Welcome to my MOPS friends!

Welcome everyone from MOPS joining me for the first time. I hope you all find something on this blog to help you. If you have any ideas or questions, please let me know.

Thanks for humoring me by letting me speak tonight. I had fun. One thing I forgot to mention is that Kmart in Portage will be having double coupons starting Sunday. They will double coupons up to 0.75. Just wanted you to know and have the information. If you ask me, it isn't such a great deal as their prices are often a little higher. You make the call.

Love you all!

Kendra

Groceries....mmm lots of fruit and veggies

Man, I love this time of year when it comes to food. The deals on fruits and veggies get better, and they taste so much better too.

Pierce's has the following sales I picked up:
cucumbers 4/$2
lettuce bag 0.99
Strawberries 2/$3
Roma tomato's 1.29/lb (ok not sooo cheap but a better price and better looking than the others)
French fries $1
Chuck steaks 2.18/lb
Pork chops boneless 2.18/lb
Roma pizza's 5/$9

Other than that, I just picked up my normal milk, bread, bagels and very little else. I have found that I am staying more on the periphery of the store vs going down all the isles!

My total was $51.53, and my coupon/ad savings was $38.26! A savings of nearly half by buying only what is on sale! And I am so excited that I came in under my budget of $70/wk for the family! Hard to believe that only a month or so ago I was planning to up the budget, but now I can easily stay under budget and we all eat well and have a fully stocked pantry and freezer. In fact, I can't fit anything else into the freezer at this point!

I am thinking of starting to post our meal plan each week to give you an idea of what we eat and how easy it can be to plan and keep it simple. What do you think? Is it something that would be helpful? Let me know by leaving me a comment.

Have a great week!

Walmart 4-30-09

A quick little jaunt into Walmart today...wanted to redeem a couple coupons!

• CapriSun $1 MQ
• Ortega 0.75/2 MQ
• Right Guard Try free IP

Total was $11 something.....I paid $4.40 oop. And the soy milk was almost all of that!

Not Walgreen's....Target

Well folks....I was going to shop at Walgreen's this morning but frankly there were only 2 things I was going to buy so I decided to just skip it this week. I will definitely have to go next week in order to use my RR's before they expire.

One quick note to you Walgreen's fan....Last week the cashier told me the manager was 'cracking down' on using Register Rewards. A friend was also told that today. Apparently the new 'policy' at the Portage Walgreen's is they will only allow you one transaction when purchasing items that come with register rewards. Frankly, whatever. If they want me to run my stuff out to the van and then "remember" to go in and buy another basket of stuff I will.

Anyways, this is some of my purchases that I made at Target in Sun Prairie. I mentioned in an earlier blog that they have their own coupons you can stack with MQ, so that's what I did.

I know I need Mac and Cheese like a hole in the head, but I couldn't pass them up. I got 30 of them for a total of 40 cents. Not each...total for all 30. I will highlight the main match ups.

• Easy Mac cups 0.77 each, $1/2 target, B2G1 MQ (0.40 total after coupons)
• Kraft dressing 1.59, $1.50 MQ (0.09 after)
• Kraft Mayo 1.99 each, $1/2 target, $1 ea MQ (were 0.49 each after)
• Olay 2.49, $2 MQ
• Muir Glen tomato paste $1.22 each, $1 each MQ
• Pace salsa $2.50 each, had up to $4 off each (they gave me entire $4 off, so made $)
• 3 boxes Spaghetti marked down to 0.36 each
• 2 bags rice marked down to 0.72 each.

Like I said, I got some other items, but these were the biggie deals. My total was over $92, but at the end it was only $32. I saved over $60 this trip. I was bummed though, because the wheat thins were supposed to be on sale according to a blog I read, but they weren't at our local store. I was going to buy out their crackers! Maybe next time.

How is your Walgreen's trip this week? Are you finding any amazing deals or freebies out there? Let me know....leave a comment on the blog! Have a great week. I will try to get the grocery run downs out tomorrow.

A couple good deals

Hi all. I went to Walmart today and wanted to share a couple of coupon match ups that I found!

• Caprisun Sunrise $1.97, use $1 MQ
• Knorr rice sides 0.98, use $1/2 MQ
• Ortega taco seasoning 0.52, 0.75/2 MQ
• Chef Boyardee 0.88, $1/4 MQ
• Scotch Bright single sponge 0.84, 0.75/2 MQ

Those were the main deals I found that match to recent coupons from the paper.

Will be back on Tuesday with my Walgreen's deals!

Pierce's 4-24-09

Here's the grub for the week!

Good deals include: Johnsonville brats 0.55 MQ, Old Orchard Juice $1/2 MQ, apples 0.25 store coupon, Taquitos $1 MQ, hot dogs. pork chops and chicken nuggets were on special as well.

Spent a total of $60.60, going over my budget by $6 for the month which is not too bad. (I took the money from my Walgreen's stash since I just earned a gift card there!). I saved a total of $32.73 with sales and coupons. What makes this trip even more exciting is that it including ingredients for appetizers for a get together I'm hosting this weekend as well, on top of my normal shopping list!

I am proud that I have been consistently saving about 30% by shopping sales and using coupons at the grocery store. We definitely have been getting a lot more for our money! If only we could have a grocery store that doubled coupons.....a girl can dream right?

How did your shopping trip go this week? How much did you save. Let me know!

Completing the circle!

Remember the prescription transfer coupons I told you about as a moneymaker? Well, I just wanted to let you all know that I just had them transferred to Walgreen's (from Kmart), thus completing the cycle...and I received my $25 gift card.

So to recap, I made $20 at Kmart and $25 at Walgreen's playing this game. FYI at Walgreen's, you are limited to one per person per 6 months.

Gee, what will I ever do with an extra $25 to spend at Walgreen's?????