It's back! Free Meal Planning with Food on the Table

The deal for free meal planning software from Food on the Table is back. This is a service that lets you input your favorite recipes and plan meals around your local grocery sales ads. Normally, they offer 3 free meals a week, and an upgrade for $5 a month for more meals. But right now you can get a FREE MEMBERSHIP FOR LIFE by using the code SPRINGFREE before the end of April.

Meal planning, and particularly planning around sales, is a great way to save money.

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$20 Gift card to CVS for $10 from Living Social

Today's daily deal at Living Social is for a $20 gift card to CVS for only $10. If 3 people sign up with my link I get the offer for free.

Please feel free to leave your own link in the comments! Once I have my 3, I'll edit this post to tell people to use your links instead.

Thanks!

Free meal planning software from Food on the Table

Right now, you can sign up for Food on the Table, a meal planning site for FREE. This is not a free trial; if you use the link above and the code FEBFREE your membership will be free forever.

Food on the Table uses local sales at your stores to help you plan meals that are in your budget. The free membership includes 3 meals a week. For $5 more you can upgrade and receive more meals.

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Deal Alert: Sesame Street Board Books

There is a great deal on Eversave today that I wanted to share.

$12 for three Sesame Street board books and CD sets, plus free shipping!

Diaper deals on Amazon

Pampers Baby Dry diapers are $37.75 after Amazon Mom discount. (You do have an Amazon mom account, right?) You should also be able to scroll down and add a $1 coupon, bringing the price down even more. (The link is for size 4, but there should be similar deals for all sizes.)



Huggies Snug and Dry diapers come to $24.40 after discount and $2 coupon. That's less than 19 cents a diaper for size 4's!

Just remember to cancel the subscribe and save after your order ships if you don't want to keep getting them - and since prices rise and fall, that's probably wise.

Disclaimer: All Amazon links are my affiliate links. If you use them, I will get very rich. Or at least be able to buy some cookies. Please feel free to go straight to Amazon, or use your own links. You deserve cookies too.

Photo deals from Snapfish

Right now, Snapfish has some coupons going on that I wanted to share with you.

Free shipping on $30 order Coupon: FSJAN30 1/01-1/31/2012

Year-End Clearance Sale - Up to 65% off select items Code:YEAREND65
12/28-1/04/12

Year-End Clearance Sale - Up to 65% off select items Code:YEAREND65
12/28-1/04/12

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How I get deals at CVS

Sign-up

In order to get the best deals at CVS, you need to sign up for an ExtraCare card. Once you have one, you should register and sign up to get CVS emails. When you do, you will also get coupons to use and even get surveys you can take to earn more extracare bucks.

You can also sign up for the CVS beauty club to get extra offers.

Read

Read a good deal blog that lists the weekly CVS deals along with coupon matchups. My favorites for CVS are Simply CVS and Coupon Katarina. They list all the deals and any coupons available to go with them.

Some of the deals will be cheap with just the coupon, but many of them are only cheap after extra care bucks. These are in-store dollars that you receive for purchasing certain items and can use on future purchases.

Roll

Once you've bought a few things and earned some extra care bucks, roll them onto future purchases. This is where the savings really comes in.

Tips

• Always scan your card at the price scanner when you go into the store. It will print personalized coupons for you, sometimes for free items.
  
• Extra care bucks expire, and some weeks have better deals than others, so if you can get something "free", it's often best to buy it to roll your ECB's, even if you don't really want or need it, just to extend the expiration dates of your bucks.
  
• If you have a manufacturers coupon for an item that is already free after ECB's, you still get the full ECB value listed in the add, so you can actually grow your ECB's, essentially making money for taking home the shampoo or toothpaste.
  
• When you have more than a certain number of ECB's (for me, around 5; some people carry over a lot more), it's best to spend some down by buying milk or some non-ECB deals that you happen to need. This keeps you from having a ton that you have to spend before they expire.
  
• You can only use one manufacturers coupon and one store coupon per item, so if you have 2 $2 ECB's and want to buy a $4 item, you'll need to buy a cheap filler item.
  
• If you can go more than once a week, or split your order into multiple transaction, you can minimize your out of pocket spending by only paying for the first item and using ECB's to pay for the rest.
  
• You also get quarterly ECB's in the amount of 2% of your out of pocket spending. I now get almost nothing since most of my spending is coupons and ECB's.
  
• Also get a green bag tag. It costs $1, but if you attach it to a reusable bag and scan it with your extra care card, you will earn $1 ECB for every four scans.
  
  

Make sense?

Free $15 credit to One King's Lane

Right now, if you sign up for One King's Lane, a daily deal site, you get a free $15 credit. It looks like that might be able to net you a few free or cheap Christmas gifts.

And if you sign up with my link, I get a $15 referral credit, too.

Just call me the razor fairy

About a month ago, one of my friends commented on how she really prefers to buy high quality brands of razors and deodorants, but she in trying to save money, she compromised quality a little and her skin started to suffer.

I told her, "Oh sweetie, I promise when I find free Venus razors, I'll let you know."

So, this post is for her. ;)

Right now, on Walmart.com, you can buy this spa gift set, which includes a full size bottle of body wash, a Venus razor, and either a can of shaving cream or a bottle of body mist. It costs $10, but it also includes a free subscription to Allure magazine.

However, if you don't want the magazine, you can send the card back and instead get a refund in the amount of $9.99. Making the gift set essentially free.

You do have to pay the shipping costs, which I think are about $2.39.

But, if you have an account at either Ebates or Mr. Rebates, you can also click through there first and get 2 or 3% cashback. (Which amounts to about 20 cents. But I never say no to free money.)

Disclaimer: The links to the cashback sites are my referral links. If you don't have an account and click through my links, I will get very rich. Or at least be able to buy a few cookies. Thanks.

Thanks for this deal Couponing to Disney

Free $25 to LetsGo Green

If you are a new member of the deal a day site Gaggle of Chicks, or if you've signed up but not used your sign up credit yet, you can get a $25 credit to Let's Go Green completely for free! There are lots of great green home products, so this is a way to stock your house for free while helping the environment. Count me in!

Thanks Couponing to Disney for finding this deal!

Get rewards and free stuff for exercising + Mamapedia deal

I've been looking for ways to motivate myself to exercise, so today's Mamapedia deal for a Switch to Health Replay is great. My understanding is that you just wear it and then it automatically tallies up your activity over the course of the day and gives you points to use towards discounts or gift cards.

The deal costs $10. I got a free $5 credit when I signed up, and I think you can too if you sign up through the link above (please let me know if that's not true!), making this only $5. The deal also doesn't include $4.95 shipping from the site.