Rainbow Foods Shopping List 8/16 – 8/22/09

Looks like a great week to stock up things at Rainbow and to consider buying your groceries in more than one transaction. Please, though, be considerate to those around you and only do two at a time before you go back to your car to drop a load and re-enter the store. 

Start here if you are new to this and have questions about how to get your coupons to double in value at Rainbow. Learn to read this shopping list here.

Since it is a week for doing multiple transactions I thought I’d share some of my favorite fillers this week (“fillers” are items I buy even if I don’t have coupons to help me reach the $25 pre-coupon, shelf price threshold I need for coupon doubling):

Chicken breasts $1.99/pound (don’t forget that the full price of the chicken counts toward the $25)
Milk $1.68 per gallon
Cotton Balls $1.00 per bag
Grapes $.99/lb
Peaches or Nectarines $.99/lb
Cantaloupe $1.50 each
Vine Ripe Tomatoes $.99 each
Brownberry Bread $3.99 for 2 (buy one, get one free)
Coffee Filters $1.00
Also use any “try me free” coupons you have on hand as the full price of those products counts toward the $25

Meat

Tyson Cornish Game Hens $3.69
On sale buy one, get one free and stack with
(2) $1/1 printable here
Final price: 2 hens free after doubled coupons

Hillshire Farms Deli Select Meat $2.00
Use $.55/1 from 8/16 Red Plum insert
Final price: $.90 each after doubled coupon

Freezer

Blue Bunny Ice Cream $3.50
Use $1/1 printable here
Final price: $1.50 each after doubled coupon

California Pizza Kitchen Pizza $5.50
Use $1/1 printable here or from 5/17 Smart Source#1 insert
Final price: $3.50 each after doubled coupon

DiGiorno Pizza $5.50
Use $1/1 from 8/16 Smart Source insert
Final price: $3.50 each after doubled coupon

Totinos Pizza $1.25
Buy 5 and use $1/5 from 8/9 General Mills insert
Final price: $.85 each after doubled coupon

Birds Eye Steamfresh Meals $5.99
Use $1.50/1 from 8/9 Smart Source insert
Final price: $4.49 each after doubled coupon

Dairy Case

Fiber One Yogurt $2.00
Use $1/1 from 7/12 Smart Source or 8/9 General Mills insert or printable here, here or here
Final price: Free each after doubled coupon

Yoplait Yo Plus Yogurt $2.00
Use $1/1 printable here, after registering here or after registering here
Final price: Free each after doubled coupon

International Delights Coffee House Inspirations $1.00
Use $1/1 printable after registering here
Final price: Free each after coupon (and if doubled you’ll likely get $1 in overage, or credit toward other purchases you make)

Yoplait Grande Yogurt $1.79
Use $.50/1 from 7/12 Smart Source insert
Final price: $.79 each after doubled coupon

Buy 2 Pillsbury Cookie Dough at $2.25 each, Get half gallon of Roundy’s milk free

***Deal idea***
Buy 2 cookie doughs
Buy 1 half gallon milk
Use $1/2 printable here or here or from 8/9 General Mills insert
Final price: Each item would be $1.17 each after doubled coupons

Organic Valley Butter $5.99
Use $1/1 printable here
Final price: $3.99 each after doubled coupon

Grocery

Mars Candy Bars $.50
Buy 2 and use $1/2 from 7/26 Red Plum insert
Final price: Free each after coupon (and if doubled you’ll likely get $1 in overage, or credit toward other purchases you make)

Ronzoni Pasta $1.89
On sale buy one, get one free and stack with
$1/2 printable after entering sweepstakes here (use your back button to print it twice – Thanks Money Saving Mom)
Final price: 2 free after doubled coupon

Annie’s Organic Mac & Cheese $2.29
On sale buy one, get one free and stack with
$1/2 printable after registering here
Final price: $.15 each after doubled coupon

Post Cereal $2.25
Use $1/1 Honey Bunches of Oats with Pecans from 7/26 Smart Source insert or printable here (if your Rainbow accepts printable coupons over $1 in value)
Final price: $0.25 each after doubled coupon

Special K Crackers $2.25
Use $1/1 printable here
Final price: $.25 each after doubled coupon

Campbell ’s Soups $1.25
Buy 2 and use $1/2 printable here
Final price: $.25 each after doubled coupon

McCormick Taco Seasoning $.33 (Limit 3, but you don’t have to buy 3)
Use in-ad coupon to get sale price
Final price: $.33 each after coupon

Contadina Tomatoes –on sale 25% off
Buy 2 and use $.35/2 after registering here
Final price: Varies after doubled coupon

Taco Bell Dinner Kits $2.00
Use $.75/1 printable here
Final price: $.50 each after doubled coupon

Keebler Fudge Shoppe Cookies $3.49
On sale buy one, get one free and stack with
$1/2 printable here
Final price: $.75 each  after doubled coupon

Venom Energy Drink $1.66
Use Buy one, get one free printable here (my Rainbow won’t accept buy one, get one free coupons printed from the internet. If that is true at your Rainbow, which I think it is at most, then price match this at Target or Walmart where they will accept the buy one, get one free coupon)
Final price: $.83 each after doubled coupon

Muir Glen Organic Tomatoes $2.00
Buy 1 and use $1/1 printable after registering here
Buy 2 and use $1/2 printable here
Final price: $1.00 each after doubled coupon

Chex Mix Bars $2.50
Use $1/1 from 6/28 Smart Source insert
Final price: $1.00 each after doubled coupon

Jif Peanut Butter or Smucker’s Jam or Jelly $2.00
Buy 1 Smucker’s and 1 Jif and use $.55/2 from 8/9 Red Plum insert
Final price: $1.45 each after doubled coupon

Kashi Cereals $3.00
Buy 2 and use $1.50/2 printable here (if your Rainbow accepts printed coupons above $1 in value)
Final price: $2.25 each after doubled coupon

Special K Protein Drinks $5.00
Use $1/1 printable here or here
Final price: $3.00 each after doubled coupon

Buy 8 General Mills cereals, get $10 off your current order and 2 coupons for $3.50 a future order that contains milk

Last time they ran this deal I decided I could do it for infinity even without any coupons, because it is such a good deal considering the $17 in incentives you get for buying 8 boxes.  If you bought boxes priced right around $2 you’d get them all free, without coupons.  In fact, it was this deal that caused Rainbow to owe me 42 cents one week.

There are so many General Mills coupons out right now that I won’t list each individual one, but tell you to check these sites:

Coupons.com
Smart Source.com
Eat Better America
Betty Crocker
Box Tops for Education
Cheerios Challenge here
$1/2 kids varieties printable in IE here or FireFox here

Household

Playtex Gloves $1.00
Use $1/1 from 6/28 Smart Source insert
Final price: Free each after coupon (and if doubled you’ll likely get $1 in overage, or credit toward other purchases you make)

Pearl Scents $2.50
Use $1/1 from 7/19 Smart Source insert
Final price: $.50 each after doubled coupon

Arm & Hammer Laundry Detergent $5.29
On sale buy one, get one free and stack with
(2) $1/1 printable here
Final price: $.65 each after doubled coupons

Reynolds Recycled Foil $2.50
Use $.75/1 from 8/16 Smart Source insert or $.50/1 printable here
Final price: As low as $1.00 each after doubled coupon

Arm & Hammer 2-in-1 Dryer Sheets $3.29
Use $1/1 printable here
Final price: $1.29 each after doubled coupons

Quilted Northern $5.99
Use $1/1 from 7/26 Red Plum insert
Final price: $3.99 each after doubled coupon

Buy $20 in select paper products, Get $5 off your shopping order with the in-ad manufacturer’s coupon
Listen up: This $5 off coupon says at the top “Manufacturer’s coupon” which means that I don’t think you can stack it with any other manufacturer’s coupons for qualifying products, like the $1 off Quilted Northern coupon for instance.  Personally, I think you’d be better off using individual coupons for the products.

Dixie Plates: $.35/1 from 8/16 Red Plum
Vanity Fair Napkins: $.35/1 from 6/28 Red Plum
Quilted Northern: $1/1 from 7/26 Red Plum

Pet Care

Denta Stix Dog Treats $3.00
Use $1/1 from 8/2 Red Plum insert
Final price: $1.00 each after doubled coupon

Pedigree Good Bites Dog Treats $3.00
Use $1/1 from 6/28 Red Plum insert
Final price: $1.00 each after doubled coupon

Pocket Your Dollars is part of BeCentsable’s Grocery Gathering, a compilation of shopping lists for stores nationwide.  If you want a shopping list for a store not covered by Pocket Your Dollars, then check out the Grocery Gathering.