Update note:  My Jewel has placed large orders for HC soups, Pam, 6 pk Snapple and Hunts tomatos and snack cups.  If your Jewel has bare shelves, keep the Lisle (on Rte 53) Jewel in mind.   and let’s hope the Jewel warehouse gods are smiling on us…

Picked up PITA and thrilled her to the marrow when she heard me say those words from long-ago days:  “Let’s run a few Con-Agra’s at Jewel.”  Yes, it’s the little things in life…

Ran three transaction in a row, mainly to get the Snapple rebates out before I forget.  My total OOP for three transactions was $3.20, but that did include a few of the Wags $10 Neuragen RRs, some HC coupons and the $1 coupons for Snapple.  I found another $1/1 Garden Delight coupon and wanted to use up the last 3 of the Free Sobe coupons from that botched game.  Since we’re having steak tacos tonight (con ¡Porterhouse!), I threw in two cans of Rosarita spicy Jalapeño refried beans.  olé.  Was planning on going back with my receipts and HC and Rosarita coupons, but decided to keep them for another go-round.

For those of you who have not yet received your Jewel gift cards from the Kimberly-Clark deal, here’s a picture of what they look like:  they’re purdy!  There doesn’t seem to be any order to the way they’re being mailed.  The form for the card pictured was mailed about a week after one that has not yet been received.

Decided to stop at the “Hispanic” Jewel on 75th.  You know, the one that always has all the pierogi flavors – real Mexican, that Mrs. T!  Wanted to see if perchance they had the Nature’s Farm milk with the $2 coupons attached…they did!  Unfortunately, they only had the fat free (yuck!).  Picked up two of the milks and one Ronzoni Garden Delight so OOP was only .10.  I did get one of the new coupon booklets (with the strawberries on the cover) and the last four of those pesky milk coupons which jumped ship into my purse.  quel surprise!

It’s kind of freaky, walking into Jewel lately.  Especially since I’m very limited in what I can buy…well, take for free, OK?  Case in point:  9 boxes of the Ronzoni Garden Delight pasta, on sale through, I believe April, at 10/$10…which pairs up nicely with the $1/1 coupon in 1/23 S.  There were only a few of the Nature’s Farm milks left and only one had the $2/1 coupon attached, although there was a tearpad of $1/1 coupons on the side of the cooler.  as if that could tempt me! So, here we have the entire order:  2 milks (BOGO, $1/1 and $2/1); 1 hot giardiniera and 2 El Ranchero tortilla chips.  Total after coupons came to $13.19, so handed over a $10 RR and the rest in cash….I would have used a $3 RR, but that would have gone into tax…nononononono never.  don’t ask.

nuttin’.  you already got your pot.  go back to bed…or Dominicks.

Notice:  this post will be repeated until the February cats start, ’cause there ain’t no party happening here.

Who says you can’t go home again?  I visited the old homestead today to say hello (and to pick up my pots).  It’s a source of major amusement to management that I can accumulate pots when I DON’T SPEND ANY MONEY!! Well, isn’t that the extreme couponer’s game plan?