[mommy2my2babies]

I did 4 identical transactions back to back today, and here is what I got:
3.88lb grapes
12 FLsodas
4 disinfectant wipes

All for 2.28, and .48 of that was tax!

[staciedawn84]

So, these are all of my deals for the day, Target and Food Lion!

Target deals:
10 Buddies soaps (.97 cent ea)
10 Poptarts 8 ct ($1.54 ea)
1 Fusion Cartridge 4 ct ($13.29)
1 Fusion Shave gel ($3.59)
3 Chef Michaels dry food 3.5 lbs ($4.49 ea)
10 Chef Michaels cans (.89 cent ea)

Total before coupons: $66.24
Used:
10 Johnson's TQ (.97 cent) made them free
10 Poptarts TQ (.75 cent)
5 Poptarts MFR Q($1/2)made them .29 cent ea
1 Fusion Cartridge MFR Q ($4) made it $9.29
1 Fusion MFR Q (Buy cartridges get shave gel free $3.59)free
3 Chef Michaels dry food TQ ($1.50)
3 Chef Michaels dry food MFR Q ($3)free
6 Chef Michaels free can (.89 cent)free
1 Chef Michaels BOGO MFR Q (.89 cent)one free
1 Chef Michaels BOGO TQ (.89 cent) made one free

Total after coupons: $15.83
Total saved: $50.41

So, I did pretty well! I would have done a lot better had my husband not had to have his razor blades, but he needed them, plus my BOGO stackables didn't work as I thought they would, I did end up having to pay for 2, but it's not bad still. And they were out of the bottles! Oh well, I'll try again later, it's not a sale price, but I'm not sure when the coupon expires, I think it's sometime in September. Then I headed over to Food Lion and did great again!

Total before coupons/sales: $70.67
Total after coupons/sales: $31.51
Total saved: $39.16

I didn't make it to Kroger, but I'm still below my budget for the week and I already have almost everything we need, including lots of meat I got at Food Lion with the $5/$20 in the meat department Flip. I got sandwich baggies for the hubby's lunches, whiteout, 3 big packages of chicken, 3 big packages of hamburger, 1 pack of FL wipes, bananas, organic beans, Scott naturals TP (it was on sale for $2.79 - $1 mfr q made it a decent deal) and I'm really not sure what else I got, but I had a trunk full of stuff ($136.91 worth) when I got home and only spent $46.92 oop!! Oh, add some Food Lion Soda in that mix, eggs, too! Got plenty to last the week and still have to go to Kroger tomorrow!

[RhylansMom]

Went to food lion tonight to find a few deals!
Hadn't been there in a while
There is tons of clearance in the baby isles!
And i mean everything is clearances ohh most, looks like they are getting rid of a lot of stuff. Most of it was gerber
To bad i didn't have any baby coupons with me

Total Savings: $31.44
Total OOP: $5.04
Total Tax: $1.18

There is a little bag of chips missing, ds ate them

[mommy2my2babies]

What Q are you using on the razors?

[leahsmommy29]

Originally Posted by mommy2my2babies

What Q are you using on the razors?

I'd like to know too!!!!

[amyb882002]

the only one out is the one on the 4 pack and those in the picture are not it they are only a two pack. Not sure what is being used

[Moggy]

My trip today. I did 1 small transaction and a big one. It took forever because the manager had to scrutinize 3 of my q's and then the register locked up...she was fairly nice but she said that they're getting so many IP's that its "preventing her from getting a raise"...whatever that means. She said "your coupons check out okay" Apparently she did something online because she said she was waiting for 'a printout.' Of course I don't mind because I know my q's are legit - but it sure ads a lot of time to a trip.

I ended up using my meat FLIP on markdown meats because it was just a better deal than any of the MVP sale priced stuff. I got 76.98 worth of meat for 16.68! My freezer is busting at the seams.

For everything in both photos my TOOP was 22.69!

[cooks4funfor6]

Moggy Moggy Moggy.....looks like pork is for dinner. Good job girl. I love the photos.

Yesterday,doing two transactions, I purchsed :
4 packs smithfield boneless smoked pork (markdown)
2 packs ground beef( markdown)
2 packs sausage
2 packs Tyson Boneless skinless breast portions
In addition to using my Meat flips, I used ;
2 tyson Q's ( insert)
2 ground beef/sausage q's (insert)
2 guiding star ( used on the chicken)
4 smithfield boneless pork Q's (All you mag?)
I ended up with about $16.00 OOP for both transactions. Thats way below half . So, I was doing the Happy dance!

[cooks4funfor6]

During the same shopping trip, I purchased the Natures place tortilla chips. Using the flip makes them $1.39 . I know thats not near free...but, it BETTER than $3.89 on other brands. Lucky for me, the are very tasty chips. I only purchsed 2 bags since i wasnt sure if they would be good or not. I can assure you,todays trips will include more of those . Im giving a baby shower in two weeks and everyone will be enjoying Natures Place chips with their pizza dip! ( dont worry, they dont expire until January 2010)

[Moggy]

Nice work Cooks4fun~!

We're actually having Kabobs tonight with chicken, pork and beef . I also just put those 2 pork shoulder roasts in a brine to cook tomorrow for pulled pork. I'm not sure yet if I'm going to smoke them or slow roast them in the oven. Maybe I'll do a combination of both.

[cooks4funfor6]

Moggy....Sorry your shopping spree was delayed with scrutinizing management. When they put me in that position I always get so uncomfortable.
I think her raised might be held up due to her lack of positive customer service, not your coupon usage. hee hee

[cooks4funfor6]

WOW, good choices, Im impressed and Im ready to join your for dinner! I love kabobs. You sound like you know what your doing.
I cant wait to go back for my second meat run ...I have to go through my Qs to see what type of meat Q's I can add to the purchase to make it a better buy. I know I have some sausage and sandwich meat Q's.

[Moggy]

Originally Posted by cooks4funfor6

Moggy....Sorry your shopping spree was delayed with scrutinizing management. When they put me in that position I always get so uncomfortable.
I think her raised might be held up due to her lack of positive customer service, not your coupon usage. hee hee

Yea, I get a little uncomfortable too. Thankfully I was using the self check out and it was early in the a.m. so the store was pretty empty.

LOL, you might be right about the raise thing. You know, I do feel for the employees, but I really don't think they should be making comments like that to customers. Especially the managers. I know that in all the jobs I've had I would have probably gotten a stern talking to if a manager overheard me saying something like that.

[mommy2my2babies]

I met a super coupon friendly cashier today and she gave me some tips(most of which I already knew) BUT she told me that at that particular store they will take coupons that are for a similar item. Like the Noxema razors. She actually used that as an example. She said that they will take the Q for the 4 pack on the 2 pack because it is the same brand. I had my binder with me today, so I got 4 packs with the Qs I had. No beeps or anything either!

[Moggy]

Originally Posted by cooks4funfor6

WOW, good choices, Im impressed and Im ready to join your for dinner! I love kabobs. You sound like you know what your doing.
I cant wait to go back for my second meat run ...I have to go through my Qs to see what type of meat Q's I can add to the purchase to make it a better buy. I know I have some sausage and sandwich meat Q's.

There are some IP's for Butterball ground turkey ~ I have both .75 off and 1.00 off ones plus some for $1.00 Butterball Turkey Bacon too. I'm not sure where they came from, maybe smartsource?

[carlynishere]

Wow Moggy...and I thought I did good. I went twice today with DBF and we got:

3 H360 Disinfecting Wipes ($2.25 less $0.76 MVP less $1.50 H360 Wipe Q = $0.01 OVERAGE)
4 Natures Place Pinto Beans ($1.15 less $1 FLIP = $0.15 each)
2 FL Angel Hair Pasta ($1.25 less $0.30 MVP less $1 GS FLIP = $0.10 OVERAGE)
12 FL Soda ($0.88 less $0.19 MVP less $0.19 3-day Sale less $1/3 FLIP = $0.17 each)
2.74 # Grapes ($5.46 less $2.74 MVP less $1(x2) GS FLIP = $0.72 total)
2 Turkey Tenderloins AND 1 1.25# Ground Turkey ($22.17 less $4 Tenderloin MVP less $0.20 Grnd. Tky MVP less $5.00 FLIP = $12.97 TOTAL)
1 Kings Hawaiian Rolls AND 1.03# Deli Turkey AND 0.55# Deli Hot Pepper Cheese ($11.24 less $2.61 MVP less $3 FLIP = $5.63 TOTAL)
10# Bag of Ice

$23.71 OOP After Q's including $1.24 Tax

We love turkey tenderloins, so this was a good deal for us as they were on sale for $7.99 - reg. $9.99. Those plus the pacakge of ground turkey allowed us to use the $5off$20 Meat Q.

Anyway...great job!!

[mommynurse1]

I used my $1/3 FLIP for the sodas, but noticed on my receipt that it only took off $0.50. My daughter said "Mom, it's only 50 cents", but it's still frustrating to me. Especially since they had none of the sale meat and only 2 boxes of FL frosted flakes and one box of FL crispy rice (sale by 3/09) in the whole store! I don't know if it's this particular store or all the Richmond, VA ones. It's in a nice area- maybe I'll try one in a less nice area before I totally give up on FL...

[mommy2my2babies]

Sorry to hear that mommynurse. Thankfully the store I go to was very prepared for this sale. I went several times yesterday and today and about everytime I went they were stocking. I didnt see them being out of anything.


Did anybody else have the 1.00 off any bounty q? I had 15 of them (dont remember where they came from) and I got the Bounty basic paper towels for free plus .21 overage.

[Moxie_15]

In 2 transactions:

6 - FL soda: .50 ea - (2) $1/3 FLIPs = $1
1 - Hawaiian Tropic sunscreen: 3.60 - $2 IP = $1.60
2 - NP beans: 1.15 ea - $1 FLIP = $.30 ea
2 - H360 cleaning wipes: 1.49 ea - 1.50 FLIP = -.02
2 - FL gallon milk (marked down): .79 - $1 GS = -.42
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Total oop: $.79!! ($.20 of which was tax)
- The reason it was so low was b/c I completely forgot about what you guys were mentioning about the soda FLIP beeping and got confused, and she was confused, so she just put $2 for both of them! My second transaction was actually negative, and I was so flustered! Usually I throw a candy bar on there, but she asked for the manager to override saying "she used coupons, so gets her refund" like it was nothing new. Eek! I'll be better prepared tomorrow...I REALLLLLY hope she doesn't get in trouble (although the manager didn't seem to care), she's one of my favs!!

Total savings: $21.03 (not counting what I saved on the marked-down milk)

Note: I noticed that our store usually marks down their milk 4-5 days before the expiration date. They're usually $1.49 (so $.49 w/ GS FLIP), but this week they've been $.79, so overage! All in all, I think we've paid about $4.50 for 10 gallons of milk over the past couple of weeks! What we can't use immediately gets frozen...or made into cheese, my hubby's new hobby. :P

[Moggy]

Everyone is doing so good! I want to buy more meat but I don't have any room left in my freezer!

Oh Moxie ~ your hubby makes cheese? I've only made it a couple of times and it was the really easy fresh kinds. I so want to take up cheese making! My SO makes wine and he's just gotten in to brewing beer (he's been working on that all day today).

[mommy2my2babies]

Could one of you ladies PLEASE share with me how to make cheese? We eat LOTS of cheese here, and I have never had any that was homemade but would love to try it. THANKS!

[supermom02]

I went on Sunday (8/30) so I could get the FL drinks and Bounty Basic Papertowels before the 3 day sale ended. My trans. was like this:

3 FL 2L Sodas $1.50/3
3 Bounty Basic Papertowels $2.37/3
2 Healthy Accents Handsanitizers $2.72/2
1 Glade Soy Candle $3.19
1 Home 360 Baby Wipes $1.62

Coupons:
1.50/1 Home 360 Baby Wipe FLIP
FREE Glade Soy Candle
1.00/2 Healthy Accents 8oz Handsanitizers FLIP
(3) .75/1 Bounty
1.00/3 FL 2L Sodas FLIP

Before coupons: 12.17
OOP: 3.81

[Moggy]

Well, I kinda hate that I wasted the gas to do a lunch run. The strawberries looked horrible (oh well, they are way out of season), there were non H360 wipes, the Clorox wipes went back up to 3.19 and the cheapest FL nuts I could find were 2.50 so I passed on that 'deal.'

Here is the little bit I got

#1 Transaction

1 Planters Trail Mix 1.99 (bounus buy)
3 Glade Soy Candles BOGO = 3.00 each

coupons used
$2.00 off one Planters FLIP
3- $3 off Glade candles (2 IP's and one insert q)

Coupons tendered 20.50
OOP .66 (all tax - tax was .70)

#2

1 Planters Trail mix 1.99 BB

-$2.00 FLIP

Coupons tendered 2.50
OOP .14 (all tax -tax was .15)

[leahsmommy29]

Moggy~I am so going around to all my FL's tomorrow and stocking up on Planters Trail Mix! I saw the $1.99 BB Price today and got excited, only to find out I left that flip at home! :-( Well there is always tomorrow!!

Anyways....here's what I got today :-)
2 Breyer's Ice Cream
3 Packages of Chicken 3.75lbs (our chix is not on as good of a sale as someplaces)
2 Glade Candles
2lbs Land O Lakes Cheese
1 Smithfield Boneless Ham Slice
OOP $9.59
It says coupons tendered $46.82 and MVP Savings This Trip $30.82
Are the MVP savings included in the coupons tendered??

[Beaniejumper]

Are the Planters FLIPs beeping? Sometimes my FL is funky and it will beep because I haven't met the minimum requirement...I wasn't sure if it might not beep since the price is more than 2.00 regularly?