How have you saved money this week? 11/2 - please share!

I've saved money using coupons and planning my menu around my stores ad with B1G1 free deals!

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 Out local Giant Eagle had buy one get one free on their meat.  They had thick pork chops for $3.99 a pound and chuck steak for $4.29 a pound.  I got two packages of each and saved $12.  Broke them up into smaller sizes (there is just me and my husband here) and put them in the freezer.  Got a lot of meals for the price.

Janetplanet

It's interesting to compare prices in different areas. For instance I bought a boneless chuck roast last week for $1.69 a pound and this week I am getting a rump roast for $1.99 a pound. So I thought the prices you quoted were quite high. Here is a link to my sale paper:

http://www.buteramarket.com/bookflip/index.html

On the other hand, stores here never double coupons, EVER!

Holy Moses!!!  I have never seen T-bone or porterhouse steak around here for $3.99/lb.

I purchase beef by the 1/2 but always check the ads for prices-------looks like good prices in your corner.

willie

Heavens_IL - we never get to double coupons either. 20 years ago maybe but not now. The last porterhouse I bought were $5.99/lb which is awesome! Wish we had B1G1 Free on meat. I buy most of my meat at a meat market which has better prices on everything except steaks of any kind. Pork chops, ground sirloin, chicken breasts, boneless breasts, pork tenderloin are all great prices there.

I'm in Ohio and our prices are more like Heavens_IL, We have pork loin chops this week on sale for 1.99/lb, whole chickens for 88c/lb and turkeys for 77c/lb - There is a good price on hams too, don't remember that one off the top of my head, but I am not sure what I am going to buy - lots of good deals.  We also have unlimited double coupons and last week and this week they are taking an extra $5 off 10 items - you can pick from everything from snacks, cookies, cheeses, can tomatoes, shampoo etc - and you can get an umlimited number of deals - last week I got $20 off, plus I used coupons.  I bought 2 packs of Keebler cookies for 25c each - I never buy store bought cookies, but could resist - on sale w/offer plus internet coupon.  4 bags of chex mix for $2.50 total - good for lunches.  5 cans of Del Monte diced seasoned tomatoes for 30c each after coupons, etc.  I am going to get a few more things this week - I ended up saving a ton!  Plus the family got some treats they normally don't get.

I read on a blog last week about a lady who - when she was a college student - use to bake 2 loaves of bread and a chicken every weekend.  She said the next week when she baked her chicken she used up the old bread in stuffing and was able to have a hot meal that day and then sandwiches made with the bread and the chicken for the rest of the week.  (She had me when she said she was a college student who actually baked homemade bread, my college daughter barely makes toast!)

I make lots of homemade bread and sometimes we have just a little left that goes stale so I thought this was a great idea.

So, to save money this week:   I baked a chicken on Monday and stuffed it with a stuffing made from some day old homemade bread.  It was DELICIOUS!  My 16 year old daughter had never had stuffing before (only Stove Top, which doesn't really count LOL).  I plan on adding this meal to my "rotation".  I don't think I would want to eat this every weekend (because I wouldn't want to tire of it), but definitely every other weekend so this was a great "find"for me.

I got the chicken at Walmart - marked down to $5.00 and it was one of those nice baking hens!

We had supper Monday night with the chicken and stuffing.

My daughter and I ate the leftover dressing and some of the chicken last night for supper

I removed all the chicken from the bones, put the bones, skin, etc. in a pot and made some chicken stock which I am going to can in canning jars for future use.

The rest of the chicken is in the fridge for sandwiches, wraps, enchiladas, etc.

So my $5 chicken will have extended to many lunches and at least 4 or 5 more suppers if I count in the chicken stock.

I am going to post the recipe for the stuffing here.  I modified it somewhat, but it was DELICIOUS!

 My day-old bread was a recipe for oatmeal/part whole wheat bread that I got from the King Arthur Flour site.

ROASTED CHICKEN W/ STUFFING

Ingredients:

• 1 roaster chicken, about 4 pounds
• butter

Stuffing:

• 1/2 cup chopped onion (I just used some minced onion because I didn't have any real onion)
• 1/4 cup butter
• 1/2 teaspoon dried leaf thyme, crumbled (didn't have so omitted this ingredient)
• 2 tablespoon chopped fresh parsley, or 2 teaspoons dried parsley flakes (I used dried)
• 2 cups soft bread crumbs (I just tore my bread into pieces and filled a 2-cup measure full)
• 1 beaten egg
• 1/3 cup milk
• salt and pepper
• (I added about 1/8 teaspoon dried sage, it could have used a smidgen more)

Preparation:

I decided to save even more money and not go grocery shopping at all. I had intended to buy some things from the Butera ad but today is the last day and my freezer is pretty full anyway. I had wanted to get more potatoes and make homemade frozen hash browns but I really don’t have room. I’ll see what the next sale is like, it starts tomorrow. They always have great deals on meat and produce. 

Jeanna, your recipe sounds great.  

 I also can’t believe a college age kid made bread. She sounds like another Sandra Lee in the making. My friends and I joke that when our daughters have to do holiday meals they will serve Froot Loops and Cocoa Krispies!! LOL

I never thought of using milk in stuffing, I always cook the neck and giblets and use the broth to moisten the stuffing. I’ll try milk next time.

My Publix ad came out today and there are great B1G1 free deals. Peanut butter, Nestle chocolate chips (which I use a lot of in pancakes, toll house cookies, add into brownies, etc. plus I have a coupon!) Will get my list together and shop before the weekend. Sirloin Tip roast on sale for $3.99/lb.

Jeanna, that recipe does look good. Thanks for sharing.

All I spent on groceries this week was $6.98 amd half of that was was Hersheys kisses to fill my crystal kiss dish (it really is shaped like a Hershey's kiss )  I needed nutmeg and marjoram and went to Bulk Barn and bought those 3 items and some bread flour.  The marjoram cost 78c and the nutmeg was $1.18 to fill my spice jars but then because it was Wednesday and seniors day, they took 10% off  Gotta like it.  There are some benefits to getting old(er)..  I must admit that the fridge and freezer were very well stocked before this.

We had 10 people for dinner last night tooand everything was "bought" from the freezer or was in the pantry.  There was roast beef on the menu along with lasagne,make ahead mashed potatoes, cauliflower cheese, fiesta chicken, caramel apple cake and pumpkin pie.  Not bad, without a trip to the store.

I was in local Wal-Mart on Wednesday.  I wasn't planning on buying much.  I went to the back to get milk $1.75 gal., and they had a empty bin of frozen tom turkeys for $.40 lb.  I was disappointed.  When I walked by the meat department to see if they had any meat on sale, I found another bin of the frozen tom turkeys.  There was four left.  I took 2 and then saw a employee pointing them out to another customer.  He said that the limit was 2.  I think the other customer bought the remaining 2.  They also had ground beef for $1.25 lb, so I bought 5lbs of that.  Earlier I bought my costco membership thru perkspot (offered by my employer) for the normal $50, but got $50 of free or discounted merchandise, free 2lb ground coffee, free rotisarre chicken, $3 off pizza, $3 off meat etc.

Our Walmart had those turkeys too!  We've got 2 and my mom and dad got us 2 so we have 4 in our freezer!

What a treat!

Last year our stores never did reduce the price of turkeys so I was thrilled to see 40 cents a pound!

JeannaMO

I got a turkey at WM for 60¢ pound last week. Asked about the 40¢ ones and they said ours were always 60. Not bad. They only had a few left. Hit the jackpot again with B1G1 free deals at Publix. Got 6 packages of chocolate chips, all the Chex cereal I need to make chex mix, 48 oz. peanut butter, brownie mix, juice and more! All in all saved over $30 with coupons! Very happy since I had to pay $3.50 for a cantaloupe! My kids love it and it NEVER goes to waste so I buy it for them.

I'm going to Walgreens today...they had a $5 off $25 purchase and I'm getting bottled water, sugar, pumpkin (.99¢), Hershey kisses, flour, baking soda (2/$1) and bandaids!

I went to Walgreens and Cub today.  I got rainchecks on several of the items from Walgreens.  I got pretty well stocked up for my Christmas baking.  Between the store coupons and the manufacturer coupons I ended up under $25 so could not use the $5 off.

Then went over to Cub and got a 12.33 pound turkey for $.39 a pound.  That is under $5 for the meat for Christmas.

bc1958...I ended up not being able to use the $5 off coupon because mine came in under $25. They wouldn't let me get another water, even though they had plenty! But the prices are good.

 That's an awesome price on the turkey! We usually have standing rib roast for Christmas and it will most likely be on sale in Dec.