Super Savings Saturday

I came across way too many deals this week! I especially went nuts at Dillons.

Walmart

4 boxes Snuggle dryer sheets $1.87, used 4 $2/1=FREE!

Walgreens

3 All Laundry soap, $3.50 each, used 3 $2/1=$1.50 each

CVS

Huggies diapers, $8.97, used $5 ECB from CVS Advisor Panel=$3.97 plus will get back $1.50 from Upromise and $0.75 from Cargivers Marketplace. Final price=$1.72

Dillons:

I went NUTS at Dillons this week. Just nuts!

trip #1

Bisquick $4.65-$0.60 cf-$0.60 SC- $1 coupon=$2.45

Duracell batteries(5 packs) $1.88 each-$1 P&G-5 $1/1=$3.40 for 5 packs

Warm Delights (3) $2 each-$1sc-$.50CF-3 $1/1=$1.50 for 3

Pet Fur Fighter $9.89-$4CF-$4 coupon=$1.89

Reames frozen Noodles 2@$1.50 each-2 $1/1 coupons=$0.50 each

Progresso Lentil Soup (2) $1 each-$0.50 SC- $1 coupn= $0.50/2

Pantene $3.99-$1P&G-$2 coupon=$0.99

Parkay $1-$1 coupon= FREE

Organic salad mix $3-$1 coupon=$2

Organic frozen berries $2.99-$1=$1.99

Organic carrots $1.89-$1 coupon= $0.89

I bought an insane amount of things. Almost everything I had coupons for, minus spaghetti sauce and pasta that were on sale for $1 each. My receipt is somewhere in the truck so I dont have and extact amount on how much I saved but it was 53%.

OOP $77.98

Trip 2

This was for a couple things I forgot from the day before

Thera-flu $4.99-$3 coupon-$2 ecoupon=FREE!

2 Chex mix $2.85 each-$.50 sc-$0.50CF- $1coupon=$3.70/2

Ronzini pasta2 $1.67 each- $1 Upromise= $1.17 each

Karo Syrup $2.49-$80 coupon-$0.40 Upromise=$1.29

Fleishmann Jar Yeast($5.99) and King Arthur Flour($4.29)-$3.50 WYB KAF and FY-$.40 FY from UPromise-$0.50 KAF Upromise=$5.88 for both

OOP $20.69, saved $19.02 or 47%

Im keeping my budget for the month set at $400. So far I have spent $200.36

November Review

I'm so glad November is over...we had one disaster after another!

Here's some of the numbers:

Groceries $388.81. I actually managed to keep it under my $400 imposed budget! Partially because the Things stayed most of Thanksgiving break at their grandmothers but that's ok! I'm setting the same budget for December!

Gas $116, yikes! $20 of that was to go to my mil's for Thanksgiving, so technically, it's about what it usually is

Library fines, paid $3.80, still owe $1.50.

Money made

$50 from car payment

$10 from My Survey

$21 from Panel Polls

$75 from magazine article

$156 total

Menu Plan monday

Well I survived Turkey day and 3 days without the Things. Me and Baby Girl did alot of freezer eating so that cleared some space out for the next baking day!

Here's the plan

Breakfasts

Cold cereal

Waffles

Toast

all served with fruit

Lunches

Sandwiches

leftovers

Dinners

Ham and cheese rollups with fries, carrots

Beef Stroganoff, peas, bread

Chicken Fried Rice

Italian Breaded pork chops with linguine with arugula and romano

Hamburger helper(in an effort to use up a small amount of hamburger), corn

pancakes, sausage, fruit(didn't get to this past week)

Super Savings Saturday

I've avoided the stores this week like the plague, although I did notice that Walgreens had my favorite Hershey Kisses on sale(Mint Truffle) and I had some coupons, so I stopped in to pick up some bags.

2 Hershey kisses on sale 2/$5 with $1 RR

did this deal twice and used 4 $1/1

OOP $6 with $2 in RR received=$1 per bag!

menu plan monday

The kids are out most of the week, but thanks to Thanksgiving, they are staying at my mil's Thursday through Sunday! Yippee!(well, not Baby Girl) So I just have 3 days of actual meals to plan, plus Thanksgiving food. The remaining days, me and Baby Girl will rely on leftovers and what's in the freezer.

Breakfasts

Cereal

Poptarts

Waffles

all served with a fruit

Lunches

Sandwiches

Soup

leftovers

Dinners

Roasted chicken. stuffing, corn

chicken rollups, french fries, green beans

pancakes, sausage, fruit

Things to make for Thanksgiving dinner

Wild Rice with pecans and cranberries

No Bake Cheesecake

Buttery Bread Machine rolls

Pumpkin Pies(done!)

Super Savings Saturday

Some of the highlights

Yakisoba noodles-FREE

Parkay $0.50 a pack

Frosted and Honey Nut Cheerios $0.50 each

Bounty Paper Towels $4.49(plus will get $2 from Upromise, so will be $2.49)
Philly Cream Cheese-FREE

Nestle cookies 3 packs for $2.45(about $0.81 each)

Jenny-o Turkey $5.16(I have 2 turkeys and if I had freezer space,I would pick up another while the sales are good because we can get 3-4 good meals out of these!)

the Pam, chocolate chips, and wild rice weren't on sale. Just needed them

I also had a 20 ounce Mt. Dew, honey sticks($1), and 1/2 gallon milk

Total $36.82, saved $72!

Amount left to spend for the month $69.87(I already have groceries for next week, minus milk, produce)

Using the bits and pieces

I used to be a bad waster. Little amounts leftover from sauce, ends of bread, a handful of pasta, etc would get left in the fridge and eventually have to be thrown away. Not anymore! While I'm still not the best at it, I try my hardest to save even the miniscule amounts for a later use. Ends of bread get thrown in the freezer to be made into breadcrumbs, 1/4 of a jar of leftover spaghetti sauce gets put in a Ziploc and frozen, half a bag of pasta gets saved for a later use,sometimes 2 or more combined)

Here's a few heels that have been ran through the food processor, some Italian seasoning added and a handful of Parmesan cheese mixed in for a coating to my Oven Baked Parmesan chicken. There's a quart size bag of leftover plain spaghetti sauce from about 3 jars. Also, a half a bag of egg noodles left from Stroganoff.

Combined with some chicken breasts and mozzarella cheese, it made a yummy dinner of Oven Baked Parmesan chicken. Definitely at a fraction of the cost of 1 restaurant meal. Even with a salad added!

I even had sauce left over, so back into the freezer it went to be added to until I have enough for another meal.

I'm not fabulous at this yet, but it definitely help to become more frugal!

Check out Frugal Friday for more great ideas!