Martin’s Best Deals 6/16
Here are Martin’s Best Deals of the Week! I focus on the healthy grocery deals, as well as personal care and household deals.
PRODUCE
Dole or Giant Salad Blend Buy One Get One Free
Natures Promise Organically Grown Romaine Hearts or Grape Tomatoes $3.50
Baby Carrots or Baby Bella Mushrooms 3/$5
Red Seedless Grapes .88/lb (limit 5 lbs with coupon on front flap of ad and $25 purchase)
Strawberries 2 lb pkg $3.99
Dairy
Butter $2
Laughing Cow Cheese Wedges $2
Giant Chunk Cheese $2
Meat
Boneless Skinless Chicken Thighs $1.99/lb according to the online ad
Boneless Skinless Chicken Breasts $1.99/lb according to the paper ad
Plumrose Smoked Hamsteak Buy One Get One Free
Grocery
Save $5 promo when you buy 5 promo, all items are listed on the back page of the ad.
My favorites
Poptarts $2
-$1/3 Pop Tarts from the 5/19 RP
Kellogg’s Special K Bars or Pastry Crisps $2.50
-$1/3 Kelloggs Special K bars or Pastry Crisps 5 ct + from the 5/5 RP (limit 4 coupons)
Special K Crackers or Cracker Chips $2.50
-$1/2 Kellogg’s Special K Crackers or Cracker Chips 3.48 oz + (limit 4)
Kellogg’s Fiber Plus Protein Bars $2.50
(look for peelie coupons on product you are buying)
-$1/2 Kellogg’s Nutrigrain or Fruit Crunch Granola Bars 5 ct + (limit 4) RP 5/5
There are others cookies and snacks included as well Here’s a link to the Martin’s ad. Let me know and I will help you find coupons for these items as well.
Deal scenario #1
(5) Poptarts $10
-$1/3 Pop Tarts from the 5/19 RP
- $5 off instantly
Total for 5 boxes of Poptarts $4
Deal Scenario #2
(5) Special K Crackers/Chips $12.50
- (2) $1/2 Kellogg’s Special K Crackers or Cracker Chips 3.48 oz +
-$5 off Instantly
Total $5.50 for $5
Buy 3 Kelloggs Cereals and get $4 off instantly
Prices range from $3-$4
Here are some links to find Kellogg’s coupons
$1/3 Kellogg’s coupons 10 oz + in the RP 6/2 (limit 4)
Quaker Cap’n Crunch or Life Cereal 3/$6 must buy 3
Thomas English Muffins Buy One Get One Free
Stroehmann Dutrch Country Bread Buy One Get One Free
Betty Crocker Fruit Snacks 4/$6 must buy 4
- .50/2 Betty Crocker Fruit Snacks select varieties (Martin’s will double one)
- .60/2 Betty Crocker Fruit Snacks select varieties (Martin’s will double one)
These are just a few of my favorite deals this week. What are your favorites? I’ll update this post throughout the week as I come across more deals
Weekly Menu Plan 6/16
Of all the ways to save money, Menu Planning is probably the hardest for me. I decided to challenge myself to use what we have in our fridge and freezer for the next couple weeks, so I’ll be putting more of an effort into menu planning. Menu plans can be as simple or detailed as you want. I try to keep them a s simple as possible. 
Breakfast
Cereal
Yogurt
Oatmeal
Eggs
Lunch
Perdue Simply Smart Nuggets
Lunch meat
Peanut Butter
Tuna Fish
Fruit
Yogurt
Salads
Dinner
Pork Roast +Mashed Potatoes
Breakfast for Dinner
Pasta with ground beef
pasta with ground turkey
Pork Chops + Brown Rice
Salads
Frozen Veggies
Leftovers
Dinner out
1′rst weekly weight update
I’m starting a new series on the blog. I have started a new weight loss plan. Each week I will update you on my progress. I’d love you to join me.
My weight today is 219. I’ve struggled with my weight for a long time. In the past I’ve had a tendency to let myself get stressed or upset and turn to food. I’ve always known that it was a choice I was making. I guess let myself be overwhelmed and discouraged instead of doing something about it.
I’ve decided make some changes. Healthy food is always in the house, I just eat too much of it or I buy other unhealthy foods when I go out.
I thought it would be an interesting challenge to stick to my current $80-$90/week budget and use the exercise machines and videos that I already have and make a goal to loose 8-12 pounds in a month. When I get on a diet plan and stick to it in the past I’ve lost a little more in the first month than I do normally. Many times you will loose an extra few pounds in water weight. After the first month my goal is to loose 8-10 pounds a month.
I hope you will join me in this challenge. I think it will be a lot of fun. Stay tuned for my next weight loss update on Friday.
Gas points Extravaganza at Martin’s
This is a very exciting promo. When you buy 6 participating products you get .40/gallon. You can do this promo up to 10 times, which can equal to free gas! Since I’ve never seen anything like it before, I decided to try my hand at before church this morning. I was done everything including checking out within 30 minutes. God really blessed me when I got to Martin’s, all the lower priced items were in abundance at the store, I hardly made a dent in their stock. So I decided to focus on the lowest priced items when I did the promotion.
Here’s what I did:
(30) Yoplait Greek 100 $1.00 ea
(24) Dannon Light and Fit 4 packs $1.66
(6) Sargento Shredded Cheese $2.50
It cost me $88, but after it I earned 4100 gas points, 100 of it was from all my other purchases. When you spend 100 you get 100 gas points. 4100 gas points=$4.10/gallon of gas. This will save you $65 in gas. After I calculated the gas savings into my total,it ended up being $23 after gas savings is calculated. I called the store and they told me that if the gas price is lower than your points, you use the balance on a future trip.
Another good gas promo is buy 5 selected frozen items
Frozen * Gas points promo*
buy 5 earn 40 gas points
Turkey Hill All Natural Ice Cream
- $1/1 Turkey Hill All Natural Ice Cream
OR
$1/1 Turkey Hill All Natural Ice Cream
OR
$1/1 Turkey Hill All Natural Ice Cream RP 4/7/13
Skinny Cow Novelties 10-5-24 fl oz pkg (excludes Skinny Cow Truffle Bars)
Giant Frozen Greek Yogurt Bars selected varieties
Newman’s Own Pizza or Entree $5.49
Talenti Gelato or Sorbeto $3.99
New York Garlic Bread or Toast $2.50
Lindy’s Italian Ice $2
Yoplait Frozen Yogurt $3
Seviroli Large Cheese Ravioli $3.69
Friendly’s Dessert Roll or Cupcakes $4.99
Yoplait Original or Greek Frozen Yogurt Bars $3.50
Dole Frozen Fruit Bars $2.99
Diana’s Chocolate Covered Bananas $3.99
Philly Swirl Stix $2.39
Mrs T’s Pierogies $2.29
I decided to buy
(3) Lindy’s Italian Ice $2
(1) Greek Yogurt Chocoalate Bar $2.50
(1) Yoplait Frozen Yogurt $3.50
Look for a tearpad coupon for this when you shop.
Total $12
Total after gas savings $5.60
I ended up with 4,500 gas points today. I hope that this post shows you how you can save on gas too. You don’t have to separate into transactions or anything, it just automatically calculates it . The only things to remember is to buy in quantities of 6 for the dairy promo, and 5 for the frozen promo. The dairy and frozen promo is mix and match.
Let me know if you have any questions, I’d love to hear from you.
Best Deals at Martin’s 6/9
In addition to the huge gas promotion at Martin’s, they have other other great sales as well.
Here are a few of my favorites:
Produce
Blueberries Buy One Get One Free
Grape Tomatoes Buy One Get One Free
Romaine Hearts Buy One Get One Free
Peaches .79/lb with coupon and $25 purchase
Dairy
Check out my post here for the awesome gas promo for cheese,lactaid, smart balance, and yogurt
Meat
Boneless Skinless Chicken Breasts Buy One Get One Free
Hatfielld Simply Tender Pork Loin Filets Buy One Get One Free
Hillshire Farm Smoked Kielbasa Buy One Get One Free
80/20 Hamburger $2.49/lb with coupon and $25 purchase
Pork Sirloin Cutlets $1.99/lb
Perdue Baked, Breaded, Whole Grain, Low Fat Cutlet’s or Tender $3.50
-$1/1 Perdue Refrigerated Breaded Chicken 6/2 RP
Frozen Treats Promo
Save $4 when you purchase 4 participating products – prices are not listed and may vary
Popsicle Ice Pops 10-33 oz pkg (look for the signs)
Fruttare 10.8-17.6 oz pkg (be sure to match the coupon with the product being purchased, these are for two different types)
-$1/1 Fruttare Fruit and Milk Bars
OR
Ben and Jerry’s Ice Cream
- $1/1 Ben and Jerry’s Frozen Yogurt or Ice Cream
Klondike Novelties, or Magnum Ice cream Bars 10-33 fl oz pkg
Good Humor Ice Cream Novelties or Good Humor Candy Ice Cream 16.5-19.8 fl oz pkg
Magnum Mini 11.1 fl oz pkg
Frozen * Gas points promo*
buy 5 earn 40 gas points
Turkey Hill All Natural Ice Cream
- $1/1 Turkey Hill All Natural Ice Cream
OR
$1/1 Turkey Hill All Natural Ice Cream
OR
$1/1 Turkey Hill All Natural Ice Cream RP 4/7/13
Skinny Cow Novelties 10-5-24 fl oz pkg (excludes Skinny Cow Truffle Bars)
Giant Frozen Greek Yogurt Bars selected varieties
Newman’s Own Pizza or Entree $5.49
Talenti Gelato or Sorbeto $3.99
New York Garlic Bread or Toast $2.50
Lindy’s Italian Ice $2
Yoplait Frozen Yogurt $3
Seviroli Large Cheese Ravioli $3.69
Friendly’s Dessert Roll or Cupcakes $4.99
Yoplait Original or Greek Frozen Yogurt Bars $3.50
Dole Frozen Fruit Bars $2.99
Diana’s Chocolate Covered Bananas $3.99
Philly Swirl Stix $2.39
Mrs T’s Pierogies $2.29
Nestle Promo
Buy 4 get $2 off Instantly
Nestle Refrigerated Cookie Dough $2.50
- $1.25/2 Nestle Toll House Refrigerated Coolie Dough
NesQuik Chocolate Milk Mix $3.99
Nestle Nezquik Chocolate Milk $3
Nesquik Syrup $1.99
Bread
Arnold Sandwich Thins Buy One Get One Free
Giant 100% Wheat Bread $1
Grocery
Ken’s Marinade Buy One Get One Free
-=$1/1 Ken’s Marinade SS 5/5
Eight O Clock Coffee Buy One Get One Free
-$1/1 Eight O Clock Coffee
General Mills Promo
Buy 4 General Mills Cereals get $6 off instantly
You can find potential coupons for Cheerios, MultiGraiu Cheerios, Chex, Cinnamon Toast Crunch, Golden Grahams and many other on these sites
If you do this deal you can get cereal for $1-$1.50 a box.
Nabisco Promo
Buy 4 Nabisco Ritz Crackers , Small Snack Crackers, Toasted Chips, or Premium Saltines $3.00 ea
Potential Coupons
$1/2 Wheat Thins coupon 8 oz or larger in the 6/9/SS
$1/2 Ritz Toasted Chips 8.1 oz or larger in the 5/12 SS
Minimal grocery spending challenge
On Facebook today, I announced that I’ll be cutting way back on our grocery spending after tomorrow’s sale at Martin’s. The fridge will seriously be overflowing so I’ll need the rest of the month to even begin to go through the stuff. 
You’re ‘probably thinking I’m crazy and wondering how it’s possible to do that. I’m sure you know that one of the benefits of using coupons and buying things when they are on sale is that you have a stockpile. To me a stockpile, is a collection of the items your family uses most, bought when those items are at their lowest price. I typically try to stock up enough on the products we use to last 6-8 weeks.
Don’t worry my fridge and my pantry are very full. We won’t be eating just peanut butter sandwiches over the next couple weeks, though my husband and my little girl would love to. :) We have a full pantry, fridge, and freezer. I haven’t gone much over my $80-$90/week budget to build it. I’ve built it over a couple months, my goal with stockpiling is to build it, and then go a couple weeks without buying much so that we actually use the foods we’ve stocked up on.
Over the next couple weeks, we’ll be buying basic necessities. We’ll be purchasing bread, milk, produce, rice, and things like that. I’d love for you to join me, even if you only have enough in your pantry for a week or even a few days, using what you have on in your pantry can save you a lot of money. Remember you can do this too, when chicken breasts are Buy One Get One buy a couple, and when pork loin is $1.99 lb you can get a package and use it for next week so that you don’t have to pay full price. Even if you save $5 a week, that’s $5 that you didn’t have before, you can put it aside and save it. Over time the savings will build up, and your pantry will be more full too. Just to give you an example of the foods that you can stock up on, I’ll share what we have in our pantry right now.
Here’s what we have in our pantry now, all of these are items that you can stock up on.
Peanut Butter
Tuna
BBQ Sauce
Salad Dressing
Progresso Recipe Starters
Cans of Tomatoes
Pasta
Pasta Sauce
Cereal
Crystal Light
Splenda Nectresse
Chicken Sausage
chicken breast
Perdue Simply Smart
Ground Turkey
Ground Beef
Pork Ch0ps
Grilled Fish Fillets
Lunchmeat
Shredded Cheese
Sliced Cheese
Toaster Strudel
Bread
Frozen Veggies
Eggs
Crescent Rolls
Cream Cheese
Sour Cream
Yogurt
Remember that it takes a couple months or so before your stockpile really starts to grow. You can just start with one or two things till you have a 6-8 week supply of it. After you’ve stocked up on those two things, you can stock up on two more things and so on.
I hope this post has inspired you to grab a few extra of your favorite items when they are at a rock bottom price.
Feel free to get in touch with me anytime you can find me on Facebook , you can also email me any time at fashionablysaving@gmail.com
Gas promo starting 6/9 at Martins
The sale starting tomorrow at Martin’s is a reallyyy good one! There several really good promo’s, but one that really got my attention is one the last page of the ad. When you buy 6 participating items you get .40/gallon. The limit on this promotion is 10 times. If you did this transaction 10 x’s , you could get $4.00 off a gallon. That equals to FREE GAS!
A couple things about this promotion:
1) If you want the lowest price items included in the promotion, go on Sunday.
2) Please don’t clear the shelves,.I know I’ll be getting 4 transactions of the Yo plait Greek, but if they don’t have enough for me to do 4 transactions with enough left for other people too, I’ll just come back later in the week.
3) Your grocery expenditures will be higher this week, but if you purchase the lower priced items you can get $4.00/gallon (a $50-$60 savings) while spending under $100. After that savings your grocery expenditures for those items could be
as low as $25.
4) You can mix and match any of these items.
5) I called the store this morning, and while gas is $3.25 at Martin’s, and with the promotion you can get up to $4.00/gallon, you will not loose the extra 75 gas points between the 325 and 400 gas points. You can use the extra 75 or whatever remaining balance there would be on a different trip.
The limit on this promotion is 10 x’s per household.
Here are all the participating items
Buy 6 and get .40/gallon
Sargento Shredded Cheese 5-8 oz pkg $2.50
Kraft Singles Yellow, White, Velveeta or 2% 14.7-16 oz pkg $3
Minute Maid :Lite Lemonade or Iced Tea 59 fl oz $2
Fleischmann’s Egg Beaters 15-16 oz ctn $2.50
Smart Balance Spread 13 – 15 0z pkg $2.50
Smart Balance Milk $2.50
-$1/1 Smart Balance Milk 5/12 Smartsource
International Delight 4-pack Iced Coffee $3.99
YoPlait 100 Calorie Greek Yogurt $1.oo
- $1/5 Yoplait Greek 100 Yogurt
OR
-$1/5 Yoplait Greek 100 Yogurt
Dannon Light and Yogurt 4-pk $1.66
Lactaid Milk 64 fl oz ctn $3.oo
-.50/1 Lactaid Milk Product (Martin’s will double to $1)
OR
.55/1 Lactaid Milk Product (Martin’s will double to $1)
Daisy Brand Cottage Cheese 4% or Low fat 2% 24 oz pkg
-.45/1 Daisy Cottage Cheese in the 6/2 RP (Marin’s will double to $1)
Maggio Ricotta or Mozzarella Whole milk or Part Skim 16-32 oz pkg $3.99
Kraft Polly-O String Cheese 9-12 oz pkg $4.00
Dole Refrigerated Juice 59 fl oz cont. $2.50
Bay’s English Muffins 6 ct $2.09
Pete and Gerry’s Organic Large Brown Eggs 12 ct. $3.99
Pure Leaf Real Brewed Tea 59 fl oz $2
If this list and the task of putting together 10 transactions seems a little overwhelming to you, it’s understandable. I was a little overwhelmed when I first heard about this deal last night. I was excited, but very overwhelmed. This promotion is mix and match. Buy any 60 of these products, and get $4.00/gallon of gas. I thought it might help if I showed you how I’ll be doing this deal. Please keep in mind that if they are out of a certain item, you can always come back later in the week. Just be sure to do your trips with 6 of the participating items at a time, to get the gas points.
(24) Yoplait Greek Yogurts $24
- (2 $1/5 Yoplait Greek 100 Yogurt
(18) 4 packs of Dannon Light and Fit $29.88
(6) packages of Sargento Shredded Cheese $15
(6) Smart Balance Butter Spread $15
(6) Bay’s English Muffins $12.54
Total $90
Gas points earned with promo 4,000
Gas points earned with spending over 100 .10
For my family and the vehicle we drive this would save us $65
Total after gas points promo $25
This is a great example that you don’t need coupons to save a lot of money. I only used 7 coupons in my transaction and they saved me less than $10. The majority of the major savings here is the promotion that the store is offering.
Have fun shopping this week, I know I will. Now I need to go clean out my fridge to make more room!
