Fav 4 at Jewel!

Yay! Fav 4 is back!! It goes through 12/9/09 so keep checking your store for the best priced packages of meat! If you don’t know why I am excited, I will give you a little rundown of how this deal works. Well, of course there is a chance that they change the deal and it doesn’t work but Doug went this morning and got some burgers and sure enough – $4.10 came off so it’s working! :-)

It’s advertised as 4 packages of meat for $19.99 – you buy 4 and you get an instant $4.10 savings after the 4th package is rung up. Well, if you buy the smaller packs of the same type of meat that are in the deal, the savings comes off. Anything that is in the Fav 4 case or has a Fav 4 sticker will be priced higher so look for those same meats (same UPC code) but in smaller packages and the $4.10 will be deducted. If you buy 8 packages, another $4.10 will come off and so on and so on……….

You know I always have some type of warning with any deal you are working not the advertised way!

First, if the discount doesn’t come off, either just take them or just have them take the meat off your order right then and there. I usually go through the self check with the meat because there are no coupons and I can see the discount right away.

Second, I have read about people going to the butcher and asking them to wrap individual burgers, steaks, etc. Please do not do this! This is really NOT an ethical way of working the deal and we don’t want them to change the way it works. You are getting a good price working the deal by buying the smaller packages so don’t “push” it to get your meat even cheaper – it’s cheating.

You will find smaller packages of meat, I promise. Your best bet is to go early in the morning or late at night but really, I have found them at all times of the day. Doug just bought 4 packages of Pub burgers – each had 2 burgers in them and were priced at $2.85 each (weird that they had 4 exactly the same!) so they were $11.40, less the $4.10 discount = $7.30 for 8 burgers ($.91 per burger or about $1.85/lb). These are nice thick GOOD burgers. I freeze them with 2 in each bag, that way if I want burgers, I grab a couple of packs or if I want to chop it up and cook it as ground beef for tacos or spaghetti, I can just grab one pack. It works out great!