2 MIRs and Grocery Deals

If you want in on this deal you'll have to shop today or tomorrow! Until Nov 16 spend  $20  on selected products at Safeway and get a $10 Safeway card. We needed chips. :)
Update: Finally received this February 6, 2013. Came with a letter from Dare saying here is your $15 gift card!?

This is the form you will need(click on it to enlarge it). You need to get it from customer service.

This was my Safeway shop. (not pictured here is the large pizza that was a Facebook offer from Safeway).Almost all the items on the bench were 50% off. The Oasis juice was  $3.50, I had a coupon for .75 as well as Checkout 51 has a $2 off, so it's .75. The drops were buy one get one free and there are $2 off coupons out there. There is an airmiles promo on the chips so I got a total of 41 airmiles. The total for everything here was $40.69-$10(Pepsico MIR)=$30.69.

This is another fun MIR! Try Healthy Harvest Pasta Sauce Free! Look for these sauces with the tags TRY ME FREE, on them. I found them at Safeway. There is a limit of 3 redemptions per household. Products must be purchased between Nov 1 and June 30, 2013.  I mailed this in Nov 15 and received the full $11.49 on Dec 27.

Costco has a few good deals. Miracle whip is $3.69 for 1.77L.
Chipit chocolate chips are $9.89 for 2.4Kg!
3 packs of sausages, 1.5Kg are $10.99.

Save On Foods has Kraft coupons for buy 5 get $5 off. Their crackers are 2/$5(you can buy just  one for $2.50). So 5 boxes for $7.50!
You have to get the coupons from customer service and I think it ends this weekend with the end of the flyer.

At Walmart they have these Cheerios with a coupon for free yogurt. There are $1 off coupons out there.

Peanut Butter Bars

My menu planning friend got me this series(thanks Linda!)
This recipe is sooooo easy!

1 cup margarine
1 cup brown sugar
1/2 cup corn syrup
Put in microwave until just melted(about a minute or two)
Stir in 3 cups quick cooking oats
1 cup flour
Press into a greased 9X13 pan
Bake at 350 for 15 minutes(keep a close eye on it so it doesn't burn)
Let cool

When it has cooled put
1 1/2 cups chocolate chips
1 cup peanut butter(remember it was on sale here)
into a glass bowl and microwave for a minute. Stir. If chips don't melt cook a little longer.

Pour the chocolate peanut butter goodness all over the crust.

Let cool(ya right!)and then cut with a warmed knife.
It's soooo good!

I've Got Lots of Peanut Butter!

I needed to make some squares for a due and I was thinking I really need to use up the peanut butter I got on sale at Costco. So, I went hunting for a yummy square recipe that would use LOTS of peanut butter. This is a recipe my mom used to make at Christmas. She would bake up a storm and freeze it for when we had company. Us kids would raid the freezer whenever possible and so I know these freeze well and taste good frozen!!

 Peanut Butter Bars

1cup crunchy peanut butter(nice!)
2/3 cup butter/marg, softened
1 tsp vanilla
2 cups firmly packed brown sugar
3 eggs
1 cup flour
1/2 tsp salt

Icing
(be sure to read the directions before making this)

3/4 cup icing sugar
2 tsp water

1/4 cup chocolate chips
1 tsp marg

Combine peanut butter, butter and vanilla in a large bowl; beat until well blended, beat in sugar until light and fluffy; beat in eggs one at a time. Stir in flour and salt just until well blended; spread butter in a greased 13X9X2 pan. Bake in moderate oven(this means 350..I always laugh when I read old recipes that assume I know what a moderate oven is! :)  Bake for 20 minutes and then check!! The original recipe wanted 35 minutes and I found this was WAY to long. The center will spring back, the cake will be browned, or a toothpick will come out clean.

Icing....I screwed up on this part as I am not a great direction reader!!! The icing sugar needs to be combined with the water in a small bowl and stirred until smooth: drizzle from a spoon over still warm squares.
Melt the marg and chocolate chips in microwave. Stir until smooth and drizzle over with a spoon. Try to make a nice design...mine was kinda blotchy.
Go ahead and cut up and freeze if you can. What I did was I made a double batch, one to take to the due, one for the family to dive into! Good thing as I screwed up the icing on the first one! It looked bad, but tasted great! Enjoy!
Next time I search everywhere for this recipe, I can find it....along with the "Sue don't do this instructions! "A major advantage to blogging favorite recipes, don't you think???!

The ever shrinking package

I had to blog this as I was utterly surprised. Like me you probably have noticed that the things you buy are in an ever shrinking package. Your 1kg has become 750g and you are paying the same price or even more than before! Well, the other day I was in Costco, I desperately needed chocolate chips. There they were on an end of the aisle sale for $10.79. I looked in my price book and was sad to see that they had gone up, but isn't that the way of groceries these days??? Imagine my surprise when I noticed(once I was home) that it was actually a larger size! Usually this comes in the 2kg size, not it's 2.4kg. That's $4.50/kg! I have lots of peanut butter so peanut butter chocolate chip cookies or granola bars will be made as soon as the heat wave passes!
By the way, these are still on sale at Costco  this week.