$2 off 1 V-8 Fusion Goji Raspberry or Passionfruit Tangerine Juice

Here is a printable $2/1 46oz V-8 Fusion Goji Raspberry or Passionfruit Tangerine Coupon:

http://bricks.coupons.com/Start.asp?tqnm=qdjtdsf3768029&bt=vi&o=56071&c=VF&p=7fuUJ91I

Summer of Savings Mail In Rebate Offer

Conagra has a great new coupon book out here:

http://www.simpleanddelicious.com/special-offers/walmart-coupon-booklet.jsp

When you go to the bottom of the confirmation page, or here:

http://www.simpleanddelicious.com/downloads/coupon-booklet.pdf

There is a $34 mail in rebate form from Conagra! When you buy $25 worth of any Conagra products between 05/03/09 and 05/29/09, you will recieve $34 in coupon savings!

These are the participating brands:

Coupons For Smart Balance Butter Spread.

I used this at Wal Mart with another coupon I had where if you bought the tub of margarine, you get a pack of butter sticks for free. Don't worry, I asked before using both and the cashier said it was fine.

http://smartbalance.com/SBContact.aspx

Great Deal At Menards!

I was poking through my sale ads and came upon the Menards paper. This week you can get Pledge products for.99 after $2 mail in rebate. With the $1 coupons, they are actually free.

The great thing about Menards is that they allow you multiples of the same rebate per household. You do only get merchandise credit back instead of cash, but you can use the vouchers to keep rolling their rebates.

If you've been reading my blog for very long, you know that I use gift cards to pay for a lot of things to help lower my out of pocket expenses. You may be wondering how I earn all of these gift cards. Most of my gift cards that I earn come either from credit card rewards (I'll post about that another time) and from various online survey or rewards companies.Last week, I posted here about Swagbucks, which is a site where you earn points that can be exchanged for gift cards or merchandise for searching the web. The cash out amounts are fairly low (you only need 45 points to cash out for a $5 Amazon gift card). I earned enough points for an Amazon card during my first week.Here are a few tricks I have learned along the way:*Do a few searches every day until you earn at least one Swagbuck. I have found that I only have to enter 2-5 search strings to win (I enter search strings consecutively until I earn a Swagbuck). Even if you only earn one Swagbuck each day and you search each day, you will have earned 365 points by the end of the year, or enough to cash out for $40 worth of Amazon gift cards. That would help out with Christmas shopping, especially if Amazon has their killer toy sale again like they have in previous years! If you'd rather have gift cards for somewhere else, it would be enough for a $20 Target gift card, a $5 Subway gift card, and a $5 Amazon gift card. Or, you could get a $30 Barnes & Noble gift card. You could also get a $30 iTunes card and a $5 Starbucks card. As you can see, there are tons of possibilities!*If you have a Facebook account, become a "fan" of Swagbucks on Facebook. Click here to do this. If you check out the wall, there are bonus codes posted once or twice a day that you can add to your account. (To add bonus codes, log into Swagbucks, and then click on the icon that says "You have X Swagbucks." There will be a box that says this: Have a SwagCode? Just enter it here and receive your SwagBucks instantly! Enter your code and click GIMME!)*Publish your Swagbucks winnings on Facebook - when you "win" a buck, you now have the option of posting your win on Facebook. It shows up on your profile and it's another way to promote your Swagbucks account (and get more 'friends')*Read the Swagbucks blog (you can access this from the main page when you log into your Swagbucks account). Bonus codes are posted here, as well.*Sign up for the Swagbucks newsletter. They send bonus codes embedded in the newsletter, so it's an easy way to earn extra Swagbucks!*Download the Swagbucks Toolbar onto your internet browser - Click on the "toolbars" option on the left hand side of the website after you log in and follow the instructions!*Tell all your friends - When your friends sign up under you, you win when they win for the first 100 Swagbucks (this does not include any Swagcodes that they enter)If you haven't signed up yet, you can join here. You will get 3 Swagbucks for joining!
HAPPY SEARCHING! :)

Free Roast Burger At Arby's With Soft Drink Purchase.

http://www.arbys.com/arbyscoupon/?cid=bn_msn300x250030909

Expires 3/14/09

I just realized...

I just realized that a lot of the reason why people might not be able to save money on groceries is because they don't actually know how to cook. I've noticed the things that the majority of people are putting into their carts at the grocery store or Wal-Mart, and it's not surprising that they spend a couple hundred dollars a week on groceries.

I can honestly say that this week I spent a total of $11.73 on groceries (not including cat food). My house has a pretty good stockpile going thanks to couponing, but we also eat a lot of staple "real foods". This weeks I only had to buy:

Milk
Eggs
Cornmeal
1 Onion
Bag of carrots
Ground Turkey
An apple
4 very large cabbages (on sale $.19 a ib!)
1/2 sausage from the meat counter for homemade Runzas(at $1.99 a ib)
Freebie sugar-free chocolates (got 6 bags, have coupons for 24 more)
2 kiwis at $.25 each

I already have a couple hundred ibs of flour, at least 80 of sugar, 60 ibs potatoes from warehouse store (20 ib bags for a dollar!), various canned foods and toiletries to last several months to a year.

Out of those things I can make 5 grain cereal (in my case it's 6 grain because I add whole flaxseed to mine), homemade breadsticks, homemade runzas and cresent rolls, from scratch yellow cake cupcakes (I use the recipe off of the Wilton web site), muffins for breakfast, tacos, chile, potato soup, potato corn soup with the leftovers, etc. Desserts could be mini cobblers from canned fruits, leftover muffins, the cupcakes, popcorn-Chex mix, homemade cookies...