Food Basics Deals for the Week of June 25th to July 1st

Food Basics has Black Diamond Cheddar slices and Cheese strings for $1.97. No coupons for these but I hear the cheesestrings have coupon books inside. Good deal for the product and bonus coupons.

Dempsters bagels are on sale for $2.49. Use the new $2 off printable websaver coupon to get a bag for 49 cents. Bread is freezable too remember.

Bush's beans are on sale for 4/$5. Use the $1 off coupon from the Smartsource insert recently and get 4 cans for 25 cents each.

 Blueberries are on sale 2/$2.88. Good deal on produce even without a coupon. Always remember to price match your produce. You just need to price match the size. Nothing else.

Dawn dish soap is on sale for $1.99. Use the 50 cent off printable coupon from the P&G website and the Checkout 51 offer for $1 off and get a bottle for 49 cents.

 Egg Creations are on sale for $2.49. Use the tear pad coupon for $1 off to get a carton for $1.49.

So Good Soy Beverages are on sale for $2.99. Use the $1 off printable coupon from websaver.ca to get a carton for $1.99. Soy beverage usually have long expiry dates on them, so don't be afraid to stock up on this item at this price.

Freshco Deals for the Week of June 18 to June 24

Freshco has Chapman's icecream on sale for $1.97. Use the $4 mail-out to get 2 for free! (I believe you might have to buy 3 in order to get over $4 here though but some cashiers might let it go and reduce the coupon price.)

Freshco has Sponge Towels Ultra on sale for $4.97 - combine with the $1 off printable from Smartsource to get them for $3.97.

New Smartsource $1 off Scotties Tissue Coupon

Smartsource has a new printable coupon for $1 off Scotties brand facial tissue.

Combine it with the Freshco $5.97 deal to get 6 or 9 boxes for $4.97. Sale ends June 17th.

Royale Toilet Paper or Tissues $2.99 at Shoppers or Sobeys

Both Shoppers Drug Mart and Sobeys have Royale 12 roll toilet paper and Royale 6 pack tissues on sale for $3.99 this week. Sobeys' sale starts today but the Shoppers' sale on tissues doesn't start till Saturday and the toilet paper is only Sunday and Monday.

Use the $1 off printable hidden smartsource.ca coupon (limit 2 prints per computer) to get them for $2.99.

Note: the Shoppers Drug Mart price for the toilet paper is Sunday and Monday only this week and then it goes up to $4.99. Plus Shoppers limits the amount of both toilet paper and tissues bought to 4 packs per person.

Where do you get those wonderful coupons?

So, you might be asking, "Where do you get all these great coupons?". Well, let me show you.

There are a few different places where you can find coupons. The first and easiest to get are website coupons. These you can either print off on your computer or get mailed directly to your home, depending on the website or coupon.

Check out the following sites to find these types of coupons:

Save.ca Coupons - printable and by mail.
Websaver.ca Coupons - printable and by mail (special VIP mail package).
Right @ Home - printable (works with websaver.ca account)
Gocoupon.ca Coupons - printable and by mail
P&G Canada Coupons - printable
Johnson & Johnson Healthy Essentials Coupons - printable
Smartsource Canada Coupons - printable

Most of these sites require you to register with them to create accounts and it is 1 account per address. If you are wondering how other couponers get multiple copies of coupons, we generally use our friends and family addresses to create accounts and then get them to give us the envelopes of coupons when they arrive.

For printable coupons, some sites only allow you to print 2 copies per coupon per IP address, while other sites only allow 1 print per coupon per account within a certain amount of time. Lots of printable and mailable coupons will be available for order again after a certain amount of time has past, so always keep an eye on websites for coupons to pop back up again.

The next kind of coupon are tear pad coupons. These are found at your grocery store or local drug store. Place like Zehrs, Real Canadian Super Store, Metro, Sobeys, Shoppers Drug Mart, Rexall, etc. have various tear pad coupons located either at the front of the store on a display board or in the aisles of the store located next to the item that the coupon is for.

These coupons are sometimes store specific so always double check to make sure they are a manufacturer coupon, and not a store coupon before using it outside the store.

The next kind of coupon are insert coupons. These are found usually with your local paper, flyers or subcribed to newspaper.

There are about 6 different kinds of inserts I have seen floating around this year:
Smartsource
Red Plum
Unilever
Canadian Tire
Rexall
Mars

These inserts usually contain a variety of coupons that you can cut out and use. If you want to get a bunch of these, you can find extras in the recycle bins of neighbours on garage night, in charity paper bins at churches or schools (just be careful and don't get caught) or for trade on various couponing sites. Also it doesn't hurt to ask friends or family to collect them for you if they don't use them.

Another way to get coupons is to write or call companies about their products or directly request coupons from companies. Companies like Johnson & Johnson, Kimberly-Clark, Colgate-Palmolive, Chapman's Ice Cream are great examples of companies that love to send out coupons to their customers when you call or email them.

Smart Canucks has a great list of companies you can contact with their contact info.

Finally you can also find coupons in free samples, on products in the stores (peelies), in packages or in magazines or free promotional calenders. Coupons can be found in various places and I tend to keep all the ones I find in a binder with baseball card inserts to organize them. The more you find, the more you need a good place to put them. And I never throw any away because you never know what will make a free item one day or a money maker deal, and I have used many a free item as trade for items I did need.

If you have any other questions for me regarding coupons, please comment in the form below and I will try to answer as many questions as I can.