I am having too much fun with catalina deals and playing the grocery game right now, have not have much time to blog.:-)
Discovered something new (to me) few weeks ago- the wine tags put out by wine manufacturers. They are tearpads found at the wine department or tags hang on the wine bottles, which give you $ off produce, meat, fruit, cheese, seafood, juices, etc.
The tags for instant may say “Save $6 on groceries when you buy 2 bottles of xxx brand of Wine 750 ml or larger”. But the wonderful thing about this tags is: the liquor law in IL prohibited coupon redemption for the purchase of hard liquor, so there will be a “No alcohol/wine purchase is required” in the fine print.
I was able to find tons of the tearpads and hang tags (most people don’t pay attention to them, unless they do coupons) and used them to get seafood, produce, meat, cheese for FREE. Our fridge is now well stocked with fruits like Kiwi, starwberries and mangoes we otherwise won’t buy as they are expensive. We have frozen shrimps and sausages to last us for at least 6 months!
Our refrigerator has limited freezer space, so having a freezer has allowed us to store all the meat and shrimps we got for FREE.
We bought the chest freezer when the store ran a freezer deal. We paid with catalina coupons accumulated and received $150 worth of coupons for FREE food
In the month of January, we hardly spent any money on groceries, we probably forked out about $20 for sale taxes as coupons cannot be used for taxes, that’s it.