New Coupons at Coupon.com and Wal-Mart Deals

I found some great coupons at coupon.com thanks to Couponing to Disney! They are for College Inn Chicken or Beef Broth which tends to go on sale for the holidays so I will get the broth for very little money or free! One is for $1/1 32oz. size and the other is $1/2 of the 14.5oz ones.

Right now Wal-Mart has their Betty Crocker Instant Potatoes and Stovetop Dressing for $.78! I had four coupons for Betty Crocker Potatoes, 3 for $.40 off and one for $.50 off so I got three boxes at $.38 and one box at $.28! What a steal!
They also are offering a FULL Thanksgiving dinner for $20! This includes a 12lb turkey, 5lb bag of potatoes, 3 boxes of Stuffing mix and several other things. Their off-brand turkey is only $.40 a pound which is awesome! If you have the freezer space I highly recommend buying a few for the holidays and a few for later.

You can do ALOT with a turkey; turkey pot pie, turkey noodle soup, turkey casserole (using the cheap Stovetop Dressing that you are going to stock up on. You are going to stock up right? :)), turkey tetrazzini, and on and on.

So, now is the time to save big! I am buying one or two boxes of potatoes or stuffing every visit to stay within my budget.
--Dessy

Restaurant.com Review

I receive email updates from couponmom.com; this is a great website for coupons and where to find great deals. She also often has a promotional code for 80% off at Restaurant.com so this last time I decided to give it a try.

Essentially I received a $25.00 gift certificate to a local restaurant for $2.00. The gift certificate is printed off the computer not mailed to you. It looks very unimpressive.


This one of the two reasons why I would never choose to give these as gifts. The other reason is that there is always a "special instruction" with it. This one said I could only use with a $35.00 minimum purchase. Some of the "special instructions" were a $50.00 minimum purchase so read VERY CAREFULLY before purchasing.
I actually didn't buy several because of the conditions listed.
I chose a local restaurant on the beach called appropriately enough, The Beachcomber.

Not thinking that my husband Liam and I could eat $35.00 ourselves, we recruited our friend Justin to join us for a meal Sunday evening.

We ordered: 3 Dr Peppers@ $2.12
2 Schomburger Platters @ $9.25
1 Chicken Sandwich Platter @ $7.25
1 Hushpuppies @ $1.00 (for the baby, and they were awful!)
1 BBQ Sauce @ $.50 (did not KNOW it was extra)
1 Gator Tail Appetizer @ $6.75
Total $40.36
-$25.00 Gift Certificate
Equals $15.36
+ $9.00 Tip
Adj Total $24.36

Was this a great deal? I really don't know. But if we were to have gone out and had the same meal for fun, it would have been $25.00 more, so I guess it's sort of a good deal...
Will I try it again? Yes, especially when things start to improve in our budget; because no matter how much money you have, the more you save, the more you can give!

--Dessy

Weekend Round-up; my Walgreens Steals

I am SOOO excited! I was able to get $35.12 in product for a PROFIT of $.19 at Walgreens on Sunday!

Here is the breakdown:
2 Glade Sense and Spray Starters for $4.99 (on sale)
3 Hunt's Tomato Sauce 8 oz for .99
4 Campbell's Tomato Soups for .50 (on sale)
1 Glade Soy Candle for 3.99 (on sale)
Total $16.96
(My receipt states that I saved 17.31 on the sale items
Coupons I used;
$1/3 Hunt's products
2 $4/1 Glade Sense and Spray
2 $1/2 Campbell's Soups
1 $1/1 Glade product (in the November Coupon Book @ Walgreen's)

This brought my total to $5.81 and got me $1.00 register rewards (good towards next visit) which brought me to $4.81
I will be sending in a $5.00 rebate from SC Johnson found at this address http://couponingtodisney.blogspot.com/search/label/walgreens
So I will be making $.19 which isn't a ton but it's something! Find alot of deals at the above web address. Couponing to Disney is a great website!

I will be giving the Tomato Soups and Tomato Sauces to my church's food pantry as we don't need them; I love to be able to use coupons to give!

--Dessy