Free Calendar with Coupons- Deal of the Day

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Taste Buds- Colgate Wisps Review with Coupon

Alright this week we tried the new Colgate Wisps! They retail around $2.39 for a package of 4.

Colgate Wisps give you the just brushed clean anytime, anywhere feeling.

Sugar Free

3 different flavors of toothpaste

No water or rinsing necessary

Single use mini-brush

Just brush and go!

Soft pick gets to hard to reach places

Bristles gently remove food and other particles

Freshening bead dissolves in use

Single use

Discreet and portable

Powerful breath freshening

Just brush and go!

The package is small enough that it is easy to carry in a purse, small bag and even possibly your pants pocket!

I had just finished eating my dinner in the car and was about to walk into teach a class and realized I had forgotten my gum in the other car. I quickly pulled out my little Colgate Wisps package. The brush was super easy to get out of the pull back foil package.

As I started to brush I was impressed with the bristles and that they looked like they would hurt my poor little gums since I wouldn't have water to moisten it, but I was surprised at how painless it was. It took a couple seconds before the bead "burst" and I could tell it was freshening my breath and cleaning my mouth. It was weird not to spit anything out when I was through, but overall I felt confident that my teeth were clean and my breath was fresh. You can only use it once and then it needs to be thrown away.

This product got an A in my book! It definitely isn't a substitute for a toothbrush and toothpaste, but it made a great fix for me. I would buy more next time they went on sale! I am not sure I would have paid $2.39, but $1.39 yes.

Click here to get a .50 off manufacture coupon and click here to get a .50 off Target coupon!

Canning Up my Utah Garden

Yesterday as I watched my two boys play in the yard I noticed how all my fruit and vegetables were producing for me! I quickly realized it is time to pull out the pressure cooker and jars to bottle and make jam! The problem is, I have NO idea how to do any of it! I am planning on having my mother in law help me, but I would love any tips that you have for me!

My plans are to:

Bottle:

green beans

tomatoes

Freeze:

hot peppers

green peppers

Make Jam from:
blackberries

raspberries

First I guess I need to shop smart for my jars and supplies. The best price I can see right now is

12 pint Kerr Jars for $6.37 and use my $3/2 case coupon from RP 4/26 making them $4.87 each. I think the best price I have seen on lids was $1.35 for 12.

Then I am looking for a couple recipes for blackberry or raspberry jam!

Can anyone help me? I am excited to try these new ways of preserving food! Wish me luck!

Box Tops for Education in Utah

I noticed that this week was the "Box Top" promos at Albertsons and Smiths in honor of back to school. I remember when I was in elementary school my mom would clip those box top logos off participating products, but I don't remember much more than that, so I decided to find out more!

Box Tops has helped America's schools earn over $250 million in the past 12 years. Your school can earn up to $60,000 every year – that's as much as $20,000 from each of these three easy ways to earn.
You can make a difference for your school every time you shop for groceries! Just clip the Box Tops coupons from hundreds of your favorite products and send them to your child's school. Each box top is worth .10!

To see a list of all the products that have box tops on them click here.

There is also a neat feature here that lets you see how much money your school has earned in box tops. I checked out my old school and they have earned over $8000 from box tops! I can't believe what a wonderful program this is! We are all use to clipping coupons, so we mine as well take the extra minute and clip off those box tops for our local schools. There are also other ways to earn money through box tops by shopping at places like Oriental Trading and Barnes and Nobles. To read more about that click here.

Emily and I were taking about this and she mentioned to me that her kids at church beg for her extra box tops because when they take them into their classrooms they can earn prizes. Some classes even have parties if they bring in the most box tops of the course of the school year!

Starkist Tear Into Flavor Sweepstakes!

Enter and get a chance for $500 or a free Starkist Creations Pouch from the Starkist Tear Into Flavor Sweepstakes! There is $500 given away daily, plus 100 coupons for free Starkist Creations Pouches! You can play this sweepstakes daily thru October 11, 2009. You’ll simply pick a pouch and see if you’ve won! Even if you don’t win you can still print off a coupon for $0.50 Starkist Creation pouches.

for official rules and details click here

You can enter daily until 10/11/09

Wanchai Ferry Winner Announced

The winner of the Wanchai Ferry giveaway is-----entry #9 Joanna Wilkins - Follower!

Congratulations Joanna! E-mail us over your address so we can coordinate getting your prize pack to you!

No matter whether you won or not, here is an online coupon for $1.50 off here.

Arbys Freebie Wednesday

Can you believe another week has gone by? Its Wednesday again already?!!! That means its ARBYS FREEBIE WEDNESDAY! This week you can have a FREE Iced FruiTea with the purchase of any sandwich at Arbys.

Click here to read more about the Freebie Wednesdays.

Tuesdays Meal Planning

Here is my meal plan for this upcoming week. To read about how I plan my meals click here.

This week I am planning my meals around Albertsons and Buy Low Markets produce.

Breakfast

Yogurt, granola bars and orange juice

Pancakes, bacon and juice

Cereal and cinnamon toast

Parfaits (yogurt, strawberries and granola)

Oatmeal and peaches

Pillsbury Toaster Strudels and grapes

Lunch

Turkey Wraps

Macaroni and Cheese, Chex Mix with watermelon

Peanut Butter and Jelly with granola bars and fruit snacks

Ritz Crackers topped with chicken salad with raisins and fruit

Totinos Pizza rolls with string cheese and smoothies

Grilled Cheese and Ham sandwiches, blueberries and goldfish crackers

Dinner

Fiesta Lime Chicken

Slow Cooked BBQ Beef Sandwiches

Hawaiian Hamburgers

Parmesan-Herb Crusted Chicken

Bertolli Oven Baked Lasagna, salad and garlic bread sticks

Arby's Wednesday

Snacks

Fruit Snacks

Grapes

Pudding Snacks

Popcorn

Watermelon

chips and homemade salsa

Dessert

Strawberry Pie

Ice Cream Cups

Worms n Dirt

Utah's Thanksgiving Point

Just a reminder that any Venue at Thanksgiving Point on Tuesday's in August are $2!!! My boys are super excited for Farm Country today! See you there!

Deal of the Day

I have a sister in law who has 4 children and every time we suggest going out to eat she reminds me that with 4 kids it becomes way too expensive and that eating at home is better option for their family. I can only imagine how expensive that could get, but with deals like this it makes eating out affordable and a great treat! IHOP ~ Kids Eat FREE 4pm-10pm daily
Receive one free Kid’s Meal with each adult entrée purchase.
For a limited time.
Free meal valid for kids 12 and under on “Just for Kids’ menu items.

Where are My Utah Red Plum Inserts?

If you are new to She Shops Smart, or missed the first post we wrote, here, about Red Plum being distributed by mail here is another reminder. If you are receiving any paper in the state of Utah, accept for the Daily Herald, your RP inserts will now be mailed to you rather than in your Sunday newspaper. Good news is you get them for FREE in the mail, however you can no longer receive multiple copies, so start asking your neighbors for their unused copies. For those of you receiving the Daily Herald you will continue to receive your inserts in the paper. The Daily Herald was contracted with RP to keep the inserts in the paper, so they are unable to break the contract, but I am guessing that when their contract is up that the coupons will be pulled from the Daily Herald as well.
It is bitter sweet. Yes, we will miss the RP inserts in the paper, but we will still be receiving them . To find out whether you will be receiving the inserts in your paper or in the mail go HERE. Also, did you know that more than 75% of our coupon usage comes from the Smart Source insert? If you have been couponing for a while that is not new news to you. Half of my RP insert coupons go unused.

Class Openings

She Shops Smart is having a FREE class for all of you who have been invited to a class and couldn't make it, or would like to attend a class without hosting one!

The class will be on Monday August 31st in Provo at 7pm.

There are only 55 seats available, so e-mail us now to get your ticket!

In our class we will teach you to:

• Shop at only one grocery store- no running around town!
• Buy all your families’ groceries, household, and personal care items (including diapers) all for about $200 for a family of four- while building massive food storage at the same time!
• No clipping and filing individual coupons- Quick and easy! A HUGE way to save money!
• Eat a healthy, well balanced diet, and have ease in meal planning!
• Use the FREE website- There is no cost to attend and no cost to use the website
• Get a newspaper subscription at a great price

E-mail sheshopssmart@gmail.com and we will e-mail you over your FREE ticket to bring with you that night!

Coupons in Sundays Paper

Today in my Daily Herald paper I found:

1 SS insert

1 RP insert

(remember, only the DH receives RP in the paper. Everyone else gets it in the mail)

3 twice the value coupons to Albertsons!

Old Navy Wonder Sale

Old Navy holds another unbelievable “One Day Wonder” sale this weekend! Women’s rib knit tank tops are available for just $2 (Limit 5 per customer. Select styles only).The sale takes place this Saturday 8/15. If you’re interested, plan to shop early because these are sure to go quickly!

Visit the M80 newsroom here for more details!

Don't forget to head over to Old Navy Weekly, here, for additional coupons! Have no idea what Old Navy Weekly is, click here to read our past posts.

Free Chocolate Friday

Don't forget to register for today's FREE chocolate bars here!
Do you have no idea what I am talking about? Click here to read about FREE chocolate Fridays!

Wanchai Ferry Giveaway

Blog Spark invited my family to try the new Wanchai Ferry frozen entrees and my family loved the Orange Chicken last night! It was yummy restaurant quality food for two that cooked in about 15min. It was faster and cheaper than going and eating out! My husband made the comment that is didn't taste soggy like typical frozen Chinese entrees can get. Wanchai Ferry frozen entrees has five delicious flavors including Orange Chicken, Shrimp Lo Mein, Spicy Garlic Chicken, Sweet & Sour Chicken and Sweet & Spicy Shrimp. Additionally, all of the entrees have no added MSG!

Now here is your chance to win dinner from Wanachai for your family! If you are chosen you will win 2 coupons to try the Wanchai Ferry frozen entrees for free, as well as some great Asian inspired rice bowls, chopsticks and bamboo place mats to eat with!

You can enter to win this prize by doing one or both of the following options:

1) Tell us the the best fortune from a fortune cookie you´ve ever received.

2) Become a follower of our blog.

This means you can have up to two entries for this prize! The contest will close at MIDNIGHT on Tuesday, August 18th. We will announce the winner on Wednesday afternoon!

No matter whether you win or not, here is an online coupon for $1.50 off here. Good Luck, or Good Fortune =)

Wednesday Show and Tell

Here is an awesome Show & Tell from one of our awesome readers who just started using the system! Here is what she scored!

Oh my gosh!" That was the catch phrase that I repeated several times after my 2nd successful shopping smart grocery trip. 5 transactions later I came home with:
12 Del Monte Fruit Naturals 7.5oz
30 Powerade's 32oz.
2 Pringles Super Stacks 180ct.
5 Lipton Dry Onion Soup Mix 2 pack
4 Fiber One Bars box 7oz.
10 Betty Crocker Brownie Supreme Mixes
10 Betty Crocker Fruit Snacks 4.5-9oz.
6 Suave Professional Shampoo/Conditioner 14.5oz. (I got a mixture)
5 Betty Crocker Warm Delighs 2.9-3.35oz.
4 Betty Crocker cookie pouches 17.5oz.
3 Betty Crocker frosting tubs 12-16oz.
2 Betty Crocker cake mixes 18-19oz.
10 Betty Crocker Specialty Potatoes 20oz.
5 Bisquick Mixes 20oz.
9 boxes of Honey Nut Cheerios
2 boxes Cinnamon Toast Crunch
I spent $81.12 dollars (including tax) and saved $247.08!!!! And, I only used 2 coupons from Sunday inserts (because I've only just begun to gather those together...my first 4 Sunday papers arrive tomorrow). Everything was with ABC coupons! Holy cow! That's roughly $0.61 per item!!! I took a picture of everything in my kitchen before I began to unpack. Pretty darn cool! And to think that I'm just a beginner! I'm so excited to know that I'll get better with time! Thanks for everything you do to make this happen quickly and without painkillers at the end of the shopping trip!!!

Amy W.

Free Sample of Nature Valley Granola Bars

Receive a FREE Nature Valley Trail Mix Bar and a FREE sample bag of New Granola Nut Clusters here. You will sign-up and then need to confirm your e-mail address. You sample will arrive in 6-8 weeks.

Free Starter at Mim's Cafe

Here is a coupon for a FREE starter at Mimi's Cafe.

"Dine at Mimi's Cafe and take along this coupon for a FREE starter with the purchase of a meal priced at $10 or more. Vaid through 8/31/09."

When you visit their site HERE, there is also a coupon for a FREE dessert. I bet that can't be used in the same meal, but all the more reason to go back right

20% off at California Pizza Kitchen

Click here to sign up for yours!

The holder of the CPK Adventure Card is entitled to receive a 20% discount on all NEW food menu items (food items ONLY on menu that say “NEW”) at California Pizza Kitchen’s (CPK) participating restaurants in the U.S. only (excluding airport locations, stadium venues, The Mirage in Las Vegas and Concord Mills, NC). Not valid in Guam or at International locations. Card must be presented at time of purchase. Card has no cash value and is non-transferable. Card will be mailed directly to the address indicated. This offer may not be combined with any other offer or discount. Not valid on alcohol, tax, gratuity, retail or gift card purchases. Not valid on delivery orders. For dine-in orders, please present card to server before payment. For take-out, please notify us at time of order pick up. Don’t worry, your information is safe with us. California Pizza Kitchen promises never to rent, sell or trade any personal information provided. Privacy Policy
For assistance or to find a location near you, visit cpk.com or call 1-800-91-WE-CARE.
Adventure Cards will be distributed until August 31, 2009. Card expires September 15, 2009.