Are you ready for Halloween? Need a last minute costume? Go to Target. Yes, Mam. Blanket sleepers are all the rage this year, and Oh Happy Day you can wear them all winter long. Oh yeah! Heck you can even wear them over to your neighbors house at 2 in the afternoon when you need to barter for a few tea bags because you’re out. Not that I would know anything about that of course. Nope. Not me.
Enough about pajamas costumes, lets talk groceries. I think I did pretty well in the grocery department this past week with the help of coupons, bartering and gardening. Here is what I brought home.
Albertsons $7.98
Milk and yogurt for the monkeys. Have you ever had Tillamook yogurt before? My favorite flavor is Marionberry.
Reclaimed Produce $0
Nothing beats FREE Produce! Well, actually free chicken does. Ha!
Bartering $0
I was able to score 30 pounds of FREE CHICKEN and now I think we are set for the rest of the year meat wise. Well, actually I still need a turkey for Thanksgiving.
Tacoma Boys Produce Stand $6.51
I stopped by my favorite produce stand and loaded up on apples and peppers. The prices are so great at Tacoma Boys I just have to stop by every time I’m nearby.
Albertsons $2.97
I had a great time stocking up on basics at Albertsons on my Double Coupon Shopping Trip yesterday. I think I’ll head back over there today or tomorrow and see if I can pick up some more FREE Barilla pasta if it’s in stock. Fingers crossed!
How did YOU do this past week? Did you stock up on any freebies? Get an awesome deal at a roadside stand? Get a free ride on a llama? I’d love to hear about it.
Happy Monday!
♥ Mavis
Total Spent This Week $ 17.46
Total Spent This Year $1,045.63
Total Spent This Year on Garden Seeds/Supplies $516.21
Total “Seed Money” donations received $51.00
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MaryW says
I got a free bag(12oz) of m and m’s from my local king soopers, but no free llama ride.
Mavis says
Dang… I wonder if the free llama rides were a regional deal? Hahahahha!
MaryW says
I’m thinking they must have been…we have llamas in Colorado, but no rides 🙁 I guess I’ll have to be happy with my m and m’s
Beth says
Have you ever tried making yogurt in your crock pot? My kids (ages 3 and 1) LOVE it. I usually drain off the whey with the help of a colander lined with cheese cloth to make it thicker, and then I mix it with jam. I have found that it works really well with powdered milk, too. All the deliciousness of yogurt goodness without the icky powdered milk taste.
Angie Smith says
My coworker cooked liver & onions yesterday for her family…who didn’t like it. I got gifted the leftover liver & onions! Also, I work in a deli, and I regularly get a few freebies from there: bacon grease (I cook almost everything in it!), roasted chicken skin (which I love to eat plain) & bones (from which I make chicken stock every week) when we make chicken salad every week, taste tests of everything we make, and sometimes an item that is too old to sell but still tastes okay – today it was a pint of carrot-apple-ginger juice. The garden still has kale, carrots, beets, cabbages, and parsley. This is a good week!
Lissa says
I ended up at @ $24:
Rite Aid: 6 bags of Starburst/sour patch kids ($8)
Safeway: 2 bags Doritos, 2 gallon apple juice ($4.75)
QFC: Almond extract, canned salmon, 3 bell peppers ($0.22) – used $11.25 in cats from last week
Dollar Tree: 2 bags tortilla chips ($2)
Albies: 8 boxes Barilla, 2 Kraft homestyle mac-n-cheese, 4 boxes scotties tissues, 6 Maruchan noodles, 10 Campbells tomato soup, 1 Gold-n-soft margarine, (1) 4lb C&H sugar, 1 Star olives, 1 Philadelphia cooking creme, 1 head garlic, 1 Garnier styling product, 1 bottle wine (9)
Reclaimed: 3 heads romaine, 7 tomatoes, 1 eggplant, 2 apples, ~3lbs carrots (FREE)
Lissa says
Actually I have $4 UPR from RiteAid so REALLY only $20 total for the week!
GAYLE says
A friend’s husband went hunting and remembered to save me the heart and liver of the deer (he forgot I wanted the kidneys, too). I turned half of the FOUR lb. liver (!) into a beautiful Pâté de Grandmère and froze the rest. Delicious! I like to encourage people to use as many parts of the animal as possible.
Sara says
Mavis
I am worried about your grocery total. Not sure where your hubby works. My hubby get a free Turkey from work. Where I work I get a gift card for a local grocery so this takes care of us up thru January.
If I were you those chickens you dont want I would barter them for a turkey. Just saying. I will have to say a pray that a big turkey comes your way.
My sister used to work for RCA they would have a bingo every year and the prizes would be turkeys.
Elizabeth S. says
On Sunday, I made a quick trip to Giant (big grocery store in northern VA) and
got : 3 packs of dannon light yogurt (4 yogurts in each pack) $1.29 a piece w/ $1 off coupon, 2 cans of Muir Glen organic diced tomatoes for .69 a can since my .60 coupons doubled, 2 bags of frozen organic cascadian farm corn for .59 a bag since my .85 coupons doubled, and one tub of store brand light sour cream for $1.00 (no coupon). I had a $3 off my purchase catalina from a previous purchase so I used that and paid a little over $4 with tax for all that! I was so pleased 😀 Then the nasty hurricane came and I lost power so I transferred my food over to my parents so it wouldn’t go bad. You do so well with your purchases, I am always impressed to see what you got! When my mom visited WY, she went to Alberstsons (not sure if it was in WY or ID) and was pleased. I wish we had one here.