hurricane deals for you

Here's some deals that were obvious to me. As we're preparing for the hurricane, I've been looking at some foods that we can keep around that we won't have to worry about heating up or keeping cold. If you're in need... check these deals out.

You might pick up a bottle of vitamins and hand sanitizer from Walmart.
I'm not sure of the cost of vitamins, but even flintstones or generic will work. You are guaranteed to not eat as healthy so take some vitamins to help prevent getting sick.
If you go to the trial size section at Walmart, the hand sanitizer is 50 cents.

Walmart had the small bags of Malt o Meal cereals on sale for $1.
Write a letter to your local grocery store here and print $1 off coupon.
There are three other coupons for $1.00 off on this page.
You can pretty much get 4 bags of Malt o Meal cereal for FREE!!!

CVS has pepsi 12pks 4/$11 (most others have coke 3/$11)
and you'll pick up $3.00 extra bucks when you buy 4.
(you can get some baby wipes with those extra $3 - CVS has 72 ct baby wipes 2/$4)

Off bug repellant is $3.99 at CVS

You can go to HEB and get some cans of spaghetti o's or similar for less than $1 each.
That would be good if you don't mind eating it cold.
(note: pack a can opener!)

HEB also has Hill Country Fare 24pk soda $4.49

HEB has a deal to buy Guerrero Flour Tortillas 20 ct. and get a free bag of thin potato chips

I think HEB also still has the buy a box of graham crackers get marshmellows and chocolate bars free.

HEB has Hill Country Fare Drinking Water 24pk $3.79

NOTE: Most of these HEB deals end TODAY so hurry in to stock up. There is also a new sale ad that comes out today but I haven't picked it up yet and it isn't posted up on their website yet.

Walgreens has a store ad coupon for 2/$1 big roll toilet paper
also, a coupon for 59 cent paper towels

Walgreens has bags of snacks for 2/$3
• Indiana Kettlecorn, 3.5 or 4 oz.• Cracker Jack, 7 oz.• Family Time Popcorn, 6 oz.• Chex Mix, 8.75 oz.• Poore Brothers Kettle Chips, 6.75 oz.

Walgreens has dried fruit $3
• Mariani, 10 to 20 oz.• Ocean Spray Craisins, 12 oz.

Walgreens has a store ad coupon for dried fruit/trail mix 99 cents
Deerfield Farms
limit 3

Walgreens has a store ad coupon for baked beans 16oz for 79 cents
limit 3

Walgreens has a store ad coupon for Bumble Bee tuna 79 cents
limit 3

Walgreens has a coupon for Bic lighters 5 pk plus 1 bonus 2/$5
limit 4

Walgreens has a coupon for double zipper bags 99 cents
• 50 pack Sandwich• 20 or 25 pack Storage
limit 3

Walgreens has a coupon for batteries 16pk $4.99
AA or AAA
limit 3
Heavy duty batteries • 12 pack AA• 8 pack C or D• 6 pack 9 Volt $2.99 with store ad coupon

Walgreens has Buy 1 get 1 free on School Zone, Activity, Sound or Licensed Coloring Books
(they start at $1.99 and would make a good activity for the kids if you're staying in a hotel or even for the road)
Walgreens (and Walmart) also has really cheap school supplies that you might stock up on for kid entertainment.

Walgreens has 24pk Dasani bottled water - buy 2 get 1 free with EasySaver coupon.

Walgreens also had yellow rubber cleaning gloves on clearance yesterday for 50 cents.

Check here for coupons on Cheerios snack mix and Curves granola bars

Don't forget these previously posted deals:

FREE FitSmart bar printable c

FREE sammie from Quiznos
(this would be good if you see a Quiznos on the way out of town)

Get a FREE jump at the pump from Firestone
(great if you have the time before leaving town)


oh, and don't forget the regular coupon sites that might have extra coupons for foods you don't have to heat or keep cold:

http://www.coupons.com/
http://www.couponsurfer.com/
http://www.smartsource.com/

take note that some coupons will work to get some trial size items for free (like tylenol, shave gel, etc)

huricane dolly

I do apologize for this week being behind on the updates. Things are coming up and I haven't had the time to blog anything. My goal is Thursday at the latest to get some deals to you. Yesterday I was busy taking care of my sick little 2 year old. Today I woke up to news that Hurricane Dolly might be headed in our direction, so we've been working on coming up with plans A, B, and C (D, E, and F too) to evacuate if we need to. It's hard for my family because my husband works on a military base and has to stay there if he's on shift when they decide to evacuate. So we have to come up with last minute plans because we have one vehicle and don't know till last minute if he's getting to leave or not. The closest people we know in Texas are my husband's family in North Texas. That always seemed far to go just for a hurricane. I'd rather stay nearby. The sooner I see my husband again, the better. Ya know?

Today's planning definitely brought up some ideas for a future project. I would love to detail how to get a cheap hurricane kit put together. Ideas for where to stay when you do have to evacuate and don't have family nearby. These are things my family is not used to. Tornadoes, yeah. Hurricanes? Not so much. I think it would make a great project to see how cheaply I can put together a hurricane kit though.