Publix Specials - November 19 to 25

There are lots of good deals on Thanksgiving food at Publix this week. Click HERE to view the Publix weekly ad.

My bill this week was $139.99 and my savings was $86.20. Not too bad considering I got 4 bottles of wine.

• Sweet Potatoes - 37 cents a pound. It's rare to see the price this low! Click HERE to see my November 19 post about sweet potatoes.
  
• Fresh Pineapple - $2.99 each, cored and peeled or whole. This is about as low as it goes. Click HERE to see my blog from earlier today about pineapple. If you were able to print the 75-cent-0ff coupons I told you about on October 25, you can get an even better price of $2.24! Unfortunately, those coupons appear to be gone now.
• Kraft Cracker Barrel Cheese - 2 for $5. $1-off-2 coupon in 11/22 paper.
  
• Bird's Eye Vegetables - 50% Off. Click HERE for coupon. I'll be stocking up on lima beans.
  
• Breyers Ice Cream - BOGO
• Triscuit - BOGO. Click HERE for coupons and rebate information.
  
• Planter Nuts - 2 for $5. Click HERE for a $10 rebate when you buy 10 Nabisco products.
  
• Crisco Pure Canola Oil - BOGO 55-cents-off 11/08 paper
  

Lots of smoothie ingredients on sale this week. Stock up and freeze! Click HERE for stockpiling ideas:

• Fresh Pineapple - $2.99
• Greenwise Organic Spinach - $2.50
• Bolthouse Farms 100% Carrot Juice -
  Advantage Buy for $3

Good deals on wine:

• St Francis Chardonnay Wine - BOGO (regular price $14.99)
• Mondavi Wine - on advantage buy for $8.99. $1.50-off coupon in 11/15 paper.
• FREE wine carrier when you buy three bottles of wine.
  

A few reminders about your next trip to Publix:

• Use your Discover card to get 5% cash back on groceries (through December). Make sure you sign up for the program first. Click HERE for more information.
• You can use two coupons on the BOGO items (one for each item). You can usually print the internet coupons at least two times.
• Get a FREE movie from Blockbuster Express with code: GT11A (exp 1/31/10).
  

Good Deal on Triscuit

Although Triscuits are not organic, they have a number of healthy characteristics. They contain only three ingredients: whole wheat, soybean and/or palm oil, and salt. A serving of 6 crackers contains 3 grams of protein, 3 grams of fiber, and only 1 gram of saturated fat.

Now is a great time to stock up. Here are some of the great discounts available right now. You can combine these for a really good price.

• Publix - BOGO (regular price is $2.79)
  
• Target - Click HERE for a $1-off Target coupon. The Target coupon is for the family size, which is regularly priced at $3.49. You can use a manufacturer coupon along side the Target coupon.
  
• Walgreens - 5 for $10 with a $3RR, for a final price of 5 for $7. Combine that manufacturer coupons and rebate for a really good price.
  
• Manufacturer coupon in the 11/8 newspaper ($1 off 1)
  
• Manufacturer coupon HERE ($1 off 2)
• Manufacturer coupon HERE ($1 off 2) on the Kraft website (on the "Jingle Tips and Tricks" page, click on "get started" and look for a green "coupon" tab on the upper right side of the page).

• $10 rebate HERE when you buy 10 Nabisco products.
  
• Planter's nuts (on sale at Publix for 2 for $5) also qualify for the rebate offer.
  

Stockpile Smoothie Ingredients and Save

Publix sells pineapple cored and peeled. You could also buy it whole to use for a nice holiday centerpiece before you eat it. If you do this, you can plant the top of the pineapple and grow your own fruit-bearing tree. Click HERE to find out how.

If you use pineapple for smoothies stock up when it's on sale and freeze it. To stockpile pineapple for smoothies, cut it up into small pieces and divide into portions of about one cup. If you don't divide it, it will just freeze into a big clump that you won't be able to use easily. Pineapple is a great ingredient for smoothies, since it's sweet flavor covers over things like spinach and carrots.

Another favorite smoothie ingredient of mine, Bolthouse Farms 100% Carrot Juice, can also be stockpiled. Pour it into an ice cube tray. Then you can add your cubes to your smoothie.

Really, you can freeze most any fresh fruit or vegetable that will go rotten before you can use it. I find that it's easier to cut the fruits and peel the bananas before they are frozen.

Fresh Greenwise Organic Spinach also freezes beautifully. They fall into the smoothie like like green snowflakes.

Using a few frozen ingredients is a nice way to make a smoothie more cold and icy without actually having to use ice (which might make it taste watered down).

Click HERE for my favorite green smoothie recipe.