Did anyone see that new show on TLC about extreme couponing??  I swear I just sat there shaking my head and hanging my mouth open.  One woamn spent about 649.00 on groceries, and walked away paying only $6.40 give or take a few. 

So today, as I am home with sick kiddies, I decided to look for a couple of Canadian coupons (I mean who doesn;t want to spend a mere couple of bucks on 3 month's supply of groceries- can't hurt to look), and low and behold I found and interesting deal on multivitamins.  Now I am not sure if my Walmart carries these or if they are even suitble (check their website for a full list of vitamins included) , but supposedly their Multibionta vitamins are on sale this week for $9.99, and here is a link for a $10.00 off coupon: http://www.multibionta.ca/email/en_multibionta_coupon_10.pdf 

It says limit 1 per package, so I guess that means if you print of 9 coupons, you can get 9 bottles for free???  Or if you are really frugal, you can actually make 1 cent on each bottle you buy. 


hmmm....amazing what you can find when you look.

correction-  I couldn't find them at my Walmart, but called and they are on sale at Shoppers (today is the last day).  I think I will definitely check it out.  Free sounds good to me.  :)

AWESOME !!  Thanks, I will pick these up this afternoon !

No problem.  The thought just occured to me though, that you should defininitely check the expiration date.   Hope it works out for you.

Interesting that you should post this because the Multibionta vitamins are now being promoted by the Weight Management Clinic in Ottawa as one that is acceptable.

That's good to hear.  I will definitely go and get some tonight.  My guess is that the expiry date is only a month or two away and that is why they are on sale, but a month or 2 of free vitamins is okay with me. 

Now, this post is most likely old news for a lot of you, but I know there are also a lot of people who feel lost on where to find coupons when they decide they would like to start couponing! 

So, here goes, the ultimate “Where to Find Canadian Coupons" list:

• At the grocery store and department stores – You will find pads of coupons near a promoted product. For example, I find a lot of these “tearpad" coupon in my local Zellers, Save-On Foods and Shoppers Drug Mart.  Also look throughout the stores to find product displays with calendars and booklets that also contain coupons.  Here’s a post I did on all the coupons I found on a “coupon hunting" trip I did!
• In newspapers – There are two nationally distributed coupon flyers – Redplum and Smart Source. They’re distributed about once a month. Expect to find coupons for national brands like Tide, Pampers, Arm & Hammer, etc.   Here is a post I did on the 2011 coupon insert schedule and a post I did on which newspapers you can find the coupon inserts in.
• In Magazines – look for Canadian coupons in the Clip n’ Save booklet with your Canadian magazines such as Canadian Living or Homemakers.  Or simply just on a page with an advertisement!
• Online printable – Many companies offer coupons that you can immediately print right from your own printer, cut it out and take to your local stores.  Check out the giant list of printable coupons I have available on Simply Frugal!
• Online ordered – some companies run promotions where they mail coupons (for free product, or money off) to you via Canada Post.  As these coupon become available, I post about them here on simply Frugal so you don’t miss out. There are also companies like Save.ca, Brandsaver.ca, Websaver.ca and GoCoupons.ca that mail out coupons that you order from their sites. (Again you’ll find brands such as Pampers, Sunlight, Betty Crocker, Cover Girl, etc) These services are completely free!
• On or In product packaging – You can find coupons on specially marked boxes or packages that may be used for future purchases.  Currently there is a Kellogg’s Wake up to Free Breakfast promotion found on select Kellogg’s products and coupons for free ice cream found on select General Mills products!
• Mailing lists – join Mailing lists of the companies that you often buy from, if they have one. When you sign up online, make sure to check the box that asks if you would like to have special coupons and offers sent to you, but only if it is a company you would like coupons from!  I also recommend having a separate email address for signing up for things like this, you wouldn’t want to clutter up your personal email!
• Email your favourite companies - If you have a favourite product, there absolutely no harm in emailing or calling that particular company asking if they have any coupons available to mail to you!  Many companies are very willing to send coupons your way if you only ask!

Have fun ..


Linda x

Thanks Linda.  I find this all very interesting.  I just got the Red Plum today and cut out a dozen coupons for $1-$2 off of this and that.  When I totaled all of it, I had $19.00 worth of cupons for stuff that I use on a regular basis- lots of cleaning products, and some food products.  Kinda wondering why I never took a few seconds to collect any of this stuff before.  I will now. 

 Hey Marny B thanks for this info. I actually just got back from SDM and heres the scoop. the 30 pack is regular $14.99 on sale for $4.99 and they will not let you use the coupon because it is more than the cost. the 60 pack is regular $24.99 on for $19.99 and you can use the coupon on that. Just be careful with the expiry dates. Thanks to Sandy B a fellow OH member that I met there LOL (we had never met before but we were both there with our little coupons) I noticed i had one pkg that expired next month!!! Yet others expired in 2013. So I bought 2 of the 30 pkgs for 4.99 since they were $10. off and I bought one of the 60 for $9.99 with the $10 coupon. So I got $55 worth of vitamins for $20...not bad ;-)) 

Thanks for the update.  I went, but my Shopper's was out of stock and so I got a raincheck.,  I called ahead and spoke to customer service, and they explained that a small change would be made at the register (something about entering the coupon manually to make it worth $9.99 and account for the $0.01 difference), but that I could use the coupon.  She told me they were $9.99 though.  Weird.  There is another coupon on the multibionta wesite that is for $5.00 off. I hope mine will honour it.  I'm prepared to battle  .