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Deals of the Week

Deals of the Week

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by Terri Gruca

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Posted on January 11, 2011 at 11:00 PM

Updated Wednesday, Jan 12 at 4:26 PM

This week you'll find lots of freebies, including some great food deals. Enjoy!

Borders Game Night

Thursday nights in January, visit one of the 3 Austin Borders locations to enjoy Family Game Night.  Bring the whole family on Thursday at 6 p.m. and check out Borders' new games section. Try your luck at Split Decision, Billionaire, Rage, Word on the Street, and more. Sample treats from SBC and score fun giveaways!  Best for ages 6 and up. Thanks Heidi from Free Fun in Austin.com for the tip!
Here are the three Austin locations:

  • Westgate 4477 South Lamar 
  • The Domain 3309 Esperanza Crossing 
  • Southpark 9500 South IH 35 Service Road

Cheap Eats

Fish Deal

Whole Foods Market will have fresh tilapia on sale for $4.99/pound this Friday, Jan. 14 – that’s nearly half off its everyday price. Thanks Rebecca for the tip!

$1 sandwiches

Dickey's Barbecue Pit is offering $1 pulled pork BBQ sandwiches on every Monday in January.  The regular price for one sandwich is $5. Limit 2 sandwiches per person.  No coupon is necessary and no other purchase is required. Barbie also told me they have a terrific happy hour special every night of the week from 3 to 7pm you can get a chopped beef or a pulled pork hoagie for $1. Kids eat free on Sundays. And you always get free ice cream and pickles every day. Dickey's has two locations in Austin, one at 401 Whitestone, Cedar Park, TX 78613 and another at 5350 Burnet Road, Suite 1, Austin, TX 78756.

Free Oatmeal Fridays

McDonald's is introducing its new Fruit & Maple Oatmeal. To celebrate participating Central Texas McDonald’s restaurants will treat customers to a free regular serving of Oatmeal each Friday in January  from 7 - 11 a.m.

Free Movie Ticket

Pizza Hut is offering a free movie ticket for anyone who spends $25 at pizzahut.com using their Mastercard and get a code for a free movie ticket.

Free National Park Entrance

This weekend you can get free entrance to all of the National Parks across the country. The 100 parks that normally charge a fee will wave it January 15th through the 17th. Can’t make it this weekend, there are a handful of other weekends throughout the year where you can enjoy the same deal.

  • April 16-24 (National Park Week)
  • June 21 (First day of summer)
  • September 24 (Public Lands Day)
  • November 11-13 (Veterans Day weekend)

Free breakfast

Sign up for Mimi’s Café e-mail club and get a free breakfast.

Travel Deals

Travel Zoo has some great US Airways deals to Hawaii through early March. You can get roundtrip airfare from Houston to Hawaii for $408. You will have to travel on Mondays, Tuesdays or Wednesdays but it’s about half the cost of a normal roundtrip ticket to Hawaii. You can go here to look at the calendar.

Southwest Airlines has some terrific spring airfare deals. You’ve got to book by January 13th and the fares are good for travel through May 24th. You can’t travel Fridays and Sundays and there are a few February blackout dates. You’ll find airfare like Austin to Denver for as low as $69 one way to New York for as little as $146 one way. Go here to see the deals.

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