April Fools - NOT

Hot Buy for today only at Jewel:
eggs are 57cents a dozen and all types of Jewel cheese is 99 cents. There were other items that were today only, but these were the 2 that caught my eye.

Something to consider

Currently Jewel is offering 10% back if you buy a gift card. For example if you buy a $250.00 gift card you would get an additional $25.00, or $30.00 additional for $300.00. I am purchasing one to encourage me to stick to my budget for groceries. You would just use the gift card instead of cash everytime you went to Jewel and once it is gone, you are out of Jewel until you meet what should have been your target date. If you make it to your target date and there is money left, take that cash from your checking account and move it into savings because you would be that much under budget. For example, $275.00 at Jewel would last me about 6 weeks. With that in mind, I would budget my weekly spending based on $43.00 per week. If I go over one week, I need to be under the next. Once I have the card for 6 weeks, I would make a deposit into my savings account of the balance left of the gift card and obviously still use the gift card until it runs out. I am confident I will be making a deposit into savings and I am getting $25.00 of "free" money from Jewel to buy more food.

Jewel Clearance Alert!

So we stopped by Jewel today to pick up my last free milk and as we went down the frozen aisle my little shopper spied FieldCrest half gallon ice cream on clearance for .99 cents!!!! Many of the flavors were gone, but our household favorite Mint Chocolate Chip and our second favorite Neopolitan were available. We picked up 4 of each. They also had Orange Sherbert and Vanilla were still left too. Spending $8.00 on ice cream felt great when right next it was Breyers for $6.99 for 1 half gallon. Get there quickly as I think these will go fast. For more Jewel savings be sure to check with Jaycee here.

Friday Savings

I went to Jewel this afternoon and bought 6 boxes of cereal, 4 boxes of poptarts, and 2 gallons of milk for $9.20 before tax! Here's how I did it: Kelloggs products are 10 for $25.00 then you get an instant $10.00 off making them $15.00. I had $1.00 of 2 boxes of poptarts (x2), 1.00 off Apple Jacks, 1.00 off Frosted Flakes, and $1.00 off Rasin Bran and .70 off selected cereals. I also scored big because someone had left a free milk catalina in the machine.....Lucky me! So I spent 10.03 and had a savings of $30.05 plus I still have a free milk coupon. This deal is good thru Sunday I believe. I am thankful to Jaycee for alerting me to this deal.

Jewel - Free Milk

Jaycee has the scoop here on how to get free milk when you buy Kellogg's cereal this week. Trust me-I will be there on Friday for this.....my kids could eat cereal morning noon and night-at this price, I might let them. :)

Jewel

So more and more I find myself saving big bucks at Jewel. As I have said before, it is not my favorite store, but in order to save one has to sacrifice right? I went on Friday and took advantage of the 4 for $20 meat sale. I bought 3 sets of 4 meats so we are well stocked for awhile on meat since I also took advantage last time they did this (about 3 weeks ago.) This deal really worked out to be 18.10 a set of 4 so I feel I saved even more.....just look for the packs of meat that are almost 6.00. Another deal at Jewel this week is butter-only 1.88 a package. These deals are thru Wednesday and listed here are more deals. I will be going back this Wednesday for General Mills products. If you buy 20.00 worth, you get 10.00 for your next shopping trip, or in my case, whatever other deals are still in my cart (in other words, do 2 transactions). There are may printable coupons for GM products on the link at the right------>
Happy shopping!!

Who me?

Those who know me best know I don't care for Jewel at all, but boy was this sale too much to pass up! It is only good thru tomorrow so you better hurry! I spent 34.56 today and walked out with 96.00 worth of food. Here's how I did it:

First you have to spend 30.00 on certain items to get 15.00 back in bonus cash. I goofed this up slightly but here is what I got: 6 cans progresso soup, 2 big progresso broths, 4 boxes of cereal, 2 jars of ragu sauce, 1 fettucini noodles, 2 betty crocker cookie mixes, 2 betty crocker potatoes and 2 knorr sides. This came to 34.00 then I had 10.40 in coupons for a payment of 25.34 with tax and I got 15.00 in coupon cash.
For my second transaction I got 2 bakers chocolates, 1 fajita tortillas, 2 whole fryer chickens, and 2 eye of round steak for a total of 28.36 less the 15.00 and less 4.61 for the free steak for a payment of 8.65. I am pleased as punch! So pleased that I am going back tonight and doing it again for more.

Tonight I am only spending 24.00, based on my math and coupons and should come home with another 75.00 in food.

I didn't do as well as some of the other ladies online, but to have only spent 34.56 and to have all of this is truly a blessing to my budget. If you want to check out more, go here and a BIG thank you to Meredes.....I had no clue this was going on because I did not purchase a Sunday paper this week.