Cheerios coupons

I got this in an email today... enjoy!

"Be sure to visit us at CheeriosChallenge.com to get your free box of Cheerios® cereal and $6 in coupons. Your heart will thank you!"

Homeade Apple crisp!

This is one of my favorite dessert recipes ( that I got here) because it is so easy, and yep you guessed it- CHEAP! I am usually able to get a bag of apples on sale for .99 at Dillons. Each bag usually contains 8-10 apples. This recipe calls for 6 apples so the substance of my dessert only costs me about .78 cents or less! The rest of the ingredients probably total around $1 or less.

6 apples, peeled and sliced
1 c. brown sugar
1/2 c. oatmeal
1/2 c. flour
1/2c. butter or margarine, softened
1tsp. cinnamon and/or nutmeg
1/4 c. water

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Arrange apples in well greased baking dish. Blend all remaining ingredients; but water. Spread evenly over top of apples. Pour water over the topping. Bake 45 minutes until apples are tender and top is crisp. Makes 6 servings.

I actually put this in a 9x13 pan and get more than 6 servings. I might add an apple or 2 depending on how big they are and how much they fill up my pan.

In a few weeks I hope to do a post where you can link to your favorite "frugal recipe" Be thinking about what you would want to post or link too!

Walgreens this week

This was from Blaire:
"Did y'all get all the free after rebate stuff? It's great this month! I used all my $5 RR from the diapers to pay for them.

• The Tuf trash bags were 2/$3.99, and then you get $5/2 rebate, so you get paid $1.01 to buy them. (note from me: there are many sizes and counts on these. From my understanding they should all work- some are also 4.99 so they are still free. You can read more about this deal here)
  
• Pert Plus 2in1 FAR + use the $2 man. cpn to make $2! I couldn't find the botanical extracts varities that go with the $3 coupon.
• Olay Body ribbons and botanical fusions: Bought 6. Paid $20 - four $2/1 cpns and two $1.50/1 cpns = $9 - $7 RR = $2 (.33 each!) I hope to sell these for $1 or $2 at a garage sale and make a $4-10 profit!"

Thanks Blaire for alerting me to this and to H for the link about the trash bags! Also don't forget that about once a month Walgreens does put out a 5/20 or 5/30 coupon. I have noticed the trend to be around the 3rd Friday of the month. This is a great day to buy your FAR (free after rebate) items because you will "make money" buying them! So be on the look out for that!

Round #2 for the Dillons Mega Event

I compiled some more coupons, and printed off some others and made my 2nd trip for the Dillons mega event. Here is what I got:

Transaction 1:
9 bottles of Lysol cleaners (there were various ones as apart of this deal)=18.00
1 box of Rice Krispies w/strawberries=2.00
total=20.00
-5/total automatic mega event coupon
-9 .50 or .55/1 Lysol coupons doubled to 1.00 each= -9.00
- 1/1 Rice Krispies coupon
=5.00 plus tax!
Note: On the box of Rice Krispies there was a coupon for a FREE rebate of this product. I will get 2.00 back on the product (that is what the sale price was) after I send in my reciept and upc. So the real total on this deal was 3.00 + tax OOP!

Transaction 2:
1 Lysol Cleaner=2.00
3 Rice Krispies cereal=6.00
1 speed stick=1.50
2 Windex products=4.00
1 Sargento cheese=2.00
2 Kellogs special K items=5.00
=20.50
-5/total automatic mega event coupon
-BIGI special K coupon (2.50)
-1/1 special K coupon
-.50/1 lysol coupon doubled to 1.00
- 2 .75/1 windex coupons doulbed 1.00=-2.00
- 3 1/1 rice krispies coupons
= 6.00 + tax OOP
Note: I also got a FREE after rebate coupon on another box of Rice Krispies that I will send in also. Although the coupon says 2 per household I will send this one from mom's address here in Topeka to insure I get both rebates. I also got 1.50/my order catalina for purchasing 2 windex items! So my real total on this would be 2.50 + tax OOP!

So total for Round #2 after rebates and coupons is 5.50 + tax!!!

Menu Plan Monday... kind of

Since we have been traveling lately our meal plans have been a little off if you will. I went to the store when we got back last Monday and just got some necessities to make it through the week. We are leaving this Wednesday to say good-bye to some friends for a few days so that throws another kink into the meal plan idea for the week, and not to mention my regularly scheduled shopping trips:) So I am going to post what our dinner plan has been since last Tuesday until this Tuesday. Here goes:

Tuesday: Chicken Patty sandwiches, oven fries, and salad with raw veggies
Wednesday: Sausage/egg/cheese scramble over potatoes, grapes and banana chocolate chip muffins
Thursday: pigs in a blanket, mac and cheese, and salad with raw veggies
Friday: Grandma's b-day at Red Robin... my parents were generous and picked up our tab- what a blessing!
Saturday: My dad and husband were working on a computer in the late afternoon at my parent's house so we just ended up staying for dinner- grilled chicken breasts with cheese and red peppers- yum! we also had some potato salad and steamed broccoli.
Sunday: Wendy's dollar menu- we were out shopping all late afternoon for new clothes for my husband and it was late when we got done
Monday: sloppy joes/baked beans/veggie of some sort (I need to go to the store for a few things)
Tuesday: Bacon and Egg sandwiches/fruit/raw veggies and crackers

It hasn't been the healthiest eating these past few weeks, but we have eaten and when we get back this weekend we will be back into the swing of things.

What I acutally bought

Here is what I actually ended up buying at CVS this morning. Since the Kodak DVDs were not working and the Life Saver deal turned out to be a little different than I thought I had to re-arrange some things. Here goes:

• 1 Charmin Ultra Bath tissue=6.49
• 1 Revlon make-up product=9.99 (get back 9.99 so FREE!)
• 1 Schick intuition razor=3.99-4/1 coupon=FREE
• 1 Bandaid Ultra product (limit 1)=2.99 (get back 2 EB- 1/1 coupon=FREE!)
• 1 CVS 15 ct face wipes=2.99 (get back 1 EB- 2/1 coupon=FREE!)
• 1 CVS 3 pack of paper towels=1.99
• 8 bags of Life Savers @ BIGI FREE= 8.76- 4 MF BIGI coupons=FREE!
• 3 separate candy bars (to get me to $1o for the candy deal that gives $5 EB back)=1.50

total before coupons= 38.70
-3/15 (our CVS takes expired CVS $/$$coupons and I had 1 left)
-2/1 CVS face product coupon
-1/1 3 pack of paper towels CVS CRT
-.25/1 Charmin coupon
-2/1 Revlon coupon
-1/1 bandaid coupon
-4/1 Schick coupon
-4 BIGI Life saver coupons (8.76)
total = 16.69+ (2.88 in tax). I paid with 16.69 in EB and 2.88 OOP on a gift card and got back 17.99 in EB! So I actually ended up making 1 EB in the total deal!

Info about CVS this week

At our Topeka store there is no option to make a Kodak DVD. The manager this morning said she would call tomorrow to find out why their machines does not have the capability to make the DVD. So if you want the DVD you might call 1st to see if the machine is working.

Also for the Life Saver Deal you may have seen posted other places... you actually need to buy 10 packages of Life Savers and use 5 BIGI coupons to make this work. The CVS store sale of BIGI does not count the package they give you for free as apart of the $10 toward the $5 EB. If you don't have 5 Life Saver coupons just sub in other candy items. Either way you will likely make EBs on the deal if you have at least 3 Life Saver coupons. Is all this clear as mud?:)

Have a great day!