Two McDonald's restaurants in the Triangle are hosting coupon swaps this week.

It's a great opportunity to bolster your supply of coupons for Harris Teeter's ongoing Triple Coupon event.

The swaps are at 9:30 a.m. Thursday, May 17, at the following McDonald's:

• 3508 Millbrook Road in Raleigh
• 1830 Walnut Street in Cary

Put your unwanted clipped coupons in an envelope and bring them to swap with fellow couponers.

If you've never attended a coupon swap, I highly recommend it. It's a great way to gather extra coupons for the products your family regularly uses.

The big grocery store news this week, of course, is Triples at Harris Teeter. Check my separate Triples post to read my incredibly long list of good deals, including more than a dozen freebies and more than 30 other items under $1.

Beyond Triples, you can score some nice produce deals at Lowes Foods, Food Lion and Aldi this week. Food Lion also has a great deal on whole chicken fryers for just 79 cents a pound. With the help of coupons, Lowes Foods has a great deal on Pepsi 12 packs and Lance Crackers.

For easier price comparisons, I've also added the Kroger deals from Sunday to the bottom of the list.

Keep reading for all the details and coupon match-ups.

Updated again Tuesday evening with unadvertised deals.

Here's an updated list of freebies and good deals for the upcoming Triple Coupon promotion at Harris Teeter, which starts Wednesday, May 16 and runs through May 22.

After doing a little price checking online and walking the aisles of my local Harris Teeter in Apex to verify sale dates, I discovered lots of sales that continue from last week. I've also added deals from the new sales circular. (My thanks to HotCouponWorld.com for posting the ad early.)

In this most recent update, I've also added numerous unadvertised deals.

All in all, it's shaping up to be a pretty generous promotion with plenty of freebies and items for under $1.

Keep in mind my list is specifically tailored to Triangle shoppers, using Triangle store prices and coupons readily available here, either through newspaper inserts, magazines or Internet printing. No sense getting frustrated looking for a deal we can't get here.

McDonald's has a new frozen drink on its menu. And today only, you can try the Cherry Berry Chiller for just 49 cents.

The deal is good 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. today, May 15, at any McDonald's restaurant in the Triangle.

Here's a deal that will save you money AND help local charities at the same time.

Check out CommonKindness.com, a national coupon-printing site that offers consumers printable coupons and the opporunity to choose one or more local charities to receive donations on your behalf.

Even better, many of the coupons offered on this site are not typically seen in the weekly coupon inserts. If you're on the hunt for coupons on organic products, this site is definitely for you.

How does free pie sound?

Kroger is giving away free single-serve Marie Callender pies right now.

Dollar General has 2-liter bottles of Sun Drop soda on sale this week for 2/$2.

So it's perfect timing to use two $1/1 coupons from the 5/6 Smart Source.

That adds up to free soda!

Be sure to clip the .50/1 coupon on Gain dish liquid in today's Procter & Gamble insert contained in the Final Edition of The News & Observer.

Take it to Harris Teeter, where 9 oz. and 11 oz. bottles are on sale for 89 cents through Tuesday evening and you'll scored yourself a bottle of free dish liquid after every-day double coupons.

But no worries if you forget.

Next week, if the price returns to its regular $1.19, it will still be free during Harris Teeter's upcoming Triple Coupons event. You can read more about that HERE.

If you don't need dish liquid, please consider purchasing it and donating it.

It's a holiday weekend for moms so even though you might want to take a break from bargain shopping today, be sure to carve out some time later in the week to pick up some pretty terrific deals.

It's always worth shopping when the stores are willing to pay YOU to carry merchandise out of their stores. And that's what you can do at Walgreens this week with a little coupon magic involving a new Starbucks product. (Keep reading for the details.)

There are also excellent deals on Kraft barbecue sauce, Pantene and sunscreen at CVS. At Rite Aid, you'll find stellar buys on Pepsi 12-packs, Kellogg's cereals and M&M's and an even better deal on Pantene -- at just 75 cents a bottle. And at Walgreens, besides being paid to buy Starbucks, you'll find a good deal on Purex laundry detergent.

Over at Kroger, there are some excellent produce deals as well as a nice deal on Sargento and Kraft cheeses.

Once you hit the aisles, please post any great deals you spot so we can all save more.

The News & Observer's  coupon database has been updated with all of the new coupons.
This Sunday's home-delivered Final Edition of The News & Observer contains three inserts -- one Smart Source, one Red Plum and a rare mid-month P&G in honor of Mother's Day.

There's a grand total of 146 coupons with a face value of $196.

That's before you double the first coupon, of course, which we have the opportunity to do every day of the week at Kroger, Harris Teeter and Lowes Foods. And let's not forget the prospect of possible of Triples at Harris Teeter coming up.

Be sure to take note of the 50-cent coupon on Gain dish liquid in the P&G insert. That will score you FREE dish liquid at Harris Teeter, where it's on sale for under $1 this week through Tuesday evening.

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Not familiar with the coupon database? You can access it on the right-hand side of the blog. There's a button at the bottom right to view it as a full-size page.
Or, you can download it as an Excel spreadsheet by clicking on the attachment at the bottom of this post.
It's a handy tool, giving you the most timely and detailed list of coupons in the Triangle.
For a detailed how-to post on the database, read my Coupons 101 section HERE.
 

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