OK, I admit I have an email address that I have given over to junk mail. Junk mail that I read, when I have the time. The daily newsletters and deals and promos from every site that has an Internet presence, really.
Conagra Foods, which is a large conglomerate of all sorts of brands, sends out the occasional "Simple and Delicious" emails, with some coupons, some recipes, some advertisements for their own brands, and lots of links to their website.
This morning I clicked on a link for a Pizza Calzone...afterall, I have some crescent rolls in the fridge and a vague memory of how this was made at Pampered Chef parties, so a quick refresher might lead to another dinner option for us.
Then came a strange Big-Brother moment, perhaps made more freaky by the fact that it is 8am on a Saturday and I am not really awake yet. Next to several ingredients was a button marked "On Sale," which, thinking it would be a link to a coupon, I scrolled over, only to find it was actually advising that THAT item was ON SALE, currently, at a store in my area (there were two on sale ingredients of the five in the recipe, one at Hy-Vee and one at Bakers).
Crazy!
Cool!
Might make this site slightly more intriguing as I write up my Saturday-morning grocery list and "dinners of the week" plan....This site would seem to have combined the two chores together.
(Note** Your local store does have to participate. When I looked at store options in my zip code it did not include the "Our Family" branded stores, which is several local chains where I do most of my shopping.)
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