Woohoo – finally a hot promo from Safeway! Hope you have room in your pantry to be stocking up on baking supplies during the Home for the Holidays promo!
Sunday Ad Deals
In last Sunday’s Gazette was a Safeway insert with a bunch of in-ad coupons in it. I’m going to highlight the good ones here; unfortunately, if you didn’t get one on Sunday, they don’t usually still have them in the store by Wednesday, so you may not be able to get ahold of these coupons. They are good through Sunday, 11/8.
Russet Potatoes, 10 lbs 99¢ with in-ad coupon
Rating: 5
Kellogg’s Raisin Bran (20 oz), Frosted Flakes (14 oz), Corn Flakes (18 oz), or Crispix (12 oz) 4 for $6 with in-ad coupon
Use two $1.50/2 coupons from Kelloggs.com
Net cost at checkout: $3 total (75¢ each)
Rating: 4
Pepperidge Farm Baked Naturals $1.99 with in-ad coupon
Use $1/1 insert coupon
Net cost at checkout: 99¢
Rating: 4.5
And now for the deals that are good for everybody, whether you got the Sunday ad or not:
Meat, Dairy, and Frozen
Pork Shoulder Blade Roast 99¢/lb
Rating: 3
Safeway Thick-Sliced Bacon, 6.5 lb $9.99 ($1.54/lb)
Rating: 4
Turkeys $5.88-9.88
Note: not sure about prices on turkeys this year, last year it didn’t seem like we saw any amazing deals anywhere. I’m guessing we’ll either see a better price than this OR that we’ll see this same price a few more times before Thanksgiving, so I’d probably hold out for a better deal.
Free Breakfast Coupons (in-ad): get free eggs, orange juice, bacon, and raisin bread/English muffins when you spend $50 in groceries
Note: could be a good deal with the Home for the Holidays promotion, but keep in mind these coupons state that the $50 minimum purchase is after all store discounts and manufacturer’s coupons.
Green Giant Valley Fresh Steamers $1.67
Use 50¢/1 printable from Coupons.com
Net cost at checkout: 67¢
Rating: 3.5
Produce
Red Globe Grapes 88¢/lb
Rating: 4 – not as low as they go in the summer, but a great price for winter
General Grocery and Household
Caribou Coffee $4.99
Use $2/2 insert or printable from Coupons.com
Net cost at checkout: $2.99
Rating: 4.5
Thomas Bagels and English Muffins $1.99 with in-ad coupon
Rating: 3.5
Buy 4 Save $4 Cereal Sale: included are General Mills Honey Nut Cheerios (12.25 oz), Kellogg’s Rice Krispies Treats Bars (8 ct), Quaker Life Cereal (15 oz), Kellogg’s Frosted Mini Wheats (24-oz), Kashi Heart to Heart Honey Toasted Oats Cereal (12.4 oz), Kashi GoLean Crunch! Protein & Fiber Cereal (15oz)
There are coupons for some of these items at Kelloggs.com, Coupons.com, Smartsource.com, and RedPlum.com. Rating: varies based on products you buy and coupons you have, but generally I wouldn’t pay more than $1 per box for cereal (a little more for Kashi).
Home for the Holidays Promotion
OK, so this is really lame, but I can’t even tell you how excited I am about this promotion! It’s been a really long time since Safeway did a promo like this, and they finally did one again! There are just a few items pictured in thead, but there are likely many more listed in store. I’ll see if I can get ahold of a complete list for you, but for now, I’ll give you info on what’s listed in the ad.
You’ll need to buy $25 in participating items – when you do, you’ll earn a catalina for $5 good on your next order. Your $25 purchase of participating items is before manufacturer’s coupons, so use those to lower your initial out-of-pocket expense. Then, once you’ve earn a $5 catalina, take it in and use it and more manufacturer’s coupons to buy more participating products and earn another $5 catalina. Rinse and repeat many times until the promo ends on 11/29!
Nestle Baking Morsels $2.50
Use 50¢/1 insert coupon
Net cost at checkout: $1.50 plus catalina savings
Rating: 3 – much cheaper at King Soopers through 11/10
Gold Medal Flour $1.50
Use 50¢/1 printable
Net cost at checkout: 50¢ plus catalina savings
Rating: 5
C&H Powdered and Brown Sugar, 2 lbs $1.69
Use 45¢/1 printable from RedPlum.com
Net cost at checkout: 79¢ plus catalina savings
Rating: 4.5
Duncan Hines Brownie Mix $1
Use 55¢/2 insert coupon
Net cost at checkout: 50¢ each plus catalina savings
Rating: 5
Safeway Sugar, 5 lbs $1.99 plus catalina savings
Rating: 4 – seems like sugar bottomed out around $1.50 for last winter, so I’m not sure it will go much lower. Also, this is a 5 lb bag and I think a lot of the name brands are down to 4 lbs now?
Betty Crocker Speciality Potatoes $1.50
Use 40¢/1 from Coupons.com
Net cost at checkout: 70¢ plus catalina savings (check for Cellfire and Shortcuts e-coupons, too!)
Rating: 3.5
Hefty Foam Plates (50 ct) or Plastic Cups (30 ct) $1.50 plus catalina savings
Rating: 4? – just compared to Sam’s Club’s prices and the plates are 1.1¢ per plate cheaper than Sam’s, cups appear to still be quite a bit cheaper at Sam’s if you buy the off brand.
I’m sure we’ll be discovering more deals in the next couple of weeks with this promo! We’ll definitely be getting more coupons, too, so you may want to hold off to see if we get coupons for some of the items that don’t currently have coupons out.
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I right there in the excitement with you! I ordered a bunch of the sugar coupons that came out a while back, and have been waiting for a deal so I can stock up…I won’t be running low on brown or powdered again for a long time!
Has anyone heard of freezing brown sugar so that it won’t go hard?
I have a “Brown Sugar Bear”. Its made of some sort of clay I think. You soak it in water then stick it into your brown sugar and it keeps it from getting hard. You can also soften your brown sugar in the microwave. I have also misted my brown sugar first then microwave it and that works even better.
Yes, I’ve frozen brown sugar and had it stay soft for months.
I had too many issues with the bear, though I know a lot like it very much. If you have a vacuum sealer, a canister works wonders and lasts months without doing anything but sealing it when you are done. Seemingly, even without vacuuming sealing it, the ring that sucks in when you put the top on keeps it good for a few months with no help. My aunt does that since she doesn’t have a Foodsaver. Just uses the canisters anyways because they seal the best!
I was at Target this am. They have a Kellogg’s cereal promo that is buy 3 get 1 free. The sale prices aren’t that great but with the $1 off Kelloggs cereal Target printables and manufacturers coupons out there for either $1.50 off 2 boxes or $1.00 off 2 boxes I was able to get 8 boxes of cereal for less than 75 cents each. I am not a huge couponer but cereal for less than a dollar is always on my list! This worked better for me than the Safeway deal because there seemed to be more of a variety of Kellogg cereals on sale.
Ah, good point, Stacy! I hadn’t posted the Target deal because it wasn’t that great compared to Safeway, but I hadn’t thought about the fact that Target might include more varieties.
I haven’t, but I”ve never had this brand go hard to start with, and I do tend to stock pile and then not buy for a long time…I’d guess it’d be good at least a year before you really have to worry about it.
Even if you do not freeze, if it hardens, just put it in a baggie or closed container with a couple of apple slices. You will have soft brown sugar within a day! Where do you get the extra coupons? If forgot the link.
Also (I can’t remember if you already posted this, so sorry if you did) 11/4-11/8 there is a Catalina deal for Kohl’s.
(After Safeways card and coupons but before Manufacture coupons)
Spend $50, get $10 Kohl’s Rewards
Spend $100, get $20 Kohl’s Rewards
Spend $150, get $30 Kohl’s Rewards
Spend $200, get $40 Kohl’s Rewards
Spend $250, get $50 Kohl’s Rewards
Sweet, thanks, Alyssa! I’ll post it – I assume you have gotten an advertisement or received confirmation of this going on in Colorado Springs? I’ve heard about it online, but haven’t been able to confirm that it’s going on here, which I try to do before I post.
Carrie,
I just got a flyer in the mail today that says “Shop Safeway and get a $10 off coupon every time you spend $50 or more in a single transaction now through 11/30/09″ It runs from 11/2 – 11/30. You have to present your Club Card and the coupon is good off your next purchase.
Amber, I freeze my brown sugar and it works great. The apple thing works too, but I usually don’t plan ahead when I’m using brown sugar so by freezing it you don’t have to wait a day for it to get soft.
I get coupons from thecouponclippers.com or on ebay.
Carrie, the page “king-soopers-weekly-deals-october-28-november-3″ is no longer there, or I would have left this message there for you. I have been dying to ask you how you were able to get coupons for the carnation milk and the nestle choc. chips on 10/28?? It drove me crazy that I couldn’t find those coupons. Then I got the Sunday paper on 11/1 and there they were!! But I look back at the picture you took and you obviously already had them on 10/28??? Also, someone selling the Gazette in the grocery store told me that the Wed. paper now has coupons. Can you verify that?
Sorry about the KS deals link, Kelly. I am having issues, as usual. :)
Not 100% sure about the Carnation and Nestle coupons that I had before 10/28, but they definitely came in a newspaper insert. Do you subscribe to the Post? It’s possible they didn’t come in the Gazette.
Not sure what they were referring to but the Wednesday Gazette does NOT regularly have coupons. You do get the Safeway/KS/Sunflower ads, but that’s it. Of course Safeway sometimes has in-ad coupons, and there are “coupons” inside the paper. And once in a GREAT while I’ll get a RedPlum insert that matches the one we received the previous sunday, but that is VERY random and whenever I’ve posted about it, everyone has said they didn’t get one!
Ooh, I was hoping brown surag would go on sale soon. I am almost out. Yeah!
Thanks y’all for the ideas about how to keep your brown sugar soft.
Carrie, after you go to Safeway this week, I’d be quite curious to hear about your shop- would you please do an update post related to the Home for the Holidays promo? I have the 2 printables for flour, and a couple for sugar, but I don’t know how in the world I’d get to $25 unless I buy quite a few items w/o coupons (horror of horrors! lol). If you have time, an update would be fabulous! Thanks!
Yes, I would love to hear the details of how you got to $25 too. I was looking at the sale and have no idea how I would get there with the coupons I have.
I’ll try to do a post with what I’ve bought/plan to buy… It will probably be early next week, though.
Carrie,
I just got a flyer in the mail today that says “Shop Safeway and get a $10 off coupon every time you spend $50 or more in a single transaction now through 11/30/09″ It runs from 11/2 – 11/30. You have to present your Club Card and the coupon is good off your next purchase.
I am new at this, but I saw on another site (http://abundantfoodsavings.com/Safeway/safeway-deals-114-to-1110.html) a list of participating items for the Home For the Holidays promo. I cannot vouch for this as I have not been to check it out, and I don’t know their prices, but I thought this was a good jumping point for those of us going out early tomorrow morning. Here is the list:
Herb-ox boullion cubes
Betty Crocker, Pillsbury & Duncan Hines Brownie Mix
Betty Crocker & Pillsbury Cake Mix & Frosting
Nestle Toll House & Guittard Chocolate Chips
Carnation condensed milk
Betty Crocker cookie mix
Argo corn starch
Karo corn syrup
Gold Medal & Pillsbury flour
Jello – mix
Betty Crocker muffin mix
Keebler ready pie crust
C&H & Domino Sugar
Bisquick
Motts Apple sauce
Comstock & Wilderness pie filling
Progresso broth
Bush & Kurner’s/S&W beans
Heinz cocktail sauce
Musco & Mezzetta olives
Del Monte pickles
Lea & Perrins Worcestershire sauce
Carr’s, Townhouse, Club and Kashi crackers
Duracell & Energizer batteries
Hershey cocoa
Swiss Miss cocoa mix
Air Wick freshners
Weston, Pam cooking spray and Crisco oil
Pompeiian olive oil
Betty Crocker & Hungry Jack boxed potatoes
French’s fried onions
McCormick gravy mix
Knorr & Lipton soup mix
Pepperidge Farm stuffing mix
Dreamfields spaghetti
Skippy peanut butter
Land O Lakes ICBINB, Challenge & Promise butter/margarine
Sorrento mozzerella and ricotta
International Delight & Coffee mate
Darigold milk
Pillsbury cookies, cresents & grands
Orville Redenbacher
Diamond nuts
Frappuccino coffee drinks
Pepsi, Mt Dew, Hansens, 7 up, Coke & Sprite
Perrier
Smuckers ice cream toppings
Banquet Chickent Nuggets
Banquet sausage
Bryers
Green Giant
I hope this helps! Again, I am new at this, so I apologize if there are errors on this list!
Here is what I did with my FREE breakfast items!
Praline French Toast
(Recipe substitions: milk instead of 1/2& 1/2; FREE Raisin Bread instead of French Bread; Lite Syrup instead of Maple Syrup).
http://www.recipezaar.com/Paula-Deens-Praline-French-Toast-Casserole-117106
Serve with the FREE Bacon and FREE Orange Juice.
(Plus it incorprates some of the Brown Sugar (Safeway) and Butter (King Soopers) that was on sale this week, too).
Yummy!