Rite Aid has simply ROCKED lately.
I had a $20 +UP reward burning a hole in my pocket (with an impending expiration date that was stressing me out), so I had to come up with a scenario that would net me some good stuff and at the same time would pay me back.  Get it?  Rolling the +UP Rewards!
This is what I picked up this morning:

Yes, it’s true that no one NEEDS Doritos, however we rarely buy chips, so this is a big treat!  The bags expire in May, so …

As you can imagine, it was difficult to be away from my coupon blogs the first week of national frozen food month.
However, I can testify that you do not need a computer to be able to coupon!!  Oh, sure, it is way easier with a computer (thanks to coupon blogs!!), but if you have a good friend who is keeping you up to date (thanks Susan!!) and access to your weekly ads, plus a WHOLE lot of time on your hands, you too can have a full freezer without the …

After a looooooong day at home with my precious (snot nosed . . . literally) boys, it was good to be able to get out of the house to do a little bit of grocery shopping!
I gotta say, there is not much going on at Safeway.  However, I do always find a hidden gem or two, don’t I?

BAAAAAACON!  Tell me that your mouth is not watering right now? Oh, how I heart bacon!!
Anyway.  Ahem.
I did this in 3 transactions, and they went something like this:
Transaction 1:
6 Rice a Roni (hate …

I’m going to confess something terribly shocking.  Are you ready for it?
I didn’t even look at the grocery store ads until yesterday. (And, new ads come out tomorrow!)

Yes, it’s true.  And I call myself a couponer?!  Sheesh!
However, I had been keeping up on my coupon blogs, so I knew that there were some sweet deals to be had at Safeway and Albertsons.
I called up my Albertson’s partner in crime and we took off with 3 kids in tow!  Of course, we headed to the closer and prettier option for us, …

Thought some of you would like a little update on the grocery savings!

Lots of ice cream . . . and hidden items that you can kinda see. (You know! The good stuff. LOL! Oh my gosh. Was that TMI? Ahem. Sorry.)
I used my $20 Gift of Savings Certificate (from December) and two $1.99 +UP rewards and paid 89¢ Out of Pocket.  I earned $23 in +UP rewards. For buying ice cream. Yes!  Thank you, Rite Aid!

The apples were my filler to get up to $10 to be able to use …

Hi fellow coupon ladies! I know that many of you like to check out my posts before heading to the store, just to see if I saw something that you might have missed in the coupon match-ups this week on our favorite coupon blogs. Oh, the pressure!! LOL!
But, I’ll try to help out just a bit by showing you what I’ve been buying.
First of all, the dreaded/loved $10/$50 Safeway coupon came out this week, and I am completely ignoring it. TOO MUCH PRESSURE! There are …

Today at my Mothers of Preschoolers (MOPS) group, we had some round table discussion about menu planning: Do you do it? Do you plan for one week or one month? What works for you?  The responses were all over the board.  Some gals are proud non-planners, some gals plan and shop for the whole month all at once, some plan for the week and make multiple trips to the store.
Before I tell you what I do, let me tell you what I USED to do before I discovered budgeting …

Today was the great Quaker Oatmeal Stock-Up of 2011!!
Okay, so you know how I gave away two sets of coupons (ten, total)?  Well, I found another 6 coupons.  On top of my 20 that I got from ebay.  Crazy, I know.
I bought this at Albertson’s today:

I ended up with 25 boxes/canisters of oatmeal.  10 canisters and 15 boxes of instant.  Since you had to purchase in groups of 5 to get the good Albertson’s price, I gave the extra coupon to a lady with only one box of oatmeal …