Rite-Aid Haul This Week....Post #3

Back up to Rite-Aid this morning, before the snow is suppose to start.

Here's how I rolled/spent my $5 +Up Reward I received yesterday.....

2 x Tresemme Shampoo on sale $5=$10.00
1 x Clear Men's Shampoo on sale=$5.00
SubTotal.....$15.00

Coupons Used
1 x $2.50/1 Load2Card Clear Shampoo Q=$2.50
1 x $2/1 Load2Card Tresemme Shampoo Q=$2.00
1 x $2/1 Tresemme Shampoo ManQ=$2.00
2 x $1/1 Tresemme AdPerks VVQ=$2.00
Coupon Total.....$8.50

$15.00-$8.50=$6.50
I used my $5 +Ups to pay....$6.50-$5.00=$1.50 + .59¢ tax=$1.59 OOP

And I received another $5 +Up Reward.

Tomorrow I'll go back up and roll/spent that $5 +Up, using my Hubs Wellness card/account.  We can do this Unilever deal 2 more times with his account.

I also took up the receipt from Sunday when I bought the Dove Men's Shampoo and the 2 Dove Men's product VVQs I forgot to use then.  I got my $2 back I had spent on Sunday, so I am just out .12¢ for that transaction on Sunday.

Total cash out of pocket this week at this point is....$3.83 including tax for 8 Unilever/Dove products.

I plan on 3 or 4 more transactions this week, one for each day.

Total spent at Rite-Aid this month is $4.20 for $77.16 worth of toiletries.

I also went to the bank and paid the yearly sewage bill while I was out today.  I pay that bill in full in March each year so I receive a 3% discount.
Hey, it's something! lolz

That's $54.60 a year extra to spend somewhere else.  How can't stand to save when they have to pay bills, right?


Sluggy

Rite-Aid Post #2 for the Week

Today's haul.....

 

2 x Clear Shampoo on sale $5=$10.00
1 x Dove Advanced Deo on sale=$5.00
SubTotal....$15.00

Coupons Used
2 x Clear Shampoo $2.50/1 ManuQ=$5.00
2 x Clear Shampoo $2/1 AdPerks Q=$4.00(1 for each Wellness account/card)
1 x Dove Advanced Deo ManuQ $2/1=$2.00
Coupon Total.....$11.00

$15.00-$11.00=$4.00
I used the $2 +Up Rewards I got last night to pay....
$4-$2=$2.00 + .12¢ tax=$2.12 Out of Pocket

I received a $5 +Up Reward(wyb $15 of select Unilever products)back.

Come back tomorrow to see what I get using my $5 +Ups.
I so hate this new policy that your +Ups aren't valid until the following day....means I have to go up to Rite-Aid multiple times in a good sales week, instead of just spending/rolling the +Ups in 1 trip.  Luckily Rite-Aid is only 2-3 miles from my house.  ;-)

Sluggy

This Week on the Dining Table

This Week on the Dining Table

The "I Cooked on Sunday and Am Done for the Week" Edition.......

 

 

First I made from scratch the Sauce, then the process of making Eggplant Parm.
Took quite some time to finish it all.
I really don't feel like cooking anymore this week.  I am pitiful, aren't I? lolz

So I am planning an easy cooking week......lots of leftovers to just reheat, #2 Son can cook one night, shoving a chicken in the oven tonight and I'm calling dinner done, and 1 more new meal on Friday.

 

 

 

And here is what was planned last week---

 

Sunday--Hamburger & Noodles, Sugar Snap Peas(I just had a bowl of veggies.)
Monday--leftover Chicken w/Pot Pie Noodles and Carrots
Tuesday--Meatloaf(freezer), Squash Casserole(use the squash on hand)
Wednesday--Crab Cakes(freezer), Haddock(freezer), Sautéed Green Beans(freezer)
Thursday--Kielbasa(freezer) on Rolls, Squash Casserole(leftovers), Potato Salad
Friday--Pork Chop(freezer), Roasted Cauliflower and Carrots, Applesauce
Saturday--Roast Chicken(freezer), Sweet Corn Cake, Veggie Mélange(freezer)

 

And here is what actually happened---

 

Sunday--Hamburger & Noodles, Sugar Snap Peas(I just had a bowl of veggies.)
Monday--leftover Chicken w/Pot Pie Noodles and Carrots
Tuesday--Meatloaf(freezer), Squash Casserole(use the squash on hand)
Wednesday--Crab Cakes(freezer), Haddock(freezer), Sautéed Green Beans(freezer)
Thursday--Kielbasa(freezer) on Rolls, Squash Casserole(leftovers)
Friday--Leftovers
Saturday--Reuben Sandwiches
 

Everything as planned through Thursday, but the Potato Salad never happened.  The taters are getting old so I'll make the P salad this week to have on hand if anyone gets hungry for some spuds.

We had leftovers Friday and Saturday so the roasted Chicken gets moved to this week and the Pork Chop meal gets put on hold.  Actually I put the chicken in the fridge to thaw and it NEVER did thaw out in time for Sat.'s dinner.  That baby was rock HARD!  I've got it in the sink in water now trying to get it thawed in time to cook tonight.  Cross your fingers....lolz

 

 

As for the food spending update.....I spent a total of $99.37 on groceries last week between the Restaurant Outlet and the local Independent market.  Saved 39.04% over regular retail in all.
I bought only 1 item that was NOT on sale(sauerkraut for Reubens).
This is how I plan my menus nowadays.....between picking up items on discount, clearance or on sale and combining them with what I already have in the house.
Planning ahead and purchasing on sale price helps to keep from buying at regular retail price.

I have spent a total of $333.33 in March of our $300-$400 food budget so far.  I didn't go into the final week of March at or under $300 of food spending but it's close.

  

Oh and no food waste last week either.

 

Going into the new week here are the leftovers we have......1 Kielbasa, lots of Corned Beef deli slices.

 

Here is this week's meal plan----

Sunday--Eggplant Parm(all ingredients on hand, made sauce)
Monday--Roast Chicken(fridge), Corn Casserole(pantry), Asparagus(on hand)
Tuesday--Grilled Meatloaf(leftover), Roasted Cauliflower(on hand)
Wednesday--Tacos or Taco Salads(all ingredients on hand)
Thursday--Leftovers-Eggplant Parm, Reuben or Corned Beef Sammie, Chicken, Tacos, Kielbasa, etc.
Friday--Chicken Risotto w/Asparagus(using leftover roast chicken and asparagus)
Saturday--Leftovers-whatever is still left or Fend for Yourself Night

Hubs is out of town 2 days this week, one night #2 Son and I will have Tacos(his fav), the other night we'll work on the leftovers.
As for leftovers, I also have some spaghetti sauce I made for the Eggplant Parm leftover so pasta and sauce is another possibility, or I'll use it in next week's menu.

4 new dinners and 3 dinners from leftovers.  No eating out this week, though I am tempted.

What I need to purchase for this menu?.......Not a thing.  Everything I didn't have already was bought on Saturday.

Perhaps I'll stay out of the grocery store this week.
At least, that's the plan.
If we can not spend on food this week, we'll end March at $333.33 in spending.

What is getting fixed and served at your house this week?

 

Sluggy

My Sunday--Cleaning, Cooking & Rite-Aid

On Sunday, I spent an hour or so up in the "Fabric Lair" sorting through another tub or two of fabric.
Got all the Christmas/Halloween yard goods put into a labeled tub to put on Etsy later in the year.  I now have room on the shelf for another stack of Summer type fabrics.  The tubs I went through will yield listings to fill that available space.  Now I just have to snap pictures and get these fabrics listed on Etsy.

Then it was onward to make dinner.
What do you get when you take this stuff......

And add it to this.....

Then add a cup of this.....

Do a little of this.......

Then add the rest and simmer for 3-4 hours and you get this......

Italian Sunday Gravy.

Then you soak this in salted water to remove the bitterness.....

Cook that up, add mozzarella and "gravy" and bake and you get this.....

Homemade Eggplant Parmigiana .
Can't beat that with a stick!

Later on it was off to Rite-Aid to buy this.....

2 x Dove Men's Shampoo on sale=$7.00
Subtotal....$7.00

I used 2 x $2.50/1 Dove Men's shampoo ManuQs from Sunday's paper=$5.00

$7.00-$5.00=$2.00 + .12¢ tax=$2.12 Out of Pocket.

I received $2 in +Up Rewards back for buying this. (This deal has a limit of 2 per Wellness account/card.)

Unfortunately I forgot to print out the $1/1 Dove Men's Product AdPerks Q from my Wellness Account, which would have meant $1 OOP instead of $2.
sigh.
Yes, I am not a perfect person......

This week is a GOOD week to get almost free shampoos, etc. at Rite-Aid, if you like various Unilever products AND you have the Coupons.

I'll be going back to Rite-Aid a few more times this week to roll my +Ups and get more 'poos.

Stay tuned for further R-A developments.......

Sluggy

 

The 2014 Decluttering Season has Begun!

It's officially Spring!
And you know what that means?
Why, it's the beginning of "Donation Season".....that time of year when I thaw out(or rather the weather thaws out)and I dig through my hoard of "stuff" and start doling it out to local groups in need of  donations of "stuff".
Here's our first batch of 2014.....

                                  Christmas stuff

                            a big plastic storage tub

                 pieces of fabric and tubes of hair depilatory

                                   stuffed critters

                                   more stuffed critters

                          a necklace and 2 Christmas ornaments


There now!  I know this is ultra-boring but I feel like I got something accomplished this week.....lolz

Sluggy