Do you have a Longhorn Steakhouse in your city? Guess what they will pay you to eat there! They are constantly seeking mystery shoppers for lunch and dinner at all their locations. Melanie (our Bi-Lo deal gal) posted about it a month or so ago, I signed up and completed a mystery shop and this weekend we got our compensation!
Here are the details:
Go here and sign up. After you register they will email you with available “shops” in your area. We had our first assignment within 48 hours of registering! Each household is able to mystery shop for Longhorn’s twice a year (sorry no weekly date nights). You will get your check within 4 weeks of your shop. (We got our’s in 3 weeks).
You can choose either a lunch or dinner shop, dinner reimbursement is slightly higher. If you choose lunch you will be reimbursed $25 towards your meal and $10 for filling out the survey. Dinner is reimbursed at $30 for the meal and $10 for the survey.
Their requirements for our dinner shop were to order at least 1 appetizer, 1 entree, 1 dessert and 1 drink(soda or anything else). You can split items if you like between guests. My husband and I shared the appetizer and dessert but each had our own entree. After reimbursement and including tax and tip we paid $17 for a meal of so much food we had to take home three boxes!
You submit your survey online after shopping, it will take a good 20 minutes but for $40 back that wasn’t to bad to me.
A tip from Melanie: The lunch shops are more sought after so if you don’t care when you go just try for a dinner one.
Since the frugal blogging world is all talking about e coupons with paper coupons and the legitimacy of it I thought I would quickly give you my two cents too. You will notice that this week’s deals still include them matched with paper coupons so that gives you a tip to my take…
First as background I have had extensive conversations with the planners/designers of Cellfire.They found this site a while back and had a lot of questions about us couponers so I tried to fill them in. I told them up front the best part of e coupons was that we could use them with paper coupons.Here is the summary of what they said.
While their goal is make it where you can only use one coupon they know that people can and will use 2 coupons for now.They also are eager for people to use their system and do not want to deter anyone from using it.
E coupons are a business folks. Shortcuts, and Cellfire need and want you to use their coupons. They long to show the manufacturers that this is the route to coupon distribution and thus take the money from Smart Source and other normal coupon distributors and put it into their own pockets. Also there are some pretty good kick backs from Kroger in all this for these companies as you are now loyal to Kroger since your e coupons only work there!!
They do hope to limit use of e coupons however will it happen? I honestly doubt it. Think about the differences between an e coupon and a paper coupon. If you were forced to pick one over the other many of us would always choose a paper coupon. Forcing that decision would be really bad for their business…
- The e coupon will never double
- You might have numerous paper coupons for the same item, you will only get 1 e coupon.
- You can have various amounts off for one item in paper coupons and thus can choose the best coupon for that store. E coupons give you no choice.
Keeping those in mind, and realizing that the e coupon folks know those same issues, they are not going to force your hand anytime soon.
Now for the legitimacy of it. First we covered that they know you are doing it and would prefer your business. Second how would you propose to not use both coupons together?
- Being able to load over 100 e coupons to your card you cannot be expected to remember what coupons were there every time you shopped.
I just loaded a bunch of Food Lion coupons (as well as direct links to print most of them). In case you haven’t found where the Food Lion coupons moved too, look at the top of your page and you will see a button that say “Food Lion Coupons“. It makes it much easier for me to update them, and hopefully easier for you to find them.
The baby coupons are the same coupons we had the last quarter. You can get a free Gerber baby food item, and FREE Food Lion baby wipes!
Cellfire just put up a new batch of coupons. If you haven’t done your Kroger shopping yet, be sure to load any you might need before going.
Here is the new list and I have gone ahead and matched coupons with them!!
$1.50 off 1 Huggies Diapers
$3 off any 2 HuggiesDiapers
-$1.50 off paper coupon SS 01/11
.60/1 Chex Mix or Chex 100 Calorie Snack
-.50/1 Chex or Cheerio Mix SS 12/07
.50/1 Fiber One Chewy Bars
-.50/1 Fiber One Bars SS 01/04
$1/2 Green Giant Frozen Box Vegetables
-.50/2 Green Giant Boxed Veges, SS 01/04, 12/07
-$1/2 Green Giant Boxed Vegetables printable
-.50/1 off Green Giant Veges SS 12/7 (regional) or printable (IE) printable (FF)
.75/1 Multi Grain Cheerios
-.75/1 Multi Grain Cheerios printable
.50/1 Honey Nut Cheerios
-$1/2 General Mills Cereals printable
.50/1 Pillsbury Italian Bread
-.40/2 Pillsbury Italian Bread SS 12/14
-.60/2 Pillsbury Italian Bread printable
$1 off Romano’s Macaroni Grill Dinner Kit
-$1 off Romano’s printable
.50/1Totinos Pizza Rolls
-.55/1 Totino’s Rolls printable
$1 off Yoplait Fiber One Multipack
-$1 off Yoplait Fiber One printable
$1 off Yoplait Yo-Plus Multipack
-$1 off Yoplait Yo-Plus printable
There is a new General Mills Coupon book, this one themed for healthy foods!! Sign up to have it mailed to you by clicking on the image. I’m also including links to all the other available coupon books right now. They are all free to sign up for and all are mailed to you.
There are new coupons on Coupons.com (or on the side bar) for DVD’s from 20th Century Fox. Most are Chick Flicks (Romance), I pulled up a few on Walmart’s site and many appear to on sale in the store right now. Here are a few of the coupons offered:
Romeo & Juliet
Say Anyting
Ever After
Moulin Rouge
Get a Free sample of Rachel Ray’s Nurish Dog Food.
Try a sample of the new Kotex Thins.
Sample of Febreeze Sport (to cover up those tough smells)
Free Music!!
Anders Holst – All About Soul
Get over 500 Free Songs
This a quick guide to the best of the best deals at the stores that Southern Savers covers. Click on the store name to see the deals and the coupons needed to get the items FREE or almost.
Kroger
Rice a Roni or Pasta Roni – Free
Nature’s Bounty or Sundown Vitamins – various types FREE
Cottonelle Toilet Paper – FREE
Kroger Sour Cream .25¢
Betty Crocker Frosting – FREE plus overage
Colgate Toothpaste – FREE
Huggies Pull Ups $5.99
Publix
Fiber One Toaster Pastries .34¢ ea
Pasta or Rice a Roni .34¢ ea
Del Monte Tomatoes .34¢ ea
Dannon Yogurt .13¢ ea
Stoneyfield organic yogurt .26¢ ea
Purina Cat Chow – FREE
Bi-Lo
Emerald Trail Mix .20¢ or FREE
Food Lion
Get 10lbs of potatoes for $2.99
Rite Aid
2 packs of Huggies Diapers and 2 Bath products for $1.26-$2.26
Serenity Pads .99¢
Hershey’s Reese Whipps – FRE
Excedrin Back and Body – FREE
CVS
SoyJoy Bars – FRE
Colgate Toothpaste – FREE
Nature Made Vitamins – Select Varieties FREE
Walgreens
Revlon Matte Collection product – FREE
Orajel Cold Sore Medication – FREE
AutoExpressions Air Freshener – FREE
- Join the Muir Glen club to get a $1 off any product printable – this makes tomato paste, sauce and diced tomatoes free or almost at many stores! (get another coupon here)
- .50 off any Cottonelle 4pk or larger – makes a 4pk free at Kroger everyday! (pair with an e coupon for a money maker, see the Kroger deals for more information)
- $1 off 2 Arm and Hammer Baking Soda or Fridge Pack printable (this will make 2 almost free at many stores)
- $2 off any St. Ives product printable – money maker at Walgreens through tomorrow
- .50/1 Pasta or Rice a Roni printable – money maker at Publix this week (the print limit is now reached)
