WAGS Shopping June 24th It's Toothpaste Week

I had more RRs to roll before they expired, so I hit WAGS this past Wednesday when I was out taking daughter to the Orhtodontist.
The only Freebie this week was the Aquafresh Toothpaste. I didn't have any Aquafresh Qs for the Sunday inserts and only could manage 2 measly IP Qs.....so not so much Toothpaste for me this week. I've only got about......150 tubes, so no worries! ;-))



Transaction #1

1x Aquafresh Toothpaste $3.00
1x Rolaids Soft Chews $2.99
8x One-A-Day Vitamin Drink clearanced .75¢=$6.00
SubTotal $11.99
Tax $.00

Coupons Used
Aquafresh IP Q $1.00
Rolaids $1.00
2xOne-A-Day off any product $3/1=$6.00
Total
$8.00

$11.99-$8=$3.99

RRs Used
$3

$3.99-$3=$.99OOP
RRs Received $3(Aquafresh),$2(Rolaids)


Transaction #2

3x John Frieda Shampoo $5=$15.00
1x Rolaids Soft Chews $2.99
1x Aquafresh Toothpaste $3.00
2x Lip Balm clearanced .75¢ea.=$1.50
Subtotal $22.49
Tax $.99

Coupons Used
3x John Frieda $3/1=$9.00
1x Rolaids $1/1 $1.00
1x Auqafresh $1/1 IPQ $1.00
Subtotal $11.00

$23.48-$11.00=$12.48

RRs Used
$5RR(from last JFrieda), 3x $2=$11RR

$12.48-$11=$1.48OOP
Received RRs $5(JFrieda),$3(Aquafresh), $2(Rolaids)


Transaction #3

1x Rolaids Soft Chews $2.99
12x One-A-Day Vitamin Drink clearanced .75¢=$9.00
1x Mint Drops clearanced $.15
SubTotal $12.14
Tax $.01

Coupons Used
Rolaids $1.00
3x One-A-Day off any product $3/1=$9.00
Total
$10.00

$12.15-$10=$2.15

RRs Used
$2

$2.15-$2=$.15OOP
RRs Received $2(Rolaids)

GRAND TOTAL
OOP Spent $2.62
Q & Sale Savings $70.19
RRs Used $16.00
RRs Received $17.00
Value of Items $72.81
Savings of 96.4%


Each of those One-A-Day Drink Powder boxes has 2 straws of mix. 18 boxes is 36 packets of mix. Gee, I'll be about the most vitamin packed gal around these parts!lol

Sluggy

WAGS Shopping Catch-Up June 19th Body Wash & Cake

I had more RRs to roll before they expired, so I hit WAGS June 19th.



Transaction #1

St. Ives Body Wash $2.99

Used $1.50 Q from Sunday inserts a few weeks back

$1.49+ $.18 tax=$1.67OOP
Received $3RR



Transaction #2

2x Cakesters $5 (on MegaSaver for June)
1x Rolaids Soft Chews $2.99
1x Toothpick Holder clearanced .29¢
Subtotal $8.28
Tax $.02

Coupons Used
2x Cakesters $1/1 -$2.00
1x Rolaids $1/1 -$1.00
Subtotal $3.00

$8.30-$3.00=$5.30

Used $5RR(last meter RR)

$5.30-$5=$.30OOP
Received RRs $3Kraft, $2Rolaids

Transaction #3

1x St. Ives Body Wash $2.99
1x Walgreens Shopping Bag $.99
Subtotal $3.98
Tax $.20

Coupons Used
1x Wags IVF Q for Shopping Bag -$.65
Subtotal $.65

$4.18-$.65=$3.53

Used $3RR

$3.53-$3=$.53OOP
Received RRs $3St Ives

Transaction #4

2x Cakesters $5 (on MegaSaver for June)
1x M&Ms filler $.69
Subtotal $5.69
Tax $.00

Coupons Used
2x Cakesters $1/1 -$2.00
Subtotal $2.00

$5.69-$2.00=$3.69

Used $3RR

$3.69-$3=$.69OOP
Received RRs $3Kraft


Rinse & Repeat #3...
Transaction #5

1x St. Ives Body Wash $2.99
1x Walgreens Shopping Bag $.99
Subtotal $3.98
Tax $.20

Coupons Used
1x Wags IVF Q for Shopping Bag -$.65
Subtotal $.65

$4.18-$.65=$3.53

Used $3RR

$3.53-$3=$.53OOP
Received RRs $3St Ives



Transaction #6

1x Breyer's Ice Cream $3.99 **Not Pictured**
1x A&W Root Beer $1.59
Subtotal $5.58

Root Beer Free Deal -$1.59

$5.58-$1.59=$3.99

RRs Used $2

$3.99-$2=$1.99OOP


GRAND TOTAL
OOP Spent $5.71
Q & Sale Savings $33.69
RRs Used $14.00
RRs Received $17.00
Value of Items $39.40
Savings of 85.5%

My out of pocket was high for me this time. If I had had more than 1 St. Ives coupons I could have done better.....ah well.
It's always nice to get back more RRs than you spend, isn't it? ;-)

Sluggy

Cleaning Out the Freezer Challenge-June 25th & Recipe

June 25th, Thursday, I was rooting around in the deep dark recesses of my Freezer and came up with a DOUBLE PLAY in the Cleaning Out the Freezer Challenge.

First I found these 2 forlorn breaded chicken cutlets. They are the long lost survivors from a rather large pack of cutlets that was consumed many months ago.
Just the perfect size package of chicken for tonight, as Hubby is the only one eating solid food today in this house.

But what to do with breaded chicken cutlets, what to do....
Oh, here's an opened bag of shredded mozzarella cheese!
That gives me an idea.....

And then I found & thawed out 2 large bags of spinach. I was going to prepare something grand with this until I opened it and saw that the spinach was itsy bitsy chopped pieces, really only good for adding to a creamed soup or such.
Note to self.....do NOT buy this brand of frozen spinach again.

So what to do with stringy, watery, itsy bitsy pieces of green mush???
...And make it pseudo-healthy & a side dish for the chicken that hubby will eat?

So I grabbed an egg, garlic powder, milk and parmesan cheese.

I had printed out a recipe eons ago for an 'Easy Spinach Souffle'. Now is as good a time as any to give it a whirl, right? You can find the recipe on the Allrecipes site HERE.

Preheat oven to 350 degrees(unless you want to make this in the microwave if you are short on time).

In a medium bowl, whisk together 1 egg, 1/3 c. milk, 1/3 c. parmesan cheese, 1 teaspoon garlic and salt & pepper to taste. Fold in 2(10 ounces)packages of frozen chopped spinach, thawed and drained.
Put in casserole dish.
Bake in oven for 20 minutes or until lightly set.

Alternate baking method:If you are in a hurry, use a microwave safe casserole dish, cover with palstic wrap and cook on high for 3 minutes. Release the steam, recover and cook on high for another 3 mintues.



And here is what it looks like after baking.

I have to say that mine took 30-35 minutes to set up, not 20 mins. But then again, maybe I overbaked mine. At 20 min. it was still very loose.
Hubby said it could have used more cheese. Next time, I'm going to add some mozzarella too.

The chicken cutlets got a quick saute in some EVOO in a skillet and then some spaghetti sauce(from an opened jar in the fridge)and a handful of mozzarella on top. Cover with the lid and let melt for 5-10 mins.
Spoon up the spinach and mange!
Ok, so my food photography skills are somewhat lacking. I'll put it on my master list of things to conquer right after curing AIDS and disarming North Korea. 8-P

If you are a beginner or one of those cooks who is scared of souffle preparations, this recipe is a good one to try.
It's not a true souffle but it gives you the taste/feel of one without the work.

I've still got some of that bag of spinach left to use up in the next couple of days. I'll have to dig into the fridge and see what is lurking in there that I can possibly combine to make something fabulous to use this EX-Freezer item up.

Freezer-0
Sluggy-2

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CleanseFest....Day 3 & 4 My Kingdom for a Salt Lick!

Day Three went rather well. I think I was over the hump with the nastier hunger pains by the end of the 3rd day of the CleanseFest.

I will say that at the end of Day 3 I was so tired of Slim-Fast shakes! Why are these things so blasted sweet?? Why do they think that people on reduced or restricted calorie intake diets ONLY want to eat sweet flavored stuff? These things have so much sugar in them.
After 3 days of sweet, sweet, sweet, I would give my eye teeth for a DILL PICKLE.....or a Greek Salad with Oil & Vinegar Dressing......or a big Vat of SAURKRAUT. I DETEST Saurkraut by the way....

Ok.....just give me Salt & Vinegar Potato Chips!
************drool***************

So Day Four(today) & I took daughter and we made our run to do the Kraft/Unilever/General Mills Catalina Deal at Shop-Rite.
As we were far from home during meal time with no SF shake with us, we broke down and ate FOOD today for lunch.
Not just any food.....Chinese Food!
I took it easy with the meats, staying away from any Beef dishes and sampled from the chicken & shrimp dishes. I loaded up with the veggies in the dishes as well as sauteed green beans. No rice except for what was on the sushi I ate. I did eat some dumplings though, which I shouldn't have had. I usually get a soup bowl and dip dumpling sauce into it for my dumplings. Well I put the dumplings right in the bowl so they REALLY soaked up that sauce.
I didn't notice that the sauce was a tad RED today(aka CHILI OIL!!!)and took a big honking bite out of one of the dumplings. It took exactly 4 seconds for my mouth to catch fire from that bite.
Great.
Googley.
Moogley.

I took the dumplings out of the sauce of FIRE! and tried to dry them out. After picking chili flakes(!) off of them, I tried dunking them in Duck Sauce. But that just kept my mouth from burning about 5 extra seconds after putting a piece of dumpling in again. Then the HEAT hit me on the 'back end' of my mouth, as it slid down my esophagus.
I choked down 2.5 dumplings before my lips went numb and I raised the white paper napkin of surrender.
9 hours later, I can still feel a bit of tingle on my lips.....
I KNOW I ate too much but it was so good! And I haven't had anything else today because of it.

The Shop-Rite run kept me from my water consumption most of the afternoon so I am downing glasses of water this evening to catch up.
I am sure my kidneys are screaming at me to stop by now.

Oh, but the kidneys haven't seen anything yet! As daughter may be returning to work at camp a week from Sunday, we have to step up the schedule so we can get in at least 7 days of the second part of this CleanseFest.

Tomorrow, Phase Two begins.
Phase Two is 7 days of drinking a mixture of Water/Lemon/Syrup/Cayenne Pepper, in addition to plain water too. Actually, the spicy dumplings was probably a good way to get me used to the Cayenne Pepper in the drink I have to consume.

And I get to begin the next seven days with an Oral Sea Salt & Water Enema.
Oh goody!
Can't.
Wait.

I'll be sure to take LOTS of pictures and share this part of my adventure with you.
I'm sure ya'll can't wait for that, huh?LOLOL

Off to work on some Frugal Shopping reports. I have Wags, CVS & Shop-Rite to post on, as well as some Cleaning out the Freezer stuff and a Recipe.
Look for those in the coming days....in between trips to the bathroom. ;-))

Sluggy

WEIS/GILLETTE CAT PROMO...Final Numbers!

The Weis Markets 2 Week Long GILLETTE $5 CAT PROMOTION ended yesterday, June 24th. Here is my Final Tally.
Gillette Razors-11
Gillette Hydra Gel-11
Gillette Body Wash-55
Gillette Shampoo-55
GRAND TOTAL.........132 Products



Total OOP.......$14.65, $8.37 of that was tax.
The OOP comes out to .11¢ per item.
Value of all Items.....$561.18
A Savings of 97.4%

I probably could have gotten more but I didn't jump right on this deal & I didn't get more coupons. And I didn't wipe out any store of product in a single trip, even though I had the coupons to do so. I spread the procurement out over 5 Weis Stores & over an 11 day period, so plenty of time to restock between shopping trips.

I had found some coupons I hadn't cut from the inserts yet a couple of days ago, including 2 more razor and hydra gel coupons, so I had some last minute shopping to do. I had a very hard time using those last 4 razor/gel coupons. I would find a store that had razors, but no hydra gel....then I'd find the gel in stock and no razor. I did finally find both in the same store yesterday and finished using the last 4 coupons. I didn't get any razor/gel coupons off of eBay(like I did the b-wash & 'poo Qs), first, because sellers wanted way too much for the razor Qs and second, the tax here on those razors raised my OOP more than I wanted to spend. I tried to stay away from the 'poos that had conditioner in it too becasue here, in WACKY PA, 'poo is NOT taxed but if the 'poo has conditioner in it, you DO pay tax on that!
Like I said.....WACKY.....
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So how did you do on the Weis/Gillette deal?
Give us your totals/figures.
Did you get any other great deals last week at Weis? I'd love to hear!!

Sluggy