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Five Great Deals To Stretch The Family Budget

This week, Frugal Family scoured our local sources in South Whitehall (and nearby) for savings on seasonal grocery needs, necessities and a few things to 'treat' yourself.

Editor's note: We’re all watching our family budgets these days. Whether shopping with coupons or looking for two-for-one deals, we’re taking advantage of all sorts of offers and savings that help us stretch our dollars.

This column is dedicated to giving you five great local deals each week that will help your family’s bottom line, and since we do the scouting for you, you can save time as well as money.

You are a big part of this column. Let us hear about the deals you’ve seen. Just add them to our column box. Then come back each week and see what we’ve uncovered together.

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This week's savings include groceries to get you through the first week of Lent and ready for St. Patrick’s Day, deals at a local winery and an online coupon for a local silversmith shop to help keep you warm as Winter makes its exit.


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Deal: This week’s Weis Reward Card savings plus extra savings with coupons, and if you sign up on their website for their eNewsletter, you'll get a coupon for $5 off your next $50 purchase.

Wisk Laundry Detergent ~ $3.99 (there’s a $2 off coupon in the Sunday paper)

Hormel Black Label Bacon sliced 16 oz, buy one, get one free

2 Liter Pepsi Products,  5 for $5

Colorado Corned Beef Points, $1.29/lb

Colorado Flat Cut Corned Beef Brisket ~ $2.69/lb

Russet Potatoes or Sweet Potatoes ~ $.99/lb

Birds Eye Vegetables 8 to 16 oz ~ 10/$10

Good through: March 12.

2.

Deal: Buy More Save More BonusCard Savings.

Blueberries or Blackberries 4.4-6 oz, buy one, get one free

Bumble Bee Solid White Tuna 5 oz , 10/$10

Coca-Cola Fridge Pack , 3/$10

Colorado Flat Cut Corned Beef Brisket, $2.99/lb

Giant Russet Potatoes 5 lbs,  $2.99

Barilla Pasta, 10/$10

Good through:  March 12.

3. Walgreens

Deal:

Kellogg’s Cereals or Pop-tarts, $1.99

Ocean Spray Juice 64 oz, 2/$5 (limit of 4)

Pampers Jumbo Pack Diapers, 2/$20 (get $3 Register Rewards so it’s like paying $17)

Bounty Paper Towels, six Big Rolls, $6.49 (limit 3)

Scott Naturals Paper Towels 6 Rolls or Cottonelle Bathroom Tissue, 12 large rolls, $5

Good through: March 12.

4. Clover Hill Winery

Deal: All through March save 10 percent on Clover Hill Merlot. Their 2007 Merlot is aged right here in Pennsylvania oak barrels for nine months to create a complex wine.  Dry in the finish and medium in body with aromas and flavors of blackberry, black raspberry, plum and caramel.  Receive a 20 percent discount on the 2007 Merlot when included with a case purchase.  http://www.cloverhillwinery.com

Good through: March 31.

5. C. Leslie Smith

Deal:

Save 20 percent on any one scarf, knit item, or hair clip of your choice at the store only. Limit one coupon per customer per day, click here for website coupon. In-store merchandise only, no special orders or layaway. Some restrictions apply.

Good through: March 31.

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