If you have pets or buy food and other supplies for pet charities, you definitely want to keep an eye open for the winter 2011 Safeway Petpals booklet with $25 worth of coupons inside. The best part is that all the coupons in this petpals booklet are Safeway store coupons which means they can be…
The next time you are in the produce section at Safeway, take a look around for the current monthly issue of Fresh Ideas magazine. While the coupons I have found in this monthly 8 page paper probably won’t get you any food for free, the coupons are often for food that you often don’t see…
On your next visit to Safeway, be sure to wander by the pasta aisle to see if they have placed out a $1.50 off 1 Philadelphia cooking creme coupon. If they do, be sure to grab a few for yourself. Even though the cooking creme is found in the refrigerator section, this coupon is found…
There is a possible opportunity to get free Trident gum this week at Safeway. Yesterday while I was buying 225 boxes of fruit snacks for the local food bank, I noticed a large cardboard displaynear one of the cash registers for three new types of Trident Vitality gum: Vigorate, Rejuve and Awaken. On this display…
I just got back from Safeway and I was able to purchase 60 boxes of Betty Crocker Fruit Snacks for free. Even if you don’t have any coupons, you should be able to purchase 5 boxes of fruit snacks for $0.45 tomorrow (Tuesday 3/8) The key is that the Catalina machines are printing out two…
I will state up front that I am not a big rebate fan. Since one of the main objectives I have with couponing is to make it as easy and painless as possible, rebates usually don’t fit with this goal. Even when the food will end up free after the rebate, the amount of extra…
How dirty are grocery shopping carts? A lot dirtier than you probably think. According to Professor Charles Gerba, a University of Arizona researcher, half of those shopping carts you grab have E. coli bacteria on them and nearly three-fourths (72%) have fecal bacteria. Gerba swabbed the handles of 85 grocery carts in four states for…
Catalina coupons (sometimes called “checkout coupons” and often referred to as “CATs” on couponing sites) are the secret weapon of extreme couponing that often allow you to get free or nearly free products at the grocery store — and sometimes even turn buying food into a money making opportunity. Catalina coupons are named after the…
When it comes to saving money on food, one of the best types of promotions to look for are instant discounts (sometimes called “instant rebates”). These are promotions put on by manufacturers when they have surplus of a product that they want to get rid of and thus encourage the shopper to buy multiples to…
