12 Packs of Pepsi for only .43/1???

A friend reminded me today that if you sent in for your Pepsi coupon rebate (back from Jan.) and have received those coupons in the mail you can get Pepsi 12 packs for only .43/1 at CVS this week! Here is how:

• Buy 3 Pepsi 12 packs (2 need to be diet for the coupon to work)=$11
• Use this B2GI coupon here or here
• Use 2 $2/1 coupons you received as a part of the coupon rebate
  

Total=$3.33 and you get back 2 EB for buying 3 packs

That is only 1.33 for all 3 12 packs or .43/1!!!!

CVS 3/22

It looks like there is only 1 FREEBIE for our region:

Crest Pro-Health Enamel Care = $3.49 (limit 1)
Get 3.49 back in EB= FREE
Use $1/1 from the 2/8 P&G to make $1 overage!!!

See all other CVS deals for the week here. Keep in mind that some deals posted at this link are for the central FL and other small regions so check our ad to make sure!

You can also see Walgreens deals for the week here!

Kroger Comfort products apart of MEGA 10!

I noticed in Dillons yesterday that some of the Kroger Comfort baby items are apart of the 10/10 deal. All items here are the price after the .50/per item discount.

• Tub of baby wipes=$1.50
• Baby lotion (pink bottle)=.94
• Baby wash (yellow bottle)=1.39
• Baby shampoo=.84
• 500 ct. boxes of cotton swabs=1.17

You can use 1/1 coupons that you may have received in a Dillon's mailer for these products or 1/1 coupons on certain products to get some of these items FREE + overage or for a very reduced cost!

If you still have the $5/3 tubs of wipes coupon from the Dillon's mailer you could get all 3 tubs for FREE plus have .50 overage!

**Remember you have to buy 10 participating Mega Event items in order for these prices to be valid.**

Hy-Vee Kids Club!

I apologize if you already know about this and I am just behind on the times:)

Did you know that Hy-Vee has a Kid's Club? I just found out this week that any child infant to age 12 is eligible to sign up for the Kid's Club. There are great benefits involved too! From my understanding you go to customer service and sign your child up. They will be given a name tag that they can wear in the store. When they wear this name tag they can:

• Get a FREE drink in the cafe
• Get a FREE cookie from the bakery
• Get a FREE sucker from the pharmacy
• Get a FREE baloon from the flower shop

Your children will also be put on a mailing list and be alerted by Hy-Vee when they have fun FREE events going on!!!

**If you know any other info regarding this program please let us know in the comment section**

Getting Control of The Grocery Bill Part III

This is copy of my weekly post I am doing for TopekaKidsRock.com Be sure to head over there to see all the exciting events going on around Topeka!

Getting Control of the Grocery Bill Part III

In the 1st post of the series I talked about the need to have a grocery spending plan. Last week I discussed what items with in that spending plan might be creating "waste" This week I want to focus on the idea of menu planning.

I cannot remember a time growing up when my mother did not have a dinner plan for the week. Every Saturday morning she stood at the kitchen counter and asked us what we wanted for dinner that week. She then would make up a store list based on what she decided we would have and other things we needed for the week and off to the store she went. This was my first introduction to menu planning. I hope in this post to give you other practical ways and suggestions to plan a menu.

Why I Menu Plan:
I firmly believe that having a plan really does help you spend less at the grocery store. When you have a plan it is easy to stick to buying only what you need (and what you budgeted for) and hopefully you don't get side tracked buying things you don't need. For more reasons to menu plan see this post here... I love it!

How I Menu Plan:
I grocery shop once a week, therefore I make up a menu plan once a week. You can see many of those menu plans here. I usually make a plan for at least 5-6 dinners knowing that a few those meals will serve leftovers for lunch and even an extra dinner. I know that coming up with 5-6 dinner ideas a week can be daunting so I created what I call "Our Family Favorites" list. This list is comprised of at least 30-40 meals that my family likes to eat (my husband calls these "do overs") and I know the recipe and ingredients to off the top of my head. These meals can be as simple as grilled cheese or as complicated as lasagna. This list gives me flexibility and allows to almost always create meals based on what is on sale for the week in our local grocery fliers and with what I have on hand.

Menu Planning around weekly sales:
If you are looking to cut your grocery bill a great way is by using the local grocery fliers as a starting point. Look to see what is on sale for the week and try to come up with dinner ideas based on the sales. Not all items in your menu are going to be sale items for the week and that is okay. Just look to these as a good place to start. If you are unsure of what a good deal for the week might be at our local grocery stores, you can always look here and here to get ideas. Along with the weekly flier deals look to see what you already have on hand. Try using what is in your pantry and freezer. This helps ensure that food is not getting wasted or going bad before it is used.

These are just few ideas that help me and I am truly not the expert when it comes to menu planning. So below I want to encourage you to visit some other blogs that I visit often and have learned a lot from!

I'm an Organizing Junkie
Money Saving Mom (link to her other blog Biblical Womanhood)

If you are looking for inexpensive recipes to start menu planning with here a few of the sites I use:

Dining on a dime
The Aldi Queen
Miserly Moms
$5 Dinners

If you are interest in seeing a weekly Menu Plan based on our weekly Dillons and Hy-vee ad I would encourage you to visit these 2 sites here:

Amy's Finer Things
Cutting coupons in KC

One other thing I will mention is this 17 e-book promotion that is going on right now and ends March 23rd. If you are new to this whole idea of menu planning and saving money at the grocery store you may find these books helpful.

Next week I will be posting the 4th and final post this series. It will focus on how using coupons can also help you get your grocery bill under control.

$1/1 Toaster Strudel Coupon

You can use this 1/1 Toaster Strudel coupon that I originally found here to make them even cheaper this week at Dillons. They are apart of the 10 item Mega event:

• Toaster Strudels=1.89 (after .50 per item discount is taken)
• Use 1/1 coupon
• Use .50/cellfire coupon

After coupons and discount these are only .39/box!!!

**Remember this deal assumes you have purchased 10 qualifying items as apart of the Dillons Mega 10 event to get the .50/per item discount!**

Hy-Vee 3/18-3/24

There are a few good deals at Hy-vee this week.

Regular deals

• 85% lean fresh ground beef 1lb. rolls=1.99/1 (I always stock up at this price or when it is less)
• Kraft cheese shreds, crumbles, bars and cubes=1.79/1 (beats Aldi price and kroger price this week!)
• 15 oz. cans of Hy-vee mandarin oranges=.67/can (beats Aldi price!)
• Betty crocker corn muffin or pizza crust mix=3/$1
• Hy-Vee split top white or wheat bread=.99/1 (beats Aldi wheat bread price of 1.19/1 but not Kroger's of .88/1)
• Imperial spread 4ct. box=.58/1 (Aldi price)

Produce

• 16 oz. package of strawberries=1.48/1 (beats Aldi price and Dillons price this week!)
• Green seedless grapes= 1.18/lb. (beats Aldi price!)
• Hy-Vee Garden supreme salad mix=.99/1 with in-ad coupon (same as Aldi price)
• Washington braeburn apples=.69/lb.
• 5 lb. bag of sunkist oranges=$3.48/bag
• 2lb. bag of Grimmway farms baby carrots=1.88/1 (beats Aldi price of .99/1 1lb. bag)

Remember the best way to support this blog besides your readership is to continue using the coupons.com widget found here. If you would like to see deals at other grocery stores be sure to visit the BeCentsAble Grocery Gathering here!

See the weekly Dillons (Kroger) deals here and the Apple market deals here!