Kroger Buy 5 – Save $5 Event and Giftcard Giveaway

"Attention Kroger shoppers! Grab a cart (or two!) and head to your local Kroger Co. Family of Stores for the Kroger Buy 5 – Save $5 Event! From October 14th through October 24th purchase 5 participating General Mills products, and receive a coupon for $5 off your next shopping order* (coupon printed at checkout)!

Look for some of your favorite participating General Mills products like Cheerios, Lucky Charms, Cinnamon Toast Crunch, Pillsbury Toaster Strudel, Betty Crocker Cake and Brownie Mixes, Hamburger Helper, Totino’s Party Pizza, Yoplait** and many more!
Promotion varies in different locations so please be sure to check your local Kroger Co. Family of Stores*** for specific deals and offers which include: Kroger, Ralphs, King Scoopers, City Market, Dillons, Smith’s, Fry’s, QFC, Baker’s, Owen’s, Jay C Food Stores, Hilander, Gerbes, Fred Meyer, Pay Less Supermarkets and Scott’s Food & Pharmacy

Don’t let the savings pass you by! Fill up your cart and save with the General Mills products you love at the Kroger Buy 5 – Save $5 Event! If you’d like to participate in this Spark, we will provide you with a $25 Kroger Family of Stores gift card that you can use on the great savings available during the Kroger Buy 5 – Save $5 Event. We will also provide you with an additional $25 gift card for a family member, friend, or blog reader.

* Products must be purchased during one shopping visit. To view a list of participating products see your store for details. The $5 coupon offer off your next shopping trip offer expires 1 week from the print date, with the coupon prints ending October 24th. Any offers printed on October 24th will expire on October 31st.
**Yoplait items vary by state
***Excludes Food 4 Less"
You can find Kroger on Facebook and Twitter. You can learn more about your favorite General Mills products on their website.

a Rafflecopter giveaway


Giveaway will remain open through October 22nd. Giveaway is open to residents of the US only. One winner will be selected through Rafflecopter. The winner will have 48 hours to respond or a new winner will be selected.

No compensation was received for this post. The gift card, information, and additional sample have been provided by Kroger and General Mills through MyBlogSpark. All opinions expressed are entirely my own or that of my family.

Kroger Cart Buster Event & Giveaway

"Get ready for the Cart Buster Savings Event exclusively at Kroger and the Kroger Co. Family of Stores. You’ll see Big Savings Storewide on some of your favorite brands! And look out for some special offers and coupons only available at the Kroger Co. Family of Stores, and only available for this event!

Beginning the week of February 26th, 2012, shop the Kroger Co. Family of Stores biggest-ever promotion and find the hottest prices around on more than 35 brands, across more than 60 categories from General Mills, P & G, Pepsi, Nestle, Kraft and Kroger Banner Brands. During the Cart Buster Savings Event, you’ll find great savings in almost every department at the Kroger Family of Stores, which includes:

• Kroger
• Ralph’s
• King Soopers
• City Market
• Dillon’s
• Smith’s
• Fry’s
• QFC
• Baker’s
• Owen’s
• Jay C Food Stores
• Hilander
• Gerbes
• Food4Less
• Pay Less Super Markets
• Scott’s Food & Pharmacy

Check your local store to confirm the exact dates for your Cart Buster Savings Event.
Here are just a handful of the great brands participating in the event:

• Cheerios
• Lucky Charms
• Pillsbury
• Betty Crocker
• Hamburger Helper
• Yoplait
• Progresso
• Totino’s
• Green Giant
• Cascadian Farm
• Tide
• Charmin
• Bounty
• Pampers
• Pantene
• Crest
• Iams
• Febreze
• Old Spice
• Bounce
• Pepsi
• Ruffles
• Quaker
• Tostito’s
• Rice A Roni
• Tropicana
• Stacy’s
• Sobe
• Mountain Dew
• Gatorade

Looking for even more ways to save time and money? Visit CartBuster.com beginning 2/26/12 to find money-savings digital coupons, shopping lists and more.

And starting 2/29/12 you can participate in the “Deal of the Day”!

How does the Deal of the Day work? During seven days of the Cart Buster Savings Event, 2/29/12 - 3/6/12, there will be a super hot, exclusive offer good on one participating Cart Buster item. Each offer will be exclusive and available for one-day only – but the offer will be good for the duration of the entire event.

You’ll see savings of up to and over 50% with the Deal of the Day offers – maybe even some freebies - and that’s on top of the already-low, low prices that Cart Buster has to offer!

Look for seven days of “Deal of the Day offers” beginning 2/29/12. The Last Deal of the Day offer will be up on 3/6/12. But don’t fret - the Cart Buster event will continue even after the Deal of the Day ends.

Check your local store for the exact end date for the Cart Buster Savings Event."

I was so excited to learn that although you can only download the daily deal on the day it is offered, you can redeem it through the end of the Cart Buster Savings Event. That works well for me, because I want to take advantage of some of the offers and I know I won't get a chance to shop at Kroger until Saturday or Sunday, based on my schedule.

To learn more, you can visit the Cart Buster website, Like Kroger on Facebook and follow Kroger on Twitter.

Giveaway!
Courtesy of Kroger Family of Stores and General Mills/Nestle/Proctor & Gamble/Pepsi/Kraft, through MyBlogSpark, one A Busy Mom of Two reader will win a $25 Gift Card to the Kroger family of stores.

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Kroger Cart Buster Savings Event - a Giveaway

I can remember shopping at Kroger, even as a little girl. The memories that I have of shopping there as a child, seem a little random, but they are my memories. For some reason, really not sure why, on occasion I would head to Kroger with my neighbor when she would go grocery shopping. I remember that we would buy a candy bar, but had to eat in the car, before we got home. I also remember that their deli had the best nacho cheese dip. It was always such a treat when we would get their chips and nacho cheese.

"Have you heard? The Cart Buster Savings Event is back at the Kroger Co. Family of Stores, beginning July 31st with storewide savings in almost every department! During the savings event, summer deals are just getting started. Browse the aisles and load up your cart with everyday items from brands you already love."

"From July 31st through August 17th save on tons of brands across more than 100 categories from General Mills, PepsiCo, Unilever, Heinz, Mars, Wrigley and Kimberly Clark. Look for some of your favorite participating products like, Honey Nut Cheerios, Yoplait , Pillsbury Pepsi, Doritos, Gatorade, Smart Ones, Ore-Ida, Cottonelle, Viva, Breyer’s Ice Cream, Axe , Snickers, Pedigree and Orbit. Look for big savings storewide at the Kroger Family of Stores, which includes Kroger, Ralphs, King Scoopers, City Market, Dillons, Smith’s, Fry’s, QFC, Baker’s, Owen’s, Jay C Food Stores, Hilander, Gerbes, Food4Less, Fred Meyer, Pay Less Supermarkets and Scott’s food & Pharmacy. Don’t let the savings stop there! Make sure to follow the Cartbuster “Deal of the Day” beginning August 3rd and running through August 16th.* Download exclusive offers, on more of your favorite brands, directly to your shopper card, by visiting www.cartbuster.com, beginning Wednesday, August 3rd."

Want to stay in the know about special events at your local Kroger store? Be sure to check out Kroger on Twitter and Facebook. For information on the Cart Buster Event and information on the Deal of the Day offer at www.cartbuster.com.

Giveaway!
Thanks to Kroger and MyBlogspark, I have the opportunity for one A Busy Mom of Two reader to win a $25 Gift Card to Kroger (to help make the Cart Buster deals even sweeter!).

To enter leave a comment sharing which Kroger family of stores you will be shopping at.

Additional Entries (please leave a separate comment for each entry):

Follow ABusyMomofTwo on Twitter.

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Tweet about this giveaway. You may complete this entry once per day. (You may use the following or write your own: Enter to win a $25 @Kroger Gift Card. @ABusyMomofTwo. Ends 8/12 http://bit.ly/q9LgUV #myblogspark)

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Share this giveaway with friends - on your blog, on Facebook or by posting it on a giveaway link-up. Leave me a comment letting me know how you shared or leave a link to the giveaway link-up. You may have one additional entry for each giveaway linky that you submit it on.

Leave a comment with a link to your blog where you have either my button or have a link to A Busy Mom of Two in your blog roll.

Giveaway will remain open until August 12th at 6 pm. Giveaway is open to residents of the US only. One winner will be selected using a random number generator. The winner will be contacted by e-mail (be sure to leave one!) and will have 48 hours to respond or a new winner will be selected.

No compensation was received for this post. I will be receiving a Kroger gift card. The Kroger gift card, information, and giveaway have been provided by Kroger through MyBlogSpark. All opinions expressed are my own or those of my family.

Kroger Deals - 8/7

This weekend, Kroger was having a huge 50% off sale on General Mills and Quaker products (there was a select list included, but many items). When I saw the ad, I knew I should go. I still had some Kroger gift cards that I had planned to use many time, but hadn't had a chance to get there. Of course, since I didn't know about the sale ahead of time, I didn't really have a chance to see if there were any good IPs to use on the sale - I am sure that there were. I had some coupons, but didn't use a coupon for every item like I probably could have with IPs.

I failed to take a picture, so visualize if you will:

2 - Quaker Capn' Crunch
1 - Quaker Cinnamon Life
4 - Lucky Charms
1 - Cinnamon Toast Crunch
2 - Cheerios
2 - Nut Clusters, Almond
4 - Betty Crocker Fruit Snacks (Gushers/Roll-ups/Fruit by the Foot)

-$.75 $.75/2 Nut Clusters Mfg coupon
-$.25 double
-$.50 Cheerios mfg coupon
-$.50 double
-$.50 Cheerios mfg coupon
-$.50 double
-$1 $1/2 GM Cereals mfg coupon

Total $22.63 OOP (of course, it was all gift cards, so that pretty much equals FREE!). Not too bad for 10 boxes of cereal, 28 servings of fruit snacks, and 2 bags of nuts.

Now, the Cheerios and Cinnamon Toast Crunch were big boxes, the Lucky Charms were smaller. While we were selecting our cereals, a guy walked by and advised that the smaller boxes of Lucky Charms were part of a Catalina deal where you get $4 OYNO when you buy four. This made them a better deal than the larger box I started with and I actually did two separate transactions to use the $4 coupon for part of what I bought. I just wish I had had more coupons for any General Mills Cereal.

Of course, if I had had more coupons, I might have been tempted to buy more and I'm not sure where I would have stored it. My overflow pantry in my basement is already full, so these 10 boxes of cereal are sitting in the box I grabbed from the sale display on top of a tote of clothes in the basement. My husband thinks we need a new storage system to hold everything better - the repurposed entertainment center just isn't doing it.

This post shared at Super Savings Saturday.

Pound for Pound Challenge

I have been a big fan of the Biggest Loser series, since the beginning. There is something about watching their struggles and achievements that provides motivation to me to do something for myself. One of the programs that they support, which helps to motivate many to live healthier lives is the Pound For Pound Challenge. In addition to promoting healthier lives, it also has made an impact in the community. Last year, the Pound for Pound Challenge helped Feeding America deliver more than 3.5 million pounds of food to local food banks.

As part of the Pound for Pound Challenge, The Kroger Co. Family of Stores, General Mills, NBC's hit TV Show “The Biggest Loser” and other key sponsors are partnering to donate up to $1,080,000 to Feeding America this year. You can help them in reaching this goal - visit the Pound for Pound Challenge to make your pledge to lose weight and to find tools to change your life for the better. It is free, easy and only takes a minute to make a change that can not only help you, but help the hungry in your local community. Through June 30, 2010, for every pound you pledge to lose, the Pound For Pound Challenge will donate 14¢ to Feeding America® — enough to deliver one pound of groceries to a local food bank. I'm making a pledge to lose the 13.5# I still am wanting to lose to reach my goal.

As the official supplier of the Biggest Loser Ranch and partner of the Pound for Pound Challenge, the Kroger Family of Stores wants to help you achieve your goals. If you’re a fan of the Biggest Loser, you may have seen several great General Mills products featured on the show. These products, including Yoplait Greek yogurt, Total, and Multigrain Cheerios, are available at your local Kroger Family of Stores and can help you stick to your weight management plan.

Giveaway:

To help get the word out about the Pound for Pound Challenge and to help you get a jump start Kroger and General Mills are providing a $30 Kroger Family of Stores Gift Card to be given away to one (1) A Busy Mom of Two reader. (The Kroger Family of Stores includes Kroger, Fred Meyer, Ralph’s, King Soopers, City Market, Dillon's, Smith’s, Fry’s, QFC, Baker’s, Owen’s, Jay C Food Stores, Hilander, Gerbes, Food4Less, Pay Less Super Markets and Scott’s Food & Pharmacy.)

To enter: Leave a comment sharing what you are doing to lead a healthier lifestyle.

Bonus entries:

Make a pledge to lose weight at Pound for Pound Challenge. Leave a comment letting me know you made a pledge (it is optional if you want to share what your pledge was).

Sign up to receive daily updates from A Busy Mom of Two. Leave a comment letting me know that you subscribed or already do.

Follow me on Twitter and tweet about this giveaway. Leave a comment with a link to your tweet.

This giveaway will remain open until June 14th at 6 pm. Winner will be selected using random.org. The winner will be contacted by e-mail (be sure to leave one!) and will have 48 hours to respond or a new winner will be selected.

No compensation was received for this post. I did receive a $30 gift card to the Kroger Family of Stores courtesy of Kroger and General Mills, through MyBlogSpark. In addition, they provided the opportunity for me to host a giveaway for one reader to win a $30 gift card to Kroger family of stores.

Kroger Mega Event & Giveaway

The Mega Savings Event is taking place at the Kroger family of stores from Aug. 16th thru Sept. 2nd (sale dates may vary by region; you can click here:
http://www.thekrogerco.com/ to see a list of participating stores and click through for local ads).
If you are not familiar with this
promotional offer, here is how it works: when you buy 10 participating
brands (see list below) and use your Shopper Card at check out you
instantly save $5 (or $.50/item). And there is no limit on the number of rewards per
transaction! Look for the double yellow tags in-store

Participating brands include: AMP Energy, Aquafina, Betty Crocker Baking
Mixes, Betty Crocker Fruit Snacks, Cascadian Farms Cereals and Bars,
Cap'n Crunch, Cheerios, Cheetos, Chex Mix, Cinnamon Toast Crunch, Cocoa
Puffs, Dole Juices and Juice Drinks, Fiber One, Fritos, Gatorade, Golden
Grahams, Green Giant, Hamburger Helper, Life , Lipton Tea, Nature
Valley, Old El Paso, Pepsi family of 2 Liters, Pillsbury, Progresso,
Propel, Quaker Instant Oatmeal, Quaker Chewy Bars, Starbucks, Sobe Life
Water, Totino's, Trix, Tropicana, Yoplait and MORE!

I have recieved a $30 Giftcard courtesy of General Mills, PepsiCo and MyBlogSpark. I am in the process of planning my event and you would be surprised at what you can get for $30.

I thought it might be fun to see if I could eat for the day with the sale items.

Breakfast:
1 - Quaker Life Cereal $1.99
-$.50 Mega Deal
-$1 Quaker Life IP (printed this one a while back, don't have link)

2 - Cheerios Cereal $1.99/ea
-$.50 Mega Deal
-$.50 Mega Deal
-$1 $1/2 Cheerios Mfg coupon

1 - Dole 100% Juice $2.49
-$.50 Mega Deal

2 - Yoplait Yogurt $2.49/ea
-$.50 Mega Deal
-$.50 Mega Deal
-$.35 Mfg coupon
-$.35 Doubled coupon
-$.35 Mfg coupon
-$.35 Doubled coupon

Breakfast sub-total = $7.04

Lunch:
2 - Progresso Soup $1.69/ea
-$.50 Mega Deal

1 - Stacey's Pita Chips $2.49
-$1 Stacey's IP (link at MommySnacks)
-$.50 Mega Deal

2 - Fiber One Granola Bar $2.49/ea
-$.50 Mega Deal
-$.50 Mega Deal
-$.40 Fiber One Mfg coupon
-$.40 Doubled coupon
-$.40 Fiber One Mfg coupon
-$.40 Doubled coupon

2 - Gatorade $1.75/ea
-$.50 Mega Deal
-$.50 Mega Deal

Lunch sub-total $7.06

Snacktime
2 - Totino's Pizza Rolls $2.99/ea
-$.50 Mega Deal
-$.50 Mega Deal
-$.55 Totino's Pizza Rolls IP
-$.45 Doubled coupon (if your store doubles fully, you can save another $.10)

1 - 2L Pepsi $1.29/ea
-$.50 Mega Deal

Snacktime sub-total $4.77

Dinner:
1 - Macaroni Grill Dinner Kit $3.49
-$.50 Mega Deal
-$1 Macaroni Grill mfg coupon

2 - Green Giant Canned Vegetables $1.25
-$.50 Mega Deal

1 - Lipton Ready to Drink Tea
-$.50 Mega Deal

Dinner Sub-total $7.98

Total - $26.85. There should be enough left from the $30 gift card to pick up some chicken that you will need for the Macaroni Grill Dinner Kit.

This is just an example of the items that you can get for under $30 during the Mega Deal Event. It seems that the participating items vary by region (or perhaps they just aren't all advertised?) but you can check out Coupon Mommie for a lot of coupon match-ups and Internet printable coupons for the Mega Deal Items. In addition, check at your store for the double yellow tags to confirm what items are included in the Mega Deal event.

Now that I have shown you what you can get for under $30, how would you like a chance to win your own $30 gift card courtesy of PepsiCo, General Mills and MyBlogSpark? They were kind enough to provide me the opportunity to giveaway one $30 Kroger family giftcard to one lucky reader.

In order that you can get it in time to take advantage of the Mega Event, the contest will remain open until Thursday 8/20 at 7 pm. The winner will have 18 hours to reply to an e-mail and provide contact information. If they do not respond, a new winner will be drawn at that time.

How to enter:
For your initial entry, leave a comment letting me know which Kroger family store you shop at and why you like them.

For additional entries:

• Follow me on Twitter (@ABusyMomofTwo) and tweet about the giveaway

• Add my button to your sidebar or my blog to your blogroll. Leave a comment with a link to your blog.

• Sign up to receive my updates through e-mail or RSS feed. Leave me a comment letting me know that you are a subscriber.

• Post about the giveaway on your blog, with a link back to the giveaway. Leave a comment with a link to your post.

Kroger Deals - 3/21

I headed to Kroger to check for some deals. I was very disappointed to see that the Kroger by Mom's no longer seems to carry the 4-pack single rolls of Cottonelle, so I wasn't able to pick up any free toilet paper. I did get a couple of items while I was there.

1 - Cuties 3# Tangerines
2 - Quaker Instant Oatmeal

-$.55 Cuties mfg coupon
-$.45 double
-$1.35 $1.35/2 Quaker Oatmeal mfg coupon

Total $4.64.

For more deals, check out Super Savings Saturday on Money Saving Mom.

Kroger Deals - 2/15

While home visiting my family this weekend, we made a run to Kroger. No stores in my area carry the regular 4 packs of Charmin, they all are either double rolls or just larger packs, so I headed home armed with Charmin coupons. In addition, I can't find Cuties (these are great!) anywhere locally, but I bought them last time I was visiting my family, so I brought those coupons along as well. Unfortunately, my son came down with the flu while we were visiting and I needed some Tylenol, but had no coupons on hand for that.

Here's what I got:



5 pk of Charmin 4ct ($.99 ea)
2 3# bags of Cuties ($3.67 ea)
1 Children's Tylenol ($3.69 ea)

-$5 5 x $.50 Charmin mfg coupons, doubled to $.99
-$2 2 x $.55 Cuties mfg coupons, doubled to $1.

Total paid $9.37.



Not too bad on it's own, but when you add it to the 8 packs of Charmin my mom got for me with the coupons I sent home with her a few weeks ago, I wound up with thirteen (13) 4ct packages of toilet paper for free! That is awesome!

Find more deals at Super Savings Saturday at Money Saving Mom.

Kroger Deals - 12/21

While at home with my family, I decided to stop by Kroger for some deals. I loaded up my P&G and Shortcuts coupons to my Kroger card and grabbed my coupons.

Here's how I did:

6 - 4ct Cottonelle (not all pictured)
1 - 16 oz Twizzlers
1 - 3# Cuties
2 - 10.5 oz cans Skyline Chili

-$.50 coupon for each Cottonelle
-$.49 doubled coupon for each Cottonelle
-$.55 Cutie coupon
-$.45 doubled Cutie coupon
-$.50 Skyline $.50/2 coupon
-$.50 doubled Skyline coupon

Total - $6.96. I saved 9.64 or 58%. I am pleased to get everything I did for under $7. Of course, the candy was a completely impulse, unnecessary spend, but it's Christmas and I love candy.