If you've been wanting to sharpen your coupon skills, here's your chance to take a crash course.
Registration is now open for my next coupon workshop, a half-day class on Saturday, June 16.
You'll leave with all the information you need to start saving at least 50 percent on your weekly grocery bill, if not more. We'll also feed you breakfast and give you a nice goodie bag to take home with you.
Updated 10 a.m. Wednesday.
Harris Teeter's Super Doubles coupon promotion starts Wednesday and runs through Feb. 21 with lots of potential for super good deals. In many cases, we're talking freebies and items for under $1.
I've compiled a comprehensive list specifically tailored to Triangle shoppers by walking the aisles of my local Harris Teeter in Apex to verify prices and sale dates.
If the deal is based on a regular-priced item, I've noted that on the list. If the deal is part of a sale that is continuing, I've indicated that information as well.
All of the coupons listed are among those we received here in the Triangle, along with readily available printables, magazine and tearpad coupons.
Click "read more" for the list.
The big grocery news this week, of course, is the surprise announcement by Lowes Foods that it would offer its first ever Super Doubles promotion. Click here to read and print my good deals list. There are lots of freebies and other good deals under $1.
Keep reading this post for the very best deals at Harris Teeter, Food Lion and Aldi, along with other Lowes Foods bargains that don't require Super Double coupons.
This week, I especially like the $2.97 per gallon milk at Harris Teeter and the $10 per dozen roses and $1.39 per pound strawberries, both at Aldi.
I've also attached Sunday's Kroger deals to the bottom of the list to make comparison shopping easier for you.
Happy bargain hunting, and please post if you find a good deal while you're out and about so we can all save more.
SavingStar, the online digital coupon site, has added a dozen new offers to its site.
Among the new coupons:
Not familiar with SavingStar?
Soda, frozen pizzas, ground beef, hot sauces, chips, salsa, popcorn and nuts are all on sale at the grocery stores this week in advance of Super Bowl Sunday. Take advantage of the very best deals and skip the rest.
Food Lion has got ground chuck for just $1.99 per pound and spiral ham for $1.29 per pound. It's also the final week of its money-back promotion on its store-brand products.
Lowes Foods and Harris Teeter both have DiGiorno pizzas for $4 each after coupon. You can also pick up FREE Colgate toothpaste at Lowes Foods and Speed Stick deodorant for 50 cents, along with Heluva Good dip for 69 cents.
At Harris Teeter, Frank's hot sauces are 16 cents and Kettle Brand chips are just 84 cents after coupon.
And at Aldi, as usual, there are some terrific produce deals, including avocados for just 49 cents each and grape tomatoes for 69 cents a pint.
Read on for all the best deals I spotted at Harris Teeter, Lowes Foods, Food Lion and Aldi. I've also included the top deals at Kroger from Sunday for better comparison. Please post any deals you come across while shopping so we can all save even more.
UPDATE: Many folks are reporting that Harris Teeter is restricting this program to customers who have not previously filled prescriptions at a HT pharmacy. This requirement is not spelled out on the punch card, which I gave to members of my coupon class. However, Harris Teeter does specify the requirement in this press release on the program.
Through April 3, you can qualify for a $20 electronic coupon each time you fill a new or transferred prescription at a Harris Teeter pharmacy. It's possible to earn up to 10 $20 credits for a total of $200 in free groceries.
The $20 coupon is loaded on to your cusotmer loyalty card and is deducted from your next purchase. Just a heads up: You can't stop the credit from coming off your order so be prepared to spend at least $20 once you fill a presciption.
Click here to read a press release on the pharmacy program.
Here's a quick and easy way to score $4 in free groceries at Kroger.
Click here to access the digital coupon page at Kroger. Select at least one coupon and load it onto your loyalty card.
Next, you'll be prompted to send four emails to friends telling them about the promotion.
Once you do this, a $4 credit will be loaded onto your Kroger loyalty card. No strings attached.
Spend $4 on groceries and get them all free. Use coupons and bring home even more free groceries.
Be sure to make your holiday grocery list early and check it twice because come Christmas Eve, the supermarkets will be closing and they won't reopen until Dec. 26.
Only the drugstores, along with some gas stations, will be open Christmas Day for those forgotten ingredients or gifts.
Food Lion, Kroger and Lowes Foods all close at 6 p.m. on Christmas Eve. Harris Teeter stores will be open one hour later until 7 p.m.
After that, you'll have to head to the drugstores.
Here are their Christmas hours:
CVS: Hours vary. Check your local store.
Rite Aid: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Select pharmacies: 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Walgreens: Regular stores open 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Twenty-four hour stores open as usual. Pharmacies open in select stores and all 24-hour stores.
