I wanted to go and test the deals for you guys and sure enough it’s a HOT week, but note the catalina dates as a few of them end early in the week. Here are the coupons I used, I’d love to hear how your shopping trips go too!
If you’d like your shopping trip (at any of the stores I cover) to be featured on The Frugal Find, just snap a pic and send me an email!
Buy (4) Froot Loops – $1.50 ea
Buy 1 Frosted Mini Wheats – $2
Use (2) $1/2 Kellogg’s Cereals printable
I used $1/1 Peelie on the Frosted Mini Wheats Box
You can also use…$1.50/2 Frosted Mini-Wheats, All-Bran or Raisin Bran printable
Get a $4 Catalina Coupon (ends 5/14)
Final Price: $1 for 5 boxes + Movie Codes & $5 Coupon Booklet in the Frosted Mini Wheats Box!
Tyson Frozen Breaded Chicken – BOGO ($7.99/2)
Use (2) $1/1 Tyson Frozen Breaded Chicken, exp. 7-24-10 (SS 04/25/10)
Final Price: $5.99 for 2 bags!
Buy (4) Scrubbing Bubble Extend-A-Clean – $23.96
Use (4) $5/1 Scrubbing Bubbles Power Sprayer Starter
Get back (4) $3 Catalina Coupons for your next shopping trip (ends 5/16)
Final Price: $8.00 Money Maker!
Buy (1) Box Kashi Cereal – $2
Use $1.50 Vocal Point Coupon
Final Price: $0.50
Buy (2) Boxes of Life Cereal – $1 ea
Used $1/2 from a Quaker Oatmeal Box
Final Price: $0.50 ea
Nexcare Active Bandages – $1.62
$1/1 Nexcare Product printable
Final Price: $0.62
Buy (4) Nabisco Calorie Packs – $10
Use (2) BOGO Coupons
Get $3 OYNO Catalina Coupon (ends 5/16)
Final Price: $2 for 4 packs!
Total Paid Out Of Pocket: $23.25
I got back $19 in Catalina Coupons
Final Price: $4.25!
Hillary May 12, 2010 at 11:26 am
What are Catalina coupons? I shop at Safeway regularily and I’ve never seen/heard of them.
Julia May 12, 2010 at 11:28 am
A Catalina is a coupon that prints out of the little machine next to the cash register, the coupon is good on your next order. We call them Catalina coupons because they are offered by the Catalina Marketing Company.
Les May 12, 2010 at 12:07 pm
This is my FAVORITE part of The Frugal Find! I love seeing your trips in pictures and having the deals written out. Fantastic! Thanks Julia!
Cindy May 12, 2010 at 12:55 pm
I went to Safeway today and bought 2 of the Scrubbing Bubbles Extend-a-Clean and 4 boxes of Nabisco 100 snacks and didn’t get any catalina coupons
I was so disappointed!
Julia May 12, 2010 at 1:00 pm
That’s not good! Did you ask them at customer service about it? I always try to resolve it before I leave the store. Otherwise here’s what you do. Call the Catalina Marketing company directly at (1-888-826-8766). They will ask you for specifics from your store receipt and then they will mail you the Catalina coupons you were supposed to have received.
Kristen May 12, 2010 at 1:22 pm
They’ve also got a deal – buy 2 Classico pasta sauces and get 2 boxes of Safeway pasta FREE. The sauce is marked down 2 for $4. I used a B1G1 coupon and it took $3.59 off the total. So that’s like getting 2 sauces and 2 pastas for $0.41. Great savings!
Di May 12, 2010 at 2:24 pm
How do you use more than 1 of the scrubbing bubbles coupon at one time, as it says limit 1 per purchase Or do you just go through 2 different lines?
Thanks
Julia May 12, 2010 at 2:25 pm
You can use 2 since you are purchasing 2 items, it is not 1 per transaction rather 1 per purchase. Does that make sense?
Di May 12, 2010 at 2:28 pm
Yes, great thanks- love your website and all your awesome ideas.
Julia May 12, 2010 at 2:31 pm
I’m glad you’re here Di!
Julia M May 15, 2010 at 6:10 pm
there is also a “buy an extend a cleaner get a refill free” coupon on the Right at Home website. I was able to print two of those so I got 4 bottles for $3.98 plus tax…then got $8 in catalinas. (the refills printed $1 catalina each!)
sarah May 12, 2010 at 2:36 pm
Also their Capri Sun Sunrise is on sale reg 2.50, buy 5 it goes down to 1.49 then use 5 1 dollar off coupons. Each box comes out to 0.49. So $2.50 for 5 boxes. Their brownie mix is buy 2 get 3 free and use 0.75 off q’s I only had two so i got 5 boexs for 3.50. it is a good week at Safeway
Julia May 12, 2010 at 2:41 pm
Sarah, did you do that today? I thought that sale ended yesterday…
sarah May 12, 2010 at 3:27 pm
I did it yesterday. i have no idea when it ended. If today sorry.
Regina May 12, 2010 at 6:50 pm
Julia the buy 2 get 3 is still going on for the brownies only.. I got 5 boxes and had 3 EQ’s plus 4 brownie coupons.. it was free for all 5 boxes
Rachel K. May 12, 2010 at 7:55 pm
did you do multiple transactions? or did it print multiple catalinas at once?
Julia May 12, 2010 at 7:57 pm
It printed multiple catalinas, only 1 transaction.
Terri May 12, 2010 at 8:36 pm
Love your posts w/ pics I know it takes so much of your time..my safeway has gone to only accepting one computer printable per same items. Dissapointing for cases that benifit from buying more that one. Thanks again.
Michele May 12, 2010 at 9:18 pm
Julia,
How were you able to just buy 1 Kashi for $2 when the sign says you must buy 4 total. Same question about the Life cereal??
Thanks,
Michele
Julia May 12, 2010 at 9:23 pm
Michele, the Buy 4 Save $4 sale is a mix & match promotion, so you can buy any combination of the Buy 4 Save $4 items.
panchu May 13, 2010 at 12:04 am
Hey Julia!
I want to know in mix & match promotion Buy 4 Save $4 sale if we bought more than 4 items than what will be the price ? if we bought mix & match 5th product than what will be price f 5th items it will be regular price or Sale price Thanx
Capri Sun Sunrise is on sale $1.99 i saw today in my store!
vickie May 13, 2010 at 12:13 pm
will the catalinas printa @ vons,too? we don’t have safeway markets in so cal.
Ginny May 13, 2010 at 3:11 pm
I wanted to drop a quick note about the Scrubbing Bubbles shower cleaner…it’s worth trying since it’s such a good deal, but….
It says on the bottle that it will take care of soap scum and mildew within 14 days of daily use. I’ve used it 2 days and the bottle is almost 1/2 gone. If you do the math, it would take about 3 1/2 bottles to remove your soap scum…retail (w/o coupons) that would cost $9 for initial bottle and $4 for each refill bottle they sell which = $19 to remove the soap scum/mildew. $1.36 per day to spray your shower. I wouldn’t know this if I hadn’t bought it and tried it…thankfully there are deals like this post so you can try these things and figure out if they are a good cleaning product or not. I LOVE to try new cleaning products, but I do get upset when they turn out to be expensive. There is my two cents on this product.