I love King Soopers mix and match 10 sale get $5.00 off. There are quite a few great deals on the sale. One of my favorites is Rotel for $.42! This is the only time of the year I know the Rotel price is this low, usually it is on sale for $1.00. I remember one time paying $1.99 for it when I needed a can for dinner!
Also, there were coupons in the Sunday paper for $1.00 off one box of nabisco crackers....be sure to check the coupon list for other matches for the mix and match sale!
Sale is good until Feb 9.
Saturday, January 30, 2010
Wednesday, January 27, 2010
King Soopers
If you are doing the Nabisco $20.00 rebate it is a good week to go to King Soopers and pick up your 5 easy macs for $.38 and 5 boxes of Capri Suns for $1.37. All you need for the rebate is the 10 boxes of crackers, wait for the Superbowl sales; last year crackers were $1.00 a box.
Thursday, January 21, 2010
Safeway
I picked up cereal and fruit snacks at Safeway today.
Betty Crocker Fruit Snacks (10 ct.) buy 4 for $1.00 each
after manufacture coupons I paid: $.50 a box
Honey Nut Cheerios 12.25 oz buy 4 for $1.50 each
after manufacture coupons I paid: $1.00 each
I also got a catalina for $2.50 off my next shopping order!
To get the catalina you have to buy Betty Crocker fruit Shapes, by the foot, Gushers, Roll-ups, or Stickerz: buy 3 get $1.50 off, buy 4 get $2.50, buy 5 or more $3.50
I printed my coupons off the Internet see left side bar. Also check the coupon list for coupons in the Sunday paper.
Betty Crocker Fruit Snacks (10 ct.) buy 4 for $1.00 each
after manufacture coupons I paid: $.50 a box
Honey Nut Cheerios 12.25 oz buy 4 for $1.50 each
after manufacture coupons I paid: $1.00 each
I also got a catalina for $2.50 off my next shopping order!
To get the catalina you have to buy Betty Crocker fruit Shapes, by the foot, Gushers, Roll-ups, or Stickerz: buy 3 get $1.50 off, buy 4 get $2.50, buy 5 or more $3.50
I printed my coupons off the Internet see left side bar. Also check the coupon list for coupons in the Sunday paper.
Sunday, January 10, 2010
Safeway Shopping and Coupon Mom
On the Today Show this past week I saw the Coupon Mom do her grocery shopping thing on tv. She walked out of the store with a cart full of groceries paying only $.25. This irritates me, because to me this is not reality shopping! First off I want to write that you never see produce, meats, or dairy in the grocery cart when they end with their phenomenal savings. Also, where do they get the coupons? A newspaper subscription costs money, buying coupons off ebay costs money, but they like to leave that part out of the story because it ruins the theme of $.25 for the cart full of groceries.
I DO CLIP COUPONS and FOR ME it DOES SAVE ME MONEY! I just want the coupon Mom and other grocery gurus out there to be realistic about how much money you save by using coupons and matching them with the store sales.
Gallon of Milk: $.99
Eggs: $.99
10lbs Potatoes: $2.99
Oranges: $.39/lb ($1.45)
Grapefruit: $.50/lb ($1.43)
String Cheese 12 sticks: $1.49
Nature Valley Granola Bars: 4 boxes $1.oo each
Skippy Peanut Butter: $.99 each
Twinkies 10: $1.89
Nabisco 12 pk: $1.99 (saving the receipt to redeem $20.00 rebate)
Pop Tarts: 3 boxes $1.00 each
Mac and Cheese: 3 boxes $.27 each
total at checkout $25.13
I DO CLIP COUPONS and FOR ME it DOES SAVE ME MONEY! I just want the coupon Mom and other grocery gurus out there to be realistic about how much money you save by using coupons and matching them with the store sales.
MY REALITY SHOPPING
Saturday, I shopped at Safeway and combing the store sales, store coupons, and manufacture coupons this is what I got:Gallon of Milk: $.99
Eggs: $.99
10lbs Potatoes: $2.99
Oranges: $.39/lb ($1.45)
Grapefruit: $.50/lb ($1.43)
String Cheese 12 sticks: $1.49
Nature Valley Granola Bars: 4 boxes $1.oo each
Skippy Peanut Butter: $.99 each
Twinkies 10: $1.89
Nabisco 12 pk: $1.99 (saving the receipt to redeem $20.00 rebate)
Pop Tarts: 3 boxes $1.00 each
Mac and Cheese: 3 boxes $.27 each
total at checkout $25.13
Wednesday, January 6, 2010
Chocolate Cupcakes
I made chocolate cupcakes for my son's birthday today! I learned there is a difference between natural cocoa and dutch processed cocoa. In the processing of the dutch coca it is treated with an alkali that neutralizes its acid, so it is best to use this cocoa in recipes without baking soda. Go to joysofbaking.com for more information on the dutch processed cocoa.
If you use dutch processed cocoa, you may want to omit baking soda from the recipe. Below is the recipe and picture of the cupcakes I made with dutch processed cupcake! The adjustments are included for high altitude (above 4,000 ft.)
Chocolate Cupcakes using Dutch Processed Cocoa
2 cups (minus 2 TBS) of Sugar
1 3/4 Cups all-purpose flour
3/4 Cups Dutch Processed Cocoa
1 1/4 tsp baking powder
1 tsp salt
2 eggs
1 cup milk
1/2 cup vegetable oil
2 tsp. vanilla extract
1 cup plus 2 Tbs. boiling water
Stir together sugar, flour, cocoa, baking powder and salt. Add eggs, milk, and oil and mix for 2 minutes on medium speed. Stir in boiling water--the batter will be thin.
Prepare muffin tins, by placing paper baking cups in each cup. Fill 2/3 full with batter. Recipe makes 24 cupcakes. Bake in a preheated oven 350 degrees for 20-22 minutes. Cool completely and frost with Hershey's "Perfectly Chocolate" frosting.
Hershey's "Perfectly Chocolate" frosting:
1/4 C. butter
1/3 C. Cocoa (dutch processed or natural)
1 1/2 C. powdered sugar
3-4 Tbs. milk
1/2 tsp. vanilla extract
Melt butter and mix with cocoa. Add vanilla and then Alternately add sugar and milk until it is a spreadable consistency. Should frost 24 cupcakes with some leftover frosting.
If you use dutch processed cocoa, you may want to omit baking soda from the recipe. Below is the recipe and picture of the cupcakes I made with dutch processed cupcake! The adjustments are included for high altitude (above 4,000 ft.)
Chocolate Cupcakes using Dutch Processed Cocoa
2 cups (minus 2 TBS) of Sugar
1 3/4 Cups all-purpose flour
3/4 Cups Dutch Processed Cocoa
1 1/4 tsp baking powder
1 tsp salt
2 eggs
1 cup milk
1/2 cup vegetable oil
2 tsp. vanilla extract
1 cup plus 2 Tbs. boiling water
Stir together sugar, flour, cocoa, baking powder and salt. Add eggs, milk, and oil and mix for 2 minutes on medium speed. Stir in boiling water--the batter will be thin.
Prepare muffin tins, by placing paper baking cups in each cup. Fill 2/3 full with batter. Recipe makes 24 cupcakes. Bake in a preheated oven 350 degrees for 20-22 minutes. Cool completely and frost with Hershey's "Perfectly Chocolate" frosting.
Hershey's "Perfectly Chocolate" frosting:
1/4 C. butter
1/3 C. Cocoa (dutch processed or natural)
1 1/2 C. powdered sugar
3-4 Tbs. milk
1/2 tsp. vanilla extract
Melt butter and mix with cocoa. Add vanilla and then Alternately add sugar and milk until it is a spreadable consistency. Should frost 24 cupcakes with some leftover frosting.
Sunday, January 3, 2010
Grocery Saving Tips- What I've learned
What I have learned the past year about saving money at the grocery store.
1. If it's not in your budget it is not on sale.
2. Sales repeat. It's okay to pass up a sale if it is not in your budget.
3. Know the best price for the items you buy most. For me it is things like diapers, wipes, milk, yogurt, crackers, chicken, ground beef, salad dressing, peanut butter, cheese, ice cream, butter, sugar, flour, etc... buy extra when it hits a low price. See the Price Points list on the menu bar for a guide.
4. Its okay to let coupons expire and throw them away. You will likely find the same or similar coupon in the next paper after the coupon expires.
5. Use Internet Coupons, but don't print unless you know you will use it.
6. Research all store ads. Price matching at Wal-mart or Target some weeks make sense--rather than running around to two or three different stores.
7. Meal plan before you go to the store. For me it works best to plan a week at a time. Which means 5 dinners, lunches (sometimes I use leftover dinner), and breakfast.
8. Protect your food. I hate it when a mouse gets in to the 10lb pancake mix or the Costco size chocolate chips. I keep my food storage in plastic containers in my basement to keep the mice out.
9. January is a good month to stock up on cereal. Cereal will go on sale through out the year on a cycle...try to stock up for enough cereal to last until the next sale. I haven't figured the exact weeks between sales, it may be a 12 week sale cycle.
10. Stick to your budget. I started a $150 rule with Costco. Using a list I identify the must haves and the items I can wait until next time to buy and I stick to the budget I set--(most the time-I am not perfect.) :)
1. If it's not in your budget it is not on sale.
2. Sales repeat. It's okay to pass up a sale if it is not in your budget.
3. Know the best price for the items you buy most. For me it is things like diapers, wipes, milk, yogurt, crackers, chicken, ground beef, salad dressing, peanut butter, cheese, ice cream, butter, sugar, flour, etc... buy extra when it hits a low price. See the Price Points list on the menu bar for a guide.
4. Its okay to let coupons expire and throw them away. You will likely find the same or similar coupon in the next paper after the coupon expires.
5. Use Internet Coupons, but don't print unless you know you will use it.
6. Research all store ads. Price matching at Wal-mart or Target some weeks make sense--rather than running around to two or three different stores.
7. Meal plan before you go to the store. For me it works best to plan a week at a time. Which means 5 dinners, lunches (sometimes I use leftover dinner), and breakfast.
8. Protect your food. I hate it when a mouse gets in to the 10lb pancake mix or the Costco size chocolate chips. I keep my food storage in plastic containers in my basement to keep the mice out.
9. January is a good month to stock up on cereal. Cereal will go on sale through out the year on a cycle...try to stock up for enough cereal to last until the next sale. I haven't figured the exact weeks between sales, it may be a 12 week sale cycle.
10. Stick to your budget. I started a $150 rule with Costco. Using a list I identify the must haves and the items I can wait until next time to buy and I stick to the budget I set--(most the time-I am not perfect.) :)
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