Saved 75% at Publix (Saturday)

Publix was crowded today with beachgoers heading to Perdido and Orange Beach to enjoy Memorial Day weekend. Bumper-to-bumper cart traffic in most aisles. Shopping was more fun than usual, until checkout that is. I forgot a couple of things in my cart and asked the bagger for help. But he never complained and willingly obliged.

Sometimes, no matter how prepared I am beforehand, surprises still crop up:
1. My Publix didn’t have Kashi Pitas (for homemade hummus this week).
2. I forgot my raincheck for Lipton Ice Tea at home.
3. Cantaloupe is $2.50, not $1.97 and kinda smallish.
4. Marzetti Simply Dressing is BOGO at $3.49 (but the $1 blinkie machine is gone).

So after chatting with fellow MOPs and couponing friend (who is moving in 2wks like all my other friends- waaaah), I had to find a safe aisle to park my cart and recalculate my total. Our Publix lets us do multiple transactions. I needed two at least $25 each to use the Apple Market coupon.

This is what I bought, after coupons:
3 fried chicken (from cold case) for Sunday picnic, $3.99 each
4 Marzetti Simply Dressing, $0.75 each after coupons
2 Bush’s Baked Beans, $2.37 for 2
4 Kelloggs Cereal- $7 (need 1 more to get $5 Gas Card)
2 Quaker Oats Oatmeal, $1.59 (clearance cart)

6 Crystal Light Mixes, $1.16 for 6!
Breyers, $5.17 for 2 (they sell lactose free vanilla)
Kashi Crackers, $0.50 (used $2 Recylebank Q)
1 Buddy Fruit, $1 (needed a filler item)
Plus $10 off with 2 Apple Market Qs


In the end, I paid $26, instead of $102 without coupons. That 75% savings! I'll post the picture tomorrow.

Do you shop Publix? How did you do this week?

$5 Gas Card wyb 4 Kellogg’s Crispix at Publix

Kellogg’s Crispix is BOGO through Tuesday at Publix. I wanted to get Fiber Plus cereal but the little Lightning McQueen logo was on the corner of the Crispix box. Couponing To Disney posted that Kellogg’s has a Cars2 promotion. Buy 4 participating cereals and get $5 gas card. Well, Publix had 3 Cars2 Crispix boxes left. So I just need to find another cereal box with this logo. (I’ll wait a couple days until they restock or go to Target.)

I’m saving the UPCs for another $10 Gas Card Kellogg’s promotion (must buy 10 boxes). Double-dipping on these promotions is possible: Cars2 requires entering the codes online; $10 Gas Card requires sending in UPCs.

Here is a deal scenario with 10 Cars 2 Crispix cereal at Publix:
Buy 10 Crispix cereal, $4.49 x 5
Buy 1 gallon milk, $3.50 (or anything else $2.55 or more)
Subtotal: $25.95
Use $5 off $25 Apple Market (competitor Q)
Use three $1 off 3 Kellogg’s cereal (Target Q)
Use five $1 off 2 Manuf Qs
Pay $12.95
Enter 8 codes for Cars2- get $10 Gas Card
Submit 10 UPCs for $10 Gas Rebate
= 10 FREE cereal boxes + $7 Money Maker!

How about that! Of course, the key is finding enough cereal boxes with the Cars2 logo and having all the coupons. Either case, this is a great deal. As usual, donate if you don’t like the cereal or even give away the $5 Gas Card!

See other gas card deals? Let me know!

Make Money on Money!

I take some deals for granted. Then my husband got excited and told me it's cool to save money on money. I was like, huh? Never occured to me but, he's right. Credit cards take our money, and doing this deal is one up on them.

First Transaction
Buy $50 American Express card at Publix
Pay $4.95 for activation
Use $10 off coupon in the weekly ad
Use $5 off $25 off Apple Market coupon
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= Pay only $39.95 for a $50 gift card!

Second Transaction
Buy $5 worth of Hallmark cards
Buy $50 Shell gas card
Use $5 off $5 Hallmark coupon in weekly ad*
(must buy $25 min gift card NOT Publix or AmEx)
Use $5 off $25 off Apple Market coupon
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= Pay $45 BUT use the AmEx card to pay

I still have $5 left on the AmEx card. So instead of $50 for the Shell card, it's really only $35, with the leftover money into account.

Publix has coupons for $10 off $50 American Express cards all the time. So even though this deal ends today, you can get it again next time. My computer died after this video was taken, otherwise it would have been up sooner!

Publix Sales Ad Good Through Saturday

Just a reminder, there will not be a new sales ad for Publix this Wednesday. Since they are closed Sunday. (Click to view the Publix Ad.) That being said, here is a short video for you about clipless coupons to use with this week's ad:


Per usual, I found coupon match-ups at I Heart Publix's Super Deals.

Don't forget to use the $5 off $25 Apple Market coupon (local to Pensacola) as a competitor coupon.

These are some of my favorites!
Dole Pineapple in 100% Juice, 20 oz can, BOGO $1.59
Duncan Hines Cake Mix, BOGO $2.05 (use 2 $0.55 from Spring Savings)
Tuttorosso Crushed Tomatioes 28 to 29 oz can, BOGO $1.87 (use $1/2 blinkie)
Breyer’s Ice Cream 48 oz carton, BOGO $5.99 (use $1.50/2 TARGET Q)
Jones Dairy Farm Golden Brown Sausage, Links or Patties 7 oz pkg or Turkey Links 5 oz pkg, BOGO $2.69 (check for $1/2 peelies)
Bertolli Pasta Sauce 15 to 24 oz, 2/$4 (use $1.50 from 4/17 SS & $1/2 Target)
Kraft Shredded Cheese w/touch of Philly, 3/$5 (Use $1/1 blinkie)
Birds Eye Frozen Vegetables, 50% off (64¢ to $1.84) (Use $1/2 Publix Q from Spring Savings booklet)

Coupons found in the booklet are listed at IHP.

Coupons Spotted at Publix= FREE Royal Gelatin at Walgreens

Walgreens has Royal Gelatin 5 for $1 with in-ad coupon. Publix has a blinkie for $1 off 5 on Royal products. This means FREE gelatin at Walgreens.

Other blinkie coupons:
$1 off Kraft Shreds w/ Touch of Philly
$1 off Polly-O products
$1.50 off Philly Cooking Creme
$0.75 Hormel Compleats Kids Meal
$0.75 off 3 Pillsbury Refrigerated Baked Goods
$1/2 Tuttorosso Tomatoes blinkie

A few peelies:
$1 off OSCAR MAYER Selects Hot Dogs (good for Turkey)
$0.75 off Hillshire Kielbasa

Publis Deals Through April 12

Here are my favorite deals this week:

Banquet frozen chicken, BOGO $5.49
Use two $1 off Publix Q from Slam Dunk booklet Buy 6 + $15 more groceries and submit for $10 Rebate =>
6 bags = $16.50, use six $1 off => $10.50 =>submit for $10 rebate =$0.50 for 6 bags!

Cascadian Farms frozen veg, $2
Use $0.75 Q + $1 Publix Q = $0.25 each

Silk Almondmilk, $2.50 (unsweetened is only 35 calories!)
Take the 10-day Challenge to print $2 off Q = $0.50

Mueller's Pasta, BOGO $1.39
Register w/ new email, get $1 off 1 (when prompted, print more than 1 copy- I did 6)
Buy 2 use two $1 Q =$0.60 overage

Publix Brown Rice, $0.99 (not on sale but new item!)

Jell-O Temptations, $2
Got my FREE coupon from Kraft First Taste

Snicker's Creme Eggs Single Pack, $0.50 Get 2 FREE with $1 off 2 from coupons.com There was a $2/2 Q = $1 overage

Voskos Yogurt, $1 (blinkie machine is gone!) Buy 3, use two $0.75 Qs & Buy2G1 Free = $0.50 for 3

Sunkist Almond Accents, BOGO $2.99
Use two $1 off Qs = $0.49 each

Oscar Mayer Turkey Franks, $2.29
Use $1 peelie on Turkey Selects = $1.29

Kellogg's Frosted Mini Wheats, BOGO $4.51
Use two $1 for Touch of Fruit only = $1.25 each

Tofouyan Pita Bread, BOGO $1.29
Will be great with Sabras Hummus that was BOGO last week!

6 Pack Publix Spring Water, $2.11
They gave out FREE coupons at the Perdido Spring Fest Fair

Zyrtec 5 count, $6.49
Use $4 Target Q plus $2 blinkie = $0.49


Everything pictured plus Almondmilk & Jello Temptations would have cost $77.15, with the help of a few coupons, we paid $10.19, for a savings of 87%. Yep. What's really impressive is that other people save that much too- check out I Heart Publix's weekly totals.

The cool thing is that the 2 value size Purex alone cost that much. So it's like I bought 2 bottles of detergent and got $66 of food for FREE.

FREE OTCs and Toiletries at Publix!

These are some items I got for free at Publix recently. Only one coupon was from the newspaper, the rest in-store and printables. If you still have some of the printables, you can also score these deals. Right Guard BOGO coupon from 3-13 RP One
pair with Right Guard Buy One Bodywash Get FREE Deodorant Q (Green Ad flyer found in-store)
$2 Visine, any product (I think this has a size restriction)
FREE Soothing Wipes with other Visine purchase (no longer available)
$4 Zyrtec Q- Target coupon
$2 Zyrtec manufacturer's Q- blinkie found in-store
$5 off $25 Apple Market Q (no longer available- makes me cry!)

The Visine Soothing Wipes were clearance $4.99 but rang up $6.99. I pointed that out to customer service. Did you know that their Publix Promise is to give you the product FREE if it rings up differently at the register? So I got $6.99 back and made a little money on this shopping trip.

What did I do with the leftover dough? We enjoyed some Publix fried chicken- it was even on sale for $5.99! Food is not the only freebies to be had at Publix- OTCs and toiletries, too. Now you know.

Of course, most of my coupon links come from I Heart Publix. See what great deals you can snatch!

Kimberly Clark Rebate & Money Maker

Okay, okay. I've been MIA for months. Thankfully, the schoolyear is almost over so I will have more free time soon. Meanwhile, with the new online $5 off $25 Apple Market coupon, I have been getting really great deals at Publix.

Here's one I have to share with you: Buy $35 or more Kimberly-Clark or Clorox products, get a $10 Publix gift card by mail!

Visit I Heart Publix's booklet list to view participating products. Huggies diapers & wipes, Clorox wipes & bleach, Scott & Viva paper towels are some of them. Pictured below is the deal I did & paid only $1.52 after coupons, but before the $10 Rebate! This will be a money maker- $9.48 extra money & FREE products.


Look for the booklet: Get a Bundle of Savings, Do a Bundle of Good. The Rebate form is in the back, one per household. I used these Publix coupons, pictured here: $2 off 2 Kleenex, $2 off U by Kotex & $2 off Kotex. Plus a few manufaturer coupons:
$1.50 off 2 Kotex
$1 off U by Kotex
$0.50 off 2 Kleenex from April All You (other coupons are even better!)




This is the breakdown of my shopping trip above:
8 Kleenex, 4 for $5 on sale
4 U by Kotex, 3 for $10 on sale
4 Kotex, $3.41 each =$36.97

These are coupons I used:
-$5 off $25 Apple Market Q (register to print)
-$8 U by Kotex Publix Q -$4 U by Kotex Manuf Q
-$8 Kotex Publix Q
-$3 Kotex Manuf Q -$8 Kleenex Publix Q
-$0.50 Kleenex Manuf Q
=-$36.50 in coupons So, only $0.50 for 8 Kleenex & 8 feminine products.

Then there's the $10 rebate too! Also, we needed wasp spray, so I bought it with these items (for the overage): 4 Snickers egg, $0.50 each(with Easter candy display)
-$4 (used two $2/2 coupons)
2 Friskies Party Mix, BOGO $1.75 (for teacher's cat!)
-$1 off Manuf Q (1/23 SS) & two $1 off Publix Q =-3.25 in overage

Wasp Spray, $4.29-$3.25= $1

Winn-Dixie $5 off $30 Store Coupon

This $5 off $30 Winn-Dixie store coupon is good for two weeks- til Feb 8. They are on the top right of the front page of the sales ad. Grab a couple extra copies in case they don't run this coupon in next week's sales flyer. I found mine at the store because I forgot to buy the Weds newspaper yesterday. Of course I used it at Publix. Although I might head to Winn-Dixie too. There's some good looking dollar deals there this week.


I knew that my shopping list would be short and not make it to $50 to use that Apple Market coupon. I looked for a CVS coupon on Tuesday night and found none. It's a blessing to get this nice WD coupon. Unfortunately, I miscalculated my short list and thought I had $30 worth of goods. It rand up only $22 at the register. I ended up adding an $11 steak to make up the difference. Yikes! But, life is too short and I've never bought New York strip steaks ($7/lb). So, keeping it in mind, everything below is $18 ($7 for everything except the steak).

I used the coupons listed in the Super Deals at I Heart Publix. Thanks, Michelle!

$0.50 Borden Cheese

This week, Food World has block and shredded Borden cheese for $1.5o. Use this $1 off 1 PDF coupon to get it for only $0.50! The coupon prints in the middle of the page. Wal-Mart carries this so I'll price match it there. Also, they have Kraft Cheese with a Touch of Philly for $2 last week. If it's still the case, use this $1 off 1 Kraft Cheese coupon and get it for only $1. They are the only store I've seen with this cheese.

I was looking at I Heart Publix for the new Yellow Advantage Flyer deals. Borden Singles are $2, so only $1 after the coupon. That's how I found out about the coupon, then I remembered the Food World deal. I am loving all this cheap cheese!

Kraft Salad Dressing Money Maker

Since our Publix still accepts CVS Qs, I am planning this scenario below. CVS has Reinventing Beauty Mags with CVS Qs. The latest issue from a couple months ago had both $1 Kraft and $1 Crystal Light coupons. This week's sale at Publix has both on BOGO deals at $3.19 and $3.49 respectively. Plus there are Target Qs to stack.

Here is what I'm doing:
Buy 6 Kraft dressing
Use 2 Target b2g1
Use 4 $1 CVS Qs from Reinventing Beauty Mag
Plus 3 Produce Qs if you have them (tearpads)

Get 3 FREE from Publix BOGO
Get 2 FREE from Target Qs
That leaves 1 to use $4 off with CVS Q

=$1.19 overage plus more if you have produce Qs

Did you know that an often requested product from soldiers deployed overseas is Crystal Light and similar powdered juice packets? Even if you don't drink it, consider donating.

Here is my scenario:
Buy 4 Crystal Light
Use B3G1 Target Q
Use 3 $1 CVS Qs

Get 2 FREE from Publix sale
Get 1 FREE from Target Q
Get $3 off remaining box

=$.49 for 4

Get $15 Overage For Gift and Gas Card at Publix

Are you getting your gas card at Publix this week? I hope so. Soon after we left the Perdido store, my hubby got gas at the Shell station across Mc Donald's. It's $2.75/gallon (only 2 cents more than Wal-Mart). And you can use the promotion on the American Express Gift Card (AMEX) to get another $5 overage... intrigued?

Here's how it works:
First Transaction:
Buy $50 AMEX gift card
Use $10 off $50 AMEX gift card*
*back cover of sales ad or PRINT. Go to the last tab on top of the weekly ad. It says "Coupons" or click from the left side bar.
Pay $40 + $4.95 activation fee

Here is the tricky part:
Second Transaction
Shop for 1 hour 10 minutes (that's how long it takes to activate the card) or shop the next day
Get $25 of groceries & a $50 Shell Gas Card
Use $10 off $50 Gas Card (towards end of sales ad or PRINT)
Use any coupons for your groceries
Use the $50 AMEX card to pay for gas card
Pay the remaining balance, if any, with cash or something else
=$10 overage on gas card to go to grocery item balance

I had some FREE product coupons mailed to me and a raincheck on the Ronzoni Garden Delight, putting my total after coupons to only about $4 plus $40 for the gas card- which all went on the AMEX card!

$5.99 Energizer Lithium 4x (Green Ad sale)
*use $1 MQ & $2 Target PRINT= $2.99 each
BOGO Scotch Gift Wrap or Magic Tape $2.79 (use two $1 from Winter Family Savings booklet)
BOGO Pillsbury Cake Mix $1.79 (not great, no coupon, but I want a cake!)
$1.99 Keebler Peanut Butter or Cheese crackers (price cut from $2.70)
Also Laughing Cow wedges are $2.19 (use $1/1 MQ tearpad)

Grocery Deals 11/26-11/30

I'm staying put this morning. But I do plan some grocery shopping tomorrow! $0.50 Kraft cheese at Winn-Dixie can't be passed up.

Publix Super Deals by I Heart Publix:
Nonni’s Biscotti or Soft Baked Tusconi BOGO $3.37

Gardein Garden Protein Meat-Free Entree BOGO $3.99
$1 MQ PRINT or PRINT

Chung’s Egg Rolls or Spring Rolls 10-12 oz box BOGO $2.99
$0.35/1 (PDF) Rolling or $1/2 MQ 10/17 SS Insert

Kellogg’s Eggo Pancakes, Cinnabon, Nutri Grain Fruit Pizza, 5.3-16.4 oz BOGO $2.79
-$1/2 Eggo Products Rolling

Lactaid Milk, half gallon, 2/$6
-$2/1 Lactaid blinkie (check your binders)
-$1/1 Lactaid Milk Product (exp 12/2/2010)

Gerber Graduates 6 oz, 10/$9
-$1/2 MQ from Target catalina

Cheese-It 9.75-14 oz BOGO $2.39
-$1.50 off pretzels wyb Cheez-It Target Q
-$1/2 MQ tearpad at Winn-Dixie (have you found this?)
-$1/2 Walgreens Q in December booklet

Scotch Gift Wrap Tape, BOGO $2.79
$1/1 Publix Q Winter Family Savings
(Some people found $1/1 tearpads)

Red Delicious Apples, 5 lb bag, $3.99
Iceburg Lettuce, $.99
Florida Tomatoes, $1.29/lb
Florida’s Tangerines 3 lb bag, 2/$3

In-Ad Coupon $10 off a $50 BP, Shell, Chevron/Texaco or Hess Gas Card wyb $25+ Groceries
In-Ad Coupon $10 off a $50 American Express Gift Card ($4.95 activation fee)


Food World Deals:
$1.77 boneless, skinless chicken breast (great price!)
$1.99/lb ground chuck
$0.99 Food World white bread
$0.39/lb bananas

Winn-Dixie Deals:
Get $10 Gift Card wyb Flu Shot ($23 or $43)
Get $5 off every $50 gift card purchase

Saturday Only Sales:
$0.99 Kraft Cheese 5-9.6 oz shreds or block (limit 2) use $1/2 PRINT
$3.99 DiGorno pizza (limit 2) use $1/1 11/14 RP
$4.99 Cottonelle (limit 2) use $0.50/2 PRINT
$2.99/lb pork loin baby back ribs (limit 2)
$4.99 Tyson snack wings (limit 2)
3/$1 Winn-Dixie canned vegetables 14.5 oz corn, peas, green beans (limit 12)
$1.99 4-lb navel oranges
Canned veggies make great Food Pantry donations- only $4 or 12 cans!

Best of Friday-Tuesday:$1.99 Dole Salad 10-12 oz
$2 for 3-lb bag onions
$1.50 sliced or whole white mushrooms
$2 Wholly Guacamole dips (use $4 Facebook, $2 overage)
BOGO Green Giant canned vegetables not asparagus $1.39/2
BOGO London broil $4.99/2lbs
BOGO Genl Mills Cereal (double up for WIC)
BOGO Manischewitz potato pancake mix 6 oz, $2.99/2
$0.25 Elite chocolate coins

Publix Super Shopping 11.19.10

There are lots of good deals at Publix this week. I finally got to go yesterday and was happy to find everything... except for the $0.59/lb turkey! No worries, the truck was there and they should have plenty today.

Super deals from I Heart Publix helped me get all these and below for $35 instead of $147, a savings of 76%. My favorite deals were these:

Celery BOGO $1.69
Cranberries BOGO $2.99
Dole Pineapple $o.46 ea (BOGO $1.75, use $1.25/3 Q from Kraft booklet)
Uncle Ben's White Grain Rice FREE (BOGO sale w/ BOGO Q)*
BIC lighter $0.25 (BOGO $3.49, use two $1.50 MQ from 11/7 SS)
Ziploc containers, $0.25
(2.50 each, use BOGO Q from 11/14 SS & two $1 Publix Q from the old Yellow Ad- our stores sometimes accept expired Qs if you still want to get it this week.)

*Some stores make you do B3G1 when you combine a BOGO Q w/ a BOGO sale. But it worked for me at the Perdido store, and I had a supremely picky cashier who previewed all my coupons before ringing up anything.

If you find All the Trimmings booklet at Publix (they're out at Perdido), you can get Bird's Eye veg for as little as $0.15 each! There's a $1/2 MQ in there, and they're 50% off right now. These are my favorite deals, prices after Qs:

Kraft cheese $1 ($1 off shreds & Philly cheese peelie from Target)
Philly cheese $ 0.69 ($1.25/3 Q from Kraft booklet+$0.50 Target Print)
Land O Lakes butter $2.50

Jones Sausage BOGO $2.49 (also use $1/2 peelies from Mobile Hwy store)

Sushi from Publix

I love Amy's Finer Things Friday. It reminds me to constantly look out for the marvelous in the mundane. This is especially helpful for Date-Night-In. Grandparents live far away and babysitting can be costly. So we hangout at home when the children sleep and we watch movies from the Redbox. Or the Blockbuster Express found inside Publix. With all the savings, we do splurge on the snacks. Sushi is my favorite date food. I look forward to it like I do Starbucks Ice Cream.

Sushi from Publix is borderline expensive to me, but it is so yummy. One catch though, I only recommend getting it from Mobile Hwy. Mike and Sharon, owners of the Sushi franchise, are artists. They even change the menu to suit the seasons. For example, this summer, we had sushi with mango salsa. Mike used to work fulltime at a restaurant making sushi before starting on his own. I like getting the spicy sampler because it's so pretty with all the sauces and different trimmings. I hope you get to try it. You can probably ask for a sample if they are there working. They are such a pleasant couple.

Super Shopping at Publix 10.9.10

I always check out I Heart Publix for Super Deals first before heading to the store. My printer toner finally came in on Saturday so I was able to print a bunch of coupons and do more deals than I had planned. I hope you were able to grab some Martha Stewart cleaning solutions. They came out to $4 for 6 bottles, which is pretty good for natural cleaning products. The Mobile Hwy store had the coupons for these but they were only good through 10/10. Some Publix stores may allow use of expired coupons if you still want to grab this deal.

All in all, the total was $119 before any sales or coupons. But I walked out of there with everything for $17 on my first trip. That includes $6 for 2 Publix deli ham and $6.75 for gallon Organic Valley milk & almond milk. I bought extra goodies for $0.78 for a second trip Sunday.


For my first trip I went to Mobile Hwy so I could use the $5 off $50 Apple Market. Some extra stuff I saw there were:

-BOGO Bagels at $1.65 (Bakery), FREE with 2 Target $1 Bakery Q. (Mobile Hwy now only takes 1 kind of Target Q each. Perdido still takes more than one, so I came back and bought more there.)

-Butoni pasta is BOGO at $2.39, only $0.39 using two $1 PRINT (thanks Hip2Save!)

-Customer Service has a $1 off produce coupon wyb 2 Hidden Valley Ranch. (Buy 2, use two $2 off, get $1 veggie FREE)

-Get FREE Sara Lee Hotdog Buns wyb 2 Ball Park Franks (tearpad coupon found in the bread aisle)

-Smart Taste Ronzoni is also BOGO. I used $1/2 PRINT.

-Last week’s paper had a flyer for Powerade ION with a B2G1 Free Target Coupon. I bought 6 thinking I’d get 5 free but only 4 were free.
Buy 4 drinks,
Get 2 FREE w/ Publix BOGO
Get 1 FREE w B2G1 coupon
Pay for 1 at $1.25

In Perdido: Market Grind ground beef is $1.98/lb (this is mostly steak cuts and very lean)

BAD NEWS for coupons: Publix Mobile Hwy is becoming strict with coupons. I had the longest checkout in history as my cashier first matched up all my coupons with every item, reading each of them first. Then she had to check with the manager at least 3 times for proper coupon usage. Then she scanned all my coupons. My checkout took twice as long as the actual shopping trip. She was a nice cashier just learning how to take coupons so I didn’t start getting a migraine until the very end. But be forewarned. They are not taking more than one Target coupon per kind. For example, I could only use one Target Bakery, Produce, Market Pantry bread coupon. So I had to put back a bunch of items.

Target Coupon= FREE Dole Spinach

Ok. Is there a Popeye's club we can sign-up because I am about to buy even more spinach. Thanks to a new $1 off produce coupon, Dole Spinach will be FREE at Target. It's been on sale for $2 a bag for a couple weeks. I'm praying the sale is extended. Combining the $1 Dole peelie and this $1 Target Q means FREE!

If you can't find a peelie, I've seen lots at Winn-Dixie too. And both coupons can be used at our Publix. Wait until the next Dole sale at Publix, and you could score 2 FREE bags of salad. The $1 Bakery might have reset too. That means $0.19 French bread at Publix (they even have whole wheat sometimes). I love that Publix takes Target coupons!

Plus there are $2 off Merona socks or hosiery, $3 Merona sweaters, $3 or $2 any men's, women's kids' denim, and lots of Market Pantry & Archer Farms coupons too. Coupons are allowed for even clearance items. I've seen some Merona sweaters for 75% off that would be close to FREE with these coupons. Don't forget Christmas presents!

Thanks to Totally Target for picture and the heads-up!

Publix Helps with Homemade Laundry Soap

How many of you make your own laundry soap? I don't. My excuse has always been the hard-to-find ingredients. Now, I have no excuse. The Publix at Perdido carries all these products pictured. The prices are fairly reasonable. It almost seems like they had the homemade soap makers in mind when they picked out these items. Next time I'm there I'll jot down the prices and report back to you.

In the meantime, thanks to Mommy's Kitchen for picture and recipe. I don't know if I'll try that or the Duggar's dry detergent concoction.

Dry Detergent From Mommy's Kitchen
2 - Cups Laundry Soap Shavings (1 bar)
1 - Cup Mule Team Borax
1 - Cup Arm & Hammer Washing Soda

Grate soap using cheese grater. Combine all ingredients in a bowl and stir well. Place in sealed container or tub and measure out two tablespoons (or 1/8 cup) for each load.

Powdered Laundry Detergent From the Duggars
*Uses 1/2 not 1 c of borax

More Publix Super Shopping

After my fun Publix trip (saved 100%) I came back for more shopping. I paid $1.38 for everything below. Since my dear hubby was kind enough to pick-up Twizzlers at Walgreens last week, I used the $2 RR from that to buy 2 paper towels for $0.67 (on sale 3/$4). The Batman Snacks, $1.38, are at the clearance section by the pharmacy.


I bought these Pilot Pens and used two $1 manufacturer's coupons. I noticed the Mail-In-Rebate forms: Buy 1, get$1.25. Buy 2, get $2.75. Buy 2 get $4.50. In my enthusiasm, I handed the Wags Pilot coupons from the July book. Now that I think about it, those might have only been for the Pilot G2.

I know for sure though that the Target Papermate coupons for $0.50 are ok to use for these Papermate Pens. They are FREE with the coupons!

Though not pictured, I bought 4 Sorrento Fresh Mozzarella at $1.99 using the $1 Blinkie and $1 Publixx Q in the Smart Savings. But that Publix Q expired on 7/31 so I left a few coupons there for others. I hope some of you picked them up! I also got 2 Stouffer's Family Size dinners for $1.99 each using a $2 PRINT (on their website?). We've already enjoyed those this week. Yay for not having to cook dinner!
I made Tabouleh salad with the fresh mozzarella, basil from the garden and vine-ripe tomatoes. My little ones actually ate this! I was very surprised.

I followed the recipe in the Smart Savings Booklet to make this tomato-mozzarella salad. But instead of balsamic vinegar, I used red wine vinegar. It was very yummy! But don't eat the mozzarella by itself. It's SO bland! Just a warning.

Well, I think this thunderstorm is my cue to get off the computer. Tata for now!

Publix Super Shopping

Last Weds, a friend and I, went shopping to Publix at 7:30 am. I had all my coupons but no list! I was still printing coupons up to the last minute. Then we cut and arranged coupons for a few minutes. All seemed well until I realized I didn't have enough money! All I had was $13 and the wrong bank card. (I didn't have coffee yet and so I thought I grabbed the right card.) But I did have lots of coupons and $5 off $30 from Winn-Dixie. So I couldn't buy a whole lot but still managed to buy $30 worth:
I paid $0.30 for everything, including 12 more Sprouts baby food I gave to my friend. I was blown away! This was the first time that happened to me. Both the cereal and applesauce were rainchecks. And the GoGurt was cheap with the $1 and $0.85 coupons. The Smart Savings Booklets had BOGO Sprout and it's on BOGO sale so we were able to buy 40 FREE. (If you need a specific coupon from there, please let me know. I might be able to mail you a few.)

If you have friends who are expecting, I hope you grabbed these organic packets of veggie goodness. They can be frozen too if the baby isn't 7 months by the best by date. Or you can even add a packet to your spaghetti sauce to add a serving of veggies. It doesn't just have to be for babies.

This is a new coupon booklet at Publix. It's filled with lots of manufacturer's coupons. Last year, Winn-Dixie had a yellow school bus display and had these booklets. Also, for this coming week's BOGO Deals, Publix will have Ragu on sale. A new booklet called "Get A Smart Start For School" has $1/2 Ragu PUBLIX coupon. Pair that with a manufacturer's and get a great deal.

I didn't see one in this week's paper. So is Ragu a regional coupon? Let me know if you find it somewhere!