I am so happy to announce that I am one on the 10 finalist for the All You contest!
YEAH! They are announcing the winner tomorrow and I am so nervous!
Sunday, August 23, 2009
Thursday, August 20, 2009
five for under 50
First week total- See below!!
Some shoppers have learned to be a really good "saving Sam."
If if are a good shopper, you know how to stockpile items when they are both on sale AND have a coupon.
However, how do you start from scratch, stockpile (have some left for tomorrow) and still feel your family?
I am going to do only one store each week to make it simple (although not always the best bang for the buck).
This is bare bones but it can be done!
Here is the challenge- feeding 5 people pretty healthy meals and still stockpiling some stuff!
This week is Kroger!
Shopping list
Kroger cheese-2 1.29 each 2.58
Kroger buns 1.00
7 Frozen steamers 1.69 each 11.83
4 Grands biscuits** 1.49each 6.23
1 fruit snacks ** 1.99
2 Cheerios** 1.99 each 3.98
2 cin toast cr 1.99 each 3.98
2 trix 3.98
skim milk 1.98
Kroger tortilla 1.00
green beans .68 cents an lb .68
rice 1.00
bananas -3 lbs 1.49
blueberries -1 pints 1.28
Whole chicken fryer- 7.42
8 Quaker rice cakes ** 7.92
celery-2 1.36
2 Betty Crocker brownie ** 1.99
lettuce .77
8 corn .19 an ear 1.52
eggs .99
salad bag .98
Kroger dressing 1.19
2 bacon -smithfield 5.98
Hamburgers -angus-marked down 4.19
Total Before coupons 77.31
*** You need to buy 10 of any of the item (mix and match) to get the $5 0ff
Coupons
$5 off 10 items 5
$5 off 10 items 5
$5 off 10 items 5
$2 off Kroger Angus beef 2
2 cheerios .55 off one (doubled) 2
2 Cin toast crunch .45 off one(doubles) 2
2 trix .55 off one (doubles) 2
2 Grands coupons .55 off 2 (doubled) 2
fruit snacks .40 off one (doubled) .40
.50 cell fire coupon fruit snacks .50
.50 shortcuts coupons fruit snacks .50
.55 brownie mix (doubled) off 2 1
2 shortcuts brownie mix .75 .75
.75
cellfire brownie mix .75 .75
2 smithfield coupon 3.00 each 6
free kroger dressing 1.19 1.19
Total coupons and other savings 36.84
Total out of pocket 40.47
plus Arby's 5.95
Total week spending 46.42
Breakfast
cereal and fruit with milk
lunch
soft taco with cheese and lettuce
Salad sandwiches with lettuce, cheese
leftover dinners
Arbys for lunch 5 for 5.95
dinners
1st night - Cheeseburgers with lettuce, corn
cut leftover corn off cob and freeze half-leave half in fridge
2nd night- chicken (make both chickens) and green beans
3rd night - fried rice with pieces of chicken, beans and corn
4th night -chicken salad with leftover corn, chicken and celery (save leaves) Use Kroger dressing
5th night- chicken soup using chicken bones, celery and bits of chicken, one steamer, 1 grands biscuit package, salad
6th night- fried rice using corn and beans and pieces of chicken
7th night-breakfast for dinner- eggs, bacon biscuts
Snacks
rice cakes
fruit
celery
STOCKPILE
cereal
brownie mix
fruit snacks
2 grands biscuits
6 steamers
rice cakes
Note the Cellfire and shortcuts coupons are available electronically throught the Kroger web site.
Some shoppers have learned to be a really good "saving Sam."
If if are a good shopper, you know how to stockpile items when they are both on sale AND have a coupon.
However, how do you start from scratch, stockpile (have some left for tomorrow) and still feel your family?
I am going to do only one store each week to make it simple (although not always the best bang for the buck).
This is bare bones but it can be done!
Here is the challenge- feeding 5 people pretty healthy meals and still stockpiling some stuff!
This week is Kroger!
Shopping list
Kroger cheese-2 1.29 each 2.58
Kroger buns 1.00
7 Frozen steamers 1.69 each 11.83
4 Grands biscuits** 1.49each 6.23
1 fruit snacks ** 1.99
2 Cheerios** 1.99 each 3.98
2 cin toast cr 1.99 each 3.98
2 trix 3.98
skim milk 1.98
Kroger tortilla 1.00
green beans .68 cents an lb .68
rice 1.00
bananas -3 lbs 1.49
blueberries -1 pints 1.28
Whole chicken fryer- 7.42
8 Quaker rice cakes ** 7.92
celery-2 1.36
2 Betty Crocker brownie ** 1.99
lettuce .77
8 corn .19 an ear 1.52
eggs .99
salad bag .98
Kroger dressing 1.19
2 bacon -smithfield 5.98
Hamburgers -angus-marked down 4.19
Total Before coupons 77.31
*** You need to buy 10 of any of the item (mix and match) to get the $5 0ff
Coupons
$5 off 10 items 5
$5 off 10 items 5
$5 off 10 items 5
$2 off Kroger Angus beef 2
2 cheerios .55 off one (doubled) 2
2 Cin toast crunch .45 off one(doubles) 2
2 trix .55 off one (doubles) 2
2 Grands coupons .55 off 2 (doubled) 2
fruit snacks .40 off one (doubled) .40
.50 cell fire coupon fruit snacks .50
.50 shortcuts coupons fruit snacks .50
.55 brownie mix (doubled) off 2 1
2 shortcuts brownie mix .75 .75
.75
cellfire brownie mix .75 .75
2 smithfield coupon 3.00 each 6
free kroger dressing 1.19 1.19
Total coupons and other savings 36.84
Total out of pocket 40.47
plus Arby's 5.95
Total week spending 46.42
Breakfast
cereal and fruit with milk
lunch
soft taco with cheese and lettuce
Salad sandwiches with lettuce, cheese
leftover dinners
Arbys for lunch 5 for 5.95
dinners
1st night - Cheeseburgers with lettuce, corn
cut leftover corn off cob and freeze half-leave half in fridge
2nd night- chicken (make both chickens) and green beans
3rd night - fried rice with pieces of chicken, beans and corn
4th night -chicken salad with leftover corn, chicken and celery (save leaves) Use Kroger dressing
5th night- chicken soup using chicken bones, celery and bits of chicken, one steamer, 1 grands biscuit package, salad
6th night- fried rice using corn and beans and pieces of chicken
7th night-breakfast for dinner- eggs, bacon biscuts
Snacks
rice cakes
fruit
celery
STOCKPILE
cereal
brownie mix
fruit snacks
2 grands biscuits
6 steamers
rice cakes
Note the Cellfire and shortcuts coupons are available electronically throught the Kroger web site.
Sunday, August 9, 2009
Last day
It is hard to believe that the contest is almost over! YEAH and BOO.
This contest has really encouraged me to think outside of the box and do some fun stuff like picking our own veggies and fruit!
Friday
We went and picked corn and blackberries! YUM!
b-cereal
L- MCD using a gift card from a friend as a thank you for watching kids
D- Chicken salad
Saturday
B-cereal
L- Mismash-grilled cheese we made using a sandwich maker we got a a yard sale DH had a Knorr side. Everyone had some fruit
D- Brats and the corn we picked YUMMM YUMM YUMM
Sunday
B- blueberry pancakes
L- My almost kindergartener and I went to the swim club, swam and had our special lunch. He was happy to eat there (a rarity) and swim! We had so much fun! Other kids and DH had Speghetti, fruit, grilled cheese
D- Mismash/leftovers including some of the corn.
This contest has really encouraged me to think outside of the box and do some fun stuff like picking our own veggies and fruit!
Friday
We went and picked corn and blackberries! YUM!
b-cereal
L- MCD using a gift card from a friend as a thank you for watching kids
D- Chicken salad
Saturday
B-cereal
L- Mismash-grilled cheese we made using a sandwich maker we got a a yard sale DH had a Knorr side. Everyone had some fruit
D- Brats and the corn we picked YUMMM YUMM YUMM
Sunday
B- blueberry pancakes
L- My almost kindergartener and I went to the swim club, swam and had our special lunch. He was happy to eat there (a rarity) and swim! We had so much fun! Other kids and DH had Speghetti, fruit, grilled cheese
D- Mismash/leftovers including some of the corn.
Thursday, August 6, 2009
Monday-Thursday
Oh gosh I am behind. This is suchOY Oy Oy! I am so behind in posting. My daughter banged her head and they of course thought it was a concussion! So anyway I am behind!
This week is a little different because we are eating out more then we usual are. At the beginning of the summer I told the kids that each kid could pick one place to eat out over the summer. (Each kid also gets their own day of the week but this is a bonus)
Well, school starts for my kinder gardener next week so I had to make good on my promise for the 2 remaining kids. I also try to do a special day out with each kid individually before school (and the crazy schedule) starts again! This usually includes lunch so I needed to leave money aside for my kindergartener and I to go out to lunch on Sunday!
So I am using a lot of stuff from our stockpile and being creative so we can do these "out to eats."
Here goes:
Sunday-
b- French toast
L-weekly trip to Skyline which we luckily had some coupons for
D- Jumbula using some smoked sausage I got for .25 cents a few weeks ago and the zucinni and yellow squash form the church farm that the nice church members gave us a couple weeks ago. (I froze it)
Monday-
Did a great trip to Meijer and even got 4 lbs grapes for 1.36. I took them and made homemade raisins in the oven. (On the yucky rainy day on Tuesday) I also got free Peanut Butter and some cherry tomatoes that were marked down to .40 YUMMY!
b-cereal
L- Steak and shake (My oldest son picked this)
D- Brats/cheeseburgers and the corn that we had frozen from the farm (great suggestion to freeze it in the husk.)
Tuesday-
A very yucky rainy day! I was glad to hear that friends in Louisville were OK. (We are only about 70-80 miles from there)
B- cereal/oatmeal
L- Leftovers brats and corn
D- Spaghetti with meat and mushrooms. Some leftover lettuce for salad
Wednesday
B-Cereal/oatmeal
L-McDonalds - My daughters choice. She just loves the grilled chicken wrap and apples!
D- Eggplant sandwiches and potatoes
I adapted some of the recipes that I learned from all of these great All You bloggers.
The new potatoes were just baked with some salt (More Meijer Markdown 5 pounds for .93)
The Eggplant Sandwiches were awesome! Here is the recipe
Slice Eggplant
Brush with a little olive oil and broil for 4 minutes a side
While it is broiling slice, onion, buffalo mozzarella (I splurged on this but regular mozzarella is good too) and tomatoes.
Get the eggplant out and stack ingredients like a sandwich. Bake for 5-9 minutes until cheese is melted
Even my not so great veggie eater liked this!
Thursday-
B- Cereal, oatmeal
L- DH had lunch at work and the rest of us had leftovers and/or homemade skyline adn soem veggies
D- Whole chicken and veggies (carrots, frozen spinach etc.)
I try not to use frozen veggies in the summer but everything from the Doctor appt to the event at school ran so much longer than I expected!! MY DH was nice enough to put the chickens in on his way back out the door.
Hang in there frugal buddies...only a couple more days!
This week is a little different because we are eating out more then we usual are. At the beginning of the summer I told the kids that each kid could pick one place to eat out over the summer. (Each kid also gets their own day of the week but this is a bonus)
Well, school starts for my kinder gardener next week so I had to make good on my promise for the 2 remaining kids. I also try to do a special day out with each kid individually before school (and the crazy schedule) starts again! This usually includes lunch so I needed to leave money aside for my kindergartener and I to go out to lunch on Sunday!
So I am using a lot of stuff from our stockpile and being creative so we can do these "out to eats."
Here goes:
Sunday-
b- French toast
L-weekly trip to Skyline which we luckily had some coupons for
D- Jumbula using some smoked sausage I got for .25 cents a few weeks ago and the zucinni and yellow squash form the church farm that the nice church members gave us a couple weeks ago. (I froze it)
Monday-
Did a great trip to Meijer and even got 4 lbs grapes for 1.36. I took them and made homemade raisins in the oven. (On the yucky rainy day on Tuesday) I also got free Peanut Butter and some cherry tomatoes that were marked down to .40 YUMMY!
b-cereal
L- Steak and shake (My oldest son picked this)
D- Brats/cheeseburgers and the corn that we had frozen from the farm (great suggestion to freeze it in the husk.)
Tuesday-
A very yucky rainy day! I was glad to hear that friends in Louisville were OK. (We are only about 70-80 miles from there)
B- cereal/oatmeal
L- Leftovers brats and corn
D- Spaghetti with meat and mushrooms. Some leftover lettuce for salad
Wednesday
B-Cereal/oatmeal
L-McDonalds - My daughters choice. She just loves the grilled chicken wrap and apples!
D- Eggplant sandwiches and potatoes
I adapted some of the recipes that I learned from all of these great All You bloggers.
The new potatoes were just baked with some salt (More Meijer Markdown 5 pounds for .93)
The Eggplant Sandwiches were awesome! Here is the recipe
Slice Eggplant
Brush with a little olive oil and broil for 4 minutes a side
While it is broiling slice, onion, buffalo mozzarella (I splurged on this but regular mozzarella is good too) and tomatoes.
Get the eggplant out and stack ingredients like a sandwich. Bake for 5-9 minutes until cheese is melted
Even my not so great veggie eater liked this!
Thursday-
B- Cereal, oatmeal
L- DH had lunch at work and the rest of us had leftovers and/or homemade skyline adn soem veggies
D- Whole chicken and veggies (carrots, frozen spinach etc.)
I try not to use frozen veggies in the summer but everything from the Doctor appt to the event at school ran so much longer than I expected!! MY DH was nice enough to put the chickens in on his way back out the door.
Hang in there frugal buddies...only a couple more days!
Saturday, August 1, 2009
Saturday
We went to a really fun coupon exchange today! I learned a few new things and had a lot of fun.
We then ran through Meijer and got 11 items for 2.14 including
2 jars jelly
3 warm delights
2 cookie mixes
4 Grands biscuts
Here are our meals for the day
b-french toast, fruit
L-Boys had homemade skyline (Chili, speghetti , onion, cheese) and some carrots My daughter and I went to the coupon swap and got free pizza for lunch! YEAH
D- We had tuna patties (free tuna from Meijer) and biscuits. My recipe for tuna patties is simple and had almost all the food groups in one dish.
I can give some more exact measurements if they want but it is another use up what is in the fridge so each time it is a little different.
It is
Carrots
celery
bread crumbs
eggs
tuna
parsley
lemon balm (or whatever other spices you like)
Chop up the veggies. Beat the eggs. Combine all ingredients in a large bowl.
Using a spoon make into patties on a skillet coated with oil or non stick cooking spray.
Fry for about 5-7 minutes a side.
YUM
We then ran through Meijer and got 11 items for 2.14 including
2 jars jelly
3 warm delights
2 cookie mixes
4 Grands biscuts
Here are our meals for the day
b-french toast, fruit
L-Boys had homemade skyline (Chili, speghetti , onion, cheese) and some carrots My daughter and I went to the coupon swap and got free pizza for lunch! YEAH
D- We had tuna patties (free tuna from Meijer) and biscuits. My recipe for tuna patties is simple and had almost all the food groups in one dish.
I can give some more exact measurements if they want but it is another use up what is in the fridge so each time it is a little different.
It is
Carrots
celery
bread crumbs
eggs
tuna
parsley
lemon balm (or whatever other spices you like)
Chop up the veggies. Beat the eggs. Combine all ingredients in a large bowl.
Using a spoon make into patties on a skillet coated with oil or non stick cooking spray.
Fry for about 5-7 minutes a side.
YUM
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