Bargain Moose

Steven and Lina, the authors of GroceryAlerts, dropped me a line about an eBook they’ve penned. I rarely post this kind of thing on Bargainmoose, but they’ve done a lot of hard work and come up with a good resource for Canadians. The eBook details a lot of the freebies you can get on your birthday.

• Click here to get the free stuff eBook

These offers are the kind of thing you’ll see here on Bargainmoose tagged with birthday, but Steve and Lina have gone into a lot of detail, covering various categories and digging into deals for various provinces. Some of the nation-wide examples:

• Old Navy Canada – Free gift on your birthday
• Booster Juice Canada – Free 24oz smoothie on your birthday
• Marble Slab Canada – Free ice cream on your birthday
• The Body Shop Canada - Free $10 gift voucher on your birthday

Some of the restaurant and dining offer tend to be BOGO (buy one get one) or a free gift with purchase. But that’s all clearly explained in the eBook. A lot of them are totally free, like the 4 deals I mentioned above.

Cassie, who blogs over at MrsJanuary.com has written an eBook about saving money on groceries in Canada. She’s just launched it today, and the regular price is $8, but it’s only $4 for the next 2 days, if you use this coupon code.

Click here to order Money In Your Pocket

• Coupon Code: HALFOFF
• Discount: eBook for $4
• Expires: 22nd June 2011

I don’t usually blog about this type of eBook here on Bargainmoose, but I am happy to support a fellow Canadian blogger.

Now, if you are really thinking of making a dedicated effort to start saving money on your groceries, it could be worth a read. I’ve read the eBook already, and Cassie goes into great detail about all the little things you can do to save money. For example, I’ve written a post on stock-piling here, and that’s one of the topics she covers in more detail.

Cassie also goes into great detail about couponing, and I think some people might even label her as an extreme couponer.  We mainly focus on online coupons here on Bargainmoose, but there’s a whole separate world out there dedicated to printable and manufacturer coupons to save on your groceries. Many of these coupons are only small dollar savings, but when you’ve got the knowledge as to how best to use them, you can save hundreds or thousands on your grocery bills.

Over the last year, I’ve noticed that my grocery bill has just steadily climbed and climbed. I know there are rising food costs all over the world, plus I also have the new baby in the house. She’s 1 year old now, and she’s eating more than ever. I think that if I set food in front of her all, day she wouldn’t actually stop eating. But you do need a bit of spare time to dedicate to couponing, and that’s a commodity that I don’t really have just now. It might only be a few hours a week needed to save all that money, but as a full time work at home mum, I just pay full supermarket prices!

If you have a read of Cassie’s eBook, let us know what you think in the comments below.

Time for a new Bulk Barn coupon – again, it’s for a $3 discount on a $10 spend, in-store.

• Click here for your printable Bulk Barn coupon

• Click here for the store locator

So whether you’re buying jelly beans, macadamia nuts, mini pretzels or apricots, this could come in very handy for your bulk goods.

Here’s a quick quote from Bargainmooser tracey about Bulk Barn:

Love Bulk Barn. I like being able to buy small amounts of random spices like Anise or Chinese 5 Spice Powder that I use seasonally or rarely. They don’t go stale sitting on a shelf waiting for me. Also, there’s a decent variety of nuts & chocolates for baking.

Exactly. I like trying out new recipes, and they often have a herb or a spice that isn’t in my rack. Bulk Barn is ideal for picking them up.

(Ends 30th June 2010)

Starting 29 April, when you spend $20 on any participating PepsiCo products at select stores, you’ll get a free $30 President’s Choice Gift Card! Wow, you’ll actually make money on this deal! Full details and offer forms will be available at select stores.

Select stores across Canada include: Loblaws, Loblaw Great Food, Provigo, Zehrs, Your Independent Grocer, Extra Foods, Atlantic SaveEasy, Atlantic Superstore, Real Canadian Superstore or Dominion.

• Find your closest participating store here

Participating PepsiCo products include: Gatorade Thirst Quencher (6 x 591 ml), Assorted PepsiCo Soft Drinks (6 x 710 ml and 12x355ml), Quaker Granola Bars (156g – 1.05kg, all flavours/varieties), Quaker Crispy Minis (100g – 199g, all), Lay’s Potato Chips (300g, all flavours), Doritos Tortilla Chips (280g, all flavours), Tropicana (Assorted Orange Juice 2.63L) and Quaker Instant Oatmeal (216 – 430g, all).

What a great deal – I’ll be stocking up on Diet Pepsi!

(Unknown Expiry)

When you’re next at the store buying groceries, you could use this printable coupon to get $2 off your next purchase of Scotts paper towels.

• Click here for your Scott’s printable coupon

A $2 printable coupon will be emailed to you when you enter your email address on theScott’s website. The printable coupon can be used on any one of Scott Towels Long Lasting Rolls, Mega Rolls, or Scott Naturals Paper Towels. The printable coupon is only valid for a month from when you enter your details, so make sure you use it within that time.

I haven’t posted many grocery coupons lately, but there are a number of useful ones floating around right now from Livingwell.ca. Here they are:

Zantac Coupon: $2.50 discount

• Click here for your printable Zantac coupon

It’s a printable coupon for a $2.50 discount on 75mg or 150mg packs of Zantac. (Ends 28th February 2011)

Motrin Coupon: $2 discount

• Click here for your printable Motrin coupon

This one is a printable coupon for a $2 discount on Motrin cold & Sinus. (Ends 31st December 2010)

Motrin Coupon: $5 discount

• Click here for the printable Motrin coupon

This one is a $5 discount coupon for MOTRIN Liquid Gels (60ct or 72ct) or Tablets (50ct, 60ct, 100ct or 150ct). (Ends 31st January 2010)

Benylin Coupon: $1.50 discount

• Click here for your printable Benylin coupon

This is a printable coupon for BENYLIN 250mL & 270mL Adult Liquids for a $1.50 discount. I drank a bottle of this last week! (Ends 31st March 2011)

Tylenol Coupon: $2 discount

• Click here for your printable Tylenol coupon

Here is a printable coupon for a $2 discount on TYLENOL Back Pain (18 count only). (Ends 31st December 2010)

Tylenol Coupon: $3 discount

• Click here for your printable Tylenol coupon

This is another coupon  for a $3 discount on TYLENOL Muscle Aches & Body Pain. (Ends 31st December 2010)

Pepcid Coupon: $2 discount

• Click here for your printable Pepcid coupon

This is a $2 discount coupon for PEPCID Complete. (Ends 31st December 2010)

Reactine Coupon: $2 discount

• Click here for the printable Reactine coupon

This one is for a $2 discount on REACTINE Allergy + Sinus products. (Ends 31st December 2010)

Imodium Coupon: $2 discount

• Click here for the printable Imodium coupon

Here’s a $2 discount coupon for IMODIUM (Advanced Caplets, Advanced Chew & Quick Dissolve). (Ends 31st December 2010)

Over on the Websaver.ca website, there are a number of new coupons which you can order.

• Click here to go to Websaver.ca

Remember, you can only access these grocery coupons if you have an account there, but it only takes a few seconds to set one up, if you don’t already have one.

In case you haven’t heard of it before, Websaver.ca is a web portal that offers many coupons for popular brands. You simply click the checkbox on the coupons that you are interested in and they mail the coupons out to you. You must choose at least 6 coupons when you use the site.

Right now, they report that they have coupons totally $109 in value. Some examples of good value coupons which are on there right now:

• $1 off Quaker instant oatmeal
• $0.75 off Colgate Total toothpaste
• $4 off Advil
• $1 off Clorox liquid bleach
• $1 off Tide detergent
• $1.50 off Iams dog or cat food

There are loads more coupons on there, I’ve only spoken of a few in the paragraph above.

If you want to know more about this type of site, you could read my post about free grocery coupons in Canada.

I know that many of you are aware of Save.ca, the Canadian site which mails you free coupons to get discounts on your grocery shopping.

• Click here to browse the coupons at Save.ca

Since I last posted about Save.ca, there are a number of good new coupons available on there, which you may want to order. For example:

• $2 off Band-Aids
• $3 off Bounce Dryer Bar
• $1 off Majesta Bathroom Tissue
• $1 off Energizer batteries

There are a lot more, I’ve just picked out a few of the popular brands above.

If you’ve never heard of them, then just register an account on their site, provide your address details and choose the coupons that you want. They’ll mail them out to you. Just make sure to only order what you think you will use – because they may not send you any more coupons if you don’t make good use of them. (More grocery coupons here)

Between the 30th July and the 13th of August 2010, you have the chance of earning a bonus 10,000 President’s Choice points, if you are a collector, and you hold a PC credit card.

• Click here for more info @ pcpoints.ca

The page above says that you can pick up a coupon for this offer at the coupon board near the entrance of participating store. According to the advert on the pcpoints.ca website, the coupon works at the following stores:

• Loblaws
• Independant
• Zehrs
• Valu-mart
• Fortinos

Just grab the coupon in-store, spend $100 on your regular groceries (easy to do), then use the coupon at checkout along with your PC credit card. The 10,000 bonus points are the equivalent of $10 in groceries, on a future purchase.

Any PC points collectors here on Bargainmoose?

(UPDATE – Bargainmooser Alicia tells me that this deal is applicable in Ontario stores only)

We got sent this lovely idea by Mooser Brenda, thank you! The rundown is: you become a member of Stouffer’s Rewards and enter PIN codes from the specially marked Stouffer’s products. When you enter 12 PIN codes from specially marked packages you will receive $25 worth of free groceries in the form of:

• $15 in Free Nestlé product coupons and
• $10 grocery gift card to the store you selected at registration

Here is what Mooser Brenda had to say:

Stouffers/Lean Cuisine has a rewards program that is great!  If you buy 12 products and register them online, you receive a $10 gift card to a grocery store (I chose Safeway) plus a free coupon for a Stouffers Bistro entree, Skinny Cow frozen dessert pack, Nestles Noir Chocolate Bar, Stouffers Entree and I think there was one other that I’m missing….you should have seen the cashier!  I had $30 worth of grocerie (including a couple of things that weren’t coupons) and I paid $5!

• Click here to read more about the Stouffer’s Rewards Program!

If you want to register, the tab is near the top right hand side. It sounds like a wonderful program, check it out!

There’s a brand new printable coupon available for use in-store at Bulk Barn Canada!

• Click here for your Bulk Barn printable coupon

• Click here for the Bulk Barn Canada store locator

As you can see, the printable coupon will get you a $3 discount on a $10 spend.

This coupon is really great if you want to stock up on some foodstuffs for your home. I think Bulk Barn is excellent for snacks and candy, like nuts and dried fruit. I could eat a ton of chewy candies!

(Ends 22nd July 2010)

If you purchase the specially marked boxes of cereal from General Mills at your local supermarket, you can claim some free books or magazine subscriptions!

• Click here for more info @ General Mills

Here are the cereals you can purchase to get the offer:

Adults: Cheerios, Honey Nut Cheerios, Multi-Grain Cheerios, Banana Nut Cheerios, Oatmeal Crisp Maple Nut, Oatmeal Crisp Raisin, Oatmeal Crisp Almond, Oatmeal Crisp Triple Berry, and Oatmeal Crisp Vanilla Almond cereals.

Kids: Lucky Charms, Nesquik, Cinnamon Toast Crunch, Reese Puffs, Apple Cinnamon Cheerios, and French Toast Crunch cereals

It’s only on the specially marked packages, so keep an eye out for them when you are in the supermarket.  I don’t have a code to tell you what the freebies are, but the illustration shows such publications as Style At Home, Olivia…

I was checking to make sure you don’t have to pay shipping fees, and I found this in the T&Cs: General Mills pays all shipping and handling costs.

And don’t forget that there are some coupons for General Mills on Save.ca, which you can order and get mailed to your home.

In my recent post about free grocery coupons in Canada, I mentioned Websaver.ca as a good place to order coupons. Bargainmooser NW has emailed me with an update – Websaver have recently added quite a few new coupons to their site, so it might be worth a look.

Click here to check out Websaver.ca

Some examples of the free grocery coupons which you can currently order:

• Save $1 on Catelli Healthy Harvest
• Save $2 on Melitta World Harvest
• Save $1 on Maple Leaf Prime chicken
• Save $1.50 on French’s mustard
• Save $1 on Frank’s Red Hot sauce

Additionally, Websaver has a special page with some decent coupons for discount on L’Oréal Paris Revitalift Face & Neck Cream.

Click here for the L’Oreal coupons

You can get:

• Save $4 on L’Oréal Paris Revitalift product
• Save $7  on any 2 Revitalift skincare products
• Save $2 on any Visible Lift product

Remember – you order the grocery coupons online at the websaver website, then they will mail the free coupons out to your home. You can choose up to 32 coupons per order.

There are a number of free grocery coupons available print on The Healthy Shopper website, they’ve just emailed me with the updated details.

• Click here to browse the e-coupons @ Thehealthyshopper.ca

You can see many big name brands which you will recognise. Here are some examples of the coupons which are available for printing just now:

• $1 discount on organic weetabix
• $1 discount on So Delicious pint, quart or novelty
• $1 discount on Nature’s Path or Envirokidz boxes
• $1.25 off Ecover cleaner
• $1 off any Tom’s of Maine product

There are lots more than this, I’ve just picked out a small selection to show you the kind of offers there are. You will need to create an account on their site in order to be able to access and print the above grocery coupons.

All the above mentioned coupons expire on the 31st March 2011.

I thought I’d put together a post with a few grocery coupons which I have seen floating round the internet these past few days. The coupons are all for various grocery items, especially certain items from the pharmacy. If there are any brands that you commonly buy, then print out the coupon and pop it in your purse for future use.

Here we go with the deals:

• $1.50 discount on children’s tylenol – expires 8th July 2010
• $2 discount on Tylenol back pain – expires 31st December 2010
• $3 off Tylenol Rapid Release – expires 30th September 2010
• $2 discount on Visine – expires 31st December 2010
• $2 discount on Aveeno body wash - expires 31st December 2010
• $2 discount on Scott’s towels – expires 31st May 2010 (Email coupon)
• $2 discount on Motrin Liquid Gels – expires 31st December 2010
• $2.50 off Motrin Liquid Gels – expires 31st December 2010
• $2 discount on extra strength Reactine – expires 31st December 2010
• $2 discount on Zantac – expires 31st December 2010
• $2 discount on Pepcid complete – expires 31st December 2010
• $1.50 discount on U by Kotek (requires printer install)
• $2 discount on Crunch n Clean dog biscuits
• $2 discount on Robax back relief
• $10 off Multibionta vitamins - expires 31st May 2010
• $0.50 off Senokot – expires 30th June 2010
• $5 discount on Similac advance – expires 31st May 2010
• $3 discount on Imodium – expires 31st December 2010
• $2 discount on Jergens – expiry unknown
• $3 discount on Canesten – expires 31st December 2010
• $3 on Immunity-FX - expires 31st July 2010

Hope that saves you a few dollars!