Book giveaway!

What mom, whether working or a stay-at-home mom, couldn't use a great book full of advice to help save money? Lifeasmom.com is offering a giveaway right now for the book "Family Feasts for $75 a week". This book is not only full of recipes but offers a lot of information on grocery shopping and how to easily save your family more money. It sounds like a great book. The giveaway ends December 20th...go and check out her site for your chance to enter:
http://www.lifeasmom.com/2009/12/review-and-giveaway-family-feasts-for.html

Menu plan Monday

Again this week I am late posting my menu plan. I always have it done early...we have been doing our grocery shopping on Friday evenings so my meal plans actually run Saturday to Thursday. Somehow I generally manage to forget to post my menu though. :) So one day late, here it is:

Monday- Italian cream cheese chicken over pasta

Tuesday- Cheesy beef and rice with carrots as a side

Wednesday- Chicken tetrazini

Thursday- Roast and mashed potatoes and peas

Friday- visiting family

Saturday- visiting family

For other menu planning ideas and links to hundreds of other menus please check out orgjunkie.com.

Free ink cartridges anyone?

With all of the amazing coupons available online (that lots of times are only available online!) it is easy to go through ink cartridges. Even if you are being selective and only printing the "good stuff". Head on over to Southern Savers where Jenny is hosting a $50 giveaway to either Staples or Office Depot: http://www.southernsavers.com/2009/12/8-days-of-giveaways-print-away-gift-card/

Diaper giveaway.

I have blogged about several great giveaways lately. But it doesn't get much better than free diapers. I have a two year old and a six month old, both in diapers so we go through a lot of diapers in our house. Check out the following blog for a diaper giveaway of 2 free boxes of huggies:
http://www.stretchingabuckblog.com/2009/12/huggies-twitter-baby-shower-tonight.html

Book giveaway.

There is no one that couldn't use more encouragement. So it is always nice to find an uplifting book. Christinan Frugal Mama is doing a giveaway for the book "Treasured". Check out her giveaway: http://christianfrugalmama.blogspot.com/2009/12/book-review-and-giveaway-treasured.html

Cookie Cutter Giveaway

If you are like me, then you are doing plenty of baking for the holidays and what more perfect cookie to make than a cut out cookie. I love making sugar cookies and my two year old son is finally able to help decorate them. :) Check out this giveaway to win a set of 4 cookie cutters:
http://www.jamieisamoneymagnet.com/2009/12/review-giveaway-cheap-cookie-cutters.html
Good luck! They are so cute, hopefully one of my readers will be lucky.

Menu plan Monday

Monday- Cajun food (sausage gumbo)

Tuesday- hot dogs with homemade chili

Wednesday- italian chicken with garlic smashed potatoes and salad

Thursday- shredded beef tacos with homemade salsa and spanish rice

Friday- italian cream cheese and chicken

Saturday- spicy chicken chili

Finally finished with my freezer cooking days, I ended up leaving a couple of things off of my list (like the cookies and homemade hot dog buns). Still, I have lots of yummy things in the freezer and it wasn't bad for a first attempt. :)

Another Freezer Cooking update...

I have chicken breasts baking in the oven, a beef chuck roast in the crockpot (that will become shredded beef and smells amazing), and red beans soaking. The progress is happening. :)

Freezer Cooking Day update.

Sorry about the delayed posting, but between the cooking and a teething baby that was hindering some of my cooking plans, things have been busy. :) So far, I have made homemade salsa, southwest rollups (freezing only a lunch size portion of those.), creamy chicken noodle soup (which we had for dinner), one bag of shredded chicken, a dozen cranberry wheat muffins, homemade granola and granola bars.
Still to go:
3 batches of pumpkin pancakes
4 dozen double chocolate cookies (not sure if I will make them all and freeze them or just freeze the dough)
homemade strawberry poptarts
homemade hot dog buns
homemade personal pizza pockets
shredded beef from a roast
hot chocolate mix
2 pounds of dried pinto beans
1 pound of dried red kidney beans

This was my very first freezer cooking day so I purposefully decided not to attempt a whole lot of entrees this month to see how it went. And we actually needed a lot of the breakfast foods so that is why there are so many of them. With a two year old and a six month old, I am actually having to space my cooking out across several days. I can keep my toddler entertained but the baby is teething and she wasn't having any part of my cooking and not tending to her. :) We have enjoyed eating some of the things that I have already made and I love that my freezer is holding several options for other things. I have taken several pictures and will probably post them at the end once everthing is finished.

Meal plan Monday

Monday- southwest rollups

Tuesday- creamy chicken noodle soup and homemade rolls

Wednesday- soft tacos and tortilla chips with homemade salsa (maybe homemade spanish rice)

Thursday- sloppy joes

Friday- baked chicken breasts and carrots and mashed potatoes

Saturday- something with shredded chicken

Upcoming Freezer cooking/ Baking Day

Tomorrow and Wednesday, I will be participating in a Freezer Cooking Day hosted by Life as Mom.com and Moneysavingmom.com. http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=187483199082&index=1
The idea behind a day like this is so stock your freezer with lots of yummy and healthy (okay, sometimes not so healthy in the case of baking) meals and snacks for the month. I will post my cooking plan tomorrow. Look forward to lots of pictures. :)

Berenstain Bears books give away.

My two year old and six month old both love to be read to. We read together every night at bedtime but also at lots of points through out the day. My husband and I are both book worms so we are hoping to share our love of reading with our kids. I am always on the lookout for good books to get for the kids. There is a Berenstain Bears give away going on right now with four of the newest books. Take a look: http://afrugalfriend.blogspot.com/2009/11/berenstain-bears-giveaway.html

NOW 32 CD give away

I don't know about you but I enjoy having music on while I clean house and the NOW CD's are pretty good for that. Of course this CD would also make a great gift for a teenager on your list. Check out this site for a give away of the most recent NOW CD: http://contest-corner.blogspot.com/2009/11/holiday-gift-guide-2009-now-thats-what.html

Apron give away.

I have been doing a lot of baking lately. And will be doing a lot more with the holidays coming! I have been thinking lately that I would love to have an apron and I found the most beautiful ones on this site that is also currently hosting a give away: http://customapronsandmore.blogspot.com/2009/11/hostess-apron-giveaway.html

Felt food giveaway.

There is another wonderful giveaway going on over at Lady bug soup. A $12 felt food item is being offered. The felt food is so cute and so wonderful for imaginary play. I just got a small crate of felt fruit and vegetables the other day for my children and they love them. :) These little foods are so cute. Please, take a look at this giveaway: http://ladybugsoup.blogspot.com/2009/11/holiday-gift-guide-bugnik-designs-felt.html

Progresso giveaway

Head over to http://thefrugalfind.com/giveaway-progresso-panko-prize-pack/ to win a Progresso gift pack. This looks like an awesome prize to win that anyone that likes to cook would love. I know that I would love to win this!

Sippy straw cleaners giveaway!

I have a two year old who currently uses the sippy cups and a six month old that will soon be using them. They can be so difficult to clean (at least the straws can!) I am sure that I am not the only mommy in the world to have ever been frustrated by having to throw out a yucky, seemingly impossible to clean straw (and of course the cup is no good without the straw.) Finally, a stay-at-home has invented something to clean those straws and save those cups. Head on over to http://www.thriftynorthwestmom.com/2009/11/sippy-straw-cleaner-review-giveaway.html to win your straw cleaner. Good luck!

Win a hasbro game!

With the holiday season upon us, who isn't searching for perhaps one more great gift? Or perhaps some are still searching for all of their gifts. :) A board game always makes a wonderful gift. Head on over to the "Catch a drift" blog at http://hail2thesnowqueen.blogspot.com/2009/11/hasbro-games-review-and-giveaway.html to win "The game of things". This would be so much fun to sit around and play during the holidays.

Meal plan Monday

Monday- taco salad and santa fe rice

Tuesday- hot dogs with homemade chili and homemade fries (today I found a recipe for homemade hot dog buns that I think I will try soon)

Wednesday- taco ring and corn

Thursday- crockpot barbeque chicken, mashed sweet potatoes, and green beans

Friday- pulled pork sandwiches and cole slaw

Saturday- my husband is asking for spaghetti again, it is one of his favorites so we may do that Saturday night

Kroger and more mega sale

All of our groceries tonight were $56. Again no pictures but we were able to get lots of meat, including chicken breasts and a pork roast, lots of fresh fruit and veggies, and lots of mega sale items. My twenty mega sale items (crackers, rice, mashed potatoe boxes, pancake mix, texas toast, salad dressing, yogurt, canned fruit and a few others) were less than $3 for all twenty items! My total before the coupons and discounts was $108. Not a bad trip with 50% savings.

CVS trip.

No picture today...so busy. I got $40 worth of items for $6 tonight and I got $13 in ECB's back and will be submitting for a $5 rebate. I was so sad, my husband has been wanting a nedi pot for the longest time and they were on sale and I had a coupon (the two reasons he doesn't already have one, we were waiting for a sale and a coupon!) but they were all gone. We got the sinus rinse kit but it won't be the same. I also got cough medicine and nasal spray. (I like to stock up when it isn't costing hardly anything, we will surely use it this winter). I got two glade scented oil candle refill packs and two glade candle holders, that will be Christmas gifts. So two Christmas gifts and lots of cold and sinus treatment for very little money. (The cold stuff was $1 out of pocket for it all and the other money out of pocket for the candles I get back from the rebate, so it was a good trip.)

Great deal on Pledge at Target

Today when I went to Target to fill Alan's medication (which I got a $10 giftcard for since he was a new prescription) I also grabbed three pledge muti-surface cleaners. They were on sale for $3.49 each and if you bought three then you got a $5 giftcard. (very excited about my $15 in giftcards that I got today!!) I had three $1 off coupons. My total for all three was $7.50 and I got the $5 giftcard back. I am also submitting a rebate for $5. A money maker of $3.50 and I love this cleaning product.

Meal plan Monday...one day late

Sorry that I haven't been posting for the past couple of days. My two year old is sick right now and yesterday we finally went to the doctor and learned that he has a sinus infection (the third one this year). Sick babies don't leave much time for posting on blogs. :)

Monday- tacos

Tuesday- spaghetti and texas toast

Wednesday- homemade potato soup

Thursday- homemade chili and cornbread

Friday- dinner with family at the in-laws

Saturday- a special Halloween supper (leaning towards pumpkin sloppy joes right now)

Walgreens trip.

This was a very late in the week Walgreens trip. My babies have both been sick all week so we've been staying home. I had register rewards that were expiring on Sunday though so I made it out to take advantage of this week's deals tonight. This is $46 worth of stuff all for $7 out of pocket (And that was for the toilet paper which was on sale and I had a coupon for making it $2.99 each, a pretty good deal). I got back $19 in RR to spend this week or next week. Not a bad shopping trip. I got the hydrogen preoxide and baking soda to see if I can get our white tub sparkling clean to look better when realtors are showing our house. I read that it would work so here is hoping that it does. :)

How would you like to win a free DVD?

Visit the following sites to enter to win:

- Over at Stacy says (http://www.staceysays.me/2009/10/friday-films-animals/) you can win either Elmo's animal adventures (3 copies) or Animal planets A lion's share (3 copies). You can enter with several chances to win. This give away ends today!

-Over at Bargain Briana (http://bargainbriana.com/) you can enter to win Animal planets Elephant DVD (3 copies). This give away ends 10/27/09.

All of these DVD's would make great Christmas gifts for kids. I know my little boy would love them.

Sunday inserts.

There will be two inserts in this week's Sunday paper. There is always at least one good coupon (and usually lots more!) so buying a paper is always worth it when there are inserts.

$85 for a lot of groceries!

Today we stocked up on canned goods, I got 12 cans of diced tomatoes/tomatoe sauce, 9 cans of beans, and 6 cans of evaporated milk...lots of fresh produce and meat (not pictured), even bottled water and baby wipes. I also got $5 back in catalinas so my total was actually $80 and it should have been $160. It's nice when you can get groceries for an even better deal than 50% off but I'll take half off groceries any day. We got a ton for our money so I was pretty happy and $85 is the highest that we ever like to pay...I love those $40 grocery weeks but they can't all be that. :)

Menu plan Monday

Monday- chicken sandwiches and steamed veggies

Tuesday- meatloaf, mashed potatoes, and macaroni and cheese

Wednesday- homemade pizza with sausage and pepperoni and salad

Thursday- enchilada casserole and salad

Friday- cowboy supper and homemade seasoned potatoe wedges

Saturday- halloween party with family (chili and cornbread, yummy!)

This Sunday's coupons.

There will be two inserts in this Sunday's newspaper. One smart source and one red plum. Looks like there may be a few good ones.

$42 worth of groceries for $15.

This was a 58% savings, so a pretty good trip. I had lots of good coupons and $4.50 in catalinas and I am getting $2.09 back in a rebate. (I am going to make some homemade pumpkin and chocolate chip muffins today or tomorrow and I actually used the catalinas to get the canned pumpkin and chocolate chips.) We had a pretty crazy grocery trip, it was raining so I had to try to keep the babies dry. I had to go though because my son only had three diapers left! I hated to go out in the rain for just the diapers so that is why I went through my coupons and grabbed a few other items too. When we got to the checkout, we had to wait for 15 minutes...there were only two registers open. So this trip definitely counted as an adventure!

Menu plan Monday

Monday- fellowship meal at church to hear speaker

Tuesday- dinner out for anniversary (which is Wendesday :))

Wednesday- fellowship meal at church to hear speaker

Thursday- red beans and rice, salad, and texas toast

Friday- chicken tetrazini and salad

Saturday- some sort of pasta with things in pantry

Lots of oatmeal and peanut butter

We went to Walgreens today after church and I got 8 jars of skippy peanut butter and 4 boxes of quaker oatmeal. The peanut butter was on sale for $1.66 a jar and I had 8 75cent off coupons. That is 91 cents a jar. :) And I got $8 in RR for next week. The oatmeal was on sale for $2.50 each and I had $1.25/2 coupons (2 of them). That is $1.87 per box and I got $5 in RR for next week. So $13 total to use for next week. I ended up spending $2.42 OOP so I was pretty pleased. Some of the peanut butter is going into gift baskets that I am working on right now. I had another Walgreen deal yesterday. I got 6 Dove shampoo and conditioners and 2 Dove deodorants and got $10 in RR (which I spent today). Between the two trips, lots of food and toiletry items for very little OOP.

80% off restaurant giftcards!

Save 80% at http://www.restaurant.com right now. Use code FOUR at checkout to get this great rate!

A donation is just a click away.

While working on clipping and organizing my coupons from this past weekends inserts I found a project that I'd like to share with everyone. Welch's is working to feed Americans who are hungry. So many people in this country don't have enough to eat and it is wonderful to see a company trying to do something to help with this. Welch's will be donating money (a minimum of $100,000 so that is a lot of full bellies!) and a maximum of 1 million 8 ounce glasses of their 100% grape juice (which is a full serving of fruit.) Just go to www.welchs.com/harvest and click the donate now button. Your click will ensure that one glass of juice gets donated. Such a great goal, there is no reason that they shouldn't be able to reach their goal of 1 million. Please go and visit their website.

$204.09 worth of groceries for $110.63

No picture tonight because we are about to make and eat dinner and are in kind of a hurry. We had a little more than 50% savings. (I am sending in a rebate to get $3.49 back on one item and I also got back a $4 catalina to use next week. So my "real" total was $103.14.) We got a ton of stuff! (We had 77 items in all so I do mean a ton.) We had lots of food of course. (lots of yummy fresh fruit and veggies: pears, apples, bananas, spinach, 2 salad bags). We got a lot of non-food items also: 2 things of laundry detergent, 2 packages of huggies diapers, 2 boxes of ziplock freezer bags, toilet paper. Kroger is having a mega freezer sales right now so we were able to get really good deals on freezer items. I got 2 bags of tyson chicken for $7.98 which is the price of one bag usually. We were very pleased with this week's sale and per our usual routine since I spent more today than our usual we will use a lot of stockpile items in next week's meal plan and mostly buy fresh ingredients to keep our total down.

Menu plan Monday

Monday- hearty beef penne with salad

Tuesday- sloppy joes with homemade french fries (one of my toddler's favorite meals!)

Wednesday- taco ring, spanish rice, and corn

Thursday- little pizzas (homemade pizzas on english muffins) with salad

Friday- tortelini with alredo sauce and breadsticks

Saturday- beef stroganoff with steamed vegetables

Another good CVS trip

All of these items with no sale would have cost $56.02 (not including tax). I got them all for $2.15. I had a $5 off $25 purchase coupon, $15 in manufactorer coupons, and $14.50 in ECB's, and of course there were sales on everything. (Side note: you should definitely get an extra care card if you haven't already. $4.50 of my ECB's were my quarterly reward for shopping at CVS based on my summer spendings.) I think $2.15 for 3 things of body wash, 2 bars of soap, 2 clinical strength deodorants, 1 lip balm (which was free with the coupon!), and 1 thing of nail polish is pretty good. :) Best of all, I have $15 of ECB's to use next week.

Kellogg's rebate

Buy three (3) specially marked boxes of Kellogg’s® cereal and collect the codes inside each box.
Enter codes at www.kelloggbonusbucks.com.
Receive your $10 Bonus Bucks certificate by mail in 4-6 weeks.
Redeem your certificate at a variety of participating retailers.

Note: Codes must be entered all at one time in order to qualify to receive the certificate. Codes must be entered by 09/30/2010. Certificates expire 11/30/2010. For a complete list of participating retailers, please visit usekelloggbonusbucks.com.

Participating Brands include:

* Kellogg’s Frosted Flakes® cereal: specially marked packages* Kellogg’s® Froot Loops® cereal: specially marked packages* Kellogg’s® Frosted Mini-Wheats® Bite Size cereal: specially marked packages* Kellogg’s Raisin Bran® cereal: specially marked packages

Thanks Bargain Briana!

SC Johnson rebate

SC Johnson is offering a great mail-in rebate. Get a $5 rebate when you buy any 3 items from the following SC Johnson brands:
Drano
Fantastik
Glade
Nature’s Source
Off
Pledge
Raid
Saran
Scrubbing Bubbles
Shout
Windex
Ziploc

By using coupons you could get your items for close to free and then get $5 back too!

This is a special rebate because you can do it 3 times and get back a total of $15. And you have until 7/15/10 to take advantage of this offer.

Meal plan Monday

Monday- taco salad and spanish rice

Tuesday- chicken patties, macaroni and cheese, and peas

Wednesday- baked bean and frank casserole and biscuits

Thursday- spaghetti and texas toast

Friday- stroganoff skillet meal, mashed potatoes, and corn

Saturday- homemade pepperoni and sausage pizza and salad

This is not a very exciting meal plan but I was planning this mostly from things on hand in the pantry. We only have to pick up a little meat and salad items. It will still be a yummy week. :)

A wonderful week at Walgreens

I only had $9 in register rewards to use at Walgreens this week, which is a shame because there are a ton of great RR deals in the ad! I spent $10.10 for the $27.53 worth of items here but I don't mind that to much because I have $16 in register rewards to use now. I am actually thinking of a second WAGS trip this week to take advantage of the deals. My total could have been better but my husband loves these hershey miniatures and so I picked those up. I was pretty please though. Between WAGS and CVS, I got $66 worth of stuff and spent $15 out of pocket and I have $26 that I got back to use on future trips. So really it was like being paid to shop. :)

A Great CVS trip

I spent $5.80 out of pocket for $37.41 worth of items. We don't have a dishwasher so dishwashing liquid for free is always a good thing. I love the Tide stain remover tablets...they work wonders. And my sister and I are working on gift baskets for several people right now and I thought that the bounce bars would be nice for that. I got back $10 in ECB's to use next week.

Free Smuckers uncrustables!

FREE 4 pack of Smuckers Uncrustables on 9/28 – FIRST 20,000
FREE 4 pack of Smuckers Uncrustables on 9/28, FIRST 20,000. Starting September 28, Smuckers will give away 80,000 Uncrustables sandwiches at www.uncrustables.com - just register to submit an after school organization tip and receive a coupon for one free box of Smucker’s Uncrustables sandwiches (4-pack; max value: $3.00).

Sunday coupon inserts.

There will be 3 inserts in the Sunday paper this weekend and it looks like there will be some pretty good ones.

A Walmart run

My total was $6.59 for $26 worth of items. I had a coupon for a free Glade lasting impressions kit (which I got out of a scented oil refill that I also had gotten with a free coupon!), I had 3 $3/1 Q for the Sara Lee meat so those were 98 cents each, I had 2 $1.60/1 nature valley nut clusters so those ended up being 68 cents each, and I had $1/2 ronzoni pasta so those were 64 cents each. I always try to limit the number of stores that we visit per week but we were going to get keys made (for our new house that we closed on yesterday :) ) and so I got these coupons out to make good use of the time. We actually ended up forgetting the keys during the check so we are going to have to get keys made again. That is the kind of thing that happens with two babies under age two at a register checking out!

Shredded Kraft cheese for 99 cents a bag!!!

Kroger is having another mega sale right now and if you buy 10 participating items, you can get Kraft shredded cheese for 99 cents each. You can also get the sandwich slices and blocks with this deal. You don't have to buy all cheese but we use cheese in lots of our recipes so I went ahead and got 10 bags! Less than $10 and the regular price would have been more like $40.

75% savings at Target

The total before coupons was $$32.55 but my out of pocket amount was $8.87.
The razors were on sale for $3.99 and I had 3 $3 off 1 coupons. (99 cents for a 4 pack of razors is a good deal!). The shaving cream was on sale for $1.89 and I had two $1/1 Q. (yet again, 89 cents is a good deal and my stockpile that I had for shaving cream has been almost exhausted.) The poptarts were on sale for $2 each and I had one $1/2 target Q and $1/2 manufacturer Q so it made them $1 each. There are 55 cent/1 Q's that would have made it 10 cents cheaper but I didn't have two of them. And the movie is for our little boy for Christmas. It should have been $5 but I had a $2 coupon so I got it for $3. We got a lot for our money. :)

Menu plan Monday

Monday- chicken crescents and corn

Tuesday- spaghetti, salad, and texas toast

Wednesday- hot dogs with homemade chili and homemade french fries

Thursday- cheesy beef skillet and texas toast

Friday- homemade potatoe soup, salad, and crusty french bread

Saturday- hamburger helper, mashed potatoes, and green beans

Also, making homemade applesauce muffins for breakfast one morning. :) Please visit http://orgjunkie.com/menu-plan-monday for more yummy recipes!

A 5 cent purchase.

We are visiting family out of town and got here and found out (unfortunately during a pooey diaper change!) that we had forgotten to bring wipes with us. We ran to Kroger where they had the wipes on sale for $2.61. I had a 50 cent coupon that doubled. I had another coupon for 35 cents off dial soap which doubled to 70 cents and it is 10 for $10 right now so I grabbed that. I paid with $2 in catalinas that had printed out for me last week at the store for getting pilsbury biscuits. It brought my total to 5 cents...not a bad deal. It made forgetting the wipes no problem at all.

Jump on the band wagon!

If you love coupons and you love getting to try free samples, there are several websites that you should check out.

Vocalpoint- www.vocalpoint.com
This site is a great site for getting coupons. I am getting ready to try a full size secret clinical strength deodorant for free and the only thing that I have to do afterward is write a short comment about it on their site and maybe fill out a survey. This website is really nice anyhow, lots of good articles and fun surveys.

She speaks- www.shespeaks.com
Another great site for coupons and samples and you actually get to have influence over what is made and sold!

Pssst...- www.pssst.generalmills.com
This one will let you try products before they release them and give you coupons to give to your family and friends.

All of these sites ask that you share your opinions with the people that you know. You should never sign up on one of these sites just to get free items without committing to do your part to tell others about the products. There are lots of other sites like this out there but these are all sites that I am actually a member at. I would love comments from anyone who knows of any other great sites like these.

Free Dog food!

All of this dog food was totally free! $0 OOP (out of pocket). I had 10 coupons for a free 5 oz. pouch of Chef Michael's and 10 coupons for a free 5 oz. can of Mighty Dog. I had a $2.50 manufactorers coupon for the Chef Michael's cans ,which was B2G2 (buy two get two) and I used a Target coupon for B2G2 which stacked gave me those four cans free. My dad and sister both have dogs so this free food is going to those pooches. :)

Two coupon inserts in the Sunday paper!

There will be one smart source and one redplum insert in the paper on 9/20. To view a full list of the coupons, please visit: http://www.sundaycouponpreview.com.

$3 Sara Lee Deli Meat coupon!

Print the $3 Coupon HERE!

limit of 4

Combined with a sale this coupon should make for free or almost free deli meat.

Thanks Saving with Shellie!

50% savings at Kroger

$170 worth of groceries for $86. Not pictured: 8 rolls of paper towels, 2 pounds of hamburger, and one package of chicken breasts. I received $2 in catalinas for my next trip from Pilsbury. Kroger is having a mega sale with kraft and nabisco products right now so a lot of the items that I purchased were their products. I had coupons for just about every item except for the meat and fresh produce. It was a good trip!

Meal plan Monday

Monday- chicken caesar salads, crusty french bread, and cantaloupe

Tuesday- spicy chicken skillet and steamed veggies

Wednesday- pigs in blankets, macaroni and cheese, and corn

Thursday- homemade chili and biscuits

Friday- tacos and spanish rice

Saturday- hamburger soup and crescent rolls