Spent $90, saved $90 at Kroger

I don't even know if anyone reads this anymore, but I thought it was worth a post about finding out what level of coupons works for you. I have been couponing for about 5 years and I have not couponed the same way for a 3 month stretch the whole time! :) I have had stretches where I bought four papers a week, printed every coupon that came out, and grabbed handfuls of blinkes whenever I could! (I can't believe I was that person!! :/), I have had a dollar store expandable coupon envelope, small binders and large binders (for a while, I even had two 3" binders!! lol) and I have also had long stretches where I use no coupons at all, and 6 months later I open my binder to coupons that expired months ago.
I thoroughly enjoyed every stage I was in. However, for me, sometimes it was more than I could maintain without making it my life. Now I am at the stage that I don't buy any papers (I found that only about 5% of them were things I would buy anyway), and print very few coupons. I get some coupons from Kroger in the mail that are awesome (I had one today I used for free laundry detergent)!! I pick up blinkie or tearpad coupons in the store, get catilinas, use digital coupons, and find them in random places like magazines etc... I have one standard size mailing envelope that I keep my coupons in and carry them in my purse at all times.
Anyway, I say all this to say that wherever you are, there are so many ways to coupon! If you make it your job and have a stockpile that resembles a store in your basement, good for you! If you are like me and it's a light hobby, that's ok too! You can still save 50% on your grocery bill with very minimal effort!
Anyway, I will try to highlight some of the deals in case any of you are wanting to hit up this great sale at kroger. I don't have time to post links to printables, but there are lots of databases out there for that. So, they have their but 5, save $5 event going on right now, so I will list prices after the $1 each discount for those items:

Capri Sun 10 packs $1.49
$1/3 digital coupon
= $1.16 each

Blackberries $1.00

Asparagus $0.88/lb

Green beans $1.00/lb

Frozen salad shrimp $1.00 (regularly $1.99, and I am obsessed with these as a snack!!)

Armour Meatballs $2.50

Dove Deodorant $2.49
$2.00 off any deodorant kroger mailer
= $0.49

Maybelline Falsies Mascara $5.99
$2/1 digital coupon
= $3.99

Zevia natural soda $3.99
$1/1 digital coupon
= $2.99

Blue Diamond Almond Milk $1.99
$0.55 blinkie coupons
=$1.44

Dijourno pizzas $4.99
$2/2 digital coupon
$3.99 each

Triscuit crackers $1.77
$1.00/2
= $1.27 per box

Krusteaz cookie mix $0.99

Dial hand soap refill $2.49
$2/2 digital coupon
= $1.49 each

Dial 8 pack bar soap $2.49
$2/2 digital coupon
= $1.49 each

Disney gummy vitamins $6.99 B1G1
Use 2 $2.00/1 kroger mailer coupons
= $1.50 each

Luna bar $1.00
$0.75/1 Catalina coupon
$0.25

Gevalia coffee $4.99
$1.50/1 digital coupon
= $3.50

Kroger imitation crab $2.00
$0.45/1 kroger mailer coupon
= $1.55

There was a lot of random stuff I needed to get that wasn't a great deal like vinegar, frozen blueberries, meat etc... Then I went to Aldi and got lots of fruits and veggies! :)

Anyway, hope you all enjoyed my post, happy shopping!!! :)

Free Rubbermaid Water Bottles at Dollar General

Go get yourself a free water bottle at Dollar General! I saw this coupon a while back and knew I was going to get something for free with it! Lol! I didn't find a small one priced this low till today at Dollar General! Woo hoo!!

Randall's= Great Personalized Deal on Trash Bags

Check out your Randall's account to see if you got this amazing personalized deal! 13 gallon drawstring trash bags (45 ct) for just $3.49. These are regularly priced at $8.09, and the name brands are closer to $10.00, so I grabbed a couple! Just wanted to give you all a heads up!

$71.57 total at Kroger, paid $18.99 (74% savings)

I cleaned out my binder and found some more coupons that match up with the mega sale at Kroger, so I stopped in for a quick trip. Make sure if you shop the mega sale that you get participating items in multiples of ten. If you make a mistake, you can always get a filler item and go to customer service and they will give you your $5.00! I know from experience! ;)
Anyway, most of these items have coupons that match up with them. Email me if you have any questions!

Jimmy Dean Delights Breakfast Bowls only $0.17 at Target!

If you have the $2.00 off coupon from RP 1/6, grab these at Target for just $0.17!! :)

Kroger Matchups Week of 1/16/13

So, I'm up late and decided to check out the Kroger ad that comes out at midnight. Go ahead....you can make fun of me! ;) This is not an in depth match up, just a quick match one!

Nabisco Snack Sacks $1.00
use $0.75/2 from SS 1/6/13
= $0.63 each when you buy two

Frenchs Mustard $1.00
use $0.30/1 coupon HERE
I also feel like there is another coupon from inserts, I will check tomorrow
= $0.70

Kens 9 oz Dressing $1.00
use $1/1 from SS 1/13/13
= FREE

Tony's Frozen Pizzas $1.00
use $1/3 from SS 1/6/14
= $0.67 each when you buy three

Angel Soft 4 Pack Toilet Paper $1.00
use $0.45/1 or $1/2 coupon from RP 1/6/13 or $0.25/1 HERE
= as low as $0.50 each

Glade Air Spray $1.00
use $0.55/1 from SS 12/2/12
= $0.45 each

SpaghettiO's Pasta $1.00
use $0.40/2 from SS 12/2/12
= $0.80 each when you buy two

Hormel Pepperoni $1.00
use $0.50/1 HERE
= $0.50

Dial Handsoap or 3 pack bars
use $1/3 from RP 1/13/13 or $1/2 HERE
= as low as $0.50

Colgate Toothpaste $1.00
use $0.75 from SS 1/6/13
= $0.25

Strawberries $1.88
this is just a great price for strawberries this time of year

Kroger dozen eggs $1.00
Good price for store bought eggs. I go to a farm that you can buy eggs for $3 a dozen and they are amazing! ;)

Chobani Greek Yogurt $1.00
use $0.50/1 HERE
= $0.50

Oikos Greek Yogurt $1.00
use $0.50/1 HERE
= $0.50

Campbells Soup $1.00
use $0.40/2 from SS 1/13/13
= $0.80

Barilla Pasta $1.00
use $1/3 from SS 1/6/13
= $0.67

Yoplait Trix Yogurt or GoGurt $2.00
use $0.75/2 from SS 1/6/13 or $0.85/2 HERE
= $0.58 each when you buy two
* also, if you buy four in one transaction you get one free gallon of milk or one free half gallon of organic milk!

Yoplait Yogurt $0.50
use $0.40/6 from SS 1/6/13
= $0.43 each when you buy six

Pure Protein Bars $1.00
use $1/2 form RP 1/6/13
= $0.50 each

Jennie O Turkey Bacon or roll $2.50
use $1/1 HERE
- $1.50

Aquafresh Toothpaste $1.50
use $1/1 from RP 1/6/13
= $0.50

Kitchen gadgets are also buy one get one free if there is anything you need for the kitchen. Have fun!!

This is going to be a super quick post while I look for coupons for what I'm going to pricematch at Wal Mart this week.

From Food Town:
1) Land O' Frost Deli Shaved Ham or Turkey 9 oz $1.49
use $1/2 coupon HERE
= $0.99
2) Borden Cheese $1.88
3) Hass Avocados 3 for $1.00

From Kroger:
1) Cuties 3 pound bag $3.49
2) Progresso Soup 8 for $10
use $1.25 off 4 HERE or HERE for light varities
= $0.94 each

From Randalls:
last time I was in Wal Mart they did not price match the in ad coupons in the Randalls ad, which is how most of the Randalls sales are presented.  It states in their policy that they should, but if the employees don't know that it doesn't matter. So, I'm leary of trying again. I think its worth trying for one deal though.
Healthy Choice Meals $2.00
use $0.75 off one Baked variety HERE
= $1.25 each

have a great weekend all!! =-)

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What I'm Price matching this week and matching printable coupons

Here is what I'm printing and price matching at Wal Mart this week. Sorry it's not formatted all pretty-the hyperlinks take too much time:

HEB:
Red Baron pizza $2.00:
http://clickserve.cc-dt.com/link/tplclick?lid=41000000029606694&pubid=21000000000189773

Triscuit $1.50

Cocoa Puffs $1.67-$0.60=$1.07
http://www.bettycrocker.com/coupons-promotions/coupons/default

http://www.pillsbury.com/coupons-promotions/

http://www.kqzyfj.com/click-3278587-10421874

Golden Graham's $1.67 -$0.75 = $0.92
http://www.kqzyfj.com/click-3278587-10421874

Cinnamon Toast Crunch, Lucky Charms, Trix, Cookie Crisp Cereal $1.67

Duncan Hines Red Velvet Cake Mix $1.00 - $1.00 = FREE
http://coupons2.smartsource.com/smartsource/index.jsp?Link=RDIVIVWO5V5QK

Fiesta:

Fresh Bunch Spinach $0.99 each

Red or Gold Bell Peppers $0.69 each

Bosc Pears 4/$1.00

Food Town:
Crisp Green Leaf, Red Tip or Romaine Lettuce, $0.69 each

Wonderful Pistachios (8 oz) $2.99 - $1.00 = $1.99
http://getcrackin.com/coupon-201202/

Randalls
V8 Splash $1.75 - $1/2 = $1.25
http://www.campbellskitchen.com/SavingsCenterLandingPage/CouponsAndSpecialOffers.aspx

Quaker Chewy Granola Bars $1.88 - $1/2 = $1.38
http://bricks.coupons.com/Start.asp?tqnm=xi1jajv60462580&bt=vg&o=106192&c=PC&p=rmGRUlyv

The New Deal: Price matching at Wal-Mart

I've been struggling with Couponing lately. No stores double any more except Randall's (and that's only the first coupon so no stockpiling on cheap/free items which is essential to real savings). It also seems like coupons have gotten worse and sales are not as good. Or is it just me? So, I have resorted to not getting my papers anymore and just buying generic, which is totally fine. But even generic is never free! So, in an effort to get my "free fix" on, I began to price match at Wal Mart and print what coupons I can. I figured I would share this with whoever reads my blog. The cool thing about this, is that now anyone can do exactly what I am doing since there is no collecting an organizing coupons. We will see how this goes! :) so, I am Pricematching to the four stores that I get ads for: Kroger, Randall's, HEB, Food Town. Here is what I will be price matching at Wal Mart this week:

Kroger:
- Red seedless grapes $1.00/ pound
- Bell Peppers $1.00 each
- Healthy Choice Frozen Entrees $1.20 - $0.75 printable HERE = $0.45
- Jennie-O Turkey Franks $1.00 - $1.00 printable HERE = FREE

Food Town:
- 8 oz package mushrooms $0.88
- Red Gold Tomato Sauce 4/$1.00 - $1 off 4 coupon HERE = FREE
- General Mills cereal $1.99 - up to $0.75 HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE or HERE = $1.24
- Kraft Mac & Cheese $0.66

HEB:
- large naval oranges $0.77/pound
- Mama Rose's pizzas $0.50
- Heinz Ketchup 32 oz $1.00
- Colgate toothpaste $0.99 - $1.00 HERE, HERE, or HERE = FREE

Randall's:
- Kellogs cereal $1.99 - up to $0.75 HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE or HERE = $1.24
- 5 pound bag Russet Potatoes $0.99
- Kens salad dressing $1.19
- weight watchers smart ones $1.50 - $5/10 HERE, HERE, or HERE = $1.00

My favorite Wal Mart health food

This is not a joke. Although I can understand how you could think that, given The way Wal Mart is portrayed at times. Sure there is tons of crap food there, but once I began reading labels, I found out there is some pretty great stuff there for about half the cost of a health food store.

These are some my favorite! My general guidelines are whole foods, 3 ingredients or less, and ingredients that I could buy at a normal store if I were to make it from scratch. I used to love their 6 pack of single applesauce for $1.50 because the ingredients were literally apples and water, but I just read the one I bought and it has high fructose corn syrup listed as well :-/ hopefully I just got the wrong kind and I can find the good stuff next time-keep an eye out for that!

Ok, on to the pic:
1) Organic Baby Spinach $2.98
2) 100% grape juice $2.50
3) plantains with sea salt $2.88
4) 25 oz natural peanut butter $2.98
5) 100% whole grain oats $1.00

I know not everyone agrees what "healthy" is, but these make my list almost every time I hit up crazy town (Wal Mart). And, of course all the produce prices that you can price match to whatever ANY store is having each week! Happy shopping!! :)

Crocs 2 for $20 sale = $39 boots for $9.99!!

Just got an email from crocs about their 2 for $20 sale when you enter the code 2FOR20 at checkout, and found these super cute boots for the kids regularly priced at $39.99 - got them for $9.99. Shipping for two pair was $4.99. Check out what's included at:
www.crocs.com

Kids clothes 90% off = $1 each at Kroger?!?!

This is at the Kroger in Missouri City!! Clothes size 6 months - 4T- just $1 each!!! Crazy awesome!

Food Town = 10 plums for $1

So, I just stopped in to Food Town and saw that plums are $0.69 a pound! I got TEN and they only cost $1! While you're there, grab some bell peppers, they are 4/$1 and oranges are 3/$1. I didn't get a lot of time to look around, but I'm sure there are some other produce steals around there! :)

Froberg's Farm = a bucket of peppers for $1.00!!!!

Thanks to my pal Gina for telling me about this amazing deal she found this morning! Check out this photo she snapped that shows a bucket of green peppers for just $1.00! This is at Froberg's Farm in Alvin.

Thanks Gina!!

BBQ Sauce $0.16 at Food Town (regularly $2.39)

Food Town has Garland Jack's barbecue sauce on sale for $.66 this week! Even sweeter there was a coupon for one dollar off two barbecue sauces making them only $.16 each!!! These are regularly priced $2.39 at Food Town!

Ten Thousand Villages Clearance Sale!!!

I'm not even going to detail the awesomeness of this deal, because hip2save.com does such a great job HERE

I did get all these goodies for $17.50 shipped and will tell you that if you use the 15% off code, you can't get free shipping, but if you use this code: 0340812 you get 25% off one item and free shipping (which was $11.00 before I changed the code!)

Happy shopping!!!

Thirty-One Outlet Sale 50%-80% off!!

Thirty-One is having an awesome Outlet Sale with bags 50%-80% off! Hurry, it only goes until 4/20 or it is sold out! Check out this super cute beach tote I got for $14.99 (regular $42.00!). I think the best part is that it is powered by Amazon, so you can use your current Amazon login info and it makes check out a breeze because you don't have to enter payment or shipping information!!!

Go HERE to get in on the goodies!

Also, if you are interested in selling Thirty-One gifts, they have a special incentive going on right now! The start up kit is only $99, and you have a chance to earn it back, making it free! Email Andrea at andrea_thirtyone@hotmail.com if you are interested in selling and let her know I sent ya!

Family Fun on a budget

I realized at the end of our day today that we had only spent $9.00 and I could hardly believe it. How did we spend 2 hours at Chuck E Cheese, leave with lots of prizes and Ice cream, go visit a farm for an hour where we got to pet animals, feed a horse, collect fresh eggs from the coop, and get muddy!! ;)

Here is how.....

We eat a lot of string cheese in our house. There are a lot of brands to choose from. But, only one cost less than $3 and includes $3 worth of tokens at Chuck E Cheese!! Yes, Chuck E Cheese has his own brand of string cheese. Here is the back of the package...

Weird right? Anyway, we brought four of those with us today and got 48 free tokens! Since we were the first ones there, we got to keep all the strings of tickets hanging out of every game after they tested each of them for the day! Bonus! Before leaving, we collected our loot and bought some ice cream from the machine for $1.50 each. Two hours into the day, our total was $3.00!
After that, we went to this new fresh egg connection I found and spent an hour on the farm! The kids got to put on boots and run through the mud, search for eggs, pet the animals, and feed the horses. We left with two dozen eggs at $3 a dozen, totaling $6.00 for the farm. We came home, took a bath, took a nap, and had a morning full of memories (and a fridge fill of eggs) for $9.00! Not too shabby!

Let me know what your favorite family day on the cheap ideas are!!!

Free Olan Mills Newborn/Birthday portraits!

This is so cool!! Free Olan Mills Baby Portrait for ages 3 months and under with THIS Olan Mills coupon.

You can also get Free Olan Mills photos – 8×10, 5×7 and 4 wallets if you have your child’s portrait taken every year on his or her birthday, up until 3 years of age with THIS coupon.

Thanks, Mojo Savings