With Veterans Day coming up, businesses across the Triangle are offering freebies and discounts as a way of saying thanks to our veterans and active-duty military.

Take note: Many of the deals are valid on Sunday, Nov. 11, the traditional date for the holiday, while others are good on Monday, Nov. 12, which is this year's official holiday.

Grocery and drugstore discounts, restaurant freebies, discounts on home improvement supplies, free car washes and even free Krispy Kreme doughnuts are among the offers.

Here's a round up of Veterans Day promotions:

Deals on Thanksgiving turkeys and all the holiday fixings dominate this week's supermarket circulars. Each of the grocery stores is trying to lure shoppers in with low-price turkeys and sales on canned fruits and vegetables, cranberries, potatoes, dinner rolls, paper plates, vanilla extract, flour, sugar and more.

Harris Teeter also has a killer deal on cereals for 25 cents each and milk for $2.97 per gallon. Lowes Foods is offering bonus gasoline rewards. Food Lion has some worthwhile BOGO deals. And Aldi is offering its $1 whole fresh pineapple along with other stellar produce deals.

Read on for all the best deals at Harris Teeter, Lowes Foods, Food Lion and Aldi.

A new Just Save grocery store in Louisburg is celebrating its grand opening this week with lots of special prices and deals.

If you live anywhere nearby -- or you don't mind a road trip to score a deal -- you might want to check the store out. The store address is: 115 S. Bickett Blvd., Shannon Village, Louisburg.

There are some really great deals, especially on baking products for the upcoming holidays.

How does 99-cent Gold Medal flour sound?

Here are some of the specials that caught my eye:

It's a great week for deals at the grocery stores. Take a look.

Among the highlights at Harris Teeter: free Colgate toothpaste and Yoplait Simplait, 7-cent bologna, 10-cent hot dogs, 50-cent Greek yogurt, $1 pizza dough, $1 per pound, split chicken breasts, $1.25 cantaloupe, six E-Vic Specials and a General Mills promotion that shaves $5 instantly off your order.

Among the highlights at Lowes Foods: 30-cent Yoplait yogurt, 97-cent per pound split chicken breasts, $2 All laundry detergent, Gold Medal flour for $2.50, a new set of in-store coupons and double fuel rewards.

Among the highlights at Food Lion: 50-cent green peppers, 69-cent cucumbers, $1 Ragu pasta sauce, $1.12 Cabot cheese, three pounds of Gala apples for $2.50 and a General Mills promotion that shaves $5 instantly off your order.

And finally, at Aldi, you'll find some fantastic produce deals.

Keep reading for a long list of the very best of this week's deals at Harris Teeter, Lowes Foods, Food Lion at Aldi.

Please add your best deals in the comments section below.

With Labor Day weekend just a few days away, the grocery stores are offering lots of sales on picnic foods, including nice deals on hot dogs, buns, condiments, deli salads, soda, bottled water, ice cream and paper goods.

There are also some great produce bargains, including:

• cantaloupe for $1.49 at Harris Teeter,
• honeydew melon for $1.29 each at Aldi
• four pound bags of red potatoes for just 97 cents at Lowes Foods
• green peppers and cucumbers for 50 cents each at Food Lion.

Keep reading for all the very best of this week's grocery deals at Harris Teeter, Lowes Foods, Food Lion and Aldi. I've also included Sunday's Kroger deals at the bottom of the post for easier price comparison.

Please share any good deals you find in the comments section below so we can all save even more.

Harris Teeter and Lowes Foods are offering great deals this week on kitchen staples such as yogurt, peanut butter, milk, bread, shredded cheese, chicken breasts, ground beef and coffee.

I've included the very best of the deals from the new circulars as well as a host of unadvertised specials with outstanding coupon match-ups.

In the produce department, each of the stores has some nice deals:

• seedless grapes for 97 cents per pound at Harris Teeter
• cantaloupe for $1.50 each at Food Lion
• tomatoes on the vine for $1.19 per pound at Aldi
• five pounds of Russet potatoes for $1.97 at Lowes Foods

On top of that, Lowes Foods and Harris Teeter are both offering nice "Meal Deal" specials. Coupons make these even better deals.

The drugstores are offering some nice bargains this week but the real steals and deals are at Kroger, where milk is $1.99 per gallon, bread and buns are just 88 cents and the list of products under 50 cents is impressive.

Here are a few highlights:

At CVS, Heinz Ketchup is 50 cents, Renuzit air fresheners are 70 cents and Listerine is 99 cents for a 500ml bottle. There are also nice deals on Revlon nail polish and lip colors.

At Rite Aid, stock up on free hand sanitizer, free and cheap pain relievers and 49-cent Hershey's Simple Pleasures. There's also a nice deal on Lysol products that you can combine with a mail-in rebate, a nice M&Ms deal and a discounted gift card deal.

At Walgreens, you can pick up 25-cent Crest toothpaste and Oral B flossers, 40-cent Chex Mix, Dial hand soap for 60 cents and a super deal on Tresemme hair products.

But as I mentioned, the very best deals are at Kroger. On top of the cheap milk and bread, you can pick up free Chex Mix, bottles of Dial hand soap for 18 cents and cheap deals on Fiber One bars, Nabisco Snack Saks, Birds Eye Steamfresh veggies, Hefty Storage Bags, Dannon Oikos Greek yogurt, and the list goes on.

Keep reading for all the best deals and coupon matchups. And PLEASE jump in with the deals you find. Post them in the comments section.

There are great deals this week on split chicken breasts, frozen chicken breasts, shrimp, London Broil, Birds Eye Steamfresh veggies, Gevalia coffee, back-to-school snacks, cereals and Pantene and Herbal Essences hair care products -- just to name a few.

I've included the very best of the deals from the new circulars as well as a host of unadvertised specials with outstanding coupon match-ups.

On top of that, Lowes Foods is offering 10 opportunities for enhanced fuel rewards when you buy select products while Food Lion is offering a gift card promotion for fans of P&G products.

And finally, don't overlook the produce deals at Aldi, which include bananas for 44 cents a pound and mangoes for 59 cents each.

(I'm also including the best of the Kroger deals at the bottom of the post for easier comparison.)

As always, happy shopping. And please report in on any good deals you find.

Here's my morning haul from Harris Teeter during the first day of its Super Doubles coupon event.

You know you're doing well in the savings department when you owe more in taxes than you owe for the actual goods.

Here's the breakdown:

I purchased $81.27 worth of groceries. My total before taxes was 83 cents. The tax was $1.61.

That figures out to be a 99.9 percent savings before taxes or 97 percent after taxes.

A great deal no matter how you figure it.

Even though I'm a seasoned couponer, it's still amazing to me to see how a few slips of paper can make such a difference in a family's grocery budget.

How did I get my total that low?

N&O food writer Andrea Weigl has an important story in today's Food section about the impending rise in grocery store prices because of this summer's drought in the Midwest.

Experts are predicting at least a 5 percent increase in prices on everything from breads and cereals to beef and poultry.

The price increases are likely to show up next year as the shortages move through the supply chain so you have plenty of time to tweek your grocery spending habits to stay within your budget.

Click HERE to read Andrea's story, which includes some great tips from cooking experts as well as a few money-saving tips from me.