Fiber One Yogurt

zero guilt snacking

• Make snack time a treat for your taste buds and your waistline
• 50 calories + 0 grams of fat + 5 grams of fiber = zero guilt
• Four delicious flavors — Strawberry, Vanilla, Peach, Key Lime Pie

Mrs. Deals is signed up for General Mills pssst Program to try out new products! Fiber One yogurt is our all-time favorite, so I was excited to learn we have a few coupons now for trying out their new yogurt with even fewer calories. Since we have both been trying to eat healthier, this will be a great snack to have around the apartment.

With this particular promotion we will be mailed coupons and also have access to share some online with friends and family--pretty awesome!

To sign up for this program just head over to pssst.generalmills.com and hopefully they match you up with a great deal soon!

-Mister Deals

(I will be updating about our weekly shopping today or tomorrow, so keep an eye out for that)

Walgreens Results: Nice haul for 72 cents

To follow up on the Walgreens deals I was planning yesterday: I couldn't wait to get my free candy bars, so yesterday I ran out and picked up my candy bars: 10 for only 17 cents!! To get the rest of the items I hit the stores again today - my local one on the way to work for 1 transaction, then another on my way home after work for 2 more quick transactions.

Transaction 1

(2) Hunt's Tomato Sauce (39 cents each w/ In-Ad coup - .75/2 coupon = 3 cents total)

(4) Scotch Bubble Mailers (39 cents on sale - 3 x .50/1 coupons = 6 cents total)

(2) Reynolds Wrap Aluminum Foil (99 cents each - 2 x 1/1 coupons = negative 2 cents total)

Tax = .19

Total OOP = $0.26

Transaction 2 (basically the same as #1, but without the Tomato sauce)

(4) Scotch Bubble Mailers (39 cents on sale - 3 x .50/1 coupons = 6 cents total)

(2) Reynolds Wrap Aluminum Foil (99 cents each - 2 x 1/1 coupons = negative 2 cents total)

Tax = .19

Total OOP = $0.23

Transaction 3 (exactly the same as #2)

(4) Scotch Bubble Mailers (39 cents on sale - 3 x .50/1 coupons = 6 cents total)

(2) Reynolds Wrap Aluminum Foil (99 cents each - 2 x 1/1 coupons = negative 2 cents total)

Tax = .19

Total OOP = $0.23

Total of all 3 transaction = 72 cents !

Now I have a plenty of bubble envelopes to ship out ebay items in, and some tomato sauce and aluminum foil to donate.

Funny side story, when I was a teenager I started an aluminum foil ball - it eventually was bigger than a basketball, though much more oblong... imagine a giant potato wrapped in foil, that's basically what it looked like. Buying the aluminum foil today got me thinking, "How big could I have made that if I knew I could get aluminum foil for free at Walgreens!" haha, I'm sure Mrs. Deals is glad that I don't have any current ambitions to find out :)

- Mister Deals

Walgreens Deals I'm excited about

So, after looking through the ads for today (I found 12 Redplums, 12 Smartsources) I can see a few great deals that we will stop and do while shopping this week.

This week MARS candy bars are .49 with in ad coupon, paired with the $1/2 in today's Redplum this makes for FREE candy. For Wisconsin readers: this coupon is found in the Milwaukee paper, but not in the Wisconsin State Journal.

The trick to taking advantage of this coupon is presenting the manufacturer coupon first, then the in-ad coupon. For me this will equal 10 free candy bars.

The other great deal I noticed is Scotch brand shipping products--envelopes on sale for .39 cents. Paired with today's Redplum coupon for .50 off any Scotch packaging supply this equals a free product. Since I have 12 coupons and I want to avoid the register beeping, I plan on buying 4 envelopes and using 3 coupons for each 4 purchased. This would break down to .06 for all 4 envelopes, but make my transaction run a little smoother and in total I will walk away with 16 envelopes for .24, which will come in handy for shipping items I am selling on ebay.

Happy Couponing!

Mister Deals

Return of Mister Deals: Giving Honeymoon

It is hard to believe about 3 weeks has passed by without a new entry--life really gets busy at times. Since I haven't filled everyone in for my last three weeks of deal huntings, I can summarize it very briefly:

Last weekend I had the pleasure of marrying my lovely bride, Mrs. Deals. So, for the two weeks previous to the wedding we purchased almost no groceries. I say almost none because for the grill out before the wedding we purchased buns.

Since this left most of my average $25/week budget free and to celebrate our wedding, Mrs. Deals & I enjoyed a few evenings out to dinner...so we didn't really end up saving any money.

This past week I took a few days off from work and we had a local honeymoon themed with the spirit of giving. This included my first ever trip to Aldi, some Target deals, a local Health food store, Walgreens, and of course Copps.

Since we were so frugal in our wedding planning and were blessed with so many lovely wedding gifts, we didn't feel quite right about keeping such good fortune to ourselves. We set a budget of $250 to spend this week, with the idea of giving everything away. For people who don't spend more than $25 a week usually, this was hard. We are actually still just under $200 spent, but we are waiting until this Wednesday to pair it with a sale on Tuna Helper at Copps.

A short summary of things we purchased:

At Aldi:

48 cans of Tuna .59 each

36 cans of Vegetables .49 each

12 Spaghetti Sauce 1.09 each

48 Ramen Noodles .15 each

At local health food store:

48 Organic Baby Foods $36.00 (kind of high, I know...we don't really have a history of buying baby food... yet ;)

Walgreens:

School Supplies (10 free bic highlighter packs , several folders, a lot of #2 pencils, 4 packs of papermate pens, 2 free Gel pen packs)

Target:

School Supplies: Glue, 56 note books (.15 ea), and 50+ boxes of crayons

4 Similac Formulas .84 each (HUGE savings with rebate checks)

Baby Bottles

2 Baby Cereals

32 Babyfoods (Earth's Best & Gerber) ~.64 each

Copps:

14 Skippy Peanut Butters $1.20 each

8 Gerber Babyfoods $2.00 for all

17 Beechnut Baby Foods $1.65 for all

27 Beechnut Baby Cereals .50 to .75 each [One store had only a few of the type on sale left, but they said they were fine with what we were doing & brought out a box from the back of a different flavor for us to use]

Overall this was a learning experience on the prices of baby food, it was shocking on how high the prices were--and how much they varied from store-to-store (Sometimes over twice the price, which seems inappropriate for a product meant for babies).

The deals this week were not so hot at any store, but since we had the time we thought we would explore around some different stores and spend the money as best we could!

As the next week of deals begins, you can expect more posts from me, Mister Deals

Free Chocolate Friday

Just a friendly reminder, this week you can still register for free chocolate from Mars (There is a limit of 4 per household during this promotion).

Head over here to sign up & enjoy!