I WON coupons!!! 21 coupon inserts I think its a total of over $600 worth of coupons! I entered the thrifty mom giveaway and was the one winner! I love her site, I love her pod cast! I love to see her pictures of her bargain deals. I will never be able to shop like she does because I can't be the one at the grocery store.......... Hubby does the shopping. (with my list and coupons) and we have cut our grocery cost down about $100 a week with my coupons and sale match ups. incase you missed my link in favorites here it is www.athriftymom.com
Congrats Amy that is awesome!! I know I can never be like her either , but mainly because we don't buy a lot of name brands or processed food. But I try.
crystal, you should see how much this lady saves! she posts pictures and how she saved......... I swear its all almost free.
Wow!!! Congrats Abal!!! I always see that but I never enter. She really saves alot. We don't have the same stores here that she always posts on but I do use the print off coupons. I would be doing the happy dance if I were you.
LEE, if you are in CA (not remembering right now) she added the California Albertsons to her store line up, and I live in AZ and it is different store specials here too but go to the ALBERTSONS website and go to costomer service and call and request to be put on their mailing list........ I get the store ad for my area on Mondays when it usually comes out on Wednesdays and the coupons from the sunday paper are really fresh on my mind. sorry I just saw MI in your headline for your Picture......... still worth a shot calling the costomer service and if you have a club card (our area doesn't use them anymore) I know you can costomize your coupons.
We are in AK right now. I know it is hard keeping track of us. We do move alot, our main base is MI where our home is. Their isn't an Albertsons here, only Fred Meyers and Safeway oh and Three Bears.
I've never heard of her before???!!! I'm currently being mentored by my bestest friend on her shopping savvy secrets. Some of the best kept secrets, I think, are bakery outlet stores and the meat and cheese sections of grocery stores. Bakery outlets around here remove their soon to expire bread daily. I can buy a heaping cart of bread with today or yesterday's date for $2.50. It's all name brand and very, very fresh. We put what we can in our deep freeze and still have just as much left over to give away to people who need it. Dairy departments at certain stores mark down their soon to expire cheeses, etc. If I find something on clearance that I use a lot and can be frozen, I ask what the manager will take for it if I buy ALL of what is left on the shelf. I was able to buy about 25lbs of namebrand specialty grated cheese for under $10....consequently, if anyone is making lasagna for supper tonight, get ahold of me. I can hook a girl up. Meat departments THROW AWAY more meat than you would even want to know about. My friend weekly makes trips to meat departments to see what kinds of deals she can make. One store will make her an incredible deal on the meat that is still perfectly within the sell-by date but doesn't look bright red anymore. That's right. Greyish meat that's perfectly good will be sold for sometimes 1/4 of the price if you can offer to take it all (sometimes that only means 6 or 7 packages). At yet another store, the manager has made arrangements with her to freeze the removed meat and call her when there is a good quantity to pick up. If it is more than she can take at one time, she has other friends go in on it with her. She usually gets it for around 50-60 cents a pound! And we're not talking 80/20 ground beef....we're talking ribeye, loins, thick cut fresh bacon. Crazy! Hope this give you shoppers out there some ideas!
Brooke, I also go to the bakery outlets. We have one in our town and I get 12 loaves at a time and freeze it. I didn't know that the grocery stores will do that with the meat, will have to check that out. I usually buy meat on sale and buy in bulk, then freeze. The only thing you have to do is divide it up, package it, freeze right away. I do that with milk too. I paid $1.49 a gallon for milk, I got 7 gallons, keep 4 in the refrig and then froze 3. I bought a pork loin yesterday for $1.99. It was regular $40.00, paid $19 for it. They cut it for free and it make 4 meals. Thats $5. per meal.
There's also a farm market by my parents' place, out in the country. The regular price of their deli meat and cheese runs about $2 less/lb than most stores in town on sale! Then there's a meat market around the corner where I buy most of my meat when it's on sale. Last week, Krogers had its roasts B1G1, so I got four and put them in my roaster, and cooked them all day at 300°. They were falling apart on me; I wanted to have French Dip sandwiches, and couldn't because they wouldn't slice! So I pulled all four (which I had wanted to do with all the leftovers anyway!), and froze them into four bags. They thaw out so easily when you're in a hurry! You can eat them on sandwiches, or over mashed potatoes or noodles.
