Join Pinecone Research! – Dead already?

People often ask me about “legit” survey sites and Pinecone Research is probably my FAVORITE one, but they only have open referrals during certain time periods and usually they hit their limit pretty quickly. If you haven’t joined Pinecone Research already, you’ll definitely want to jump on this offer by clicking here! They pay $3/survey (by Paypal or check) and payment is usually pretty quick!

UPDATE: It looks like the links for this offer are no longer working, so I’m guessing they have met their “cap” already.

Kroger deals for the week of 10/21


There isn’t a whole lot to get excited about in this week’s ad, but there are a few deals worth highlighting:

Keebler Chips Deluxe cookies, Town House, Club Crackers, or Pecan Sandies – BOGO free (these run about $3.79 for the cookies at my store, so after the coupon, you pay about $2.29 for 2 packages of cookies)
$1.50/2 Keebler cookies printable here

Post Honey Bunches of Oats, Fruit or Cocoa Pebbles or Nature Valley Granola bars – 4/$6 (must purchase four to get them at this price)…also, I’m not sure about the specifics of this deal because the Nature Valley granola bars are listed in the ad, but Fiber One bars are pictured in the ad – talk about confusing!
.40/1 Nature Valley granola bars printable here and on bettycrocker.com and shortcuts.com
$1/2 Nature Valley granola bars – 10-4 SS2, 9-13 RP
$1/1 Nature Valley granola nut clusters here and on bettycrocker.com and shortcuts.com
**I’m not sure if the granola nut clusters are part of the deal

SCENARIO:
Buy 4 Nature Valley granola bars – $1.50/each

Use 4 .40/1 printables (3 will double in my area)
.40/1 Shortcuts coupon should come off

Spend $2.80 OOP (.70/box!)

or…if you want to buy the cereal 4/$6, this catalina offer would apply:

Buy Post Honey Bunches of Oats cereal and save up to $4.00 OYNO

Purchase dates 10/09/09 – 11/01/09

Buy 2 & Get $2.00 OYNO
Buy 3 & Get $3.00 OYNO
Buy 4 or more & Get $4.00 OYNO

Yoplait Yogurt – 10/$5
.50/6 Yoplait yogurt printable on bettycrocker.com
Buy 6, get 1 free – 10-4 GM insert
.50/6 loadable on shortcuts.com

SCENARIO:
Buy 7 yogurts – .50/each

Use .50/6 printable (will double)
Use B6G1 free insert coupon
Use .50/6 shortcuts.com loadable

Spend $1.50 OOP (.21 per cup of yogurt!)

Blue Bell Ice Cream – 3/$10 ($2.33 after coupon!)
$1/1 Half gallon Blue Bell printable on bluebell.com (must register)

Campbell’s Cream of Mushroom or Cream of Chicken soup – 4/$3 (*this is a great time of year to stock up on cream soups!)
.30/4 Campbell’s “great for cooking” soups – 10-11 SS
.40/3 Campbell’s condensed cream soups – 9-20 SS
$1/2 Campbell’s cooking soups printable
here

SCENARIO:
Buy 7 cans cream of mushroom or cream of chicken soup

Use .30/4 coupon (will triple)
Use .40/3 coupon (will double)
Use $1/2 coupon

Spend $2.55 OOP (.36/can)

Hormel Chili – 4/$5
$2/3 Hormel Chili – 10-18 SS

SCENARIO:
Buy 3 chili ($1.25/each)

use 2/$3 coupon

Spend $1.75 OOP (.58/can!)

Hormel chunk chicken – 4/$5
*Look for peelie coupons for .25/1 (should triple) and .75/3 on the cans

SCENARIO:
Buy 4 canned chicken – $5

Use .25/1 peelie (triples)
use .75/3 peelie

Spend $3.50 OOP (.87/can!)

Kroger broth (beef, chicken, vegetable) – 2/$1 – this is a good “stock up” price

Pillsbury Grands Jr biscuits – this is not in the ad, but this is still a good deal. These biscuits are priced at $.99. There are $1/3 coupons in the “blinkie” machine right in front of the biscuits at my store. There are also loadable coupons on cellfire.com(.30/2 Pillsbury Grands) and shortcuts.com (.30/2 Pillsbury Grands).

There is a catalina deal that pairs up with this:

Buy any Pillsbury Refrigerated baked goods between 10/5 & 11/1

Buy 4 get $2
Buy 5 get $3
Buy 6 or more get $4 OYNO

All items must be purchased in one shopping order. Limit to product in stock. No cash back. Expires 11/1.

SCENARIO:
Buy 4 Pillsbury Grands Jr. biscuits – $.99/each

Use 1 $1/3 blinkie coupon
Shortcuts .30/2
Cellfire .30/2

Spend $2.36 OOP, get a $2 catalina to use on your next purchase. You can “roll” it into buying more biscuits like this:

Buy 4 Pillsbury Grands Jr. biscuits – $.99/each

Use $1/3 blinkie coupon
Use $2 OYNO catalina from previous transaction

Spend $.96, earn a $2 catalina to use on your next purchase!

Weight Watchers Smart Ones – 5/$10 – $1.40/each after coupon!
$3/10 printable here

Ground chuck: buy more, save more ~
Buy 1 lb Flavorseal pkg, pay $1.69/lb
Buy 3 lb Flavorseal pkg, pay $1.59/lb
Buy 5 lb Flavorseal pkg, pay $1.49/lb

This is awesome to pair with this deal here:

(originally found on SD/thanks Jane!)
Click here to enter their instant win game (you do have to register). Enter code A23568.

You will receive a link to a .50 off ANY ground beef purchase coupon. The coupon is a PDF. If you select a store name, it prints the store name in big print on the right side of the coupon. But, if you select “Other”, regardless of what you type in the box, the coupon will not include the name of any store.

The coupon says “do not double” but it starts with a 5 and from my experience, the register automatically doubles those coupons at Kroger, so you can get one pound of ground chuck for .69!

Produce deals:
Bunch broccoli or white califlower – $.99/lb
Haas ripe avocadoes – 2/$1
Hot house tomatoes – $.99/lb
Organic mini peeled carrots – 2/$3

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$1/1 All Liquid laundry detergent
$1/1 California Pizza Kitchen pizza
$1/1 Dial body wash
$1.50/1 DiGiorno Ultimate Toppings pizza
$1.50/1 Huggies diapers
$3/1 Huggies Pure & Natural diapers
$1.50/2 Keebler cookies
$1/2 Kellogg’s Rice Krispie treats
$1/1 Nature Valley granola clusters
$2/1 Nestle bagged candy (24 oz or larger)
.50/1 Starkist pouch (great if your grocery store doubles and there is a 10/$10 sale!)
.75/1 Weigh Watchers cheese or cream cheese
$3/10 Weight Watchers Smart Ones
$2/1 Wonka bagged candy (24 oz or larger)

Great toy coupons:
$2/1 Mr. or Mrs. Potato Head
$5/20 My Little Pony Purchase
$3/1 Playskool Glow Worm
$10/1 Playskool Musical Sit ‘n Spin

….and many more!

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The best candy deals for the week of 10/18


I have put off buying my Halloween candy this year because I keep hoping for a great deal like there has been in previous years and it just doesn’t seem to be happening this year.

Here are all of the candy coupons I am aware of:
$0.55/1 Reese’s candy from the 8-23SS
$1/1 Hershey’s Kisses from the 9-13SS
$1/3 Hershey’s Fun Size snacks from the 9-27SS
$1/2 Hershey’s Bliss bags from the 9-20SS
$1/2 Nestle Fun size bags – 10-18 RP
Hershey’s buy 3, get 1 FREE coupon from the 10-18SS
Trident Layers Gum, buy one get one free from the 10-18SS
$1/1 Nestle candy and $1/1 Wonka candy printables here (you can print 2 per account/computer)
$1/2 Mars candy – 10-11 RP

UPDATE: There is a $2/1 Wonka and $2/1 Nestle printable available on coupons.com. These are for the bigger (24 oz) bags, but you should still be able to get some good deals using these coupons!

Here are the best deals I’ve seen on candy thus far this week:

Toys ‘R Us has the best deals in my opinion – they have their Halloween candy (6.34 oz-18.7 oz) for $1.74/bag.

*Nestle/Wonka candy will be $.74/bag with the $1/1 coupon

*Buy 4 bags of Hershey’s candy, use the $1/3 coupon and the B3G1 free coupon and pay $4.22 OOP (that’s $1.05/bag)

*Buy 2 bags of Mars candy, use the $1/2 coupon and pay $2.48 OOP (that’s $1.24/bag)

Walgreens has their fun size candy 2/$4.

*Nestle/Wonka candy will be $1/bag with the $1/1 coupon

*Buy 4 bags of Hershey’s candy, use the $1/3 coupon and the B3G1 free coupon and pay $5 OOP ($1.25/bag)

You can check out the CVS deals here.

I will update with possible grocery deals after the ads come out on Wednesday.