Thursday, November 19, 2009

Weis Sales Ad for 11/19-11/26



Here are some highlights from the new Weekly Sales ad for Weis/Mr. Z's Markets with my personal comments.  My advise is worth what you paid for it...FREE. lol

And no, there are NO CATALINA DEALS this week....if you don't count the Buy Gift Cards and Get a OYNO Cat Deal.  I sure wish they'd include the Weis Gift Cards in that deal!  Then it would be worth doing. ;-)

If you feel I have missed a deal worth mentioning, please leave a comment and let us all know!

I am off shortly to get the stitches in my gum removed.  After the swelling went down, the stitches got loose and I've had this string flopping around in my mouth that has been driving me nuts the past 2 days! lol

Sluggy


What's on sale at WEIS/Mr.Z's this week that 'might' be worth buying....

PRODUCE

Yams $.79 lb.  Probably the best price we are going to see for Sweet Potatoes now.

Collards or Kale  $.69 lb.  A good price for these fresh greens.  *Note-some stores really saturate these with water to keep them looking hydrated and fresh, but all that excess water makes your produce weigh more at the register.  Make sure you give your greens a really good shake or two in the aisle before you bag it to get the water off.  It's not only going to make your produce weigh less(cost you less at the scale)but all that extra moisture when trapped in a plastic bag in your fridge is going to turn it to slime faster if you don't use the greens right away.  Better yet, rewrap your greens in a kitchen towel before you put it in the fridge.  A towel will help keep them fresh until use and let them breath so they don't liquify.

Ocean Spray Fresh Cranberries $2 a 12 oz. bag
Now is the time to stock up on cranberries for your cooking for the months to come.  Fresh OS cranberries are only available for a short time.  I'd suggest getting some extra and putting them in the freezer to use in your baking/cooking later.  Not a wonderfully low price but probably the best you'll see at Weis unless they have tons leftover and put them on clearance but that would be a YMMV situation in your individual store.

MEAT

Weis Turkey still on sale for .49¢ lb.
If you don't have a store giving free turkeys with a minimum purchase or a Walmart with .40 lb. turkeys, this is probably your best price for a bird this week.

Jimmy Dean Rolled Sausage BOGO ($3.99)
Sausage goes on sale around thanksgiving(some people put it in their stuffing so that's probably why).  Jimmy Dean is the primo stuff and hardly goes on sale.  If you regularly spend retail on this sausage, now is the time to stock up the freezer.  While there are a slew of JD Qs floating around the Coupon Universe, there are none for the reg. rolled sausage. 8-(
The pre-cooked JD sausage is also on sale BOGO($3.99) and there IS a $1/1 Q available for the sunday inserts.  If your store let's you use 2 Qs on a BOGO deal, you can get this for $1.00 a box!  Precooked is not much good for stuffing but it's mighty tasty for breakfast.

Weis Skinny Chicken BOGO ($3.49lb.)
Personally, I don't pay over $1.99lb for boneless chicken and I think anybody who is too lazy to buy a piece of chicken with skin on it and remove that skin shouldn't even eat chicken.lol  It's NOT a difficult job to remove a piece of chicken skin and it's not time consuming so don't tell me you don't have time to do it.
$3.49 or more is way too much to pay per lb. for chicken breast.  I think even on sale half price like it is this week for $1.75 lb. is a bit much.
However, if you like this stuff, this price is better than retail.  That's all I'm going to say. ;-)

Catfish Fillets are an ok deal at $4.99 lb.

LIVE LOBSTERS $6.99 lb.-2 days only!(11/20-11/21)
Ok people, this is NOT something Weis carries on a regular basis.  And though this isn't the BEST price for Lobster, it IS the best deal arond here in landlocked PA at the moment.  I'm saying that on condition that this IS North American/Maine Lobster-which I can't tell from the ad if it is, or it's those nasty South American Lobsters which aren't quite the same, but ARE lobsters.  If you are loving yo'self some Lobster, make sure you get to Weis/Mr. Z's on Fri. or Sat. and get you some a' this!  Lobster is a budget buster but what a way to rip up your budget!lol
Personally, No. American Lobsters that are harvested in the cold weather months taste better than what most people get on vacation in the hot weather months.  The cold weather lobster has a harder shell and is more difficult to crack into but it's worth it, as the meat is tastier.  That's IMHO here. 8-)

A quick note on Meat---I found marked down Smithfield brand Pork Roasts last night.  These Pork Roasts are labeled as Slow Cooker Pork Pot Roast!lolol  I just had to laugh about calling pork, pot roast.  They are sized to fit into a crockpot.  Your Weis probably carries these and they don't seem to be a fast moving item, hence the mark down to get rid of them.  Might be worth  looking for them, to watch for a clearance.  I got a $5.32 one (not quite 2lbs. so it's about $2.69lb reg. price).  With the $3 off Meat sticker it was $2.32 or about $1.20lb.

DAIRY

Weis Brand Butter 1lb. $1.67
Except for 1 store locally that has butter for $1.49, this price seems to be as low as you are going to find this fall.


Kraft Cheese(shreds or blocks) $2.00 each.  There is a $1/2 Q from the sunday inserts out there for this, making it $1.50 a piece.  You can do better at Target this week with their sale price of $1.67 and the Q making it $1.17 when you buy 2.....that is, if your Target isn't sold out already like mine always is.

Philly Cream Cheese 4 for $5.00($1.25 ea.)  Buy 3, use the $1/3 Q from the sunday inserts and you pay $2.75 for 3 boxes, less than $1.00 per box.  You can probably do as well with a store brand cream cheese on sale w/out Q somewhere else this week but it's an ok deal if you have to have Philly.

OTHER

Carnation Evaporated Milk $1 each  This is still on sale, and use the $1/2 Q from the sunday inserts 2 weeks back to pay .50¢ a can WYB2.  A must have for pumpkin pie making and a good emergency shelf-stable milk &/or good for creamed soups/gravies.

Fleischmann's Yeast $1.50 a strip
Pair with the $.40/1 Q from sunday inserts to pay $1.10 or $.70 if your Weis store doubles Qs up to $1.  If you bake and you like Fleischmann's and your Weis doubles Qs it's time to stock up.  Remember though, Weis only doubles up to 4 of the same Q in an order, so if you want to buy more than 4, buy it in lots of 4, it in separate trips to the store.
Personally, I think buying the bigger Jar of Yeast is more cost effective but these strip packages are good to have on hand for holiday baking.

Ore-Ida Steam and Mash Potatoes $3.00
Ok, if you like these Lazy People's Potatoes and you have the $1/1 Q from the Parade Magazine in Sunday's paper, you can get this for $2.00.  Personally, I wouldn't buy this stuff but if you want it/need it, buy it now with the Q.

Birds Eye SteamFresh Meals $5.99
IF you have the BOGO Birds Eye SteamFresh Meal Q from the sunday inserts in October, you can get 2 bags of this for $5.99($3 a bag).  I have a IPQ for $1.50/1 off this also which would make these $2.25 a bag.  Not sure where I got it from but go google it and you might find a source for an IP Q as well.

Coke 3 for $4 2 liter bottles($1.34 ea.)
Some areas received a $1/5 Coke 2 liters Q in the sunday inserts. Using that Q would make the Coke bottles $1.14 each.  I don't buy 2 liter bottles of Coke so I have no idea how good a deal this is.  You tell me!lol

Pompeian Olive Oil $6.99
There's a $1/1 sunday inserts Q from August so this would be $5.99 for 32. oz. bottle.  Pretty decent for Olive Oil.

Dole Fruit $1 a can.  There's a $.35/1 pineapple from the sunday inserts a couple of weeks ago.  If your Weis doubles, get a can for .30¢.  There is a .50/1 IP Q available Here.

NON-FOOD
St. Ives Body Wash BOGO
Not sure on the reg. price here but there is a Q from last sunday inserts for $1/1.  Use 2 Qs and you might have a deal here on 2!

Marcal Small Steps Napkins $2 each
If your region didn't get the FREE napkins Q and got the $1/1 instead, this week is the time to use it and get a package of these for $1.  Not free-and you KNOW I am pissed off about NOT getting that free napkin Q-but a buck is ok.

Marcal Small Steps TP 12 roll or 8 roll Paper Towels $4.99
If you have the $2/1 Small Steps TP Q from the October sunday inserts, a package would be $2.99.  Not bad for 12 rolls.

Scotties Facial Tissues/Small Steps Facial Tissue/Renuzit Air Fresheners  $1 each
All these have Qs available from the sunday inserts so you can get them even cheaper.  Small Steps might be free depending on your Q, the Renuzit has a B2G1Free so after Q it's 3 for $2.00, and the Scotties Q is $1/5 so not such a great deal at $4/5.

Wednesday, November 18, 2009

Who Wants FREE Cookies?? Go Enter This Cookie Giveaway!



My Cyber-Friend McVal over at SEW NOT MY DAY is holding a homemade Spumoni Cookie Giveaway HERE!  Get your butt on over there like, NOW!, and enter to win a package of this Yumminess!
This contest ends Thursday morning at 9am(not sure which time zone however) so do it soon.

It's food and it's got chocolate in it.....you know you want it!!!

Sluggy

A New Blogging Issue for Me

 First off, let me say that I never started this blog with the intention of having it be a moneymaking  proposition.  And if you've been hanging around and reading me for awhile, you know that I'm not review/giveaway/promotion central.  And you can guess that even though I've put some google ads on the blog, I am NOT seeing any income from this blog.

But the day has finally come.
The day that I was contacted out-of-the-blue by a company to promote their business on my blog.
Ok, I am a member of BlogSpark, and they sent me soup to try and review once....and nifty bowls for my trouble to keep and cherish forever. lol
But this blog isn't a revenue generator.

But now I've been emailed by a business's "social media representative" to talk up a certain business's new, I'll use the word "gimmick" for lack of a better term at the moment.
Basically, they want me to do their advertising for them to my readers.

Oh, and they didn't offer me anything in exchange for my "services" if I do, nor did they offer me anything to offer to my readers(free product or a giveaway prize) to get ya'll excited to listen to the shpeel.

Publicizing or advertising or writing a review for a company or a product is work, it's not fun.  And if you have ever written reviews or promotion shpeel, you know that already.
So unless I am getting something(either free swag, cash, coupons, etc.)I really don't feel inclined to do someone else's work for them.  Do these advertising reps do their job for free?  I think not....

OTOH, if I have a personal experience with a product or business and feel compelled to write an unsolicited review or opinion just because I want to without any expectation of compensation, I will...and I have.

So what would you do? 
Or if you have a blog and review/promote stuff, what do you do?
Do you insist on compensation for promoting a business when a company contacts you in hopes that you will promote them? 
Or do you promote products/businesses out of the goodness of your heart....or in hopes that one day their media consultants see you mention them favorably in your blog and send you a 'thank you' for giving them such good publicity?

I don't want my blog to become a giveaway central or a strictly "here's the deal or the hot coupon".
There are tons of blogs out there that do that already.
My blog is more personal experiences and thoughts with the deals, hot coupons & giveaways thrown in.  It's just a part of what I do and who I am.  I don't want to lose the humaness of it all here.

I just don't know what direction I should go in from this point forward.
Any feedback or ideas would be appreciated.

Sluggy

Weis Unilever Catalina Deal Scenarios to Use UPDATE

IF YOU CAN FIND THE ORGANIC RAGU PASTA SAUCE Jars at your store use them in your Scenarios. 
Why?
Because the Reg. Shelf price is not $1.89 like the regular Ragu jars, it's $3.55!
You will need less product to get to the reg. shelf $20 minimum threshold to trip the Catalina Q.

Try this scenario...
3 x Ragu Sauce  Shelf $3.55=$10.65/Sale $2.00=$6.00
2 x Lipton Tea  Shelf $3.39=$6.78/Sale $2.50=$5.00
1 x Vaseline Lotion  Shelf $3.69/Sale $2.99
   Total Shelf=$21.12/Sale=$13.99

Use Coupons
1 x $1.25/3 Ragu=$1.25
1 x $1/2  Lipton=$1.00
1 x $1/1  Vaseline=$1.00
Coupons Total=$3.25

$13.99-$3.25=$10.74
Use the $7 OYNO Catalina you got from the last deal and your total becomes $3.74 OOP.
And you get another $7 Cat to roll this deal again.

Sluggy

Weis Unilever Catalina Deal Scenarios to Use

As promised, here are some Weis Unilever Catalina Deal Scenarios using the manu. coupons that were in Sunday's inserts.  I didn't figure in any products that there aren't coupons for...like the Slimfast.  Since it's Weis, it's not an amazingly low OOP in the end, but it's pretty good.

But hurry, this sale ends tonight!

To do all 4 Deals, you will need these Coupons...
7 Skippy Qs
2 Lipton Qs
3 Ragu Qs
2 Hellmann's Qs
1 Vaseline Qs

#1-LOWEST INITIAL OOP(do this Scenario 1st if you won't have a $7 Catalina Q to start with)
6 x Skippy PB  Shelf $2.49=$14.94/Sale $1.67=$10.00
2 x Lipton Tea  Shelf  $3.39=$6.78/Sale  $2.50=$5.00
                 Total  Shelf  $21.72/Sale   $15.00
Use 3 x Skippy $1/2 Q=$3.00
Use 1 x Lipton $1/2 Q=$1.00
Coupon Total=$4.00

$15.00-$4.00=$11.00 OOP & get a $7 OYNO Catalina Q.
**If you have a $7 OYNO Catalina Q from rolling this deal this week or from a deal from last week that you can pay with, your total becomes $4.00 OOP instead.

#2
6 x Ragu Sauce Shelf $1.89=$11.34/Sale $1.50=$9.00
4 x Skippy PB  Shelf  $2.49=$9.96/Sale  $1.67=$6.68
               Total Shelf  $21.30/Sale  $15.68
Use 2 x Ragu $1.25/3 Q=$2.50
Use 2 x Skippy $1/2 Q=$2.00
Coupon Total=$4.50

$15.68-$4.50=$11.18 & use the $7 OYNO Cat from the previous deal above and your total becomes $4.18 OOP.
And you get another $7 OYNO Catalina Q.


#3
4 x Skippy PB  Shelf $2.49=$9.96/Sale $1.67=$6.68
2 x Mayo Shelf $3.69 or $4.25=$7.38or$8.50/Sale $3.00=$6.00
1 x Vaseline Lotion  Shelf $3.69/Sale $2.99
       Total  Shelf=$21.03 or $22.15/Sale=$15.67
Use 2 x $1/2 Skippy Q=$2.00
Use 1 x $1/2 Mayo Q=$1.00
Use 1 x $1/1 Vaseline Q=$1.00
Coupon Total=$4.00

$15.67-$4.00Qs=$11.67 & use the $7 OYNO Catalina Q you got from the purchase before and your total becomes $4.67 OOP.
And you get another $7 OYNO Catalina Q.

#4
2 x Mayo  Shelf $4.25=$8.50MUST BUY THE $4.25Mayo/Sale $3.00=$6.00
2 x Lipton Tea  Shelf $3.39=$6.78/Sale $2.50=$5.00
3 x Ragu  Shelf $1.89=$5.67/Sale $1.50=$4.50
     Total Shelf=$20.95/Sale=$15.50
Use 1 x $1/2 Mayo Q=$1.00
Use 1 x $1/2 Tea Q=$1.00
Use 1 x $1.25/3 Ragu Q=$1.25
Coupon Total=$3.25

$15.50=$3.25Qs=$12.25 & use the $7 OYNO Catalina Q you got from the purchase before and your total becomes $5.25 OOP.
And you get another $7 OYNO Catalina Q.

After making these 4 purchases you will have....

14 jars of Skippy Peanut Butter
4 boxes of Lipton Tea Bags
9 jars of Ragu Sauce
4 jars of Mayonnaise
1 bottle of Vaseline Lotion
Products with a regular retail value of $85.00.

It will have cost you $25.10 Out of Pocket or $18.10 Out of Pocket if you used a $7 OYNO Catalina on the first deal.
And you will have a $7 OYNO Coupon to get $7 of free food next shopping trip or use to roll into another Catalina producing Deal in the next week or so before it expires.

Sluggy