Tips & Resources for grocery savings.

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I like to share with you all when I get a good deal like this. Part of the staying at home (for the kids) and working at  home life for us means I have to cut costs where possible. This week at Giant Eagle I got all you see in the picture for $22.97 PLUS a $4.00 off coupons “on your next visit”. I could have bought all of this for $18.97 had I been better prepared with that $4 coupon.  See the two Wilton Baking Pans (cake & cookie)…those were FREE ( $11.00 in savings there alone).

GE was having a sale where if you bought 4 select items you’d get a pan for free. I had coupons so for example…the Betty Crocker frosting was on sale $1.50…I had a .50cent coupon that doubled to $1.00…I paid .50cents for each frosting. Cookie mixes were on sale for $2.00…I had coupons for .40 cents  off that doubled to .80 cents… each mix was $1.20. Those were the items I bought that got me the two free pans.

The other great deals were Smuckers grape jelly/jam on sale for about $1.67 each…I had coupons $1.00 off of 2 which left them $1.16 each. These are huge jars! See a recipe below we use grape jelly in. The Nut Clusters were on sale for $2.50 each and I had $1.00 off each bag.  Pillsbury biscuits were on sale $1.00 each, I used a .40 cents off 4 coupons (didn’t double) and I think a .30 cent coupon that doubled to .60 cents off. This was the deal that got me the $4.00 coupon printed out for my next shopping trip.  Somehow I also got a print out for 15 Bonus Box Tops for my son’s school ($1.50 value)- wasn’t expecting that one. Oh yeah…and the Nestles Butterscotch morsels were on sale for $2.00, I used a  .50 cent coupon that doubled to $1.00 off on that.

Yesterday I mixed up a batch of the Betty Crocker Walnut Chocolate Chip cookie mix and my boys loved them. They each gobbled up like 3 in a row and might have gone on for more had I not put a stop to it!

Okay for that recipe. A friend of my husband’s actually introduced us to the recipe and I don’t think it came with measurements ( and if you know me, I don’t record measurements to a “t”).  So again, make to taste.This would be great for entertaining during the holidays or big games.

Sweet’n Sour Sausage

1# or more of your favorite smoked sausage or kielbasa (already cooked)…like Hillshire.

Grape Jelly.

Chili Sauce (like Heinz or generic brands)

Cut up the sausage, add the chili sauce and jelly and simmer in a crock pot or over the stove. You already bought the meat precooked  so its a matter of heating thoroughly and waiting on taste.

Finding the deals.

You might be thinking to yourself that you just don’t have time to cut coupons and match the deals. Well, I don’t do all of that myself. I do hang on to the coupons  and cut them when I’m ready. I have an organizer/binder and a couple plastic bins with drawers I use to keep them in but when it comes to the matching and knowing where the deals are I really depend on other people for that info…crazy coupon ladies if you know what I mean

For finding the best deals I subscribe to these website newsletter updates…

CouponAllies.com (Specifically deals with NE Ohio)

Freebies4Mom.com

TheFrugalGirls.com

FrugalFreebiesandDeals.com

It pays to save!