Sweet Recipes Scary Good Savings at Jewel Through 10/14 #StockUpSale #ad

Going batty trying to find fun treats for Halloween, munchies for the big game, and delicious fall fruits and veggies?

Jewel-Osco's got you covered. Head on over to your local store and stock up on scary good deals through 10/14. There are over 300 Stock Up specials where the prices go down when you buy more.

Disclosure: ChiIL Mama is happy to partner up with Jewel Osco once again and we have been compensated for sharing this information with our readers. As always, all opinions are our own.

Ghost of Halloween past. ChiIL Mama's son, Dugan, with his book based costume, The Rusty Knight from Bruce Coville's The Weeping Werewolf

Moongobble and Me series 

Check out Jewel-Osco's web site for great recipes, too, like the fun BIG Pumpkin Cookies we've included below. Click here for this week's flyer and loads of treats... no trick.

BIG Pumpkin Cookies 

Servings:2
Preparation Time:15 minutes
Cook Time:25 minutes

Fun to make! This Big Pumpkin Cookie is just great for an afternoon in the kitchen with the children. Let them decorate to their heart's content once this giant cookie has cooled down.
Ingredients

1 pkg (16.5 oz.) NESTLÉ® TOLL HOUSE® Refrigerated Sugar Cookie Bar Dough

Frosting, decorator icing, sugar sprinkles, candies and/or melted chocolate (optional)

Select All
Directions
PREHEAT oven to 325° F. Grease large baking sheet.
PLACE whole bar of dough in prepared pan. Allow to soften for 5 to 10 minutes. Using fingertips, pat dough gently to form 8- to 9-inch pumpkin shape
BAKE for 22 to 25 minutes or until light golden brown. Cool on baking sheet for 2 minutes; carefully loosen cookie with spatula. Cool completely on baking sheet on wire rack
DECORATE as desired

All recipe ingredients should be cooked to a safe internal temperature according to USDA guidelines. After preparing a recipe, please store any leftovers in the refrigerator.

Don't let the cupboards go bare. Stock up at Jewel-Osco before their HUGE Stock Up Sale disappears! 

Ghost of Halloween past. ChiIL Mama's daughter, Sage, ChiILin' at The Chicago Cultural Center

Dig The Chicago Wolves hockey team? Jewel-Osco can help you save up to $5 off on tickets.

Disclosure: ChiIL Mama is happy to partner up with Jewel Osco once again and we have been compensated for sharing this information with our readers. As always, all opinions are our own.

Stock Up And Save at Jewel Through 10/14 #StockUpSale #ad

Red Alerts We Can Get On Board With...

It's pumpkin season, ya know. Here at ChiIL Mama we've got some big fans of pumpkins in all their forms. We love to carve them, bake them, eat them... scare people with 'em! My kids have always loved Halloween, from babyhood on up.

Disclosure:  ChiIL Mama is happy to partner up with Jewel Osco once again and we have been compensated for sharing this information with our readers. As always, all opinions are our own.

Check out Jewel-Osco for scary good savings on pumpkins, pumpkin pies and baked goods, and Stock Up Sale candy to hide away for trick or treaters. They have HUGE savings going on right now.



Click here for this week's flyer and loads of treats... no trick. Finger food optional!

SAVINGS ARE AFOOT

Red Alerts We Can 

Get Excited About...

Stock up and save with discounts on over 300 items to choose from!

Disclosure: ChiIL Mama is happy to partner up with Jewel Osco once again and we have been compensated for sharing this information with our readers. As always, all opinions are our own.

Stock Up On Box Tops for Education Products at Jewel-Osco's Huge Sale Through 10/14 #StockUpSale #ad #BoxTops

How to Turn a Bag of Cardboard Scraps into New School Supplies
(or bypass the cardboard altogether and do it on line) 

I'm a mom of 2 public school children in the beleaguered, chronically underfunded Chicago Public School System. Our middle school collects Box Tops to trade for money for supplies they're sorely in need of, and when everyone clips a few boxes it adds up to big benefits for schools in a pretty painless way--up to $20,000 annually per school big. 



Disclosure:  ChiIL Mama is happy to partner up with Jewel Osco once again and we have been compensated for sharing this information with our readers. As always, all opinions are our own.

Jewel-Osco helps support our local schools by selling loads of products that qualify for the Box Tops program and by their Growing Local Learning site. Parents, extended family and community members can help just by buying products you already know and love and clipping off the Box Tops symbol. You can even get eBoxTops on line and designate what school you want to benefit. It's simple and effective! Join over 80,000 participating schools.

It's Easy:
Find the Box Tops symbol on hundreds of products... 

Clip it & turn it in at your school. Each one is worth a DIME!

Check out great deals on General Mills Cereal and Nature Valley Granola Bars. Not only will you see great sales that can be combined with coupons, but these products participate in the Box Tops for Education program too!

Check Out Jewel-Osco's 

Growing 

Local Learning Program 

Box Tops for Education® and ACME, ALBERTSONS, JEWEL-OSCO, and SHAW'S have joined together to create Growing Local Learning®, a program to help shoppers earn cash for their schools.

Since Growing Local Learning® started in March 2010, over $3.1 million has been earned by schools through Growing Local Learning®!

Buy 10 participating General Mills Box Tops of Education Items and get 25 bonus eBoxTops on your register receipt. The purchase must be made in a single shopping visit. Log onto http://www.growinglocallearning.com/ and enter code and 50 bonus eBoxTops are credited to your school of choice.

They also feature yummy recipes at the Growing Local Learning site. Check it out.

Disclosure:  Once again, ChiIL Mama is happy to partner up with Jewel Osco and we have been compensated for sharing this information with our readers. As always, all opinions are our own.

Jewel Osco Stock Up Sale Is ON Through October 14th #StockUpSale #ad

Fall isn't just the time of year for chipmunks and other critters to stock up for the imminent winter. People can get in on the action too. And we don't even have to hunt and gather, unless you count hunting for bargains and gathering great deals at Jewel Osco!

Disclosure:  ChiIL Mama is happy to partner up with Jewel Osco once again and we have been compensated for sharing this information with our readers. As always, all opinions are our own.

SAVE BIG and squirrel away loads of your family's favorites during the Stock Up Sale, which runs through October 14th. We'll be running updates and our Jewel Osco favs for 2 weeks, so check back with ChiIL Mama early and often. 

Customize It

Here are a few sale items we're particularly stoked about. You can go on the Jewel Osco web site and click your favorites and the site will circle them in red, so you can find them again easily! Pretty cool, huh.

*Deals featured below are good until 10/7

It's apple season, ya know. And Michigan apples are phenomenal. We've already munched through a big bag of McIntosh Apples and the latest batch we bought after that are not long for this world. My kids dig apples and it's a healthy snack I can feel great about.

With a competitive team gymnast in the house, we go through Gatorade like you wouldn't believe. So, when I see a great price, you better believe I stock up.

Keeping up with the kiddos and their early morning schedules requires caffeine... LOTS of caffeine. If you agree with me, DOUBLESHOT is your friend! I really like the tasty Refreshers too, and drink those all day. I'm one of those morning people who can't make coffee before I've had my morning coffee. I do silly things like leave the filter in the sink, start it without water, and so on. These are a foolproof way to wake up on the run and avoid DIY coffee disasters.

Salty sweet salty sweet. Yes, salty IS sweet. And the Blackhawks season is starting imminently. So after you've been all healthy and good and eaten your yogurt and fresh, local apples, treat yourself to some snacks while you watch your favorite sport or check out a movie.

Disclosure:  ChiIL Mama is happy to partner up with Jewel Osco once again and we have been compensated for sharing this information with our readers. As always, all opinions are our own.

Jewel Loves Locals Like Eli's Cheesecake #HugeSale

Disclosure:  ChiIL Mama is happy to partner up with Jewel Osco once again and we have been compensated for sharing this information with our readers. As always, all opinions are our own.

Here at ChiIL Mama we love to support and feature local vendors. So, for our final Jewel post in our Huge Sale series, we're highlighting Eli's Cheesecake. Jewel is celebrating their 115th anniversary and Eli's is great for whatever you celebrate. We've seen Eli's at presidential inaugurations, Chicago's birthday party, loads of theatre events, The Auditorium Theatre's Anniversary and many more occasions large and small. Everything's sweeter with cheesecake, especially when it's Eli's, because they make it with only the best ingredients.



ChiIL Mama has had the great pleasure of being invited out to Eli's Cheesecake for two years in a row now for their blogger breakfast. Click here for our sweet, behind the scenes, 2013 photo filled recap. Our 2014 highlights are coming soon. I was even on the winning team in the Turtle Cheesecake Decorating speed contest two years running.

National Cheesecake Day just recently passed, but every day's a great day for cheesecake. Yum!

Jewel says: We love local.

• Eli’s is a family-owned business located on Chicago’s Northwest side • Cheesecake recipe was created by Eli Schulman and first served to celebrities at his restaurant • Eli’s cheesecake made its debut at the first Taste of Chicago and has since sold more than 5.2 million slices!

Check out Jewel Osco's Huge Anniversary Sale and follow along on the hashtag #HugeSale for crazy cool giveaways and deep discounts.

Click here for more sweet anniversary deals, then check back with ChiIL Mama early & often for a whole series of savings specials throughout Jewel-Osco's... 

**HUGE SALE**

new deals starting 8/13

Celebrate Huge 115th Anniversary Savings At Jewel #HugeSale

Check out our camping favorites and stock up at Jewel Osco . Come on out and SAVE.

Disclosure:  ChiIL Mama is happy to partner up with Jewel Osco once again and we have been compensated for sharing this information with our readers. As always, all opinions are our own.

Check out Jewel Osco's Huge Anniversary Sale and follow along on the hashtag #HugeSale for crazy cool giveaways and deep discounts.

**HUGE SALE**

Our family loves to camp out and grill out, at home and in the woods. What are your camping food favs? This past weekend we headed out to where the trees are taller than the buildings with a slew of friends. First we headed to Jewel. Here's some of our must eats over the campfire.

• S'Mores ingredients--marshmallows, cinnamon & regular Graham Crackers, and Hershey bars.
• Ground turkey & beef & sharp cheddar cheese for burgers for everyone
• eggs/milk/bread/cinnamon sugar for rockin' French Toast
• salt-pepper-garlic salt & fresh garlic
• sweet corn/asparagus/potatoes/Brussels sprouts
• nectarines/kiwi/bananas
• coffee/beer/wine

We have two ice cream balls to make homemade ice cream in the great outdoors, so we stocked up on ingredients for those as well:

• chocolate chips
• hot chocolate powder
• ice/rock salt
• half n half

Click here for more sweet anniversary deals, then check back with ChiIL Mama early & often for a whole series of savings specials throughout Jewel-Osco's... 

Disclosure:  ChiIL Mama is happy to partner up with Jewel Osco once again and we have been compensated for sharing this information with our readers. As always, all opinions are our own.

Jewel Osco is Celebrating 115 Years With Huge Savings For YOU #HugeSale

Jewel Osco is pulling out all the stops. Come on out and SAVE.

**HUGE SALE**

ChiIL Mama's daughter, Sage, stocking up at Jewel 

for camping and cookouts.

Disclosure:  ChiIL Mama is happy to partner up with Jewel Osco once again and we have been compensated for sharing this information with our readers. As always, all opinions are our own.

Check out Jewel Osco's Huge Anniversary Sale and follow along on the hashtag #HugeSale for crazy cool giveaways and deep discounts.

Green Living/Eco-Friendly:

Here at ChiIL Mama we love organic produce and try to eat healthy as often as possible. We dig Earthbound Farms salads and buy them often, so we're excited about this giveaway. Enter through Wednesday, August 13th!

• Earthbound Farms Free Salad For a Year Giveaway to 75 lucky winners. 
• Earthbound Farms is giving away free salad for a year. All you have to do is sign up HERE.

This Week's Sale Items:

Our family members are big fans of grilling up chicken breasts, steaks and sausages of all sorts. We also adore avocado sandwiches, and guacamole too. And we can't get enough blueberries with their sweet n tart flavor and great antioxidant  properties. We make them into smoothies, eat them on desserts and in fruit salads, or just gobble them up plain. All these and more are on sale this week at Jewel 8/6-12!

Click here for more sweet anniversary deals, then check back with ChiIL Mama early & often for a whole series of savings specials throughout Jewel-Osco's... 

**HUGE SALE**

Disclosure:  ChiIL Mama is happy to partner up with Jewel Osco once again and we have been compensated for sharing this information with our readers. As always, all opinions are our own.

Jewel Osco Has Just Two Words For You #HugeSale 7/30-8/13

Somehow the kids just keep needing to be fed... Funny how that happens. And Jewel Osco is here to help you do that without breaking the bank. They have two of the sweetest words for you for the next two weeks:  

**HUGE SALE**

Disclosure:  ChiIL Mama is happy to partner up with Jewel Osco once again and we have been compensated for sharing this information with our readers. As always, all opinions are our own.

Anniversaries are sweet, and doubly sweet when YOU are the one getting the gifts! 

Check out Jewel Osco's Huge Anniversary Sale and follow along on the hashtag #HugeSale for crazy cool giveaways and deep discounts.

Green Living/Eco-Friendly:

Here at ChiIL Mama we love organic produce and try to eat healthy as often as possible. We dig Earthbound Farms salads and buy them often, so we're excited about this giveaway. 

• Earthbound Farms Free Salad For a Year Giveaway to 75 lucky winners. 
• Earthbound Farms is giving away free salad for a year. All you have to do is sign up HERE.

Of course snacks rock, too:

• Great deals on Pepsi, Frito Lay, Quaker AND more. 

Check back with ChiIL Mama early & often for a whole series of savings specials throughout Jewel-Osco's... 

**HUGE SALE**

Disclosure:  ChiIL Mama is happy to partner up with Jewel Osco once again and we have been compensated for sharing this information with our readers. As always, all opinions are our own.

FOODIE TUESDAY: Chocolate Covered Strawberry Footballs For The Big Game Via Jewel-Osco #notgoinganywhere #ad

Disclosure:  We are happy to be working with Jewel-Osco on a sponsored campaign through January 31st and have been compensated for sharing this information with our readers.   As always, all opinions are our own.

Yeah, yeah.   Everything is big game this and big game that this week.   I've gotta admit, when I watch the Superbowl at all, I usually dig the ads more than the football.  I once went to an official party of creatives--copy writers, graphic designers, and ad execs who actually watched the commercials avidly and took their snack breaks, potty stops, and talked through the game.   I know... sacrilege.   

I do watch hockey religiously, if that redeems me somewhat, in the eyes of the jocks.  These could be made into pretty rockin' helmets, pucks, and Blackhawks feathers, come to think of it.  Go Blackhawks!

No matter how you watch the big game... alone or with friends, or not at all, snacks rock.   Weekends are always a great time to break out the munchies. It's funny though, most "big game" snacks tend toward a big meat fest, salty chips n dip, and other man cave fare.   

That's why these cuties jumped out at us!   They're unique among the Superbowl snack options.  Yum!   These giant chocolate covered strawberries look wickedly delicious.   I'd tackle someone for a tray of these beauties.   You've still gotta DIY 'em but all the ingredients are easily found at your local Jewel.   Not a football fan?   Make these giant football strawberries over into Dr. Who's Tardis, abstract art, funky faces, or whatever floats your boat.

For more foodie fun, local philanthropy, and deals, check out Jewel-Osco's fun Pinterest Boards.

Disclosure:  We are happy to be working with Jewel-Osco on a sponsored campaign through January 31st and have been compensated for sharing this information with our readers.   As always, all opinions are our own.

   

WIN a Jewel of a Deal, Free Groceries For a YEAR! #NotGoingAnywhere #ad #giveaway

Disclosure:  We are happy to be working with Jewel-Osco on a sponsored campaign through January 31st and have been compensated for sharing this information with our readers.   As always, all opinions are our own.

Jewel-Osco can help you start 2014 with a LOT more cash in your pocket. They're giving one lucky winner FREE groceries for a YEAR!

Click here for 

your 

chance to 

WIN.

Disclosure:  We are happy to be working with Jewel-Osco on a sponsored campaign through January 31st and have been compensated for sharing this information with our readers.   As always, all opinions are our own.

A Jewel of a Deal & Another Slice of History #NotGoingAnywhere #Ad

Disclosure:  We are happy to be working with Jewel-Osco on a sponsored campaign through January 31st and have been compensated for sharing this information with our readers.   As always, all opinions are our own.

Jewel has launched it's $5 off $50 purchase coupon. Shoppers need to register here, then you will be able to print a coupon.

Jewel-Osco is on your block and in your corner!   

We frequent Jewel and rely on them for the basics and for special desserts.   Our favorite sweet treats from Jewel are Diana's Banana Babies and Graeter's Chip Ice Creams.   Graeter's originates from Cincinnati (my childhood home) and is my favorite ice cream of all time.   Their chocolate chips are HUGE slabs of dark chocolate and their ice cream flavors are made in small batches and are incredible!

My Dad's first high school job ever was at a Chicago area Jewel, back in the 50's!!

We're visiting the grandparents for the holidays as usual this year, and I was surprised to learn that before he got his accounting degree at Northwestern, my Dad's first high school job ever was at a Chicago area Jewel, back in the 50's!!   Back then he said they had to price everything by hand with a stamper and purple dye.   When canned goods would go on sale, they'd scrape off the code with steel wool and stamp on the weekly discount, then reverse the process at the end of the week!

It's a fun glimpse into the past to time travel back 60 years, Dr Who style. Kids these days don't know how easy they have it, with computerized inventory, registers and all.   Back then, minimum wage pay was .75 cents an hour!

Funniest Jewel Story from The 50's:
The Caffeine Fiend

My dad told me his funniest memory of those early Jewel days, a story I'd never heard before.   A thief came in once, with a huge, floor length overcoat, with interior pockets sewn in.   He proceeded to load up the pockets with glass bottles full of coffee, while the manager covertly watched him.   

When the guy tried to make a run for it, the store manager headed him off at the pass with a cart, and when the thief hit the cart, the stolen bottles broke all over the inside of his coat, covering him with coffee & glass.   The manager didn't call the police, but told him never to return, and threw the soggy coffee bandit out of the store!

Disclosure:  Once again, we are happy to be working with Jewel-Osco on a sponsored campaign through January 31st and have been compensated for sharing this information with our readers.   As always, all opinions are our own.

What Grocery Store Is Here To Stay? #NotGoingAnywhere #ad

Disclosure:  We are happy to be working with Jewel-Osco on a sponsored campaign through January 31st and have been compensated for sharing this information with our readers.   As always, all opinions are our own.

This past weekend, Chicago social media was all a buzz with a certain grocery store's going out of business sale.   Words like frenzy and swarm were all over the 75% off sale recaps.  Some tweets compared the mobs of deal stealers to the cornucopia scenes from Hunger Games.   I stayed far far away on purpose. Why get pummeled for produce or felled for foodstuffs?!

Jewel is in my neighborhood and here to stay.   They're even buying up some of the stores the frenzied swarm so efficiently emptied last Friday.   They've been a Chi-town staple for 114 years, and they're stampede free.   Even better, they've done away with those annoying discount cards and spread the savings throughout the store for everyone to enjoy.   As a chronic card forgetter, I'm eternally grateful.

Jewel began as a group of door-to-door salesmen selling tea and coffee from the back of horse-drawn wagons. Founded in 1899 by Frank Ross and his brother-in-law Frank Skiff, the company started with $700, a rented horse, and a secondhand wagon.

Check back with ChiIL Mama early and often throughout the end of December and the month of January.   We'll be highlighting some seriously chiIL (trample free) Jewel-Osco deals for you.   Here's one to get things going

• Gift Card Promotion: buy $100 in participating dining gift cards at any Jewel-Osco now through 12/25 and get $10 off your next purchase. $10 off coupon is a catalina printed at checkout. The catalina is good through 1/1/14. Participating gift cards include: Applebee’s, IHOP, Chili’s/Brinker, Buffalo Wild Wings and Amazon Gift Cards; Promotion includes the Applebee’s & AMC Dinner gift card AND Brinker/Regal Movie & Meal gift card. 

Disclosure:  Once again, we are happy to be partnering with Jewel-Osco on a sponsored campaign through January 31st and have been compensated for sharing this information with our readers.   As always, all opinions are our own.

Jewel's Penny Pots Promotion Ends Today!

Click on the slide show for full screen options.

We gave our Jewel stir fry pan and roasting pan a try out with family, and loved them!  



Earn stamps through today.   Last stamps awarded 1/12/11.  Redeem them and get your sets through 1/26/11.

Food and Family

Holiday Survey Results 

·         Perhaps unsurprisingly, 70% of Americans indicate that, during the holidays, food brings them and their families the most joy

o    Gifts, meanwhile, came in at 48%

·         Just under 60% of holiday meal hosts report doing all the work themselves, without asking guests to bring anything along

·         Despite the amount of food involved in the holidays, 75% of respondents say eating healthy is important to them and their families

·          Although generally perceived as the centerpiece to holiday meal entertaining, 41% said that the main entrée is the dish most susceptible to tinkering, while only 37% said they would change up their appetizer offering

As for Chicago, here are a couple trends that set our city apart from the rest of the country:

• Celebrating big in Chicago: People in Chicago are more likely to have large celebrations, with 33 percent saying they will host nine to 14 people, compared with 22 percent nationwide. Price of food is more of a concern among Chicago respondents, with 36 percent citing it as an important consideration versus 28 percent nationally. When asked if they could have any living person at their holiday dinner table, Chicagoans picked their family, followed by the First Family (the Obamas).

(Study was conducted by Harris Interactive research in October 2010.   Results brought to you by Jewel-Osco and SUPERVALU, who sponsored an extensive study of U.S. and Chicago parents, to get more insight into the preparations and foods that are central to the holiday 

season.)

All that purchasing and prep work can pay off with gratitude from your well fed family and more.   Remember, Jewel rewards the hosts,  with quality cookware.   Check out ChiIL Mama's prior post HERE.  

  

All those stamps you accumulated feeding the family over Thanksgiving and Christmas can be redeemed through January 26th for some sweet, new pans, to make your life easier.   Or, maybe you can give them as gifts to next year's host and pass on the cooking torch.   Either way, you win.