Budget Update

November 15
Cub #1
4 Wild Harvest baby food $.89
6 Cheerios $2.50
2 Reeses Puffs $2.50
2 Cinnamon toast crunch $2.99
6 Kraft dressing $2.50
1 Cub white bread $.99
2 Solo heavy duty plates $1.49
5 Cocoa Pebbles $2.00
12 Kool Aide packets $.25
6 Family size Wheat Thins $4.29
6 Animal cracker pouches $1.66
2 green onions $.50
3 Radishes $.44 (just noticed they only rang up two)
1 Avacado
1 Kraft individual string cheese $.68
2 Kraft cheese slices 2.69
1 Kraft Shredded Parmasan cheese $3.99
6 16oz blocks Kraft cheese $3.33
9 Carefree liners $1.39
Coupons used--I'll try to remember what all of them were for. It's been a while and I think I had a coupon for every item except the bread.
3 $5 OYNO coupons
5 $1/1 Any Wild Harvest IP-Overage
1 $1/2 Cinniman toast crunch
4 $1/2 Any GM cereal
6 Free Kraft Dressing WYB 3 Kraft products
2 $2/1 Solo Heavy duty -Overage
2 $1/2 Post cereal MF
1 Buy 10 Koolaide get 2 Free (these count as the needed kraft products for the dressing and crackers)
6 Free Nabisco wheat thins WYB 3 Kraft products
6 $1/1 Any nabisco crackers or cookies MF -for the animal crackers
3 $1 off any produce WYB 2 Kraft dressing MF
6 Free Kraft cheese up to $4.99 WYB 2 Nabisco crackers
3 $5/3 carefree MF-Overage
Total OOP $17.53, Recieved 3 $5 OYNO, $4.50 off milk, $5 off any giftcard, $1 Holiday buck, Free Maxwellhouse coffee up to $10

Cub #2
Twin pack Cub milk $6.58
4 8oz Land o Frost deli ham $.88
4 Wheat Chex $2.50
3 Nature Valley granola bars $2.39
1 Cocoa Puffs Combo $2.99
2 Betty Crocker stackers $2.50
Coupons used
$1 Holiday buck
$4.50 off milk
3 $5 OYNO
$.75/1 Cocoa puffs MF
2 $1/2 Chex MF
$1/2 Fruit snacks MF
3 $.50/1 Nature Valley MF
-$5 Gift card from Post deal in #1
Total OOP $4.83

Walmart
10 Grapefruit $.29-Pricematch to Aldi
Total OOP $2.90

Rainbow
Cottage cheese $2.50
used giftcard
Total OOP $0 -$2.50 on Rainbow giftcard

November 19-Cub
Grapes
2 corn muffin mixes
-Free 1lb of grapes
Total OOP $1.16

November 21-Cub
French Bread $2.99
Jumbo Pasta Shells $1.78
Total OOP $4.77

November 22-Cub
Red Rose Tea $2.55
8 Del Monte Grean beans $.48
Dole Mandrin Oranges $.88
9 Jello Pudding mix $.57
3 Nabisco mini cookie pouches $1.66
1.13lb grapes $2.25
5lbs red potatoes $2.99
Coupons used
3 $5 OYNO
Cub potato coupon $2.01
Free Grapes $1.99
$.50/3 Jello pudding tear pad
3 $1/1 Nabisco cookies or crackers
Total OOP $3.59, Recieved 2 $.75 OYNO from the Madrin Oranges

November 24-Target
4 packages Chuck Steak $3.06, $3.42, $2.90, $3.13
6 4 ct Pillsbury biscuts $.67
-4 $1 off steak store coupon (soon to expire meat coupon)
-4 $2/1 Stutton and Dodge steak of roast TC
-3 $1/2 Pillsbury TC
-$.30/3 Pillsbury MF
-$.25/3 Pillsbury MF
Total OOP $.98



Total Spent $35.76
Total spend this month $106.47
Total left for the month $0, $22.50 gift card at Rainbow and 2 $.75 OYNO at Cub, 1 $4.50 off Milk.
About over budget $21.47

Well, it might have taken most of the day to figure it out, but there it is. I know I was over budget. With the great deals this month I expected it. I've also been buying a few more convenience things, i.e. rotisserie chicken. I was planning on this also knowing that I won't aways be able to make supper while I'm not feeling good.

Some months are under and some months are over. The $85 is my goal. It's great to be able to hit it each month, but thankfully the world doesn't end when I go over. Considering the state of my pantry and my mother's freezer $106.47 is an excellet total for the month. I don't plan on getting too much more. I will be getting milk with the $4.50 off coupon being the two pack is on sale for $4.98.

I have made a small trip to CVS the last two weeks. I didn't add them into the budget being I can't find the first reciept and I haven't paid anything OOP yet. I've manly been getting free after ECB items, but last week I did get 5 Welch's grape juice. It was $2.50, -$1/1 coupons. I have some gift cards I've been using so it hasn't been effecting the budget. I'll probably start adding it in again at the start of December.

A little behind

Unfortunately this post is not about my little behind. As I grow more and more pregnant my behind seems to grow more and more as well. Instead it is to admit that I seem to be falling behind with the blog. I have wonderful intentions, great thoughts of all the posts I want to make, but it seems that there just isn't ever enough time to sit on the computer and type everything out.

I woke up quite early this morning. For those who know me you understand how odd that is. Noah isn't awake yet so I think that I might be able to squeeze in a couple of posts. I hope to be able to get the monthly budget updated first. I know most of you probably don't care too much about how much I personally spend on groceries, but it really helps me know what I'm using the money on and if I'm spending more then I should.

After that I am planning on posting this weeks menu. I also want to do an abbreviated list for the week. The deals aren't that great and most of us are probably already thinking about Black Friday.

I also want to post a welcome and maybe a little bit about me and what I try to do with this crazy shopping blog that I have. People have been telling me that they've been sharing the blog with friends and co-works. I had thought that maybe about 20 new people might have come by to check it out. When I looked at my stats this morning I saw that in the past month over 240 new people have looked at the blog. Who knows how many of the new people are coming back, but it's probably time I introduce myself.

No list this week

It seems more common right now to not have a list, then for me to actually get one typed up. I just wanted to let you all know there won't be one coming this week. I'm still struggling with my pulled muscle and as I type Noah is throwing his shoes, letters, a pillow and plastic bowl around the living room. As you can tell, he's needed some extra attention this week.

More internet coupons

$.50/1 Arm & Hammer (Use at Walmart on smallest box)

$1/1 quacker oatmeal (6)

$1/1 Quacker oatmeal Link #2 (2)

$2/1 Goody Ouchless Links to a PDF so you can print as many as you need.

$2/1 Bertolli Coven Bakes (was told there are $2 at Walmart. The Shakopee store usually runs a little higher)

$.75/1 Ziplock (Supposed to be near the register at Walmart for $.75 per 25ct package) They have also been on clearance at Target for $.67 and $.87 for 24ct.

More Cereal

Just a couple more things to add to the budget for this month. Feel free to skip over the post if you want. I know most probably don't care about my budget, but I've learned that keeping it on here helps me to keep better track of where the money is going on how much I have spent for the month. Every helpful, especially when I am using a combination of cash and my debit card.

Cub 11-12-08
10 GM cereal
1 Chocolate milk-Simple supper
-5 $1/2 GM coupons
-$4.50 off milk
-3 $5 OYNO coupons
Total $4.69 -$3.30 for Simple Supper milk=$1.39
Received 3 $5 OYNO, and 1 Free milk -for simple supper

Cub 11-13-08
Rotisserie Chicken $6.91

Rainbow
2 Grands Biscuits $.98
Roundy's 24oz cottage cheese $2.50
-1 $1/1 Grands IP
Total $2.46

Total Spent $10.76
Total spend this month $70.71
Total left for the month $14.29, $25 gift card at Rainbow and $15 OYNO at Cub.

General Mills cereal deal at Cub

I don't think I will be getting a list made this week. I wanted to make sure everyone knew about the cereal deal going on this week at Cub.

If you buy 10 boxes of General Mills cereal, Betty Crocker Fruit snacks or General Mills granola bars you get 3 $5 OYNO coupons plus a coupon for $4.50 off a gallon of milk.

There were about 8 typed of cereal for $2.50 this afternoon in Shakopee. None sale prices ranged from $2.99-$4 plus.

The best way to think about the deal is to look at the price of the cereal and take $1.50 off per box to start with. After this add in any coupons you have. There are many expired $1/2 MF. This means that each box is $2 off the shelf price.

For me, I add in the price of the milk when I am thinking about the cereal. I would be buying the milk anyway so I figure how much the milk would cost me and divide that by 10 boxes of cereal. Usually I get the twin pack at Cub unless another store had milk on sale. No sale this week that I know of so that would be $6.58 for two gallons or ruffly $3.30 per gallon. Divide that by 10 for each box of cereal and you get another $.33 off per box.

I got 10 boxes today. After coupons, $15 OYNO, and deducting the cost of a gallon of milk it worked out to $2.18 for the 10 boxes, or $0.218 per box. I think the size ranged from 10.x oz to 14.x oz. Not very big boxes, but it the larger boxes were almost $2 more so this was the best use of coupons.

Also check out the Pilsbury deal. I think it is listed on the second to last page in the ad. It's buy 10 get $5 OYNO. Makes a good price for cake mix. I haven't looked too hard for coupons on that one. I'll see what I can find on Thursday when I have a little more time.

Cheap cereal

Walmart
Tator Tots $1.98

Cub
8 GM cereal $2.50
2 Coco Puffs $2.99
1 Cream of Wheat $1 (clearance bin)
1 Hefty zip bags $1.29 (clearance bin)
1 Hefty Zip bags $1.89 (clearance bin)
2 Magarine $.75-simple supper
15lb potatoes $7.49-simple supper

-2 $1/1 Hefty
-1 $.20/1 hefty peelie (cashier scanned it even though I told her not to cause I had a better coupon. She wanted to scan the one on the box and my coupon)
-2 $.75/1 Coco Puffs
-$1/1 Total
-$.75/1 Total
-3 $1/2 GM cereal
-$10 OYNO
-3 $5 OYNO
-$1 Holiday bucks
Total OOP $4.94
Received $15 OYNO and 1 Free milk

I'll use the free milk for simple supper. Normally I would pay $6.58 for a two pack so that is $3.30 off my total for a total of $12.29 coming back to me from simple supper

Total spend on these two trips $6.92 -$12.29 for simple supper equals -$5.37
Adding $15 error found while updating checkbook
Total spend this month $59.95
Total left for the month $25.05 $25 gift card at Rainbow and $15 OYNO at Cub.

It's not very often that your budget goes up during the month instead of down. It's a good feeling. I was a little upset I had spent so much on the $30/$15 deal last week and wondering why my math had been off my so much. I knew that I had adjusted and added a few things during my trips, but I had planned to only spend about $25/$35. The $58.xx that I thought I had spent was way more thing I was thinking, but still would have been a good deal. Now I feel better knowing that I was off by $15.

"Bank Error"

Have you ever played Monopoly and gotten the Chance card that says, "Bank Error in Your Favor"?

This evening I found an error in my adding as I was doing the check book. Because of it I'm ending up with $15 more grocery money then I thought I had.

I was updating our checkbook program and found a Cub entry that didn't match up with Wellsfargo. Turns out I had entered the pre-giftcard total into the checkbook, instead of what I had actually spend. During one of the deals the $15 didn't print out so they gave me a gift card. Usually that amount would have come out under the coupons, but on this reciept the giftcard came off after the total.

When adding up how much I spent last week I added in the amount I thought I had spent on the reciept instead of the actual amount. I'll be adding the extra $15 to my budget. Makes me feel a whole lot better because I was wondering how I ended up spending so much. I had planned on $25 for last week so $58.xx after the OYNO coupons seemed really high.

I've blown my budget

If you have looked at the post about what I ended up with at Cub, it is pretty easy to see that I have spent most of my budget for the month this past week.

I ended up spending $74.25 and 2 $4 OYNO at Cub this week. I ended up with $26 to spend OYNO so it is like spending $56.25.

I did make it to Rainbow and Target just for a couple of things.

Rainbow
2 Chicken of the Sea tuna $.68
1 Orida steam and mash $1.98
-$1/1 MF
Total OOP $2.34

Target
10 Kellogg's cereal-gift card deal
2 bags of smarties $.52
1 bag of mixed candy $1.49
-10 $1/1
Total $8.73
I had a $5 gift card from getting a prescription filled so I used that to lower my OOP. My total OOP was $3.73

Total spend this month $80.32
Total left for the month $4.68, $25 gift card at Rainbow and $26 OYNO at Cub.

I have a sneaking suspicion that this is going to be one of those months when I go over budget. :)

Done, finally done!!!!

All in all I make it to 4 different Cub stores this week. I did 17 different transactions for the $30/$15. I didn't seem to find much I needed in the $20/$10 section so I only ended up with 2 transactions of that.

All in all I spent $41.73 for simple supper and $74.25 and 2 $4 OYNO on things for us. I still have $26 to spend later on. This would make the actual cost of all our groceries and health and beauty items $56.25.

Here is a breakdown on what I ended up with.

Simple Supper
20 40ct bags of Pizza Rolls
40 bags of Betty Crocker cookie mix
24 bags of Lipton sides
Total $41.73

This is everything that I ended up with for us.
48 boxed Green Giant veggies
21 Progresso Chicken Broth
7 Yoplait Kids
28 Progresso soups
2 Betty Crocker boxed potatoes
10 Macaroni Grill dinners
2 Dove conditioner
8 Suave haircare
28 Betty Crocker cookie mix
2 Hunt's Tomatoes
4 Hunt's pudding
8 Orville Redenbacher popcorn
5 Lipton Soup mix
3 Grands Mini cinniman rolls
6 Pizza Rolls
3 Betty Crocker Frosting
4 dove deodorant
6 Degree deodorant
12 Swiss Miss hot chocolate
6 Hellmanns mayo with olive oil
2 Pam cooking spray
1 Marie calander hot pie
1 10oz Vasiline Men's lotion
1 Solo 20ct plactice cups
3 24oz Vasiline lotions
6 Suave body wash
4 Suave deodorant

What's the deal with Cub this week?

That's what everyone seems to want to know. What's this deal? What coupons do I need? I know it's taken a while, but I'm going to try to get it all down for you.

First, there are two different deals. The first is buy $30 of the specified products get $15 back. The $15 prints in 3 $5 OYNO coupons. The list of products is located on the inside of the half sheet. The front is an ad for Cub's new Holiday Bucks promotion.

The second is buy $20 of the specified products get $10 back. The list is on the inside of the ad, it's about a half page long.

I'm a little at a lose for how to do this, but I'll give it a hand. Please feel free to call or email if I don't answer all your questions.

There are way more coupons available then I could possible list. I gave away all the coupons that I wasn't going to use on this deal so I no longer have them to look at as I type this up. I just don't have the energy to do a data base search for all the coupons each item will have. I'll add in links to the IPs that I found and try to point out some other great coupons if I can remember them. Everything is starting to blend together, I've been working on this since last Saturday.

Remember that you just need to get to $30, you don't have to buy 10 of one item if the price is listed as 10 for $10, or 6 if it is 6 for $6. Just buy the amount you want of each as long as your final total is $30 of the participating products.

I'm going to list the prices for each item after the money back and then add the coupons I can remember. I'll Bold each new item because the list will be quite long. Just remember the price in bold if BEFORE COUPONS so most items will be much cheaper then the bold price. I will change the color of all items that are free or make an overage after coupons.


Spend $30 get $15 back OYNO

40 ct Totino's Pizza rolls $1.67
$1/2 MF
$.35/2 MF
Green Giant Vegetables $1.67
-Create a meal $1/1 MF
-Just for one
-Vegetables and sause
There are coupons for the others, but I gave them away so I don't know the values
48oz Breyers ice cream and 6-8ct Klondike bars $1.67
$.50/1 Breyers MF
$1/2 Klondike
12.4-25oz Frozen Pillsbury baked goods $1.67
$1.25/1 IP
$1/1 peelie
Other MF from inserts
12oz Dove Shampoo and Conditioner $1.67
$1.50 home mailer
I know there were some really good Dove coupons a couple weeks ago, but I already used them so I'm not sure what they are.
Romano's Macaroni Grill $1.67
$1/1 MF
County Crock Side Dishes $1.67
I couldn't find any coupons for this.
6pk Slim-Fast Snack bars $1.67
I didn't see any coupons for this, but there might be some
28oz Skippy Peanut butter $1.67
$.75/2 MF
All Laundry Detergent $1.67
$1/1 Small and Mighty in August 27th All You Mag. I have three to share and might have more
18-18.25oz Betty Crocker Cake Mix-selected varieties $.50
no coupons found
Knorr Lipton Sides-Not veggie plus $.50
$1/3 MF
Others also, but again, I gave them away
3.6oz Ben and Jerry Cups $.50
Possibly $.50/1 MF, but they might only qualift for the pint size
2 oz. Lipton Onion Soup Mix $.50
No coupons found, but this is a great price. It is the regular 2pk box. I checked the one I had at home.
4.5-7.2oz box Betty Crocker specialty potatoes $.50
$1/2 home mailer
$.35/1 MF
7.5-10oz box Green Giant Vegetables (does not include asparagus) $.50
$1/2 MF
$.50/1 IP
$1/2 IP
Other MF also available
5lb Gold Metal Flour $1.25
$1/1 IP
24-30oz jar Hellmann's Mayo $1.25
$1/1 Olive oil variety MF
Other MF also available
General Mills Cereal $1.25 only varieties shown in ad
Tons of coupons out there
12-45oz County Crock $1.25
There are a couple of coupons for this one, not sure what they are though
Vaseline Intensive Care or Suave loation $1.25
$1.25/1 Vaseline lotion Product MF
$1.50/1 Vaseline lotion Product MF
$1.50/1 Vaseline Men lotion Product MF
Lipton Tea $1.25
100ct regular bags
40ct green tea bags
10ct to go boxes
Not sure if there are coupons. I don't think I had any for it in my stash
16-16.5oz refrigerated Pillsbury Cookie dough $1.25
$1/2 MF
$1/2 IP
$1/2 IP
Chex Mix, Bugles, gardetto's or Chex 100 Calorie $1.25
There are coupons, not sure the value
500ct Q-tips $1.25
No coupons found
Toaster Strudel $1.25
some people have been finding this for less the then 4/$10 advertived price. One store had it for $1.98 per box. This can mess up your $30 plan so that you will need to add more items, but it can also make for free toaster strudel with the $1/1 IP.
$1/1 IP
Other MF also available
6-8pk Yoplait Ypgurt $1.25
$1.50/1 Yoplait kids IP
$1/1 Home mailer
There are other MF also
3 pk Pop-Secret $1.25
Some MF, the Orvile Redenbocher with the $20/$10 deal is a much better price
Dove and Degree Deodorant $1.25
$1/2 MF for Degree
$1.50/2 Dove MF
Knorr Lipton sides Plus Veggies $.83
$.60/1 IP
$.40/1? MF
Betty Crocker Traditional Brownies $.83
no coupons found
Suave $.83
Kids, Professional hair care
$1.50/2 MF
$1/2 MF
Hamburger, Tuna, or Chicken Helper $.83
$.75/3 MF
Other coupons also available
Betty Crocker Frosting $.83
$.50/1 MF
Betty Crocker bagges cookie mix $.83
$.75/1 IP
$.50/1 MF
$1/2 MF
Bisquick Shake-n-pour $.83
No coupons
Wish-bone or western salad dressing $.83
$1.25/2
Ragu $.83
$1/3 MF
Progresso traditoinal Soup or Broth boxes $.83
$1/1 Broth MF
$.50/2 MF
$1.10/1 Soup IP
$1/2 Soup IP
$2/4 Soup IP
Suave Deodorant $.83
$.75/1 MF

That's the end of the first list. I'll try to get the $20/$10 deal typed up tomorrow.

Final Update on October's spending

October 28
Target
Buns $1.50

October 28
Rainbow-Jason picked these up for me so I am not how much these where individually
2 Gallons Milk
3.X LBS hamburgers
Used $5 OYNO and $5 off Meat coupons
Total OOP $3.01

Cub
2 Mike and Ikes $.25
Raspberry gingerale $1.49
Total OOP $1.74

October 31
Cub
Wild Harvest black beans $1.35
2 Glade plug in warmers $4.57
-$1/1 Wild Harvest
-$4/1 Glade
-$4.57 BOGO Glade
Total OOP $1.51 Received one $4 OYNO and $4 in cash because only one coupon printed

Rainbow
6 Glade $2.29
16 Ronzoni pasta $1.75 BOGO
-16 $1/1 Ronzoni
-3 BOGO Glade
Total OOP $5.76 Received 6 $4 OYNO coupons

Rainbow
$25 gift card
14 Ronzoni $1.75
Gummy Worms $1.49
-14 $1/1 pasta
-6 $4 OYNO
Total $.84

Cub
2 Glade $4.57
-Glade BOGO
-$4 OYNO
Total OOP $1.16 Received 2 $4 OYNO coupons

Total OOP this post $14.02
Total Spent This Month $115.34
Total to Recieve from Simple Supper $54.67
Total Left for the Month $24.33 + $25 Rainbow gift card, 2 $4 OYNO at Cub

Instead of carrying the extra cash over to November I am going to add it to the checkbook to cover for the $25 in Glade coupons that I ordered. November will start with the normal $85 and then the $25 gift card and the 2 $4 OYNO at Cub.

Internet coupons for the Cub foods sale Novemer 2-8

I've been working on the Cub ad for next week all day long. There are two great promotions so I am been trying to find coupon match-ups. Below are some IP coupons for items that are part of the sale.

I know that many of the coupons have the same link to coupons.com. I'm not sure if you are able to print them one at a time or if you will need to select all the coupons you are looking for and them print them all together.

I'll be working on a write up of coupons and final prices for the two promotions, but for now these are some coupons that will be great for the sale.

$1/1 Orville Redenbacher's

$1/1 Orville lime and salt

$1/2 Wesson, Pam, Peter Pan, Orville,

$1/2 Any hunts

$1/2 and $2/4 Progresso Soup

$.50/1 Green Giant Boxed veggis

$1/1.25 Pillsbury frozen Grands cinnamon rolls

$.50/1 Pillsbury Frozen Grands, Mini Cinnamon rolls, Cinnamon rolls or dinner rolls

$.50/1 Pillsbury Frozen Grands, Mini Cinnamon rolls, Cinnamon rolls or dinner rolls

Betty Crocker boxes Potaoes $.40

$1/1 Pillsbury Toaster Strudel

$1.50/1 Yoplait Gogurt, trix, drinkable, kids multi pack

$.75/1 Betty Crocker Cookie Mix

More IP coupons

IP-Internet Printable coupon.
I think I forgot that one in the list that I posted on Tuesday. I'll add it later.

I've found a few more Internet coupons that seem to be worth the time to print them.

Sign up for the Cheerio challange and they will email you 6 $1/1 coupon for Cheerios


BOGO Glade Scented oil candle. Use with the B4G$5 Gift card deal at Target. Trying to find more coupons to make them free or a money maker.

$1.10/1 Pregresso Soup

5 free sheets of cardstock at Archiver's

$3/5 SoyJoy bars. I think these are 4/$4 with a $4ECB this week at CVS. If so it would be a $3 Money Maker

$1/1 Barilla Piccolini

$1/1 Malt-O-Meal

$1/1 Gold Medal whole wheat flour. On Sale this week at Rainbow for $1.99 before coupon

What is she saying?

It's been brought to my attention that I use my own vocabulary, but haven't ever made a post explaining what I'm talking about. Sorry. Sometimes I think that most of you already know what I mean.

I'll try to make a list of common abbreviations that I use so that you can tell what I am saying. I'll label it Abbreviations and it will be on the right hand side of the blog so that you can you check it any time.

I'll try to remember all the ones that I use, but I might made a couple of posts as I add new ones or remember that I forgot something.

OYNO-On Your Next Order
Commonly refers a coupon that prints at check out. Usually this is a reward for purchasing a specific items or amount of items. It is for $X and can usually be used for any item you wish. Some restrictions do apply, but they differ slightly by store. Read the fine print on your coupon to make sure you know what it is good on.

MF-Manufacture coupon

TC-Target coupon
Usually found at Target.com. Occasionally there are Target coupons found in store on items. Target.com coupons are good for 4 weeks. They will be on the Target web site for 2 weeks before they are replaced by new coupons. Hotcouponworld.com and AFullCup.com both have coupon generators with all unexpired target coupons. You should be able to print out as many coupons as you like.

Blinki
Coupon found at a store, located in the little black boxes that blink

Peelie
Coupon found in store, on a specific product. Can be peelied and used on your purchase or saved for another day.

RR-Register Reward
This is a Walgreens specific name for OYNO coupons. One thing to note with register rewards is that you can not use them on the same product they printed out on and receive another register reward.
--I.E.
Buy toothpaste for $4, receive a $4 RR. If you take the $4 RR from the toothpaste and use it to pay for a second tub of the same toothpaste you will not receive a RR on your second purchase.

Catilina
Name of company who produces and manages the little coupon machines found at registers in most stores. This is the machine that prints the OYNO and RR coupons. At times it will also print out different coupons or ads for new products. People often interchange Catilina with OYNO when talking about a deal with a print out for money off your next order.

BOGO-Buy One Get One
When I only write BOGO I am referring to by one get one free. If it is anything other then free I will list if after the BOGO.
--I.E BOGO 50% off=Buy one get one 50% off. Most of the time it isn't a good deal unless it is free because BOGO 50% means each item is only discounted 25%.

ECB-Extra Care Bucks
These are the coupons you get at CVS for buying specified items. They are good towards anything in the store except gift cards and prescriptions. Some people have talked about being able to use them on gift cards, but I have never tried so until I know for sure I will say, no gift cards.

IVC-Instant Value Coupon
This is a coupon in the Walgreens ad. Usually only good for one week.

ESC-Easy Saver Coupon
Coupon located in the monthly Walgreens book. Usually the dates do not run all month long, but instead can be a little under a month or a little over. They tend to put the expiration date at the end of a week instead of the end of a month. Check the coupons for the exact dates

OOP-Out of Pocket
The total amount of cash that it took or will take to purchase items. This is usually after all coupons and discounts. If it is different I try to explain in the post

$X/Y
Amount of money a coupon is for and how many items need to be purchased to fulfill the coupon requirements.

Y/$X
How many items can be purchased for a specific amount of money after coupons and discounts.

Price match
Taking an ad for one store and being able to purchase it for that price at another store. Walmart will price match competitor's ads. I often being my Aldi ad to the Super Walmart in town. I have found the produce is higher quality. It also saves a lot of gas not having to drive all the way over to Aldi.

This is also a great idea for Black Friday is you don't think you will be able to get to a specific store before the amount of products is gone. I will worn that that few Walmart employees know how to price match and it does take a while to get it taken care of. If you are willing to wait you can save a lot of money.

Black Friday-The day after Thanksgiving
I'm sure there is some long explanation, but I'm not sure totally what it is.

MM or $M-Both can be used for Money Maker
This is when you combine different offers so that not only is the item free, but the store will end up owing you money. Rarely will they pay you cash out of the register. Often what you will need to do if you know you will have a money maker is get a filler to add to your order so that your balance is not below $.00 after all coupons and discounts.

Occasionally you will find a MM that prints out an ECB, RR or OYNO coupon so that you can use that money later on something you really want.

Filler
A filler is anything you need or want that you throw into your order so that your balance is not below $.00 after all your coupons have been scanned.

Overage
Pretty much the same as a money maker. After the sale, and coupons you will have a discount that is more then the cost of the item. You will need to add a filler so your order isn't under.

It helps to total your order before you go so you know how much overage you have and can get something you really want. When I started I would often have an overage, but not realize the correct amount so I would just grab candy at the checkout instead of something I could have really used.

$X/OYO-Money off on your order
Occasionally there are in ad MF for a specific amount off your order when you buy X amount of qualifying products. It has always been explained to me that being the coupon if off your total order you can still use MF for the specific products you are buying to qualify for the coupon. The Shakopee Cub has started to argue this point in the last few months, but this is the only store I have had a problem at.

Menu for the week

So here is what the Gudim household is eating this week. Like I said some times I feel a little stupid putting this out there.

I feel kind of dumb that everything we eat is so cheap. I guess that's not a bad things, but sometimes I feel like because it is so cheap it must not be that healthy. Probably just my imagination, hopefully.

Everything this weeks seems to be "instant" food. Nothing is really homemade. I just don't feel too creative this week and didn't see anything great on sale that cried out for me to make something special for dinner.

Monday
Egg salad sandwiches
-Bogo bread from Cub last week, $1
-5 eggs $.50?
Apples $.98 per lb a couple weeks ago at Cub
Carrots Free from Target

Tuesday
Pulled beef sandwiches--never used the meat two weeks ago
-Buns $.79
-Curly's pulled beef, free after MF and sale at Cub
Cheetos $1 per bag after TC last month
Carrots Free at Target

Wednesday
Simple Supper-hot dogs

Thursday
Fettuccine
-Burtolli? pasta, free + overage last month at Target after TC and IP
-Veggi, -Free after Cub sale and $1/1 MF
-Garlic bread?

Friday
-Digiorno pizza, $2.67 after Target sale, Target gift card for buying 3, and 3 $1/1 MF

List for this week

I'm working on the list for this week. I don't have a lot done, but I wanted to write out what I have because I know some weeks I get it all written out on paper, but never get it onto the computer.

Target
Carrots $1.69, -$1/1 TC=1/ $.69
Archer Farms mini french bread $.99, -$.50/1 TC=1/$.49
Archer Farms 32oz juices on clearance for $1.48, -$1/1 TC=1/$.48
Archer Farms cookies $.50?, -$1/2 TC=Free (The single cookies are found at Food Avenue)
4pk Lipton to go $.99, -$1/1 any Lipton TC=Free (found in the check out isle)
1lt bottles of Lipton tea $1.25, -$1/1 TC =1/$.25
Sobe Life Water $1.25?, -$.50/1 TC=1/$.75 Better deal if there were MF
Suttons and Dodge steak or roast, Price varies -$2/1 TC (small packages run $3. Look for ones with the extra coupon on the package. You can use both coupons together)
Tyson frozen chicken 20oz or large. ??, -$1/1 MF, -$1/1 TC= 1/???(last time these were running around $4.50 before coupons)
Digiorno 12" Pizzas 3/$16, -3 $1/1 MF, -$5 Gift Card WYB 3=3/$8 after gift card
--This deal can be made sweeter with a rebate form found at Cub foods. It is a Bud Light rebate, found with the beer, but there no beer purchase rerquired. Buy $15 on Deli, Pizza or Chicken and send in your reciept and the form. No UPC required. It will be a $7 Money Maker after the rebate.

Cub
Twin pack milkd $4.98 with in ad coupon
Cub eggs $.99
Sweeheart Roses 15 stem bunch $5
Doritos $1.87 limit 6
2lb bag yellow onions $1.99, -BOGO in ad coupon=2/$1.99
Arnold Country bread $1.47
Mott's apple sause $1.19, -$.55/2 MF=2/1.83
Kemps Ice Cream $3.99
Glade Scented Oil Warmer--See post labled Gambling to find out more on this money maker

Aldi/Walmart
10lb russet potatoes $2.49
3lb bag yellow onions $.79
2lb bag carrots $.79
ButterBall turkey $.99 per lb
32oz Light corn syrup $1.69
2oz Pure Vinalla extract $2.19

Snyders
Puffs 108ct $.73, -$.25/1 MF=1/.48 Limit 4

Rainbow
Mars Fun Size candy $2.99, -BOGO, -$1/2MF=2/$1.99
4lb bag Roundy's granulated Sugar $.99 Limit 1
Ronzoni Smart Taste Pasta $1.75, BOGO, -2 $1/1=2/.$25 overage
Grapes $.99 per lb

...time for noah's bath will update more in a couple of hours

Budget Update

Friday
Cub
Philly cream cheese $1.89
Mushrooms $2.49
-Free cream cheese MF
Total OOP $1.89

Saturday
Cub
2 Country Hearth wheat bread $3.49
-BOGO Cub coupon
Total OOP $3.49

Walmart
3 Limes $.15
16oz Sour cream $1.06
4 grape fruit $.29
8 Pears $2.10
Total OOP$4.73
I know the prices and the OOP are a couple of cents off. Not really sure what happened. I was trying to price match to the Aldi ad and there were some problems.

Total OOP this post $10.11
Total Spent This Month $101.32
Total to Recieve from Simple Supper $54.67
Total Left for the Month $38.35 + $5 OYNO and $5 on meat at Rainbow

Gambling

So I think we all can agree that at times I am a little crazy with my coupons. Not as much lately as in times past, but maybe today changes that.

Here is my confession:

I just ordered 50 coupons for Glade Plug-In Scented Oil Warmers. They are BOGO coupons. Here is the kicker though. I actually paid $.50 per coupon. Yep, that's right, I just spend $25 on coupons. $34.28 actually, but that's not part of the story right now.

Now, why is this post labeled gambling instead of confessions? Because I am playing the clock and betting against time that the coupons will get here on Thursday and I will be able to find 100 of the warmers before November 2.

This is the deal that I am wanting to get in on. I've been told that it is working at both Cub and Rainbow although only Cub has it listed.

Buy one Glade Plug-in Scented Oil Warmer for $4.57 + tax get $4 OYNO. With the BOGO coupon it would look like this.

2 Glade $4.57x2=$9.14
+ tax on $9.14=$.59
-BOGO coupon=-$4.57
Totall OOP $5.16
Recieve 2 $4 OYNO coupons
Total profit $2.84

It seems the best senario would be be to buy them in sets of 8. That would maximize the $4 OYNO coupons and make for the least amount of actual cash I would be paying.

I think 8 at a time would look like this
8 Plug-ins $4.57x8=$36.56
+ tax=$2.38
Total=$38.94
-4 BOGO coupons $18.28
Total $20.66
Use 5 $4 OYNO coupons
Total OOP $.66
Recieve 8 $4 OYNO coupons
Net profit $11.34

If everything works right I will end up with $141.80 worth of OYNO coupons to spend between Cub and Rainbow. It's a great payout on $25, but like I said, not sure if it can be done. We are going to Rockford this weekend. I think I counted 6 I could go to on the way there and then the on in Buffilo, plus a couple others I could hit on Sunday. That still means each store would need to have about 10 of them for this to work. It seems really stupid, but at the same time it turned out so well last month with the other Glade coupons that I wanted to try it again.

If anyone is interested in joining me in my addiction the coupons can be found at couponsandforms.com. I would order no later then Monday night/EARLY Tuesday morning in order to give you a little time to shop around. I have ordered as late as Tuesday night from here and have always gotten them by Saturday or before. I'm hoping my order will get here my Thursday if not Wednesday. It will just depend on what time they get mailed out in the morning.

Update on Budget for the week

The last of the OYNO from the Glade Plug-ins expired on Saturday. I was planning on using the two that was left to get the bagels and salad fixings, but it was less then expected and I needed to get home to make the salad. I never for back to the store to use the last coupon so I lost $2.

Saturday
2 Thomas Mini bagles $3.59
2 green onions $.33
Radishes $.79
Spinach $1.49
-$4.00/1 MF for bagles
-$2 OYNO
Total OOP $.53

Wednesday
Rainbow
1.89 lb Tomatoes $2.44
-For simple supper, but we didn't use them so I'll just work them into the menu

Thursday
Walgreens
2 gallons milk $2.99
Total OOP $5.98

Total Spent This Round $8.95
Total Spent This Month $91.21
Total to Recieve from Simple Supper $54.67
Total Left for the Month $48.46 + $5 OYNO and $5 on meat at Rainbow

What's for dinner

You can tell Noah's back, and I am feeling better because there has been a lot less blogging going on compared to last week. This is the first time I've been on the computer for more then 5 minutes all week.

I thought I would give another go at our menu for the week. It's been a little hectic here this week. We also seemed to have a lot of things in the fridge to use up from last week. Both of which have made for

Sunday Lunch
Spinach salad
-One bunch spinach $1.49
-One box pasta $.80? (I bought it a LONG time ago at Rainbow)
-One bunch green onions $.33
-One bunch radishes $.69
-One package bacon $.40 (bought during the Cub 40th anniversary sale)
Left over garlic bread and pizza brought over by Becca

Sunday Dinner
-I had a progressive dinner for Seminnets and Jason eat with the guys and kids

Monday

Tuesday
Pizza bagels
-5 Mini bagels Free(BOGO last week at Cub and I had a $4.00/1 MF to make an overage on 2 bags)
-Left over sausage from pizza last week-Free (on sale with $1/1 MF at Cub this spring)
-8oz can of tomato sauce $.05 (Might have been less. Bought at Rainbow last fall)
-Cheese Free (used free cheese WYB coupons)
-Spices ??? I have no idea on spices they are really hard to break down.

Wednesday
Simple Supper

Thursday
Left over Tacos from Simple Supper
-We had A LOT left over. Maybe people stayed home cause of the rain?

Friday
Chicken, Wild Rice hotdish
-1 lb Boneless chicken breast $.25 to free (BOGO Cub sale this spring paired with $10/$25 Golden Plump MF. $25 was before the BOGO Cub coupons so it was VERY cheap)
-Mushrooms $1 (on sale last week at Rainbow)
-One can cream of mushroom soup $.62 (Cub sale + MF coupon)
-3 Cups rice? $.40 (Again bought too long ago to remember. I think it was $4 for 10 lbs)
-1/2 cup wild Rice $.70? (I bought it a long time ago, but I think it was around $4.99 with 4 cups in the bag)

Publish Post

Saturday
Probably finish cleaning out the left over tacos for lunch and then hotdish for supper.

Like I said this week isn't that exciting. It sure turned out to be cheap though. :)

Budget update

I used up some more of the $2 coupons this evening. They expire tomorrow so I need to finish them up.

Cub
3 cans tuna $.85
1 loaf bread $3.50 (I know, I know)
-2 $2 OYNO coupons
Total OOP $2.55

Total Spent This Round $2.55
Total Spent This Month $82.26
Total to Recieve from Simple Supper $54.67
Total Left for the Month $57.41 + $4 OYNO expires tomorrow, $5 OYNO and $5 on meat at Rainbow

New list of IPs

It seems like I spend my sick days wasting time on the computer. You can always tell when I'm not feeling well because I'll be posting more IPs for everyone. ;)

I haven't printed all of them yet, but I believe they are the usual limit of 2 per link unless otherwise noted.

$1/2 Hunts Tomatoes

$1/1 Kellogg's cereal (limit 6)

BOGO Uncle Ben's wild rice

$1/1 Lean Cuisine

$1/1 Nestle Candy 10 or larger

$1/4 Yoplait light

$1/1 Muir Glen, $1/ 5lb bag of Gold Metal flour and more. (requires sign up)

Time to Update the Budget

At the end of the last update I had $16 in Rainbow Catilinas and $32? in Cub Catilinas. I noticed that I didn't at the information into the last update so I thought that it might be helpful to know going into this update.

October 16
Sam's
Raisins $6.74
Country crock $10.30
Chips $3.56-Simple Supper
Total OOP $17.04 +$3.56 for Simple Supper

Cub
2 Beef base $2.53
2 Chicken base $2.53
Used 5 $2 OYNO catilinas
Total OOP $.12

October 15
Target #1
1 Ocean Spray grapefruit juice $2.49
1 Archer Farms juice $1.48
-$1/1 TC for juice
Total OOP $2.97

Target #2
10 Archer Farms juice $1.48
5 1lb baby carrots $.99
-5 $1/1 TC for carrots (adjusted down to $.99)
-10 $1/1 Archer Farms juice
Total OOP $4.80

Rainbow #1
Whole mushrooms $1
6 cans Bush's beans $.60
3lbs yelllow onions $1.50
10lbs potatoes $2.99
10 cans Muir Glen tomatoes/sauce $1.59
-10 $1/1 Muir Glen peelies
-5 $1/1 double coupons
-5 $2 OYNO catilina coupons
Total OOP $.35 Received $5 off any meat purchase coupon

Rainbow #2
5 Dove shampoo/conditioner $3.50
8 Yoplait light $.50
-4 $1.50/1 Dove MF
-2 $1/4 Yoplait
-2 $1/4 Yoplait coupons doubled
-3 $2 OYNO Catlina coupons
Total OOP $6.64 Received $5 OYNO for the dove.
--My total was $22.xx before the coupons. The cashier scanned my two $1/4 coupons and they doubled. She told me that the register will double off the regular price, not the sale price so you can get doubles even if your total is until $25. I want to test this more, but it would be great if it works all the time and wasn't just a flook.

October 12
Cub
White bread $1.29
6Curly's pulled pork, chicken, beef $1
Curly's baked beans $1
2 Cub french bread $2.99
-2 Free french bread with survey $2.99
-2 $1/1 Curly's pulled meat MF Blinkie
-3 $2 OYNO catilina coupon
Total OOP $.39

October 11
Cub
4 1lb butter $.99
2 eggs $.99
20 dannon 4pk $1
1 M&M $.69?
-20 $1/1 Dannon
-3 $2 OYNO catlina coupons
Total OOP $.66


Total Spent This Round $32.97 + $3.56=$36.53
Total Spent This Month $79.71
Total to Recieve from Simple Supper $54.67
Total Left for the Month $59.96 + $8 OYNO expires tomorrow, $5 OYNO and $5 on meat at Rainbow

Free Hot Drink at Barnes & Noble

Here is a coupon for a free hot drink at Barnes & Noble. It is an IP and good until October 31 so there is plenty opportunity for free coffee.

The bold print says cappuccino, but the find print at the bottom also lists latte, cappuccino, expresso, coffee, or hot tea. It looks like hot chocolate is the only thing not included.

Link to coupon

This weeks Menu

Karin suggested that it might be nice to know what I actually cook with all these random things that I buy. I've thought about it in the last, but at times we don't eat very exciting or healthy things. Usually not for a lack of food, but more for a lack of energy or creativity.

Well, for this week at least I'll let you know what we are having for supper. I try to have it planned out by Sunday night or Monday because otherwise I tend to not be able to think of things and we just eat things like soup, pasta, or grilled sandwiches.

I usually just plan supper. We will having leftovers usually for lunch or I'll make Noah something that he asks for and have a little of that myself. One of my problems is I tend to make family sized meals for 2.5 people, cause of this you'll notice that Saturday is usually clean out the fridge day.

If I get really ambitious I'll try to write out what goes into my meals and how much they actually cost. I can't always remember because some of them use ingredients I bought a long time ago, but I'll do my best if I have time.

Sunday
French bread Pizza
-French bread Free with Cub survey coupon
-Farmland 16oz Frozen sausage Free with Cub sale and $1/1 coupon
-Tomato sauce $.25? I can't remember for sure. I've gotten some for free. I know it was no more then $.25
-Italian spices-Who knows
-Olive Oil-The whole bottle cost $3
-Cheese 8oz?-Free with the Free Cheese WYB 2 Nabisco crackers
-Carrot sticks. Free this week at Target

Monday
Cabbage Rolls
-Chicken left over from backed chicken on Friday night. $1.50 for left over portion?
-Cabbage, half head. $.79 for whole head
-Celery, half stock. $.79 for whole stock
-Carrots Free this week at Target
-Chicken Stock, $.50 from CVS
-Rice, 3 cups?. Maybe $1 at the most
-Spices

Tuesday
Fajitas
-Chuck steak $.30 From Target last year when it was $1.99 per lb with $2/1 package coupons
-Onion 1.5lbs. $.79 for 3 lbs
-Green peppers 1 to 2. Not sure haven't bought them yet. Sometimes I leave them out cause I don't like them, but Jason does.
-Cheese, Free with Kraft/Nabisco coupon mentioned above
-Tortillas. $1 at Cub
-Refried beans or homemade black beans. $.69 per can or $.53 for 1/3 lb dried
-Fajita mix-$.50 on sale at Rainbow with coupon
-Tortilla chips. Free, left over from simple supper
Optional extras if we have them
-Tomatoes
-sour cream
-limes

Wednesday
Beef barley soup with vegetables
-Chuck steak from Target $.30. (I froze them two to a package so I need to use them together)
-Carrots. Free this week at Target
-Celery. One stock $.79
-Onions 1.5lbs. $.79 for 3 lbs
-Potatoes 2-3lbs. I can't remember how much they were, but I know they are on sale now for $1.99 per 5lb bag.
-Barley 1/4 cup. $1 for the whole box?
-Beef stock seasoning $.75. I think the whole jar is around $4. It seldom goes on sale. :(
-French bread 1/2 left over from the two loaves used on Sunday night. Free
-Cheese leftover from Tuesday night. Free
-Grapes. Free from Cub or Target first week of October. (wash them and keep them in a strainer in the fridge the will last us a week or two in the fridge no problem)

Thursday
Pulled Pork with baked beans
-Curly's pulled pork. Free after sale at Cub and $1/1 coupon
-Curly's baked beans with brisket $1
-Buns. Haven't bought them yet, but probably will run around $1.50
-Carrot sticks. Free from Target
-Grapes. Free from Target or Cub, mentioned above

Friday
On your own. Noah is heading out to grandma's so I'm taking the night off. I'll probably have cereal and Jason will probably make eggs.

Saturday
Left overs. Most of the weeks will feed 4-6 so even with Jason taking some for lunch most days there is always things left in the fridge at the end of the week.

Well, I hope this gives you an idea of what I am able to make with all those random things that I bring home. As you can see sometimes I freeze or store things for a long time. I am constantly going through the pantry and pulling things to the front that need to be used up. Usually I am able to work them into the menu, but occasionally I still forget about them and then end up getting tossed. Case in point is the teriyaki sauce that I found tonight while getting out the olive oil. It expired about two weeks. It's probably still fine, but some things I just don't like to chance it.

Cheap or Free Curly's BBQ meat tubs-Cub in Shakopee

Update I found a $1/4 IP for the Yoplait. It's a Brinks so you should be able to print 2 from each computer. If you are able to get 4 IPs then it will bring your OP down to $2.50 on 20, plus you will get the coupon for 2 free at checkout. Brings the per cup cost down to just over $.11 each. Great Price!!!

Was at the Cub in Shakopee after church this afternoon and they had tubs of Curly's pulled pork, beef, and chicken on sale for $1. There are blinkie coupons out from a while ago for $1/1. I had two coupons and used both, but I think the expiration date on them was sometime in December.

They are only available until the supply is gone. At 1:00pm they were fully stocked, but I saw lots of employees going back to get them as they went on break.

The tubs are a little over 1lb so even without the coupon it is a great price. The expiration dates on the tubs I grabbed were all in December so there is a long time to use them up. I believe they also freeze well.

There is also a good deal on Yoplait Yogurt. Buy 20 for $10, get $2 off with the in ad coupon. You also get a Catilina coupon at the register for 2 free cups of Yoplait. There are also coupons out for them. I think the best coupons I could find were $.40/6 cups and then also 1 free cup WYB 6.

This is what it would look like
21/$10.50
$2 off 20 in ad coupon
-$.40/6
-$.40/6
-$.40/6
-Free WYB 6
-Free WYB 6
-Free WYB 6
Total =$5.80 + 2 free coupons catilina
23 cups total for $5.80=$.25 per cup

Free Carrots at Target!!

Target has not IP coupons out this week. There is a coupon for $1.00 off 1 to 3 lb bags of Green Giant baby carrots. 1lb bags are on sale this week for $.99. Looks like it is a great time to stock up on carrots!

5 Cans of Progresso Soup for $.50. Free after only one MF coupon

I just saw this posted and haven't confirmed yet, but did get the ad in my junk mail so I know at least in theory it should work.

Byerly's has Progresso soup on sale for 10/$11. There is also a sale that for every 5 General Mills participating products you get $5 off your order. Progresso is one of the products.

The deal should work in sets of 5 like this

5 soup=$5.50
-$5 off for buying 5 participating GM products
Total OOP $.50

There are also MF coupons out for these. I think they are $.50/2. I know I ordered some a few weeks ago and wasn't able to use them at Rainbow. I felt really bad about wasting them and now I am jumping up and down because it will make this into a small money maker.

It is reported that they are limiting this to 20 cans per person. Not sure if this truly means per person, or per transaction as there is usually some leway between the two. The deal is only available until October 9, so hurry and get your soup!!!

Here is a link to the ad and also a link to the their store locator so you can find the closest one.

This weeks Ad

Store locator

October Budget

I'm starting the budget for October. Because of the Glade deal it is a little hard to have exact figures. I had some Catilinas before the month started and being I didn't do anything for September this first post might look a little strange.

October 1

Rainbow
4 Glade Plug-ins $1.79, -2 Bogo Coupons=$4.05 after tax. Used up an old giftcard so no OOP. Recieved 4 $2 OYNO Catilinas.

Target
1.28 lb Grapes. Tried to use a $1/1 lb or more Target coupon, but casher said they were refusing ALL IP coupons, even all Target coupons. Printed a copy off the website at the Kiosk and brought it to CS to show them it was on their site and ask if the cashier was correct. The CSM came over and made a big deal out of the cashier was missinformed and gave me the grapes for free. It wasn't really a big deal to me. I just asked CS to make sure I knew what their policy was.

Cub Round #1
8 Glade Plug-ins $1.99
4 Cheese Nips $1.50
2 Doughnuts $.79
1 Kraft Singles $4.75
1 Kraft string Cheese $4.50
6 Carefree liners $1.39
Sales tax $1.68

Coupons used
2 $5/3 Carefree
4 Bogo Glade Plug-in
4 $1/1 Nabisco Crackers or cookies
2 Free Kraft cheese up to $4.99 WYB 2 Nabisco Crackers

Also used 7 $2 OYNO from previous Glade Plug in purchases
Total OOP $1.46
Recieved 8 $2 OYNO Catininals for the Glade and 1 $4 OYNO for the Cheese Nips

Cub Round #2
5 Hersey's baking chips $1.00
5 120 cnt HomeLife napkins $1.00
1.68lb grapes $3.34
2 Glade Plug-ins $1.99
Sales tax $.71

Coupons used
$3 off WYB 10 Cub in ad coupon for chips and napkins
1 BOGO coupon
5 $1/1 Homelife
Free first lb of grapes $1.99
3 $2 OYNO
Total OOP $.05
Recieved 2 $2 OYNO Catilinas

October 2
Target
1.29 grapes $1.29, $1/ 1lb or more of grapes=$.29 OOP

October 3
Target #1
10 pocket folders $.25
2 15oz Johnson's baby wash $3.19
4 CareFree liners $1.09
.98lb grapes
Tax $.37

Coupons used
3 $5/3 Carefree/Johnson's coupons
1 Free grapes coupons $1
Total OOP $1.34

Target #2
Grapes $.29 OOP after coupon
Cub
10 Homelife Napkins $1
12 Glade Plug-Ins $1.99
1.06 lb grapes $2.11
4 Stone Ridge Ice Cream $2.50
Tax $2.10

Coupons used
$3 off 10 in ad Cub coupon
$3 off 4 in ad Cub coupon
4 $.75/1 Stone Ridge MF coupons
6 BOGO Glade coupons
10 $1/1 Homelife coupons
1 First lb of grapes free =$1.99
7 $2 OYNO Catilinas
Total OOP $1.07
Recieved 12 $2 OYNO Catilinas

At the bottome of the receipt it says you saved a grand total of $46.93. This is a savings of 102%. Never seen that one before. It must not count the sales tax into the % off that it figures.

CVS
6 Welches grape juice $2.50 Used raincheck
25 boxes of cookies, clearanced to $.25 each
1 small notebook $.62
6 cans Swanson brooth $.50
1 Secret Deo $2.50
1 CVS vitamin D $2.99
3 Gallons milk $3.19
Coupons used
$10 ECB
$27.96 ECB
Total OOP $.97 on gift card
Received $2.99 ECB for Vitamins and $9 for the 6 juice
---20 boxes of cookies are for Simple Supper so I will receive $5

October 4
Cub #1
4 Great Northern Beans 1.63
10 Campbells' cream of mushroom soup $.99
6 Kidney Beans $1.59
Grapes $2.61
Cub 2 pk milk $6.58
Cub chocolate milk $3.99
Eggs $1.65

Coupons used
$3 off 10 Cub in ad coupon
$1 off chocolate milk in Cub booklet
Free Grapes $1.99
3 $.25/2 Campbells
5 $2 OYNo Coupons
Total OOP $24.15
Recieved
--$27.28 was items for Simple Supper so I will receive that back.

Walmart
2 Eggs $1.23
20 Corn Muffin mix $.38
1 Johnson's baby wash 9 oz $2.17
1 Johnson's baby wash 15 oz $3.27
4 Carefree Liners $1.08
Cabbage $.79
2 Celerey $.79
Tax $.35

Coupons used
2 $5/3 Johnson's/Carefree MF

Total OOP $12.54
Recieved
--$8.83 was for Simple Supper so I'll get that back

Cub #2
10 Campbells cream soupons $1
Sue bee Honey $3
Wheat Thins $3.50
3 Cheese Nips $1.50
8 Glade Plug-Ins $1.99
Grapes $2.05
4 Stone Ridge Ice Cream $2.50
9 CareFree $1.39
Tax $1.03

Coupons used
$3 off 10 Cub in ad coupon
$3 off 4 Cub in ad coupon
4 $.75/1 Stone Ridge Icecream
3 $1/1 Nabisco
4 BOGO Glade $1.99
Free Grapes $1.99
3 $.25/3 Campbell's
1 $1/1 Sue Bee honey peelie
1 Free Wheat Thins WYB Kraft products
1 $4 OYNO
3 $5/3 Carefree MF
8 $2 OYNO
Total OOP $.35
Recieved $4 OYNO, 8 $2 OYNO
--$6 was for Simple Supper so I'll get that back

Cub #3
4 Stone Ridge Ice Cream $2.50
10 Campbell's cream soup $1
1 dougnut $.75
Grapes $2.13
9 Carefree liners $1.39
Tax $.65

Coupons used
3 $5/3 Carefree MF
$3 off 10 Cub coupon
$3 off 4 Cub coupon
Free Grapes $1.99
3 $.25/3 Campbell's coupon
4 $.75/1 Stone Ridge Coupon
2 $2 OYNO
$4 OYNO
Total OOP $.65
Recieved
--$4 Was for Simple Supper so I'll get that back

Rainbow
8 Glade Plug-Ins $1.79
Tax $.93

Coupons used
4 BOGO coupons $1.79
4 $2 OYNO
Total OOP $.09
Recieved 8 $2 OYNO Catilinas

October
5
Cub foods
Bread $1.19
OOP $1.19

Total Spent This Round $43.18
Total Spent This Month $43.18
Total to Recieve from Simple Supper $51.11
Total Left for the Month $92.93 + OYNO coupons

Updates

I don't seem to be doing very well keeping up with the blog. It seems like since school started I've been going a lot of other things and haven't even been turning on the computer. I have wonderful intentions to keep up with it, but it seems to be the easiest thing to let slip because I'm not really sure anyone actually reads this.

Another reason why the blog has been suffering is that we are expecting in April. Although I am feeling much better this time around, I just don't have the energy to stay up until 2 am most nights and type up grocery lists.

Hopefully as I start to have a little more energy I will be able to get caught up on things and be posting more often. I have gotten about half the coupons clipped and filed, but that still leaves around 20+ inserts to go through.

I'm going to start October's budget and completely skip over September. I probably spend around $95 instead of $85. Not too bad, but still over budget. Lately there have been a lot of free items or money makes which will make this coming month a great stock up month.

I'm not holding as close to the $85 as before. With being pregnant, I don't have the energy to find the great deals and drive around to get them. Plus, I want to make sure I am getting the extra tings the baby will need, which aren't always on sale. I don't really want to go over, but if I do I'm not making a big deal out of it unless it is by a whole bunch.

Free Grapes

Two different stores are offering free grapes this week!

Cub has an in ad coupon for one free lb of grapes. No minimum purchase is required so you can just get grapes if you want.

Target has grapes for $1 per lb this week. There are new Target coupons out and one of them is for $1 off grapes minimum purchase of one lb. If you just get a pound then they will be free just like at Cub.

Back to the List

Getting back to the list for this week. I'll probably post one store at a time while I am making up my list for tomorrow. Right now I am working on Rainbow.

Rainbow
Kraft Mac n Cheese $.49 limit 4
Honeycrisp apples $1.79 per lb
Fresh Chicken leg quarters $.79 per lb
Snapps Appetixers $.99 Not sure on coupons. Will be checking on it
Orville Redenbacher's popcorn $2, -$1/1 MF=$1
Kemps half and half 16oz. $.79, not sure on MF
Kotex pantiliners $1, -$1/1 off any From All You mag=Free
Roundy's white top bread 24oz $.79
Campbell's Chicken noodle or tomato soup $.49, $.40/4=4/1.56 Limit 4
Raman Noodle Soup 20/$3

Quaker Instant oatmeal $1.79, -$1/1 IP or $1/1 high fiber MF=1/$.79
Quaker Old Fashion Oatmeal $1.79, -$.50/1=$1.29
Limit 4 total between the two types

Quaker snack bars, many varieties $1.29 Limit 4
Coupons available, granola bars $.75/2, possible others as well

There is another $5/3 coupon in the ad this week. There are a few things not included on the coupon this time and it also excludes trial size this time. Carefree is still included this time. If the small size is not consided trial they will be a good money maker at Target and Walmart.

What's good this week?

There are a lot of good deals this week. I've been looking all day so that I could get my coupons ordered. It seems like I am ordering coupons every week now. I either get something for myself, or something for church. This week is was 65 coupons for $1/1 Green Giant Valley Fresh Steamers, and 20 BOGO Glade Gel Plug-Ins.

Both of these are for deals found at Cub. The veggies are on sale for $1 this week, meaning free after the coupon. It will help keep costs down for Simple Supper at church. The Glade Gel Plug-Ins have been on sale for $1.69. Each one purchased prints a $2 OYNO. It makes them a slight money maker of $.31 without any coupon. With the BOGO coupon each set of 2 will cost $1.69 and I will get 2 $2 OYNO for a total of $2.31 overage for each. This is banking that they will still be $1.69 by the time the coupons get here. If so I will have a total money maker of $41.85 if I deduct the $4.35 paid for coupons and shipping.

I think for now, considering my headache and the time of night or morning as it may be, I am going to leave it at this and hope to get back to all the deals a little later.

This week is super busy with a Seminets meeting tomorrow night, Double coupons and Simple Supper on Wednesday, Wedding setup Friday, and then the wedding on Saturday. I'll do my best to get a list typed up. It will depend on nap time on Tuesday and Thursday.

Night

Walgreens

I haven't looked much at Walgreens this week, but just found a great IP so wanted to post before I lost the address.

Nestle semi sweet morsels $1.99 with in ad coupons, - $1.50/1 IP=1/$.50 Some people have been able to print up to 4 per computer. If you have problems, log into the sight, then go back the the $1.50/1 link and try again. If you don't go back to the original link it sounds like you only get a $.50/1 instead of the $1.50/1.

I'll keep adding to Walgreens in this post as I find things so make sure to scroll down if there are other posts later in the week.

Kraft mac n cheese $.69 with in ad coupon. ($.66 regular price at Walmart last week, but if you have RR to spend this is a good deal.)

Rimmel Cosmetics BOGO, -Bogo Rimmel Colour Rush eye shadow from Aug issue of All You=2/Free

A start to this weeks list.

I'm hoping to get back in the swing of things. I have the list of Rainbow made up, but nothing else yet. There might be things that I missed. I haven't filed any coupons for over two months now. It's kind of hard to know what to look for when I'm not sure what coupons are out there.

Here is what I found so far. Don't forget that if you shop and Wednesday you will be able to double up to 5 coupons if you spend $25 or more BEFORE manufacture coupons.

Green Gaint Steamers $.88, -$1/1 IP and insert=1/$.12 overage
Green grapes $.99 per lb
10lb potatoes $2.49
1lb baby carrots $.88
Roundy's White bread $.68
Dove Large chocolate bar $1, -$1/1= Free
Dannon 320z yogurt $2, -$1/2 (blinki found at Rainbow 2 wks ago)=2/$3
3lb Gala organic apple $3.49


I'll add Ali also being it is so short. Remember that if Aldi, or any other store, is out of your way you can always take the flyer to Walmart and pricematch there. Usually they need to call someone to help, but it doesn't usually take long.

Green Peppers 3pk $.79
Mango $.49
Avacados $.59
Canned beans, black or garbanzo $.49 (can sub for store brand at WM)

I'll be working on the other stores throughout the week. That's the plan at least. Thanks for hanging in there while I get back in the game.

September Budget

I know I'm a little behind for the month, but I wanted to add up the receipts so far this month. I seem to be loosing track of what I am spending and where the money is going. I believe that I have all my receipts except two. I had to turn those in to be reimbursed for simple supper. I'll start with those, doing my best to remember what was on them and go from there.

Walmart
9 Reach dental floss $.97
9 Kraft mac n cheese $.68
3lb bag of onions $.98
2 limes $.25
4ct Crescent Rolls $1.22

Coupons
$1/1 IP for the crescent rolls
3 $5/3 for the Reach floss
Total OOP $2.12. $0.98 was for church so true OOP is $1.14

Cub
32 boxes of Pillsbury brownies $.99 (had a raincheck) -$1/2 MF x16=$15.68
Lettuce $.40 with Cub coupon
Bacon $.40 with Cub coupon
Mayo $.40 with Cub coupon
2 Tomatoes $.80 with Cub coupon
Cub white bread $.40 with in ad coupon

Total OOP $18.08? $10.20 of this was for church so true OOP was $7.88

Target
10 Pocket Folders $1 (yeah I know, there not groceries)
2 Kraft easy mac cups $1.40 -$1/2 MF =$.40
Muir Glen Veggi soup $1.82 -$1/1 peelie=$.82
1.xx lb Chuck steak $3.52, -$2/1 TC=$1.52
Buitoni tortellini $3.34, -$1/1 TC, $1/1 IP=$1.34
Buitoni fettucine $1.79, -$1/1 TC, -$1/1 IP= $.21 overage
9 Reach dental floss $.97, -3 $5/3 MF=$6.27 overage
4 Poptarts $8.97, -$1/2 MF x2=$6.97
4 Keble Frudge shop cookies $10, -$1/2 MF x2=$8

I got 2 $5 giftcards for the Poptarts and cookies. This brings my total OOP down to $2.30 after the giftcards. I used a giftcard for this, but will still add it to the budget

Cub
Wild Harvest $1.79, -$1/1 expired IP=$.79
Homelife lunch bags $1, -$1/1=Free
Cub 2pk milk $6.58
3 Carefree pantie liners $3.15, -$5/3=$1.85 overage
Total OOP $5.59

Kwik Trip
6pk chocolate donuts (for potluck) $.99
1 gallon milk=Free
2lbs Potatoes=$.37
Total OOP $1.36
I had coupons from the mail for the free milk, one free lb of produce, and the donuts.

Rainbow
2 Kemps cottage cheese $5.58
2.04lb plums $2.02
-$7 OYNO
=Total OOP $.60

Cub
20 cans of Chef Boyardee ravioli $10(raincheck with $10 OYNO WYB $20), 4 $1/5MF=20/$6
Lettuce $.40 with Cub coupon
Bacon $.40 with Cub coupon
Mayo $.40 with Cub coupon
2 Tomatoes $.80 with Cub coupon
Cub white bread $.40 with in ad coupon
6 Reach dental floss $6, -2 $5/3=$4 overage
3pk stuffed pork chops $11.52
3pk stuffed pork chops Free with BOGO in ad coupon
Total OOP $16.31


Walgreens
In light of the previous post I am just going to ad up the total OOP for all my Walgreens stops. I don't think anyone wants to read it twice and it would get rather long to type again.

Total OOP $7.71. $5.79 in cash and $1.92 in giftcards.
Total RR earned $24, + still owed $20 in RR for a total of $44 in RR.

Walmart
15 Reach Dental floss $.97, -5 $5/3 MF=$10.45 overage
17 Kraft mac n cheese $.66=$11.22
.95 tax
Total OOP $1.72

Total spent so far this month $42.69 + $7 OYNO at Rainbow
Total left to spend $42.31 +$24 in RR at Walgreens (I'm not going to add in the $20 still owed to me until I actually get it.)

How to blow your budget in three easy steps.

So I keep looking at the grocery money left for the month wondering where it all went. Well, I've come up with an answer for at least part of it. Walgreens. It all turned into RR good only at Walgreens. The whole ordeal goes something like this.

Step 1: Jason mentions on Sunday that he is out of allergy meds and would really appreciate some more.

Step 2: Look through ads and discover the best deal is at Walgreens which looks like this.

3 Tylenol Allergy Rapid Release $4.99
6 Carefree 22 count panty liners $1.22

Use
Walgreens in ad coupon for $.99 Carefree
3 $5/3 MF good on many products including both Carefree and Tylenol(These were in the Rainbow ad about three weeks ago. They were MF that expired on 9-10-08)


My OOP would $6 before tax and I would receive a $4 RR. I figured that $2 for 3 boxes of allergy meds was a pretty good deal.

Step 3: When I got to Walgreens I found out there was a $1.50 per box coupon in the monthly book which brought my OOP down to $1.41 after tax. To top it off instead of getting a $4 RR I got a $2 and $4 RR. Instead of paying $2 for everything I made $4.59.

Being I had a bunch of coupons left, and got Becca's extra coupons, so I planned on doing the deal as many times as possible the next day. I did it twice turning the day and then went in the evening and found an even better deal.

There was a sign under some of the liquid Tylenol cold med, buy 2 get $5. but 3 get $10. These also qualified for the $1.50 off Walgreens coupon so the OOP would still be $1.41, but instead of $6 in RR it would be $10.

I did two different orders like that, but the RR didn't print. The assistant manager wasn't sure what to do so she took my info and said she would talk with the manager first thing in the morning and call me. Well, they still owe me $20. She didn't call yesterday. I called today and was told she wasn't in and that they would leave a message, but the boy never took my name or # so not really sure that the "message" will actually get to her. I'm planning on stopping in with my receipts tomorrow.

My total OOP was $8.71 with $1.92 of that on a gift card. I did use some RR to lower my OOP, but couldn't use them on most transactions because it would not print out a new RR if I did. I know have $24 in RR with another $20 owed to be.

All told I ended up with 52 Carefree, 4 bottles of Children's Tylenol, 3 Tylenol Cold and Sinus 24ct, 8 bottles of Daytime/Nighttime Tylenol liquid cold meds, and 15 boxes of Tylenol Allergy meds.

I'm not really sure why it is only 52 Carefree because if I got 2 for every Tylenol it should be 60 Carefree.

Although this doesn't really explain where all my $ went so far this month at least I know where about $7 went. Plus, I have lots of RR to spend in the next two weeks on milk and other items.

One more link

Found this one to add. There are quite a few good coupons here too. The $1/1 works well with the Taco seasoning on sale at Rainbow this week for $.59 each. Also there are peelies for b2g1 free so it would be 3/$.18

bettycrocker

Just some interesting IPs

Well, it's been a while, but I'm back. Just needed a little break. My coupons are a mess which makes it hard to spot a good deal. Here are some IPs that I found while looking around today to tide everyone over until I can get my coupons in order and make up a list. Happy Printing!

$1/1 Quaker instant Oatmeal

BOGO Sierra Mist

$1/1 Cheerios #1

$1/1 Cheerios #2

$2/1 Any Kashi (great for the Target gift card deal next week)

$1/1 Buitoni (there is a $1/1 Target IP out right now also. Cheapest pasta is supposed to be around $1.85)

$1/1 Totino's Pizza Rolls

$1/1 Ronzoni Bistro pasta (Supposed to be around $1 when on sale.)

$1/1 Any Johnson's Buddies #1 (use on buddy bar soap to make them free)

$1/1 Any Johnson's Buddies #2

$2/1 South Beach Living Pizza (There used to be a deal running at Cub which made these Free with the coupon and RR. I'll try to find out some more info and it and post later. Also reported to be $2 at Walmart so free after the coupon)

$1/1 Any Scott Towels or Tissue

Freesampling.net (There are a lot of great coupons here. It seems have the same offerings as coupons.com which means we might be able to get 2 coupons instead of just one. The Green Giant steamers are supposed to be around $1.30 at Walmart which would make them $.30 after coupon.)

Coupons.com (Not sure if you can print coupons from this and the freesampling.net site.)


Looks like that's it for now. I'll be working on my coupons more next week so hopefully I will be able to get a list made up then.

Free Yogurt at Cub

Cub has Dannon Light and Fit on sale for $1 this week. There are MF coupons for $1/1 4pk which makes them FREE!!

Noah eats yogurt everyday so this is great news for us. I haven't had to pay for yogurt for months now because last time I got a raincheck and there was never enough to fulfill the amount I wanted to they kept extending the raincheck another month. I would get what I needed for the month and then they would deduct that number from the total left on the raincheck and give me a new one good for another month. I didn't plan it like that, but it sure worked well.

If you are interested in ordering coupons here is a link to two sites that have them for sale. Each site if $.10 per coupon. I have ordered from both. Each is dependable, but I like the couponclippers better. Make sure you order no later then Tuesday night or EARLY Wednesday if you want them to get here by Saturday.

Rebecca's coupons and forms

The Coupon Clippers
Scroll down partway and it is the last Dannon coupon listed.

August 10-16

Monday
Cub
Donuts $4.19

Tuesday
Ribs $2.58

Wednesday
2 gallons milk
4 apples
1.5 lb tomatoes
31 yogurt 4pks
Wheat bread
- 31 $1/1 yogurt
-$10 OYNO (expired today and they were out of the $1 per LB meats)
Total OOP $3.08

Total so far this week $9.85
Total Spent this month $32.42
Total left for the month $55.43 + $8 OYNO, $2 OYNO at Cub + 2 $5 OYNO at Walgreens

Budget Update

I don't have a ton to add to the spending for this month. Like I said in the last post I have been quite busy, and also not feeling so hot. Together it means I haven't been shopping much the last two weeks. Not really a bad development.

Tuesday
Cub
Pledge wipes $3.50
Pledge spray $3.50
-$1.50
-BOGO
Total OOP $2.48, + $2 OYNO

Cub
Bread $1.19

Target
10 Sobe Life water $1
- 10 $.50/1 Peelies
-$5 Target gift card WYB 10
Total OOP $.35

Wednesday
Pledge spray $2.50
Pledge wipes $3.50
-$1.50/1
-BOGO
-$2 OYNO
OOP $.48 + $2 OYNO

Thursday
Cub
French Bread $2.99
-Free bread survey coupon
OOP Free

Friday
Walgreens
4 boxes Nurtigrain bars $2.50
-$1/2
-$5 OYNO from diaper deal last month
Total OOP paid on Walgreens gift card $4.65. Received 2 $5 OYNO coupons.
Saturday
Target
Bread
10 Sobe Life Water
-10 $.50/1 Peelies
-$5 giftcard WYB 10 life water
Total OOP $1.79

Cub
3 Carrots $1.59
3 Frozen Peas $1.69
Pledge clothes $4
Pledge spray $4
-$1.50/1
-BOGO
-$2 OYNO
-2 $1.50 OYNO (Mom gave me her's from Friday)
-B1G2 Cub coupon, carrots
-B1G2 Cub coupon, Frozen veggies
Total OOP $.78 + $2 OYNO


Total Spent this weekend $3.40
Total Spent this month $22.57
Total left for the month $65.28+ $10 OYNO, $8 OYNO, $2 OYNO at Cub + 2 $5 OYNO at Walgreens

Taking a break

As you might have noticed I haven't been keeping up with the blog this week and last. There has been a lot of end of summer busyness going on. On top of that I haven't been feeling well which is making it hard to make the weekly list. I haven't even been looking at things for my personal list.

I have decided just to make it definite and say that I am taking a little vacation from the list. This way I don't struggle to get it out every week and then feel back when I don't get it done. We will be out of town towards the end of August so I think the easiest thing to do it just to start again with the weekly list at the beginning of September.

I'm planning on still updating the budget. I've found that having it all typed up helps me to keep on track and to know where I am spending. I tend to spend a lot less when I put it on the blog. Hopefully I can get last weeks purchases up tonight and go from there.

Thanks all for understanding. Hope you have a great end to your summer. See you when school starts.

August Grocery Budget

Being this is the first August budget post I wanted to show what I am starting the month with. Last month I had $2.84 and $10 OYNO at Cub left over. Add to this the $85 for August and the starting budget is $87.84 + $10 OYNO.

I was able to go and do the Powerade deal at Cub on Friday. While there I found the Brat/bun deal listed a couple of posts ago. Here is what the total reciept looks like.

2 24pk 1/2 liter Dasani water $5
20 Powerade $.80 Mixed 9 regular and 11 Zero
2 Sara Lee Buns $2
2 HillShire Farm brats/sausage $3.98
2 pks Boneless country style pork ribs $1.51 per lb, $2.10 and $2.37
2 Personal watermelon $3
Total before coupons $48.43

Used
2 Free Dasani WYB 10 Powerade -$10
2 $1/1 Powerade MF -$2
5 Free Powerade Zero WYB 3 Powerade -$4
6 $.50/1 Powerade Zero -$3
2 $1 off Hillshire Farm sausage WYB one Sara Lee Bun -$2
1 Free Sara Lee Bun WYB 2 Hillshire Farm sausage -$2
2 $1 off store brand meat WYB one Sara Lee Bun -$2
2 $3 off whole watermelon WYB one Sara Lee bun and one HillShire Farm sausage -$6
1 BOGO Cub booklet coupon for Hillshire Farm sausage -$3.98

Received $8 OYNO for spending $25 or more on Powerade and water

Total OOP $14.49 -$8 OYNO=$6.49

Office Max
I haven't decided if all school supplies will be included in the budget, but I payed with the grocery change so I thought I would blog this one.
3 Sharpie mini highlighters $.05
3 24 ct color crayons $.01
Total $.19

Sunday August 3
Target
Eggs $1.53

Cub
5lbs Red potatoes $4.49

Total Spent this weekend $19.17
Total Spent this month $19.17
Total left for the month $68.68+ $10 OYNO and $8 OYNO

Free SoBe Life Water at Target again

Just wanted to make to quick post about the Free SoBe Life Water at Target this week. They are on sale for $1. For every ten bottles that you buy you get a $5 gift card. There are $.50/1 MF out there so if you buy in sets of 10 with ten coupons they will be free after the giftcard.

I've found these coupons at both Holiday gas stations and at Kwik Trip gas stations. They are right on the door of the drink fridges.

Cheap Dinner on the Grill

There is a really good deal at Cub if you like brats and have the coupons left.

HillshireFarm sausage is BOGO in the Cub book for 2/$3.98. There is a tear pad on the Sara Lee bun display in the meat department for $1 off HillshireFarm sausage WYB 1 Bun. There also used to be blinki and tearpad coupons for one free bun WYB 2 of the sausage. Pear that with the Free whole watermelon uo to $3 WYB 1 sausage and 1 bun and get you quite a bit for $3.98. There are also peelie coupons for $1 off any store brand meat WYB 1 Sara Lee bun so you can use two of those and get some other meat too.

This is what I did on Friday
2 Sara Lee hot dog buns $2 each
2 HillshireFarm sausage (cheddarwarst and brat) $3.98 each
2 Personal size watermelon $3 each
2 packages boneless country style pork ribs $1.51 per lb. $2.10, $2.37

Used
2 $1 HillshireFarm WYB 1 Sara Lee bun
1 Free Sara Lee Bun WYB 2 HillshireFarm sausage
2 Free watermelon up to $3 WYB 1 HillshireFarm and one Sara Lee
2 $1 off any store brand fresh meat WYB Sara Lee Buns (mine were packaged buy CUB, but did say Hormel on it, two cashiers checked and both throught it was alright)
1 Cub BOGO coupon from the current Cub coupon book

Total OOP $6.45

Lots of toys 75% off at Target

I was at Target tonight and they had a lot of toys on clearance. Almost all of them were marked 75% off. I got some Thomas things for Noah for Christmas and a couple of other presents.

For $16.98 after tax I got;

2 CARS giant floor coloring pads
2 Neville Thomas the Tank Engine dye cast train
1 Cranky the Crank + track and train get
2 Schleich lambs
1 Schleich Moose

Not as good as usual, but being there were no coupons not bad. Regular price would have been $67.92

Last day of the Month--what did I get?

I had some coupons that were expiring today so Noah and I went out to see what we could find. I headed to CVS with a page full of clearance and hidden deals plus the regular sale items for the week. Well, we ended up leaving with 2 rainchecks and nothing else. :(

I did run into Becky Weber and her neighbor, Stephanie as I was leaving. I was saying that I was heading to Target to use up my $5/3 Target coupon that expired today so Stephanie gave me two more. All total I now had three $5/3 and one $5/5 to work with.

This is what I ended up getting. I think I did pretty good for not having a plan when I talked through the door.

5 Johnson's Buddies $.94 -2 $2/2
1 9oz Johnson's baby soap $2.09
2 20oz Johnson's baby soap $2.79
1 14ct Johnson's pre-soaped washcloths $2.99
1 Neosporin $3.89 -$1/1
1 20ct Diego Bandaids $1.97 -$1/1 (Noah almost had a fit 4 times once we got home because he wanted one so bad.)
5 Stayfree $1.02 ( Just realized I only needed 14 products so I only needed to get 3 of these)

I think that my OOP after all the Target coupons was $.32. My reciept only shows tax for the amount of other products I purchased. I found some toys maked 75% off so I got a couple of Christmas presents. These aren't included in the grocery budget so they won't be added to the total.

I also went to Cub last night. Here is what I got on my last trip of the month.

20 Farmland sausage $1.50 -20 $1/1
5 HomeLife paper towels $.99, -5 $1/1
5 Bushel Boy life lettuce $1.79, -5 $2/1
1 YoBaby 6pk $3.64, -Free coupon
2 Marie Calendar 16oz pot pies $2.75
10 Chef Boyardee ravioli $1, -2 $.35/3
5 McCormick Mexican seasoning packets $.80 -2 $.25/2, -5/$3 Cub coupon
3 Peter Pan $1.66, -$1/1
-$2 OYNO coupon
Total OOP $26.50, received $10 OYNO coupon


Total Spent $26.82
Total spending for the month $85.81
Total left for the month $2.84 + $10 OYNO

So...all in all I am under budget again this month. I did have quite a lot of extra money to spend this month that's to the Planters Nuts overage. It made it easier to stock up on things like the sausage and ravioli.

Weekly Grocery List

Aldi
3lb Onions $.99
Sweet Peas 16oz $.85
1lb Bag of Salad $.89

Rainbow
Johnson & Johnson Bandaids $2, -$1/1 MF=1/$1
Kotex Pantiliners $1, -$1/1 MF from All You=1/Free
Strawberries $1.50
Grapes $.99 per lb
Corn on the Cob 5/$1
Breyers Ice cream $2.49, -MF?
Brownberry Wide Pan bread $1.98
Roundy's butter $1.50
Powerade $.69, -$1/1 or $.75/1=Free with overage
Muir Glen 28oz organic tomatoes $1.79, -$1/1 IP or peelie=1/$.79
Roundy's hotdog and hamburger buns $.79
Hormel Fully cooked entrees 17oz $3.99, -$1/1=1/$2.99

Target
I didn't find much at Target yet this week. The $5/5 Target coupon expires on the 31st so make sure to use your's if you haven't already. I know I have been behind the ball and need to go over and use mine tomorrow. You can use it with MF so many people have been getting overage on it.

CVS
Our ad is much different then the national ad. It seems that we are a test market and get different ads on occasion. This was going to be a huge money maker week at CVS, but there are not as many deals for us. There are still some really good options though.
Buy $10 of candy on pages 4-5 and get $5 ECB
Kodak Movie DVD $9.99, -$5 MF, found on a flier at some CVS, $9.99 ECB=1/$5 overage limit 3
Schick intuition Plus razor $3.99, -$4/1=Free
There are a lot of other deals that are running this week, but I am not sure if we can get in on them being they are not in our ad. If you wanted to get the full scoop you could check here.


Cub
The Powerade deal from last week is still running. Buy $25 get $8 OYNO There are $1/1, and $75/1 coupons. Also expired Free 24pk Dasani WYB 10 Powerade. If you have enough coupons it will be free with an overage.
Strawberries 2.99, -50% off with in ad coupon=1/1.49
Post Just Bunches $1.75, -$2/1 IP=1/Free with $.25 overage
Hormel Range Bacon 32oz $5, MF?

Farmland Sausage $1.50, -$1/1 MF=1/$.50
Johnsonville Smoked sausage 2/$5, -$1/2 Peelies found on Kurps Mustard=2/$4
Also use the following coupons
Free Sara Lee Buns WYB 2 johnsonville=1/Free
$1 off any store meat WYB Sara Lee Buns=1/$1 free
$3 off watermellon WYB 2 Johnsonville and one Sara Lee=1/$3 off
Get two Pledge Products free;
Pledge Grab It clothes $2.99
Pledge Aerosole $3.50
Use $1.50/1 or $1/1 any Pledge
Free aerosole WYB 1 Pledge
Get $2 OYNO WYB any 2 Pledge=Total OOP Free or $.50 overage depending on your coupons


There are lots of "Spend X get Y" deals going on this week. For most of them there are too many coupons to try to list so I will just list the details not the coupons.

Buy 10 participating GM cereal, granola bars or Betty Crocker fruit snacks for $25 get $10 off you order with in ad coupon

Buy $25 worth of Kemps items get one gallon of milk free with in ad coupon. Most products 25% off.

Buy $15 worth of products listed on front insert get $5 OYNO

Buy $20 worth of products listed on the back of front insert get $10 OYNO

All You Magazine

I don't think I have talked about it before but there is a magazine only sold at Walmart called "All You." It has a ton of coupons in it and is fairly cheap, $1.77. I usually only flip through it if I happen to be at Walmart, but today I bought three mags. They are the Aug 29, light purple issue.

Towards the back of the mag is a page with 5 "free when you buy" Kraft coupons. They are;

Free Wheat Thins up to $4.50
Free 16oz Kraft Dressing up to $3.20
Free Oscar Mayer Hot Dogs $4.51
Free Crystal light up to $4.50
Free Kraft Singles 12oz up to $4.00

There are the same as the tearpad coupons where you need to buy 3 products from the participating brands(excludes single serve). The brands are Kraft, Nabisco, and Oscar Mayer. Koolaid is made by Kraft. The best way to use these coupons is to buy 3 koolaid packets, being they are not single serve.

There is also a $1/1 Peter Pan coupon that can be used together with the buy $20 get $10 OYNO at Cub this week. By putting the two offers together you can get free peanut butter, plus a small overage for each coupon used.

Another coupon to use this week is the $1/2 Kid Cuisine. They are also part of the but $20 get $10 OYNO. After the coupon and the $10 print out the average out to $.61 each. This coupon and the Peter Pan are on a postcard sided insert in the middle of the magazine.

There are many other coupons you might be interested in. I just wanted to highlight the Free WYB and the ones to use at Cub this week.

Budget updates

Rainbow 7-26

23 Bertolli pasta sauce pouches $2.69
-Raincheck for $1.25 each
-23 $1/1 MF
Total $4.50

Cub 7-26
7 Homelife napkins $1
-$1/1
Total after tax $.46

Cub 7-26
10 Homelife paper towels $.99
24 Homelife napkins $1
-35 $1/1
Total after tax $2.24

Cub 7-28
5 McCormick Chili seasoning $1.29
-5/$3 Cub book coupon
-2 $.25/2 MF
Total $2.50

Walmart
3lb Onions $.99 (pricematched to Aldi)
total $.99

Total Spent $10.69
Total spending for the month $58.99
Total left for the month $29.66 + $2 OYNO