Commodity prices have increased over the last year and several major manufacturers of grocery products both food and beverage are increasing their wholesale prices to grocery retailers. That means the prices at your local grocer will be rising as well. Since your income is not going up and maybe has been reduced due to voluntary salary reductions or involuntary layoffs how do you keep your food costs within your budgeted limits? Here are several ways how to get free grocery coupons. You can turn to private label store brands or you can start clipping coupons. Many grocers offer to double manufacturers’ coupons to fifty cents.
Giant Eagle is an exception and offers double manufacturers’ coupons to ninety nine cents. If you can combine your local grocery shopping to items on sale and with coupons you can keep your grocery expenditures to a minimum. By signing up for their rewards card and using manufacturers’ coupons not only will you save on your grocery bill but you will get twenty ($0.20) cents of a gallon of gas for every $50 you spend at Giant Eagle stores.
There are a number of sites that you can sign up for that will notify you when new grocery coupons like couponmom.com, coolsavings.com and others. One – coupons.smartsource.com is the online version of the coupon tab that comes with the Sunday paper. Instead of having to flip through all the pages and clip which coupons you want to keep, you can view them online and print only the coupons you want to use.
There are four other printable coupon sites that will allow you to print directly from your computer instead of having to use the regular paper versions. Coupons.com says you can print one hundred ($100) dollars of coupons from Huggies, Kelloggs, Kraft, Pillsbury, Betty Crocker and more. Upromise offers e-coupons for sixty ($60) dollars from Huggies, Post, Palmolive, Little Debbie and many more. Smart Source offers seventy ($70) dollars from Dole, Aquafresh, Scott, Betty Crocker, Huggies and more. Finally, Red Plum offers thirty ($30) dollars in coupons from Vaseline, Hefty, Advil and many more.
All of these sites say that there is no registration necessary. When you click on the particular banner ad to get to the coupons you will be taken to a page with coupons you select to print. On the first page at coupons.com you have to enter your zip code to get the coupons allowed in your region. All coupons are bar coded and can be set to only be able to be redeemed in certain areas of the country.
Once you have entered your zip code all of the available coupons are displayed eight to a page. On the first page there is a $1 off coupon for one bottle of Welch’s fruit juice and $1 off the new Oscar Meyer Lunchables with water. To print the coupons of your choice you will need to click on the box at the lower left of each lucky coupon that says “Clip Coupon”. Currently there are one hundred forty seven (147) coupons listed. If you live in an area where your local grocery store doubles coupons like Giant Eagle I would suggest looking at any coupons less than $1. I noticed a fifty five ($0.55) cents off of Cinnamon Toast Crunch cereal. That would be $1.10 off at Giant Eagle.
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