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Giant Coupon Deals | Week of April 1, 2012

By Mindi Cherry on April 1, 2012
in Giant Food Stores

Giant’s Coupon Policy varies from store to store, especially when it comes to doubled coupons. For more information, check out my Giant of PA: Coupon Policy 101 post.
All final prices are based on the store practicing “full doubles” (so a $0.75 coupon has a value of $1.50). If your store has a different doubling policy, you will need to adjust the final price.
Make sure that you check out Coupons.com, SmartSource and RedPlum for any printable coupons that you may need!
New to using coupons or don’t understand the lingo? Get all the information you need to rock the deals on my New? Start Here! page.

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Giant Coupon Deals | Week of March 25, 2012

By Mindi Cherry on March 24, 2012
in Giant Food Stores

Giant’s Coupon Policy varies from store to store, especially when it comes to doubled coupons. For more information, check out my Giant of PA: Coupon Policy 101 post.
All final prices are based on the store practicing “full doubles” (so a $0.75 coupon has a value of $1.50). If your store has a different doubling policy, you will need to adjust the final price.
Make sure that you check out Coupons.com, SmartSource and RedPlum for any printable coupons that you may need!
New to using coupons or don’t understand the lingo? Get all the information you need to rock the deals on my New? Start Here! page.

Don’t forget – Giant announced that they will discontinue the use of pink slime at Giant of PA stores!

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Pink Slime Update | Giant of PA to No Longer Carry Pink Slime Meats

By Mindi Cherry on March 22, 2012
in Giant Food Stores

It’s like the Trifecta of Anti-Pink Slime today! First Weis, then Acme…and now Giant!

Giant Food Stores of PA announced today that they will no longer carry meats ground with pink slime

You can read their official statement (you will need to be able to read a .PDF document) or you can read what they had to say on the Giant of PA Facebook Fan page.

I don’t often say this, but WELL DONE Giant!

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Giant Coupon Deals | Week of March 18, 2012

By Mindi Cherry on March 17, 2012
in Giant Food Stores

Giant’s Coupon Policy varies from store to store, especially when it comes to doubled coupons. For more information, check out my Giant of PA: Coupon Policy 101 post.
All final prices are based on the store practicing “full doubles” (so a $0.75 coupon has a value of $1.50). If your store has a different doubling policy, you will need to adjust the final price.
Make sure that you check out Coupons.com, SmartSource and RedPlum for any printable coupons that you may need!
New to using coupons or don’t understand the lingo? Get all the information you need to rock the deals on my New? Start Here! page.

Here are some of my favorite deals for this week. Click to continue for a full matchup of all deals at Giant!

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What Grocery Stores Have Pink Slime In Their Meats?

By Mindi Cherry on March 15, 2012
in Acme, Genuardis, Giant Food Stores, Pathmark, Readers Want To Know, ShopRite, Superfresh, Wegmans

:: UPDATED WITH SHOPRITE INFO

A little less than a year ago, I bought a half of a pastured grass-fed cow. You can read more about why I decided to pay $6/lb for beef, but the bottom line is that I wanted to to what went in to my food and that the beef that we were eating came from 1 healthy cow, not a mixture of 15 different cows that were all ground together in some giant machine.

I first heard about pink slime (also known as “Boneless Lean Beef Trimmings – BLBT” or “Lean Finely Textured Beef – LFTB”) while watching Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution and how it was used to make chicken nuggets at fast food places. It never occurred to me that it might be in the ground beef that I buy in the stores. Then Alecia left this comment about pink slime on a post, and I was even more certain that I had made the correct decision to buy that cow.

Pink Slime has been in the news quite a bit recently, as it has been revealed that it IS in the ground beef that we buy in 70% of the supermarkets in the US. Coupons Deals and More has put together a national list of what stores do and do not use pink slime in their meats.

For my local readers, here are the stores in Southeast PA and their position on pink slime:

A&P (Pathmark, Superfresh) – does not use pink slime
Giant (Ahold) – ~~Stores operated by the divisions of Ahold USA do carry ground beef made with Boneless Lean Beef Trimmings (BLBT), also called Finely Textured Beef (FTB)~~ UPDATE: Giant has stated that they will no longer be using pink slime in their meats
Genuardi’s (Safeway) – does – We rely on the federal government to help guide us on food safety issues. USDA has been clear in its judgment that Lean Finely Textured Ground Beef is a safe source of nutrition. However, we are reviewing the matter at this time.
Acme (SuperValu)) – does use pink slime UPDATE: Acme has stated that they will no longer be using pink slime in their meats
Wegmans – does (sorta) – While most ground beef contains a small percentage of boneless lean beef trimmings, our processor does not use ammoniated meat products in the production of fresh ground beef
Weis Supermarket – does use pink slime in their ground beef UPDATE: Weis has stated that they will no longer be using pink slime in their meats
Shop Rite – Laura noted on the Moms Need To Know Facebook page that “ShopRite has come out publicly to state that they’ve never used “pink slime” either, and 100% of their ground beef is ground at the store”

These are just Philadelphia-area stores. Check out a list of stores in other areas as well as national chains at Coupons Deals and More!

What do you think about pink slime? Will you change your buying habits because of the list?

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Giant of PA Coupons | Check Your Bonuscard Account!

By Mindi Cherry on March 14, 2012
in Giant Food Stores

If you shop at Giant, don’t forget to check your Bonuscard account for eBonuscard Coupons to load to your card. These are store coupons, which means that (when you get eCoupons for brand-name items) you can stack them with manufacturer coupons for even greater savings.

Giant doesn’t make it easy for you to find them, so here is how you do it:

Sign in to your Giant/Bonuscard account (or create one if you have yet to do so)
Once you are signed in, look in the upper-right-hand side of the page where it says “Click Here For Your Personalized Page”. Click on that
You should be brought to a page with an “eBonuscard offers” box. Click on that and you will see any coupons available to you!

I got coupons for Dole Salad, potatoes, Birds Eye Voila! and more. What coupons did you get?

Shopping somewhere else this week? Check out the rest of the grocery deals that I have posted!

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Giant Coupon Deals | March 11, 2012

By Mindi Cherry on March 11, 2012
in Giant Food Stores

Giant’s Coupon Policy varies from store to store, especially when it comes to doubled coupons. For more information, check out my Giant of PA: Coupon Policy 101 post.
All final prices are based on the store practicing “full doubles” (so a $0.75 coupon has a value of $1.50). If your store has a different doubling policy, you will need to adjust the final price.
Make sure that you check out Coupons.com, SmartSource and RedPlum for any printable coupons that you may need!
New to using coupons or don’t understand the lingo? Get all the information you need to rock the deals on my New? Start Here! page.

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Green Mountain K Cups $2 Coupon | Just $0.42 each at Giant!

By Mindi Cherry on March 4, 2012
in Coupons, Giant Food Stores

There is a new Green Mountain Coffee coupon available. Print it now while it is available!

Get your $2/1 Green Mountain Coffee K-Cups coupon.

The 12-packs are on sale for $6.99 this week at Giant. Use this coupon to get them for just $4.99 per package/$0.42 per K-cup!

Green Mountain Coffee, Newman’s Own, Caribou, Tully’s Coffee – $6.99
$2/1 Green Mountain Coffee K-Cups coupon
Final price: $4.99 ($0.42 per K-cup) after coupon

As a reminder, you can NOT Photocopy coupons! You can find more coupons in the Coupon Database

Make sure that you grab the rest of the recent hot coupons that I have posted. Problems getting the coupon? Don’t forget to read my Why Can’t I Find That Coupon? post!

Thanks for the coupon Penny Pinchin’ Mom!

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Giant Coupon Matchups | Week of March 4, 2012

By Mindi Cherry on March 4, 2012
in Giant Food Stores

Giant’s Coupon Policy varies from store to store, especially when it comes to doubled coupons. For more information, check out my Giant of PA: Coupon Policy 101 post.
All final prices are based on the store practicing “full doubles” (so a $0.75 coupon has a value of $1.50). If your store has a different doubling policy, you will need to adjust the final price.
Make sure that you check out Coupons.com, SmartSource and RedPlum for any printable coupons that you may need!
New to using coupons or don’t understand the lingo? Get all the information you need to rock the deals on my New? Start Here! page.

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Giant Coupon Matchups | February 26, 2012

By Mindi Cherry on February 26, 2012
in Giant Food Stores

Giant’s Coupon Policy varies from store to store, especially when it comes to doubled coupons. For more information, check out my Giant of PA: Coupon Policy 101 post.
All final prices are based on the store practicing “full doubles” (so a $0.75 coupon has a value of $1.50). If your store has a different doubling policy, you will need to adjust the final price.
Make sure that you check out Coupons.com, SmartSource and RedPlum for any printable coupons that you may need!
New to using coupons or don’t understand the lingo? Get all the information you need to rock the deals on my New? Start Here! page.