Jill Cataldo

Super-Couponing comes to the Bedford Park District (6652 S. 78th Avenue, Bedford Park, Community Building) tonight at 7:00pm! See you there!

Is anyone tired of shopping yet? Whenever I hear the words "March Madness" in the news, I think of what shopping's been like for the past few weeks! I love a great deal, but this run of great sales has almost been exhausting! (Can there really be too much of a good thing?)

This week's newspaper contained three inserts: a SmartSource, a RedPlum, and a P&G. The Parade magazine also has manufacturer coupons in it, and the Wheatables coupon figures into this week's deals...

Ready for Chicagoland's best Deals of the Week? You'll be taking home more FREE shampoo, FREE pasta sauce, FREE milk, FREE bread, FREE deodorant, FREE pasta, FREE crab meat, FREE breakfast sandwiches, cheap fruit snacks, FREE popcorn, FREE soup, cheap hot cocoa, FREE Swiffer and refill, FREE Cascade, FREE Crest, cheap Kraft cheese, cheap Old Orchard and Ocean Spray juices, cheap Pillsbury, cheap brand-name, "expensive," pizzas... (should I keep going? I told you it was an insane week!) FREE Band-Aids, FREE body wash, FREE soap, FREE cough drops, FREE Puffs, FREE Post and cheap Kellogg's cereal, FREE toothbrushes ... Let's get started!

If you live in Chicagoland and would like FREE coupon inserts delivered to your door, read on...

The Chicago Tribune has a new program available called "Deals Delivered" in which they'll deliver coupon inserts FREE of charge. It's only available in certain areas, and here's how to get it.

Call 800-311-8500 and ask to subscribe to Deals Delivered (actually, when you call, you may even hear an ad for Deals Delivered in the phone menus.) Again, this is only available in CERTAIN areas and zip codes.

As the site has been receiving an incredible amount of traffic this week (no doubt to word-of-mouth about all the fantastic sales running these days!) I want to welcome our new blog members and brand-new coupon shoppers!

I'm Jill Cataldo, your blog host and coupon mentor. I've been teaching Super-Couponing workshops since 2008, and via the techniques I teach, you can easily cut your grocery bill 30-50% and more with coupons.

Whether you learned about this site from a friend, family member, or a stranger in the grocery store (who undoubtedly was buying a cart full of groceries for a ridiculously low amount of money, pointing out all of the FREE products they got!) ... you're in the right place to learn how to radically cut your grocery bill.

If you like to save money on groceries, imagine getting deals on almost everything that you buy! Want to learn how? Attend a Super-Couponing® workshop and change the way you shop... forever!

• March 11 - Bedford Park
• March 13 - Glenview (Super-Couponing 2)
• March 14 - Oak Brook
• March 17 - Palos Hills
• March 18 - Huntley
• March 20 - Lockport (Super-Couponing 2)
• March 24 - Wheeling (Super-Couponing 2)
• March 25 - North Aurora

and many others...

CONTEST HAS ENDED! WINNER TO BE ANNOUNCED FRIDAY!

I've got a contest for you, Super-Couponers! :)

Would you like to win a Bisquick Pancake Nation Prize Pack? This pack contains everything you need to make a great pancake breakfast:

• Bisquick
• Cast-iron pancake skillet
• Spatula
• Large mixing bowl

The DVDs of my Super-Couponing® class are AVAILABLE NOW! Click here for ordering info! The DVDs contain my entire Super-Couponing class, shot in front of a live audience, with some bonus footage filmed just for the DVD too! I'm very excited that the DVD is available for everyone who's wanted to learn to do this and couldn't make a class, and especially for people out of our immediate area too. Now, everyone can Super-Coupon! :)

Just as we're swinging into Frozen Food Month and enjoying great stock-up prices on frozen... has freezer envy set in? Wish you bought one at Jewel last month but didn't? Or did you buy one, fill it, and decide you could really use another?

Both Ultra Foods and Strack and Van Til surprised us all today when they announced their OWN freezer deals! These are very similar to Jewel's deal, and here's the scoop:

Beginning March 4, 2010: Purchase a Haier freezer for $149.99 and we will fill it with free coupons valued at $150, and an additional $30 in money-saving coupons. Limit 1 total per customer. 5.3 cu ft capacity holds approximately 185.5 lbs of frozen food. Vinyl coated wire basket. Easy access defrost drain. While supplies last. No rainchecks. (More freezer specs here.)

This is the first time Ultra and Strack have jumped into the freezer-deal game, but it sounds like an excellent buy! No word yet on whether these are manufacturer coupons, but the products in the ads are similar to those offered during Jewel's deal:

• Edy's Dibs
• Kraft Bagelfuls
• Gorton's Grilled Fillets
• Home Run Inn pizza
• Jimmy Dean breakfast sandwiches
• Jose Ole Chimichanga
• Old Orchard frozen juice concentrate
• Super Pretzel

NEW OFFERS ACTIVE 2/24! Log back in to add them to your card!

If you shop at Jewel, here's a new Catalina promotion you'll want to know about! It's called YourBucks, and it's kind of a combination of electronic coupon offers and on-your-next-order (cash) Catalinas. Head over to tv.catalinamarketing.com and register your Jewel Preferred Card number for a series of single-product Catalinas that will be loaded to your card. This program began 2/10/10, and runs through 5/4/10.

New offers are scheduled throughout the program! The following offers are now active. When I buy any of these products, they will generate a Catalina in the dollar amount shown:

You guys aren't going to like this one... but it does change how we all shop at Dominick's, so it needs to be noted.

Dominick's has changed their policy on minimum purchases for "Super Coupons." You'll remember that the old policy stated that the $10 or $20 minimums were based on the regular, non-sale, non-Fresh Values prices of the products:

What does "minimum $10 (or $20) purchase required" mean? To use store coupons that include a minimum purchase requirement, you must spend a minimum dollar amount on that shopping trip. You will reach the minimum purchase amount based upon total purchases before your Club Card discount is applied. This total will include the coupon item's regular price, not the discounted price. For example,the regular retail price of a box of Cheerios (before coupon and before Club Card discounts) will count toward the minimum purchase required in order to use the Cheerios coupon.

Got that? Now look at the new policy on Dominick's site:

What does "minimum $10 (or $20) purchase required" mean? To use store coupons that include a minimum purchase requirement, you must spend a minimum dollar amount on that shopping trip. You will reach the minimum purchase amount based upon total purchases after your Club Card discount is applied. For example, the regular retail price of a box of Cheerios (after Club Card discounts) will count toward the minimum purchase required in order to use the Cheerios coupon.

Dominick's... this is no way to improve on your already-tenuous relationship with your shoppers.