There are a ton of great deals this week at Roundy’s stores (Rainbow Foods, Pick N Save and Copps), assuming you shop on Wednesday and have the face value of your coupon doubled. Thank you Mary, who helped put this list together.
Take note of two special coupons:
- The Minneapolis paper had a coupon for turkey at $0.37 per pound and advertised a number of 3-Day sales that run through Wednesday. Did your paper get this too?
- Stop by your Customer Service Desk and look for a “Nestle/Rainbow Holiday Recipe Helper”. It contains coupons for Roundy’s brand products like: pure vanilla extract, light brown sugar, mini marshmallows, chopped walnuts or pecans, vanilla wafers, and graham cracker crust. The coupons all expire 1/2/10.
New to shopping at Rainbow, Pick N Save, or Copps? Learn how-to have your coupons doubled in value here.
New to Pocket Your Dollars? Learn to read this shopping list. You should be able to print each printable coupon twice. If you have issues printing try the troubleshooting suggestions found here.
Your turn:I have tons of questions for you – did you find the coupon book at your store? Did your newspaper have the turkey coupon somewhere within it? What deal idea do you have for the ConAgra deal this week?
Produce
Grapes $0.99/lb. (Sunday – Wednesday only)
Meat
Jennie-O Frozen Hen or Tom Turkeys $0.37/lb. (Sunday – Wednesday only)
Use coupon from page A12 of the Sunday Star Tribune
Oscar Mayer Sliced or Fully Cooked Bacon $2.49
Use $0.75/1 coupon from 11/15 Smart Source insert
Final price: $0.99 after doubled coupon
Dairy Case
Yoplait Light or Thick & Creamy Yogurt $0.50
Buy 8 and use “Buy six, get one free” coupon from 10/4 General Mills insert and stack with
$1.00/8 printable couponor $0.40/6 from 10/18 or 11/8 Smart Source insert
Final price: As low as $0.19 each after doubled coupon
Philadelphia Cream Cheese $1.25
Buy 3 and use $1.00/3 coupon from 11/15 Red Plum insert
Final price: $0.45 each after doubled coupon
Smart Balance Spread or Butter Blends $2.50
Use $1.00/1 coupon from 10/18 Red Plum insert
Final price: $0.50 after doubled coupon
Roundy’s Sweet Cream Butter Quarters $0.98 (Sunday – Wednesday only) (Limit 1)
Sale price, no coupon needed
Final price: $0.98 after sale price
Freezer
Green Giant Steamers Vegetables $1.25
Use $0.40/1 coupon from 11/15 General Mills insert or use $0.50/1 printable coupon
Final price: As low as $0.25 after doubled coupon
Grocery
Dole Pineapple, Mandarins or Tropical Fruit Salad $1.00
Buy 2 and use $0.55/2 coupon from 11/8 Smart Source insert or
Buy 1 and use $0.50/1 printable coupon (after playing the game)
Final price: As low as free after doubled coupon
Ragu Pasta Sauce $0.87 (Sunday-Wednesday only)
Buy 2 and use $0.75/2 coupon from 11/15 Red Plum insert or $1.00/2 printable coupon (coupon will say Save-A-Lot, but it is a manufacturer-issued coupon and should be fine to use at Rainbow)
Final price: Better than free after doubled coupon
Nabisco Triscuit, Wheat Thins or Chicken in a Biskit $2.00
Use $1.00/1 coupon from 11/8 Smart Source insert
Final price: Free after doubled coupon
Dean’s Dip $1.25
Buy 2 and use $1.00/2 coupon from 9/27 Smart Source insert
Final price: $0.25 each after doubled coupon
Heinz Gravy $1.09
Buy 3 and use $1.00/3 printable coupon (registration required)
Final price: $0.42 each after doubled coupon
Nestle Carnation Evaporated Milk $0.99
Buy 2 and use $0.50/2 coupon from 9/27 Smart Source, 11/1 Red Plum insert or printable coupon (registration required)
Final price: $0.49 each after doubled coupon
Uncle Ben’s Long Grain Rice $1.66
Buy 2 and use $1.00/2 printable coupon (registration required) or printable here (IE) and printable here (FF)
Final price: $0.66 each after doubled coupon
Nabisco Ritz Crackers $2.79
Use $1.00/1 coupon from 11/8 Smart Source insert
Final price: $0.79 after doubled coupon
Roundy’s Brown Sugar 2 lb. $1.50
Use $0.50/1 coupon from Holiday Recipe Helper booklet (look for this booklet at the Customer Service Desk)
Final price: $1.00 after coupon
Gold Medal Flour $2.19
Use $0.50/1 printable coupon
Final price: $1.19 after doubled coupon
Pepsi, Mountain Dew or Sierra Mist $2.22 (Limit 4 with $25 purchase)
Sale price, no coupon needed. I imagine that the pop itself counts toward the $25 purchase needed to get the sale price.
Final price: $2.22 each ($0.19 a can) after sale price
Folgers Coffee $4.99 (Limit 1)
Use in-ad coupon and stack with $1.00/1 coupon from 11/8 Red Plum insert
Final price: $2.99 after doubled coupon**
**Regular price this is approximately $9.99, which is the value that will count toward the $25 threshold for doubling coupons at most Rainbow stores.
ConAgra Deal
Buy $15 of select Con Agra foods, Get $5 off your next grocery order
Buy $10 of select Con Agra foods, Get $3 off your next grocery order
Buy $5 of select Con Agra foods, Get $1 off your next grocery order
Like the other sections, this is organized from lowest final price to highest final price so that you can easily put together your own deal idea if you want or need something other than what is included in the ideas I suggest.
***Deal idea (using newspaper and printable coupons)***
Buy 2 Egg Beaters (if seasoned variety is included in sale) at $2.00 each
Buy 3 Hunt’s Tomato Sauce 8 oz. at $0.50 each
Use two $1/1 Egg Beaters printable coupon and
$0.45/3 Hunts Tomato Sauce coupon from 10/4 Smart Source insert
Spend $0.60, get $1 back toward next order
Final price: Free after doubled coupons and money off next order
***Deal idea (using All You magazine coupons)***
Buy 2 Parkay
Buy 1 Peter Pan
Buy 1 Egg Beater and
Use $1/2 Parkay from December All You magazine
$1/1 Peter Pan from December All You magazine and
$1.00/1 Egg Beaters printable coupon
Spend $0 out of pocket, get $1 back toward next grocery bill
Final price: Better than free after doubled coupons
Parkay Spread $1.00
Buy 2 and use $1/2 from December All Youmagazine (sold at Walmart) or
$0.75/2 coupon from 11/15 Smart Source insert
Final price: As low as free each after doubled coupon
Peter Pan Peanut Butter $2.00
Use $1/1 coupon from December All Youmagazine (sold at Walmart)
Final price: Free after doubled coupon
Egg Beaters $2.00
$1.00/1 printable coupon (if seasoned variety is included)
Final price: Free after doubled coupon
Hunt’s Tomato Sauce 8 oz. $0.50
Buy 3 and use $0.45/3 coupon from 10/4 Smart Source insert
Final price: $0.20 each after doubled coupon
Rotel Tomatoes $1.25
Use $0.50/1 printable coupon
Final price: $0.25 after doubled coupon
Hunt’s Tomato Sauce 15 oz. $0.80
Buy 3 and use $0.45/3 coupon from 10/4 Smart Source insert or
Buy 2 and use $0.50/2 printable coupon
Final price: As low as $0.30 each after doubled coupon
Swiss Miss $1.00
Buy 2 and use $0.50/2 coupon from 11/15 Smart Source insert
Final price: $0.50 each after doubled coupon
Marie Callender’s Pasta Al Dente, Pot Pies or Complete Meals $2.75
Use $1/1 from October or December All You Magazine or
Use $0.75/1 printable coupon
Final price: As low as $0.75 after doubled coupon
Reddi-Wip $2.00
$0.50/1 11/15 Smart Source
Final price: $1.00 after doubled coupon
Orville Redenbacher’s Pop Corn $2.25
$0.40/1 11/15 Smart Source
Final price: $1.45 after doubled coupon
Wesson Oil $2.50
$0.50/1 printable coupon
Final price: $1.50 after doubled coupon
Pam $2.50
$0.35/1 11/15 Smart Source
Final price: $1.80 after doubled coupon
General Mills Cereal Deal
Buy 4 General Mills Cereal or Granola Bars at $2.75 each and get a coupon for one free gallon of milk on next purchase (up to $3.50)
Usually, the free milk coupons produced by a General Mills cereal offer will take $3.50 off your next order that contains milk, versus just taking off the price of the milk. I cannot guarantee it will work this way, but I find it quite likely that it will.
High-value General Mills cereal coupons include:
Banana Nut Cheerios $1.00/1 printable coupon (FF) or here (IE) (if this variety is included in sale)
Total $1.00/1 printable coupon
Total varieties $1.00/1 printable coupon
Total varieties $0.75/1 coupon from 11/1 Smart Source
Multigrain Cheerios $0.75/1 printable coupon
Kix $0.75/1 printable coupon
Fiber One Cereal $0.75/1 printable coupon
***Deal idea***
Buy any four that have $1/1 coupons
Spend $3, get free gallon of milk
Final price: Better than free after doubled coupon and free milk
Household
Air Wick Freshmatic Kits or Refills $4.99
Use $5.00/1 Starter Kit coupon from 11/15 Smart Source insert
Final price: Free after coupon
All Laundry Detergent $3.99
Use $0.70 from 10/4 Red Plum insert
Final price: $2.59 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.
Thanks for the tip about the peanut butter coupon, Jessica! I guess I didn’t look through my clipped coupons carefully enough. I still did pretty well today, though: spent $5.72 and saved $21.71. The cashier said I could do her shopping for her anytime! :)
I did 2 transactions today and I paid $37.66 for $123.94 worth of groceries! Thank you Carrie!
Nicki – The price of the pop was not included in the $25 total you need to have to get it for $2.22. This was at the Maple Grove Rainbow.
Hmmm, I purchased 4 boxes of Cinnamon Toast Crunch (with two $1 off coupons that doubled) but didn’t get the free milk coupon. Two of the boxes were the size on sale for $2.25. The other two boxes I purchased were the larger more expensive boxes. That would seem dumb, but they were the specially marked boxes with codes for a free movie ticket and those are a high value freebie. Does anyone know if those two larger boxes excluded me from the free milk deal? I’ll be asking at Customer Service next time unless someone can give me a definitive answer.
Also, I think I finally have my system for $1 off coupons on Wednesdays. This is so simplistic, and most of you probably do this, but it takes me awhile! For the first time I had a bad experience with $1 off coupons last week at our West End Rainbow. I always put them at the front of my stack of coupons and I had five of them. The cashier shuffled through them, and I specifically told her I had the $1 off coupons in the front. She wasn’t very friendly about it, and then when I got home it was as I suspected. Three of my large coupons had been doubled, but then so had a .35 and .50 while my other two dollar off ones weren’t doubled. I was quite annoyed, and my husband had to remind me to “let it go”! So today, I gave my very nice cashier my stack of $1 off coupons FIRST, and after she had scanned those, I gave her the stack of smaller ones. She was so nice, and it was reassuring for me to know I didn’t have to watch so carefully. Maybe this will help someone else new to couponing!
I did 4 transactions today. My total out-of-pocket was $51.55 for $152.19 worth of groceries. I was disappointed that the Maplewood (White Bear Ave.) store did not have the Airwick Freshmatics so I had to revamp a few of my lists to make them work.
On of my orders came to $20.72, the cashier scanned the first coupon and it doubled and she got all upset. I told her that the computer goes by the shelf price not the sale price. She picks up her phone and calls the service desk and goes back and forth with them. She went ahead and scanned my coupons, but it totally held up the line and was a little embarassing (not enough to make me quit though).
Since following Carrie’s blog, I’ve saved enough money on groceries that we were able to purchase a much needed freezer.
Thanks again, Carrie!
Shelly- It is due to the sizes, I didn’t get a milk coupon at first either. I bought 2 Wheaties, 1 Lucky Charms and one Cheerios, all the regular size (and the shelf had the 4/$11 tags) But no milk coupon! When I asked at the CS counter, I had to buy the larger box of the Cheerios to qualify. They were really nice and let me exchange so I could get the milk. It seems random to do it that way though.
This is a little late for today’s deal, but I thought I’d share for next week if the price stays the same. Tombstone pizzas were 4/$10 this week. It’s the only frozen pizza that my fam will eat, so it was good for me. At checkout, a $2.00 off your next trip catalina printed out. The coupon says “Buy Tombstone 12″ original pizza between 11/4 – 11/29/09,” Buy (4) – get $2.00 off; Buy (5) – get $4.00 off; Buy (6) or more – get $5.00 off.
Just something to keep in mind in the next couple of weeks. : )
I did 3 trnx for out of pocket $44.25 – groceries were worth 129.61. I’m starting to take notice that many of their sale items indicate ‘on sale thru’ on the hang tag. I’m starting to use that info to help plan my next week(s) trips.
Someone asked earlier about batteries — Walmart Black Friday ad has Rayovac 12 pks (AA and AAA) at 2/$5 (or 24 for $5).
Carrie – Thanks for all you do. This is only my 2nd week using your website and I only paid $62.07 this week for $140.15 worth of groceries in 3 transactions. I’m a licensed child care provider and food is my greatest expense. I have always been a coupon clipper but your website is maximizing my efforts. Your website has also made my weekly grocery shopping chore fun. I look forward to seeing the weekly shopping lists to see how much more I can save. Thanks sooo much!!
Joanna (or anyone!)
can you clarify for me? You said in reaching the 25$ minimum for Q doubling, it takes the “shelf” price not the sale price? So it takes the regular price, not the sale price? my store told me it takes the sale price. So if an item was on sale 2 for $4.00, but regularly 2.79, you can count the 2.79 towards your 254 minimum?
That would be great. today was my first effort at doubling at Rainbow, so I’d love direction. If anyone’s store uses the shelf price, can you share which stores it is? Mine is Blaine (or Coon Rapids)
I spent about 35$ on 95$ worth of groceries so as a newbie was happy with that!
Thanks, Julie
Thank you to who replied about the batteries! I ended up not getting them after I saw on the tag that the C size was only a few cents off! We have plenty of AA and AAA but need more C and D… So I was bummed but at the same time I managed to do 4 transactions after a couple of coupon switcheroos with a toddler in tow this morning. I’m pretty sure I was behind another fellow PYD’er in line at the Roseville Rainbow the first go-around because I saw she broke down her transactions and also had a stack of coupons (and printable coupons, too). I smiled but she had a toddler in tow too and by the time I noticed and was going to ask, my own kiddo was pulling on the candy shelf ;) it was nice to see I wasn’t the only person doing 2 transactions at once!
All in all I spent 45 dollars for 175 worth of groceries. That’s the best I’ve ever done. I was at Rainbow for like an hour and a half though!
I capitalized on the Chewy Granola bars because they are my kids favorite and I had a couple of $1/2 so it made them a buck each which is the lowest I’ve seen in at least a month (I’ve been watching that price!). I also did the GM deal – got Lucky Charms, Cinn Toast Crunch, Honey Nut Cheerios and Nature Valley Granola Nut Clusters. Had a $1/2 for LC and CTC but $1/1 for HNC and the clusters. Got the free milk coupon and used it in my next transaction w/ milk. My preschooler was so excited to see Lucky Charms again because we usually get non-sugary cereals but I try to get a sugary cereal once in a while to make his day (or week…) :) and Hubby was thrilled to see his fave- cinn toast crunch. So I did pretty good today!
The party is over. My Rainbow adjusted my milk coupons (from last week’s cereal deal) down to the cost of the milk. (But that’s OK, because I’m not actually entitled to have Rainbow Foods and Kelloggs feed my family breakfast forever for next to nothing….) ;-)
Five transactions. Paid $77.78 for $186.49 worth of groceries. (Saved $108.71.) Didn’t save as much as most times, but not unhappy at all. I have no regrets when I save more than I spend…. In this case, saved about 58%. In fact, I left the store happier than a lot of weeks, because I did low stress transactions and I left with all the stuff we need and didn’t have to see the kids’ faces as they sighed… “Mama, did you get lunch meat this time, or just more cereal?”
(Got lotsa lunch meat… for $1.50 a package.)
The $25 is before coupons and before the sale price, so yes, it is be the price on the shelf that goes toward the $25 threshold. And I shop at the Northtown Rainbow…if that’s the one you are talking about. I’ve went to the Riverdale one once and had some trouble, so now I avoid it if at all possible.
Helen – what kind of lunchmeat did you get for $1.50/pkg? (And what size pkg?) I usually buy my lunchmeat (ham & turkey) at Sam’s Club because I can get 40 oz packages for $6 – $6.50. (or about $2.60 – 2.79 per pound). I’m always on the look out for even a better deal on this frequently used item!
Kimm, I’m so embarrassed.
I was checking on this in order to tell you where to find it and I *think* I used the wrong Q. (I used all the ones I have, so I can’t check it to be sure.)
It scanned without beeping. Bummer.
Suffice it to say, if I would have used the right Q on what I bought I would have paid $3.15 for half a pound. NOT a deal.
I have gotten packages of sliced meat from Sam’s that seemed to be a good deal, but we didn’t use it before it started to give me the willies, food safety-wise. And I have been unimpressed with my results when freezing it. As my kids grow and eat more, I’m sure it will be a wise choice again. (I try not to toss things too early, but with meats I’d rather be safe than sorry.)
Jules – the computers are set to double the coupons when the register reaches $25 shelf or regular price. If you go back on Carrie’s site, she gives some information about this.
Jules & Joanna,
Yes the registers are set to double the coupons when the register reaches $25 shelf or regular price but as I found out again at the Forest Lake Location, I had $31.20 worth at the shelf price, however the register was showing $23.95 which was the sale price before my coupons. The cashier warned me that I did not have enought to qualify for the $25 but I knew I did. She scanned the coupons and they doubled but she went and back out the double coupon cost. I have had this problem to many times at this store but I was in a pinch and had to go there last night. :(
We just do our big shopping trip of the week on Wednesday (family of 5) so have no troubles doubling or reaching threshold. We often do multiple trans. too.
I was at your seminar this past Monday night at Friendship church in Shakopee, and wanted to thank you for all the great information! You did a great job and are a lot of fun.
when do you typically do the ad for Rainbow foods? i am waiating for it.
Rainbow’s list goes up on Monday night