Moneys Short, Times Are Hard, I'm In Love With My Advantage Card

Well This week does not look like it will be as good as last, but I am sure I will make atleast a trip or two to Price Chopper. Here are this weeks great deals and coupon match ups (5/17-5/23/09)

Oscar Mayer Hot Dogs, Bacon, Balogna.... If you like these "meats" you will love the deals this week. Hot Dogs and Balogna are BOGO this week. Pair two with 2 $1 coupons from last week's Smart Source insert and you get 2 for Free.
Bacon is on sale 2/$6, use 2 $1.00 coupons from the smart source and you can walk out with 2 packs of bacon for $2.

Friendly's Ice Cream (5/3 Smart Source $1.00 off or $1.00 off 2) on sale for $1.99- you can walk out with a yummy 1/2 gallon for 99cents-free. I like the FREE option.

Nabisco Wheat Thins/Triscuits- score a sheet of iSave PC coupons with advantage card on the way into the store. Use the $1.00 off 2 boxes coupon to bring the sale price down to 2/$3, add 2 $1/1 coupons from http://www.kraftfoods.com/ or http://www.coupons.com/ and you can walk away with 2/$1.

Unilever Promotion. The combinations are endless, but this week buy $20.00 of Unilever products (price BEFORE coupons) and the catalina coupon printer will spit out a $7 coupon on anything- for your next visit.
There are many deodorant, shampoo, and cleaning/smelly products coupons floating around from http://www.coupons.com/, smartsource, redplum that will give you free or near free purchases to qualify for this promotion.

While you are at the kraft or coupons sites make sure to print out coupons for A1, Hidden Valley Ranch, Kraft Cheese Singles, Philadelphia Cream Cheese, Bacardi Fruit Mixers, Kraft Bagel-fuls, Cheerios, Special K, and Crystal light. With these coupons you can:

• Get free A1 Marinade ($1.84 on sale- $1 coupon doubled)= FREE
• Ranch Dressing $2.99, buy 2 for $5.98 and use $1 coupon doubled)=$3.98/2
• Kraft Cheese Singles $2.99 ($1 coupon doubled)= 99 cents!
• Philadelphia Cream Cheese 99cents (use $1/2 coupon doubled)=FREE
• Bacardi Frozen Drink Mixers $2.39 ($1/2 doubled) $2.70/2
• Kraft Bagel-fuls $1.99 (use $1 coupon doubled)=FREE
• Crystal Light- really good deals with a variety of printables- all result in free product.

Tricks:

1. You can pair a BOGO coupon with a BOGO Price Chopper sale item and end up with both free.
2. You can use a BOGO coupon to purchase 2 items and add another coupon for one of them to get additional savings. Last week Ziplock bags were $1.99. There was a BOGO coupon and a $1/1 coupon. Add the 2 together to get 2 free boxes of Ziplock bags.
3. Price Chopper doubles coupons until you reduce your grocery total to half of the original total, then the coupons are singled. Lets say the total is $150.00, The computers do not recognize the advantage savings as a reduction, so you can really get away for a much higher rate of doubled coupons. Your coupons will double until the doubled total reaches $75.00 (1/2 of original total). The computer will single everything else, then subtract the advantage savings. Last week I could have added 2 cases of coke at $6.99, my coupons would have doubled and I would have paid no more out of pocket. When in doubt add a few Just in Case items to the cart and if the totals are close keep adding until the scales balance out- more free product!