Since I was running late, I stopped at Jewel for the BOGO Mrs. T Pierogis for a quick dinner; thought I’d try the feta/spinach/potato variety.  Sauteed with a couple of yellow onions and my free “buttery spread,”  they were a huge hit.  Cooked up all four boxes, so we may end up with a few leftovers – possibly.  I used four $1/1 coupons (limit 2 per computer) so my $7.10 subtotal dropped to $3.  Not too bad for a few meals.

While I adore the smell of coffee brewing, I only like the stuff when it’s loaded with everything to mask the taste.  Since I’ve finished my Cool Whip/experimental beverage supply, I’ve been forced to use plain ole milk (well, at least the milk is free).  Jewel has the International Delight coffee creamers on sale for .99 for the pints.  I’d only purchased one in the past and it was a yuck, probably because it was one of those sugar-free ones with no body – but it was cheap on clearance at Dominicks, so…..

Anyway, this Sunday’s SS had two coupons for International Delights – $1/2 pints and $1/2 quarts.  Get as many as you have coupons for and you’re set.  Shelf tag says deal goes through 10/10.  In my case, my total came to slightly over $7 after mfr coupons, and I used two of the $3 Aquapod cats, to bring my actual OOP down to $1.10.

Oh, and I got another pot stamp…

According to the Jewel asst mgr, all Jewels are clearancing the Peter Pan peanut butter.  They will only be carrying the creamy type, no others, so make sure to check your local Jewels for some great deals.  These reduced fat ones had exp. dates in 2011. I did notice that they had lots of space in the PB section for their new Shoppers Value line.  nice top shelf location, too.

Another clearance, this one on the Osco side, involves Rimmel mascara (actually my favorite).  A big box full of various types of their mascara, with bonus eyeliner pencils, marked down to $1.99. Well, hello sailor, but there are 2 $1/1 coupons in 8/1 RP (1st insert).

The Lisle Jewel on Rte 53 had a clearance rack in the back with Peter Pan peanut butter.  The reduced fat ones were marked down to .50 each, with other varieties slightly more.  I like free probably more than the next guy, but if you want/need some right now check your local store.  Unfortunately, I can find no insert or printables on this (it’s a Con Agra product, so you’d think there’d be something), except for home mailers.  HCW claims that there’s a q in the August issue of AY, but I checked three issues around that month and nada.  Either I’m blind or they pulled another one of those switcheroos with different coupons in the mailed subscriptions, take your pick.

Who needs so much laundry detergent?   Actually, a friend who has a puppy place, that’s who.  She doesn’t have the luxury of waiting on deals – puppies pee on their own timetable.

Soooooo, here’s today’s dealio: 5 Wisk, 3 Coke products, 2 boxes Cheez-its.  $8.70 after mfr coupons and instant $5 savings, then tossed in 2 of the $3 Aquapod cats. Actual OOP was $3.70. Damned high tax!

Deals as they come in…

If any of you have (or are even aware of) wine tags, there are quite a few $2 ones for salty snacks.  This could line up quite nicely with the Keebler cookies, Cheez-Its and Synder’s Pretzels or the Planters Peanuts selection or even on the Ore-Ida potatoes (well, they’re seasoned, aren’t they?).  I would always throw in one Wisk with the coupon to bring you up to the ten mark.

Wisk is part of this buy 10 items get .50 off each.  I think it’s really, really stupid, because they’re taking the same amount off any item.  Well, here goes:  If you need laundry detergent (and we’re talking a lot here) a Wisk only deal with be $4.99 x 10 = $49.90 less $5.  However, let’s clip out some money-savers.  In the 8/29 RP there is a $3/1 coupon (exp. 9/26), so take off another $30 for that (well I have 10 inserts, why don’t you?).  You are then at $1.49 for each.  The upside is that you will get 4 pots stamps, the down side is that nobody should have to do this much laundry.  I’ll figure out some other scenarios that will make more sense for most people.

Hey, Sobe’s part of this deal, so use your freebies or BOGOs to bring the cost down and still get the stamps.  I have $1/2 Sobe coupons from a tearpad, so use 4 (for eight Sobe) and a free Sobe coupon (from that stupid game) and 1 Wisk (with $3/1q)  Total will be less than two bucks.  I’ll try this on Thursday morning and see how it plays out.

Slow day for shopping…stopped off at Jewel a short while ago to pick up the Purdue chicken.  I took 2 of those big oven roaster chickens, which were BOGO, but also had a sign with a budget buy of $1.49/lb.  Turns out that the oven stuffed roasters weren’t the ones at that price, even though they were the only ones there and filled the entire section marked with the $1.49 price.  so they gave them to me at that price.  (Actually, cs was very nice about it.  I never have to ask about stuff, they just suggest it.)  Next transaction was for 2 packages of Purdue chicken breasts, 9 boxes of GG veggies and one puny Bisquick mix.

First transaction was $10.02, but since I didn’t have two of my $1 coupons, I’ll stop by another time and get my cashola.  Total should have been $8.02.  Second transaction (whole roasters) was $7.45.

I used some of my catalinas from the Aquapods deal to bring down the totals to basically, a buck.