Superbowl pizza & wings, recession style

If you were lucky enough to buy the mammoth TV you'll watch the Superbowl on back when you were comfortable your home value would continue to soar, you're probably looking to save a little money now on the rest of Sunday's celebration. With that in mind, I perused today's grocery store circulars to find what looked like the best deal around Bel Air on pizza and wings. The winner is ... Superfresh. According to their advertising circular, Superfresh is offering Tony's pizza for $1.74. Their wings are $2.99 a pound at the deli. Here's how the others stacked up:

Weis
Wings $4 a pound
Tombstone Pizza 3 for $10

Safeway
Wings $4.99 for a 2.5 pound frozen package
DiGiorno Pizza 2 for $9

Giant
Wings $1.79 a pound
DiGiorno or California Pizza Kitchen pizza 2 for $10

Wednesdays are the days to get deals on wine in Bel Air

If Tuesdays are kids eat free nights in Bel Air, it looks like Wednesdays are the days to get deals on wine. As I mentioned in an earlier post, Ronnie's in Forest Hill features a Wacky Wednesdays event each week offering its wines at 20 percent off. If you prefer to enjoy your deal on wine in a restaurant, MaGerk's in Bel Air offers its wines at half price by the glass and the bottle on Wednesdays. According to the Wine World website, the first Wednesday of every month is Winesday at MaGerk's where they offer a variety of wines to taste for $10.

Tuesdays are kids eat practically for free nights at Looneys and Greene Turtle

No point in cooking for the kids on Tuesday nights in Bel Air. At Looneys, kids eat free on Tuesdays. At Greene Turtle, their dinner will cost you 99 cents with a regular adult entree.

A scoop of really good ice cream for less than $2

Beachdog, a faithful reader of my other blog, BANV, and a big fan of Broom's Bloom Ice Cream, points out that Broom's Bloom Dairy offers a "very small" 5-ounce portion for only $1.50. I wonder how many calories are in 5-ounces?

Safeway offers 10 cents off each gallon of gas if you spend $50 on groceries

A reader (Thank you!) sent me an e-mail today saying he likes the value he gets on gas at the Safeway. (It was priced at $2.96 today compared with Wawa's $2.90.) In addition to the competitive gas price, Safeway also offers a 10 cent a gallon discount for shoppers who spend $50 at the Safeway grocery store. So, if you fill up your tank when you buy your groceries he's right that you are likely getting the cheapest gas in town. Kleins grocery offers coupons with every purchase that give you 3 cents off each gallon of gas you buy at their Klein's Gas 'N Go stations. But I couldn't find a Kleins gas price on the Internet. If you drive by and see it listed at the station, please let me know.

Best deals on wine come early in the week

If you're planning to serve wine at a weekend event, shop Tuesday or Wednesday. Tollgate Liquors in the Tollgate Marketplace between Giant and Staples offers its wines at 15 percent off on Tuesdays. Click here for other deals they offer throughout the week. Ronnie's at 1514 Rock Spring Road in Forest Hill offers a Wacky Wednesday event where wine is 20 percent off on Wednesdays.

Got a box of Life cereal for $2.39 at Bel Air Target

The low cost of some of the groceries offered at Target convinced me to split my weekly grocery store trips into two ever since the Bel Air Target started selling them a couple of years ago. Cereal is one of the categories they seem to dominate in low price. A number of their Market Pantry brand cereals are less than $2. Brand name cereals are often priced in the $3 range. Yesterday, we picked up a 15-ounce box of Life cereal for $2.39. In grocery store aisles I often see brand name cereals going for more than $4, leaving me wondering why adding sugar and raisins to the same grains horses eat for breakfast sends prices into the stratosphere?

Gas at Wawa is $2.979 a gallon today

I'm looking at the gas receipt from my fill up at Wawa in Bel Air today and thinking their $2.979 per gallon price is pretty good. I did a little Google search to check it out and discovered a number of sites that help you locate the best gas price in your area. Next time you need to fill the tank try clicking here to find the best deals:

BaltimoreGasPrices.com
MotorTrend.com
Automotive.com
Internetautoguide.com

A gallon of 1% milk is $3.75 at Weis in Bel Air

With the price of milk skyrocketing the way it has, over at our house we really do cry over each spill. Today I found a gallon of 1% milk for $3.75 at Weis in Bel Air. The sign above the milk case says they have the lowest prices allowable by state law. I'm still trying to verify that. But if you see cheaper prices anywhere, please comment below or e-mail me at belairnews@comcast.net.

Welcome to Best Deals in Bel Air

I've been publishing Bel Air News & Views for almost two years now and I noticed that the readers of that blog are often looking for good values around town. I decided to create this blog to serve as a place to share that kind of information. I'll post good deals I find and I hope you readers will add what you find as well. It could be anything from a summer camp that you think offers good value for the money to the price of gas at a particular station on a given day. I'll start posting what I see while I'm out and about and I hope you'll add your own finds. The economy doesn't seem to be getting any better so we might as well help each other find some good buys.