Living on the Cheap

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Olive Garden $5 off menu deal

Monday Menus: Get $5 off any two dinner entrees at Olive Garden with a FREE downloadable coupon.  The menu deal is valid at any U. S. location through Sunday, May 6, 2012, and there’s no limit to how many coupons you can download and redeem.  Click here to download the coupon.  Find more great restaurant [...]

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Kids eat free at Boston Market in May

Monday Menus — Kids eat free at Boston Market through Tuesday, May 22nd, with an adult who pays for a meal and drink.  It’s one free kid per paying adult, for eating in or taking out, and you need the downloadable coupon – that’s free, too.  One coupon per freebie, and you can’t extreme [...]

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Cinco de Mayo pub crawl deal

Celebrate Cinco de Mayo on the cheap with this pub crawl deal that gives you half off or more the usual drink specials.  This year’s Cinco de Mayo also just happens to be the same day as the Kentucky Derby, so you’ll have to chose between Margaritas and mint juleps.  This Groupon deal is [...]

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Kids eat free at Olive Garden Apr. 26th

Monday Menus — Kids eat free at Olive Garden on Thursday, April 26th, with a paying adult.  April 26th, in case you didn’t know, is the annual Take your Daughters and Sons to Work Day, and since both kids and grownups get hungry during the work day, take your kids to lunch or dinner [...]

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Beware of health violations at food chains

Yuk.  Don’t read this while eating.  NYC health inspectors have shut down more than 100 locations of fast food chains in the last  five years for health violations.  The worst offender is Subway, with 55 shut-downs.  Kennedy Fried Chicken franchises came in second with 31 closures, Dunkin’ Donuts had 23, Crown Fried Chicken had [...]

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New Beget daily deals valid for one year

The daily deal sites are just that — great, money-saving bargains that are available to purchase for just a couple of days.  With flash sale sites and deals, you have  just a couple of hours.  The new deal site Beget is different.  Beget  is brand new to the New York City deal market.  [...]

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Lobster dinner specials at Carmine’s

Monday Menus crustacean alert:  The Italian Clambake is back at Carmine’s on the Upper West Side.   Here’s the deal – two 1 lb. lobsters, six backed clams, 12 mussels, salad or pasta, plus potatoes and polenta, for $45 for two people.  Carmine’s is at Broadway and 90th Street.  Note — this lobster deal [...]

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Chilis: free chips + and queso with coupon

Monday Menus — Sign up for the Chili’s Email Club and you can print a coupon for FREE order of Skillet Queso & Chips. Being a club member also gets you additional exlusive offers in the future.  This is a nationwide deal, not just for Chili’s locations in and around New York City.

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Kids eat free at Chili’s through 4/11

Kids eat free at Chili’s when an accompanying adult orders an entree.  The Chili’s meal deal is through Wednesday, April 11th. You’ll need a coupon – click here to download the free coupon.

Find more freebies and meal deals on the NYC OTC Daily Deals page,

 

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Subway BOGO 6″ sandwiches in April

For the month of April, Subway is offering a BOGO sandwich deal — buy one 6″ sandwich and get a second one FREE.  This BOGO deal is good at participating locations only, and only before 9 a.m.  So get up early, and get breakfast and lunch for the price of one.  The full menu [...]

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Einstein Bros. 25% off coupon

Monday menus: Get 25% off your next purchase at Einstein Bros. with a FREE downloadable coupon.  Click here.  Coupon must be redeemed by Sunday, April 15th, at participating locations only.    Find more restaurant and grocery coupons on the NYC OTC printable coupons page.  Click here for hundreds of free [...]

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NYC on the Cheap iTunes/iPad/iTouch app

iPhone/iPad/iTouch app

The app version of NYC on the Cheap has been updated and re-released on the iTunes Store.  The new 1.3 version contains more NYC cheap eats, more listings about NYC history, neighborhoods and how to get around, and more links to the Twitter and Facebook pages of the restaurants, museums and [...]

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