenance).  What has worked well so far?

1.   Both the Progresso soups and tuna transactions are a thing of beauty.
2.   Individual Pub Burgers gives you 49¢ burgers.  You’ll pay more for buns!
3.   Butterfly pork chops on sale are great as single chops.  Use this $1 pork coupon to get them even cheaper.  Sign up at the top left and you’ll get a link to coupons.com  – you can print two.
4. Picked up cans of corn, tomatoes, greens – products where there really isn’t that much taste difference between frozen and canned.
5. Lots of Diet Coke and Perrier.
6. My store had a cartload of those big bags of little packets of pistachios they had around Halloween on clearance for 98¢.  Buying two made them 55¢ for both.  Clip the packets and put the nuts in a big mason jar to scoop as wanted.  Much easier. You should check out your clearance section, too. Remember, you can always return with a coupon within 60 days.
7.   LOTS of 1/2 gallon bottles of scented EE bleach. I’m also considering sandwich bags and dish soap and other non-food items.
8.   The fancy boxes of tea (English Breakfast, Chai, etc.) will be about 85¢, a pretty fair price.
9.   Got a few of the smaller (10 ct) packages of hash browns and the EE frozen vegetables that are on sale, since we’re clearing out space in the pizza freezers!
10.  Oooh, I almost forgot! One of the freezer endcaps has clearance lobster and crab bites (three varieties) for $1.99 (down from $5.99!).  Don’t bother looking at Lisle…
11. Keep your eyes open for clearance meat with the $X peelies on them.  You can get some awesome deals this way.
12.  There were EE deli slice of cheddars and jacks on 2/$5, so $1 a package.  $2 a pound is pretty decent!