New Grocery Smarts List Available

Wednesday means another new week of SALES!

Check out the Grocery Smarts list and plan your shopping trip! Then let us know how your savings went! We would love to see a picture of your grocery shopping trip and hear about your savings!

Lowes Build and Grow Saturday 7/10/10

Tomorrow Lowes will be having a Build and Grow activity from 10-11am.

Tomorrow the activity will be building a Ball and Cup game.

The clinics are totally FREE. To learn more and register for this event visit the

Lowes Build and Grow.

Cheap Fun for the Weekend

Screaming Coupons has a deal my family is going to love today!

You can get a 3 hour Unlimited Pass to Trafalaga for 7.50

Regularly priced at 15.00!

I love to play mini golf and with this deal it looks like my family better get ready for some fun!

Recipe Using Sale Items

I am so excited to make this for dinner! I looks so yummy. I found this recipe on "PickyPalate". I love that site! Not only are her recipes fantastic, but the pictures she takes are beautiful too! I have some chicken I picked up on sale at Fresh Market, and pasta and bbq sauce from a sale last week this dinner is looking like it will budget friendly and delicious.

BBQ Chicken and Caramelized Red Onion

Ranch Spahetti

For the full recipe and directions check out Picky Palate

Swag Bucks-Mega Friday

ITS FINALLY FRIDAY!

That means once again it is "mega swag bucks" day. Do some extra searching today and see if you can find some more bucks. Fridays are the days that earning bucks for searches is even easier! If you havent signed up yet you can do that learn more on the Swag Bucks site.

New Sales Start Today

Its Wednesday! That means the new grocery lists are up! Check them out below:

Fresh Market

Smiths

Harmons

Maceys

Associated Food Stores

Remember that if you cant make it to the store on Wednesday's to see what days the stores near you restock the shelves. If there is still an item you really want and they don't have it ask

for a rain check so you can pick it up at a great price (and use your coupons) the next time you are at the grocery store.

Where are you shopping this week?

Healthy Family Tip

Do you use "reuseable" grocery bags? I do, and I love them. I use them for much more than just getting groceries home from the store. They carry towels to the pool, toys and and treats for play dates, and store random things that collect in the car, the list goes on and on. Did you know those bags could be making your family sick? I got home from a recent shopping trip and realized the bags were definitely not looking to fresh.

Then, I read this post on Happy Housewife and will admit it kinda made me sick to think that I could have made my family ill! I did a little more research and realized lots of the practices that they talked about are ones that I have done in past (using bags for other things).

A quote from one study says:

"Our findings suggest a serious threat to public health, especially from coliform bacteria including E. coli, which were detected in half of the bags sampled," saidCharles Gerba, a UA professor of soil, water and environmental science and co-author of the study. "Furthermore, consumers are alarmingly unaware of these risks and the critical need to sanitize their bags on a weekly basis."

Yikes huh?! Our Healthy Family tip this week is to make sure those reuseable bags get washed between use. Another way to help make sure you are keeping things clean is to designate bags for produce, meat, and other items. I have bags designated for produce (green bag) meat (red bag) and other groceries (black, blue and purple). Another super easy way to do that is to use a permanent marker and write what the bag is to be used for. Now I am off to wash the reuseable bags before the new sales start tomorrow!

New Mambo Sprouts Coupons

Here are a list new Organic coupons available via Mambo Sprouts. I have found that my local Smith's store has a lot of these products on their shelves.

Pure Organic Bar $1/1

CLIF Kids 6-pack Organic ZBar $1/1

Lifeway Product $1/2

Country Choice Organic Product $1/1

Nasoya Product $1/1

Free Samples to Snatch Up

• Head over to Sonya Renya to score a FREE sample of Hand and Foot Therapy lotion!
• Head over to Sam's Club website and score a FREE sample of Dove Hair Care!

Thanks Hip2Save!

Best Diaper Deals Week of July 4th

We are so excited that the Thrifty Couple does a best deal of the diaper week for us! This week it looks like best deal is at Rite-Aid and you can score FREE Pamper wipes at Walmart! Be sure to check out all the details over on the Thrifty Couple! Thanks again Cassie and Alex for all the hard work! It sure makes getting diapers for less easy!

Target Deals Week of July 4th

This week at Target there are some great deals! My favorites include:

• FREE Sobe Life Water
• .25 Eggo Waffles
• FREE Air Wick Aqua Mist
• FREE Olay Total Effects Body Wash

Be sure to check out a complete set of match ups over at Hip2Save!

Kroger Summer of Savings

Just a reminder that you can play the Smith's Summer of Savings instant win game again! The last prize pool I won a FREE Smart Balance product!

Winco Match Ups FREE Hot Dogs, .43 Chex Mix and More

Right now there are some great deals at Winco that match up with several coupons.

Bar S Hot Dogs .48

Use the $1/2 RP 5/16

Final Price FREE

Chex Mix .98

Use the .55/1 here

Final Price .43

Mariani Dried Fruit $2.25-$2.60
Use the $1.75/1 here

Final Price $1.37-$1.72

Kool Aid .10 each

CH Sugar $1.49

Use the $2/1 CH Sugar when you buy 10 packets of Kool Aid in the SS 6/20

Final Price $1.49 for the bag of sugar and 10 packets of Kool Aid

Thanks to Utah Deal Diva for these match ups. Jessica has a list of more great items she found here on her blog!

Home Depot Movers Club

Home Depot has an offer called the Home Depot Movers Club. When you sign up you get emails about projects, checklists, and other info about moving. PLUS you get a 10% off coupon! Thats my favorite part, A COUPON! There always seems to be a project to finish at my house, so this will come in handy!

Kmart Doubles Health and Beauty Coupons this Week

This week Kmart is doubling Health and Beauty coupons. Be sure to check here to see if your Kmart is participating in this event or you could even call your local store to check.

Here are some details to know before heading out:

• You will have to have a shoppers rewards card and scan it before your transaction (I signed up right at the register)
• You can only double 5 coupons per customer per day
• Only coupons up to $2 will be doubled

I myself do not go to Kmart when they double coupons. I find that 5 coupons isn't worth my drive. I also think that Kmart's prices are higher than many other stores.

If you do decide to do some shopping Bargain Blessings has a list of potential match ups with some items that end up being FREE!

If you end up going let us know how your experience is! We will be anxiously waiting to hear what our readers thought about the event.

Rite Aid Week of July 4th

This week there are a lot of freebies:

• FREE Crest Toothpaste
• FREE No Doz
• FREE Renu
• FREE Blink
• FREE Univeral Remote

Be sure to check out the full list and matchups by FortheMommas!

Walgreens Deals Week of July 4th

It's a new week at Walgreens. Be sure to check out all the match ups here on Grocery Smarts.

My favorite deals this week include:

• Papermate Mechanical Pencils .19 (limit3) with in ad coupon
• Papermate Pens .19 (limit 3) with in ad coupon
• Gillette Fusion Razors for .89 after RR

P&G Suprises Us- Be Sure to Grab the P&G Inserts From Your Newspapers!

Be sure to open up your newspapers, because P&G suprised us with an insert today. Usually we don't see coupons on holiday weekends, but I guess there are always acceptions to the rules!

Coupons in Sundays Newspaper

Happy 4th of July!

Due to the holiday this weekend there will not be any coupons in the paper!

Have a great holiday weekend!

Confessions of a Couponer

I heart my full pantry!

Yep! I do. Silly I know but I love it so much! I love that using coupons and grocery smarts list That's my confession from a "couponer" this week. As I was planning for a family event I made a grocery list and then shopped from my own shelves. My husband looked at the list I had made when I was done "shopping" in my pantry and was AMAZED at all the things I had crossed off the list because we already had them on hand. It was so much fun! Lots of times when I bring products home for ridiculously low prices I will write how much I spent on them vs. regular price. When we added it up there was over $100 in savings just on the ONE list I had made for a family party we will be having. Cool huh? The list of things that do need to be purchased had just produce and milk (not things I keep 3 months of on hand =) )

Do you love your full pantry that has come from using coupons too?

Fun Stuff This Weekend

If you are still wondering where to go catch a firework show this weekend. Check out this list of cities we found that are holding activities and firework shows for the holiday.