V-8 JUICE COUPONS

Make sure you print the $1/2 V-8 coupon HERE. There is also a $1/2 Target printable coupon. Let's hope for a BOGO sale soon so we could get a bottle of V-8 for about
$.65 each after stacked coupons! My husband loves this stuff so I will buy several bottles for the stockpile at this price.

The target coupons disappear very quickly so make sure you print it now before it goes away!

PUBLIX 7/17/11, SPENT $$45.56, SAVED 71%

Every week I look forward to the new Publix ad that comes out and it seems lately every week I am disappointed. I am sure glad I had a decent stockpile because I have been living off it. This week was no different. I stocked up on cereal and used my raincheck for Tuttorosso Canned Tomatoes. I goofed because instead of buying the $1.87 can I picked up the cans for $2.39 each. In the end after my raincheck and coupons I spent $2 more than I should have. This is what I bought:

10 boxes Kelloggs Frosted Mini Wheats
2 bags of Cherries (this was $9.83 alone)
1 bag baby carrots
4 2000 Flushes
2 Smart Balance Butter Spray
Tortillas
Bananas
3 boxes of Pop Tarts
2 Zantac
10 cans Crushed tomatoes
2 packages Pens
2 pairs Scissors
2 pkgs. Cottonelle Toilet Paper (this was $10)

TOTAL SPENT $44.56. If I would have bought the cereal at Walmart it would have cost $27.50 deducting the same coupons. The cherries were $2.99 per lb. at Walmart but I could have price-matched them. They would have taken the Target coupon for the pop tarts at Walmart. All in all, it was better to buy everything at Publix than Walmart.

WARNING!!

DO NOT print the $5 off Bengay coupon from coupons.com under zip 90210 unless you want your house to smell like old people!! I am serious!! Years ago my husband and I kept smelling something when we would go to my parents house and then we figured it out! It was Bengay!! My mother would use it everynight and the smell lingered...and boy did it linger! She stopped using it because it made her house smell like Bengay! So if you use this coupon, don't say I didn't warn you. My advice is to put it in the donate pile!!

On a more serious note, don't forget to get your FREE ZANTAC this week at Publix!:)

MILK COUPON

Go to www.coupons.com and use zipcode 84771 to get a coupon for $.75 off a gallon of milk or two 1/2 gallons of milk. We will need this when we start getting all the cereal deals!

UPDATE: THANKS TO A READER WHO INFORMED ME THIS COUPON IS ONLY GOOD IN UTAH AND IDAHO!! LOL!! I CAN NEVER READ THE FINE PRINT WITHOUT GLASSES!! DON'T WASTE YOUR INK ON THIS ONE UNLESS YOU ARE GOING TO UTAH!!

BIG LOTS 20% OFF COUPON

On our way back from Walmart this morning, we stopped at Big Lots to see if they had anything we couldn't live without. Really, I was looking for items that I could use for my daughters dorm room. I was able to get some pink stackable laundry baskets for $4 each and my husband picked up a new Black & Decker flashlight (just like the one he got for fathers day) for $12. That is one thing there is no shortage of in our house...flashlights! My husband has a thing for flashlights and coolers! My thing is pillows! My theory is you can never have enough pillows and I save them and rotate them throughout the house!

I was also able to pick up some block-out drapes for her dorm room and Pepperidge Farm Bread that expires on the 23rd for $.96 a loaf! The bread guy was filling the shelf when I was there. If you don't mind frozen bread, pick up several packages and freeze it!

They also had inexpensive outdoor furniture marked down 30% off and then another 20% on top of that. I also knew of someone who bought a mattress there with the 20% off coupon. My only suggestion is if you buy a mattress make sure it is foam encased. You shouldn't be able to feel the springs on the sides.

This coupon is given to you at the register or it is in todays paper. It is good for today only.

CVS GENERIC FOODS

Have any of you noticed the new no-name (it's really a CVS brand) things appearing at CVS. They had different items 10 for $10. Things like Raisen Bran, dry onion soup mix, etc. I haven't tried any yet, but I am going to buy the dry onion soup mix for $1.00 to use in pot roasts and especially in this Sweet-n-Sour Chicken recipe. I have a bunch of french dressing that I got when they were BOGO and you used the TQ and MQ together. I also have jars of apricot preserves when they were BOGO and then used a $1/2 MQ. This recipe has only 4 ingredients.

1 jar apricot preserves
1 bottle catalina or french dressing, small
1 pkg. dried onion soup mix
Boneless Skinless Chicken Breasts

Mix all together and pour over chicken breasts. You can also add canned pineapple and chopped green pepper to the sauce. Bake at 350 degrees for 45 min. to 1 hour depending on how many chicken breasts you have. Serve with rice. I have plenty of that also!!!

HOW TO GET YOUR ECB'S TO WORK FOR YOU

I have 3 CVS cards with 2 that I am currently using and usually do the same deals on each card. I have a $10 ECB that expires on 7/21 but I don't see anything that I really want with this weeks ad. I headed over to iheartcvs.com and viewed next weeks ad and found that I can buy the following items beginning next Sunday using my now expired $10 ECB and get the deal to work for me.

This is what I will buy for $.12 OOP plus tax:

Renu Contact Solution $7.89
Use $2 printable
Get back $6

Papermate Pens $1.99
Get back $1.99

Crest, 3-D White Toothpaste $2.99
Use $.75/1 6/5 PG
Get back $2

I will use my expired ECB and only pay $.12 OOP for the above items and get back a
$6, $1.99, and $2 ECB. In other words, I walk out with the above items, pay almost nothing, and still have $10 in ECB's for the weeks to come.

The moral of the story is don't try to use your ECB's in the week they are going to expire if you don't see anything you want. Look to the next week and see if you could put together a better scenerio from there. They will take ECB's for up to one week past expiration!