Date Idea

www.restaurant.com offers discounted gift certificates to many different restaurants. You can pay $10 for a $25 gift card, $20 for a $50 gift card and so on. After you buy them you print them at home. The only catch I've noticed is to make sure to read the small print. Some restaurants will not allow you to use the gift cards on alcohol and some have a minimum amount that must be spent when using the gift card. For example, many of the $25 gift cards must be used on a purchase of $35 or more. Overall, still a great deal.

Free Pantry Makeover at Earth Fare

Follow this link to get a free pantry makeover at Earth Fare! You just have to enroll in the "My Health Journey" and then you will get a coupon for a free pantry makeover where you can bring in all your pantry items, opened or unopened, which contain things like HFCS or hydrogenated oils (i.e. trans fats) and have them exchanged for Earth Fare equivalents without the "yucky" stuff! What a deal!! This is a limited time offer, so hurry! (I don't remember when it expires, sometime in November.)
(please read the coupon for the rules and limitations.)


Here is a coupon for a free bag of organic honey crisp apples too. It expires today (nov 1).

HT Super Doubles

Harris Teeter will be doing "Super Double" coupons from June 24-30. They will double coupons with values up to $1.98. (e.g. a $1.50 coupon will be worth $3.00).

I'd recommend checking out a website like hotcouponworld.com if you want more info about the rules and coupon-sale match-ups.

Happy couponing!

ANGELFOOD MINISTRIES

Here is a local active resource for food.  It's like a co-op available to anyone who signs up or orders.  Here is the link.  You can purchase a box that is intended to feed a family of four for a week with add on options for produce or meats other special items. I am going to try this in June- next pay period and I will give you my review. I will most likely order the main required selection and both different produce boxes.

Your Local Library

Many of you have probally thought of this already, but for those of you that have not you should get a public library card.  Matt and I have had one for a while for Matthew to check out books but we haven't been using it for ourselves enough.  We have just recently discovered that they have several fairly new movies.  We will now be saving money that we would spend renting a Blockbuster movie by searching our libraries website to see if they have a movie we would like to watch first.  

Triple Coupon Week

Good news for all the couponers out there: Both Bloom and Harris Teeter are having triple coupon events!

Bloom is March 20-22. This Fri - Sun

HT is all next week - March 25 - 31 (Wed-Tues)

You can find "deal matchups" on HotCouponWorld.com (HT forum) and Bloom matchups on CharlotteMommies.com (Domestic Goddess forum)

Happy shopping!

Cut out 1 meal a week:)

We've saved money lately by cutting out one dinner a week...instead, that one night a week we have breakfast for dinner! It's actually quite fun. We make potatoes, eggs, maybe an omelet, or waffles. Saves money!