Grocery Deals 11.09.09 ($12.59 total)

Walgreens:

2 pkgs. Kotex maxi pads

8 oz. cream cheese

Total Spent: $3.25

KMart:

Swiffer refills 16 ct.

12 pack Scott toilet paper, extra soft

Special K blueberry cereal

Total Spent: $1.34

Kroger:

16 oz. skippy peanut butter

29 oz. Osage Canned Peaches

14 oz. beef broth

Jolly Time Butter microwave popcorn (3 pack)

4 pack Yoplait yogurt

2.75 lbs. bananas

8 oz. shredded Kroger cheese

1 lb. butter

1 bag yellow onions

1 lime

1 loaf active lifestyle wheat bread

Total Spent: $8.00

Target Savings 11/01

Well, I needed to go to Target anyways to get my sister and her fiance a wedding gift for the big day next weekend, so I took advantage of my trip into the big city! (I don't get to Target often, b/c it's about 30 minutes away) But, it was so much fun saving that I might have to go more often!

Lysol Neutra Air Kit $11.97

sale $5.99

$4/1 coupon= $1.99

Chex Mix $1.46

Target coupon $0.50

Mfg. coupon $0.50=$0.46

(2) Healthy Choice Frozen Meals $2.44 each

(2) $2/1 coupons =$0.44 each

Coffee Mate Creamer $1.79

clearance for $1.21

$1/1 coupon= $0.21

(2) Cinnamon Toast Crunch Cereal $2.24 each

$1/2 Target coupon

$1/2 mfg. coupon=$1.24 each

Kellogs Cereal Buy 3, get 1 Free

$2.66-$3.29 each

$1.50/2 mfg. coupon

$1/1 mfg. coupon

$1/1 mfg. coupon

(3) $1/1 Target coupons=$0.53/box

Total Spent: $8.59

Total Savings: $ 28.33

(77% savings!)

Walgreens Savings 11/01

(3) 8 oz. cans Hunts Tomato Sauce .99 each

sale 3/$1

coupon $1/3 Hunts products=FREE

(2)Campbell's Tomato Soup

sale .50 each

coupon $1/2=FREE

10.3 oz. Dawn dish detergent sale $1.59

store coupon for $0.99

mfg. coupon $0.25 = $0.74

Aquafresh 4.3 oz iso-active whitening toothpaste $4.79

$2 walgreen's coupon

$1 mfg coupon= $1.79

Glade Plugins Lasting Impressions Kit sale $4.99

$4.00 coupon=$0.99

Glade Soy Candle $3.99

$1 RR

$3 coupon=FREE

Always Maxi Pads 2/$5.98

Total Spent: $10.61

Total Savings: $25.20

(about 70% savings!)

The Queen of Coupons (not me!)

Go HERE to watch this video of an amazing woman! My friends Mandy and Sarah have got me excited again about couponing, but to a different level this time...only buying what you can get on sale with coupons for as little as possible. I am not where this lady is, and even Sarah keeps beating me with her deals! ha! But, I'm learning to do better. I was always one for buying ahead when things were on sale, so my pantry and freezer are pretty well stocked right now. I actually don't have any more room in my freezer for a week or two.

So, last week I spent last week's budget, plus half of this week's (because I found some really good deals), and so I had to be really careful this week with the little I had. I'm not where I want to be, but I have cut my grocery budget in half for the last two weeks, and I'm very excited! So is Shane!

I don't have a picture to go with this week, but here's how I did yesterday:

Kroger

2 dozen eggs

loaf white bread

16 slices american cheese

(3) 12 packs dr. pepper

box Kroger brand fruit loops

box Kroger brand rice krispies

1 pkg. Ore-Ida hashbrowns

1 pkg. Ore-Ida tater tots

1 reduced for quick sale steak (for Shane's bday last night)

5 bags chex mix

2 (4 pack) Yo-Plus yogurt

1 bag Dole salad

3 tubes Colgate toothpaste

1 roll sausage

4 air wick room freshner sprays

1/2 lb. tomatoes on the vine

2 cans rotel tomatoes

1 can organic kidney beans

1 tub Betty Crocker frosting

12 double rolls Quilted Northern T.P.

Before Coupons: $83.60

After Coupons/Kroger Card: $33.73

Today's Savings

Okay, so a friend told me today about a Salvage Grocery Store in Harrodsburg, called The Bread Basket. (thanks, Jen K. via Angela V.) :) I usually go to B&E Salvage in Louisville, but I was excited to try this one out. It is only two aisles, and so MUCH smaller than B&E, but there were some good deals! I spent $42.11, so I am done for the week. No more grocery shopping! :) But, if I had paid full retail, I figured it at around $108.79 worth of food! :) Here's what I got:

11.5 oz. Lucky Charms Cereal

(2) 10 oz. Organice Gorilla Munch Cereal

15.7 oz. Cinnamon Toast Crunch

(2) 5 oz. bags Salt & Vinegar Kettle chips (shane's favorite!)

4 oz. bag Veggie Pirate Booty

52 ct. size 4 Huggies Diapers

(2) 14.5 oz. boxes Fiber One Cereal

(2) 15.6 oz. boxes Fiber One Cereal

(2) 5 oz. boxes Organic Late July Peanut Butter Mini Crackers

8 ct. box Pop Tarts

7.5 oz. Annie's Naturals Cheddar Bunnies Crackers

(2) 3 ct. boxes Organic Newman's Own microwave popcorn

15 oz. Patak's Curry Sauce

(3) 10 oz. bags Nestle Toll House chocolate chips

6 pkgs. Stride gum

15 Harvest Whole Grain Power Bars

Grocery Savings 10.23.09

Okay, so I went grocery shopping today, after doing my research on prices around town (via the internet) and printing off all my coupons. I had my list in hand, and this is how I did. (and I'm happy!)

At Kroger, I spent $46.09, and I got:

1 box Honey Bunches of Oats
1 Amy's Organic Pizza
2 1/2 gallon jugs orange juice
3 lbs chicken breasts (boneless, skinless)
1 pkg. chicken leg quarters (5 lbs)
3 pkgs. shredded cheese
1 pkg. block cheese (8 oz)
1 pkg. (of 6) soybaby organic yogurt
1 bag corn chips
2 dozen eggs
1 box cake mix
1 bag chex mix
1 loaf whole grain bread
3 bags Nature Valley Nut clusters
3 cans corn
1 bbq sauce
1 container Betty Crocker Frosting
2 pkgs. cinnamon-raisin english muffins
2 pkgs. dole romaine salad
5 lbs. potatoes
16 oz. mushrooms
1 pkg. celery hearts
1 box shells and cheese deluxe dinner
1 tin black pepper
1 pkg. albacore tuna
2 pkgs. keebler cookies (choc. chip and rainbow chip)
5 lbs. ground beef
1 box Mothers Cereal

Then, I spent $31.92 at Wal-Mart and got:

2 packages Trident layers gum
1 box lean pockets
1 Gillete Fusion shave gel
1 loaf french bread
1 pkg. hamburger buns
1 pkg. fat free flour tortillas
1 pkg. frozen broccoli
1 box Honey Bunches of Oats w/ Pecans
1 box simply salted Orville Red. popcorn
2 lbs. carrots
10 lbs. chicken thighs
2 lbs. bananas
8 yogurts
1 pkg. halls cough drops
1 container kids crest toothpaste
Lea and Perrins thick worchestershire sauce
16 oz. tomato sauce
1 gal. 2 % milk
1 Febreeze noticeables starter kit

So, altogether, I saved over $50 at Kroger, between coupons and sales/clearances, and I saved $13 at WalMart with coupons. I spent $78.01...and saved a total of about $63, which comes out to about 55% savings. Included in the above lists are 23 pounds of meat, not including all the other stuff! Woohoo!!!! :) Thanks, Sarah and Mandy, for the inspiration to shop like I used to! :)

Cause We're Homeschooled...yeah, yeah

"Where's Mom?"

Well, I can't sleep, feeling a little antsy(could it be the Diet Dr. Pepper I had this afternoon?) :), so I thought I'd write on my blog about a new book I just read. It's called, "Where's Mom? The High Calling of Wives & Mothers" by Dorothy Kelley Patterson. I picked it up at the Sovereign Grace Church bookstore, when we were in Virginia. It's a small book, a pretty quick read, but challenging for sure. :)

Here's the description on the website of this book:

"An adaptation from an article in Recovering Biblical Manhood and Womanhood by John Piper and Wayne Grudem, this booklet addresses the special calling of a
woman to be a wife and mother. In a world that lacks respect for these two
positions, several vital questions are answered. This questions include, "Is
Homemaking My Job?," "Is Homemaking a Challenging Career?," "Is Being a Mother a Worthy Service?," and "Is Being a Wife a Fulfilling Function?" All the answers affirm the Council on Biblical Manhood and Womanhood's Danvers statement that men and women are created equally in God's image but are designed to perform different functions. With this statement, women are exposed to the Biblical roles and duties assigned to women -- including being a wife and a mother. "

I loved a few of the last paragraphs in the book and wanted to share them with you:

"Homemaking-if pursued with energy, imagination, and skills-has as much challenge and opportunity, success and failure, growth and expansion, perks and incentives as any corporation, plus something no other position offers-working for people you love the most and want to please the most!.....

Homemaking-being a full-time wife and mother-is not a destructive drought of uselesness but an overflowing oasis of opportunity; it is not a dreary cell to contain your talents and skills but a brillian catalyst to channel creativity and energies into meaningful work; it is not a rope for binding your productivity in the marketplace, but reins for guiding your posterity in the home; it is not the bitter assignment of inferiority to your person, but the bright assurance of the ingenuity of God's plan for complementarity of the sexes, especially as worked out in God's plan for marriage; it is neither the limitation of gifts available nor stinginess in distributing the benefits of those gifts, but rather the multiplication of a mother's legacy to the generations to come and the generous bestowal of all God meant a mother to give to those He entrusted to her care."