Free Dove at Wags!

Walgreens has a deal on Dove shampoo/conditioner which is awesome!  They are $4.99 BOGO and if you buy 8 you get a $10RR!  So here is what I did to make it a money maker...

8 Dove conditioners - 19.96
8 $1.50 coupons - 12

Used a $8RR I had from last week and paid $1.47 or so in cash.  So it "cost" me 9.47 and I got $10 back!  You can do this with 4 conditioners and 4 shampoos an stilll make like ..04 I believe.  Its still a good deal even if you pay a buck or two!  Head on over there and grab some free stuff!

I <3 Kroger

Made a quick trip to Kroger and this is what I got for $1.84!!!  I can't wait to find some more q's and do it again!!

4 boxes of Cheez Its - kept one at work for a snacky!

4 evaporated milk

2 keebler cookies

7 playtex gloves

1 lean cuisine - ate for lunch, a girls gotta eat

Paid only $1.84!!  Run, do not walk to your nearest Kroger and whip out those coupons for the Mega Sale!  What deals did you get there?

Some Online Shopping at JCP!

JCPenney has a coupon code for $10 off a $10 purchase just by using the promo code SWEETS4U, so I decided to take a look.  I ended up getting the below bathing suit top and matching bottoms, as well as a set of lounge around shorts for $7.33 (shipping was $5.95).

I needed a new suit anyways and this will go perfect for our cruise!  I'm not sure how long the coupon code will be around so get shopping!

Boston Market also has a coupon out now for a meal for $1 that is good for the week, so can you guess what I had for lunch!?!?  It was 2 legs and one breast, with mashed potatoes and cornbread.  Pretty good if you ask me for $1!

So it looks like Kroger might have the better deals this week over Meijer.  I'll highlight them both below. 

Meijer

Snuggle - $3.39
     Use the $3 Q from 10/4 RP
     Cost - .39

Pillsbury mini brownie mix - $1.29
     Use the .40 Q from 9/27 RP
     Cost - .49

Campbells Chunky soup - $1.19
     Use the .50/4 Q from 9/20 or 10/11 SS
     Cost - .86 each

Bananas - .33/lb

Kroger

They are having their mega even sale right now which is if you buy 10 participating items you get $5 off your bill.  The prices below are noted after the $5 discount (.50 off each item).

Carnation Evap Milk - .50
     Use .50/2
     FREE - Stock up for the holidays

Kotex - $2
     Use $1/1 printable
     $1 cellfire Q
     FREE - great donation item if you don't use this

Scotch Nail Saver - .50
     $1/2  9/20 RP
     FREE

Playtex gloves - .50
     $1/1  10/4SS
     FREE

Cheez Its - .99
     Use $1.50/2  10/4 RP

Keebler cookies - .99
     Use $1.50/2  printable
     Cost - .24 each

Danimals - $1.49
     Use $1/1  10/4SS
     Cost .49 each

Tyson split chicken breast - .99/lb
     Use .50 Q from 10/4SS
     Cost - varies

These are only the best things I see that are free/cheap. 

Free KFC Chicken on Monday!

Yipee, free KFC Chicken tomorrow.  Here is the link explaining it, I don't think there is a PDF or coupon to print this time.  Looks like free lunch tomorrow!

Link

Cake Pops!

Okay, so I lovee Bakerellas site which is here.  Her stuff is always so cute and creative, and she makes it look so easy!  I've been wanting to try these because I was hoping to make them for Halloween if they were easy enough, so I tried them tonight.  Let me tell you, they were pretty darn easy, and I had a lot of fun with them.  I used orange chocolate disks from Michaels, but either I used too much on my cake pops or I didn't get enough chocolate.  My batch made about 36 pops, but I only had enough chocolate for a little more then half of them, so I'm leaning towards I didn't knock enough chocolate off.  I also couldn't find an edible ink pen at Michaels, so I want to get one before Halloween when I make these again.  I thought it would be cute to put Jackolantern faces on them.  We'll see! 

I won't have much time to put up the drugstore deals, but check them out  here.  This is where I come to look before I hit the stores after I've looked through the ads.  Sometimes I miss stuff and I like to double check!

Any other good baking sites out there for me to check out?  I LOOOOOVE baking!

Cheap Chicken and a new potato recipe!

So after my fun trip to Meijer yesterday I dropped the boys off and went to Kroger for cheese and Vince and Joes for chicken fryers.  I think I got like 20 packs of cheese (shredded, bar and slices) for $1 each.  I know I could have waited for a Kraft sale but we were running pretty low, and that doesn't happen around here!  We seem to go through cheese like water.  I also bought two of the chicken fryers from Vince and Joes, I just love making it in the crockpot sprinkled with some rosemary and lemon slices on it.  We usually are able to get a couple of meals out of this, so I'll probably make some chicken salad with the leftovers tonight for lunch tomorrow!

After showing hubby the cheese, he wanted more of the Muenster cheese slices, so I went back out this morning and got more and also grabbed three more chickens.  I couldn't resist, they were only $2, and basically were already cleaned out, makes a cheap meal. 

So we are pretty stocked on everything for a bit, I hope!  My main goal was to make sure they had something to eat while I was at school two nights a week, that wasn't just boring old sandwiches or take out.  I think I accomplished that! 

I was looking at the stockpile pictures on HCW last night and it inspired me that I wanted to take some and see what everyone else thought.  First I want to clean up my shelves though...you don't need to see how unorganized I am!  Hopefully I can get around to posting those this week.  I grabbed a paper today as usual, so I'll post those deals later.  

Tonight for dinner is the chicken in the crockpot as well as these.  I've never tried them before, but the ladies at the Grocery Challenge board say they are amazing, and well frankly, we're tired of just regular baked potatoes.  I have so many from the garden its not even funny, so I'm trying all the new recipes I can!

What were your favorite deals last week?

Finally Some Good Shopping!

Okay, I must say, I haven't done a big grocery shop for a while, its usually things here or there because we have such a big stockpile, but Meijer had some good sale items as well as catalina items, so I was able to do a bigger shopping trip!  I'm sure its not big like everyone thinks, but its big compared to my standards of just 5 things at each store!  Here's my first picture on this blog!

Sorry I don't know why its so blurry, but here are the items I got.  I have to say hubby and son did come with me and they hardly ever do, but I think hubby just needed to get out of the house!  They cost us a few extra dollars, but it was alright, well worth it.  It was kind of  nice having them come for once. 

pig ear - .99 (extra item)

dog chain - 1.84  (extra item)

chicken bouillon cubes - 2.39

2 Tyson chicken thighs - 2.77 and 2.91

bread - 3.69 (I thought this was the one for the pepperidge farm deal but you can get the ones that are 2.49, live and learn)

cheese cake - 4.99 (free item for buying 2 viola meals)

beer - 17.19 + deposit 2.40

2 soup - 1.30

6 soup - 3.90

grapes - 1.87

kid soup - .99 (extra)

tonys pizza - 1.98

4 soup - 5.06

gummy worms - 1.30 (extra)

4 ziploc bags - 6.76

chips - 1.97 (extra)

2 eckrich sausage - 3.98

2 broth - 3.98

2 viola meals - 5.98

OJ - 2.29

snuggle - 27.93

The total was 108.xx - and I ended up paying 43.02.  We had about $7 in bottle returns so subtracting that off of the beer total, $12 or $13 was beer.  So for groceries it was $30 (I don't include beer in my monthly budget).  I also received a $5 OYNO cat  :)  I am going to go back tomorrow for the Super sale, which I swore started on Friday but apparently I was wrong!

We are going to the Cider Mill tomorrow and then to get a costume so that will be fun!