Extreme Couponing, Houston Frugal Living Blog
I always seem to forget just how much juice we go through in the kids lunches during the school year! Any coupon helps! There are some new beverage coupons if you look under 77380 that will make for a good deal at Walmart!
Minute Maid Juice Boxes 10 pack – $2.98
Use $1/1 Minute Maid coupon
Total: $1.98
Or you can just grab the bigger container of juice for cheap as well!
Welch’s Grape Juice: $2.97
$1.00 off 2 Welch’s Grape Juice or Juice Blends
Total: $2.47 each
Hey Everyone!
This is Paul from I Heart The Mart. Looky what I found roaming Walmart. This is the 8ml size Visine Advanced and can usually be found in the check out line. I remembered the $2 off any Visine and I thought my eyes were blurry and red from my sleep deprivation. Nope, it is clear as day, especially after I got my Visine!
Visine Advanced: $1.94
$2 Off ANY Visine Printable
Total: FREE + $.06 overage
At Randalls this week you can score a great deal on Welches Jelly, because our sales end on Tuesday night you only have TUESDAY to do this deal! Not only are you able to get the jelly for $.95 each, but you can submit for a FREE sandwich keeper with the purchase of 2 jellies. Thanks Katy Couponers.
This is what to do to get the best deal:
Transaction #1
Buy 1 Welches Jelly for $2
Use $.35/1 Welches coupon from the 7-31 SS ( will triple to $1.05)
Total: $.95
Transaction #2
Buy 1 Welches Jelly for $2
Use $.35/1 Welches coupon from the 7-31 SS ( will triple to $1.05)
Total: $.95
Then submit for the FREE sandwich keeper HERE.
This week at Kroger you can score some free Gillette Body wash with the Mega Event Sale. This week the Dial and Tone are on sale here in Houston. I have not seen these in our ad, they could be an unadvertised part of the mega event. If you have seen them can you please leave a comment. This could also be part of the Mega Event that is starting on Wednesday for our region. Thank you Ashley and Shaen!
** UPDATE!
If you are in Houston looks like this deal will start on Wednesday, however the coupon expires on Wednesday so you have 1 day to do this deal!
If your ad changes over on Sunday’s most likely you can already do this deal!
Gillette Body Wash: &1.99
Use $2/1 Gillette Body Wash, exp. 8/31/11 (P&G 07/31/11)
Total: FREE
I know it is weird to get excited about seeing a coupon, but I actually did when I saw this Lloyd’s one! This os one of our favorite meals in the Ivanovsky household, a baked potato bar! Plus, I didn’t have anything planned for dinner and so this is what we are having!!
Go HERE to print your $1.00 off Lloyd’s BBQ coupon! ( I used 77477)
A baked potato bar is not a new idea and I am sure you have done it many times… but recently we “rediscovered” this dinner idea and it continues to be a huge hit around here!
I like potato bar’s because they are easy and cheap. We usually can find many toppings in the fridge and I rarely have to pick anything up at the store for it, the only thing I have to do is get them in the oven in time 
I always butter and salt the potatoes with kosher salt and wrap them in foil, my husband tells me this is why he loves me! This is a good job for the kids. ** I think they turn out better when you don’t wrap them in foil, but it makes a mess of my oven and smokes even with a pan underneath…
A month or so ago I got a great deal on this BBQ. I usually make my own but it was so cheap I thought I would try it. I bought a bunch and threw them in the freezer. When we have baked potatoes we use 2 for my family. I toss them in the microwave and we top the potatoes with it.
This is a picture of my daughters plate, I forgot to take one of mine and my husbands, we had ours TOPPED with everything! It was prettier that way! We usually have sour cream, cheese, butter, green onions, pulled pork, and salt and pepper.
Here are some ideas of what you can put in your bar:
| Vegetables mushrooms, sauteed fresh or frozen peas onions celery carrots tomatoes olives avocado slices or chunks broccoli cauliflower florets sweet bell pepper jalapenos |
Sauces and Dressings flavored sour creams, such as chipolte, truffle, cilantro Ranch dressing sour cream dips seasoned butters garlic butter cheese sauces Meat sauces such as stroganoff Marinara sauce Alfredo sauce chili nacho cheese or chili con queso |
Meats flaked tuna smoked salmon bacon bits shredded ham grilled or creamed chicken shredded or crumbled ground beef stroganoff or beef tips chopped barbecue blue cheese shredded Parmesan cheese tiny shrimps scampi |
Exotic and Gourmet toppings chopped fresh herbs pesto sauted spinach with garlic stir fried baby vegetables roasted red peppers mixed grilled vegetables caviar or fish roe dipping oils truffle oil sliced toasted almonds chopped water chestnuts |
Baked Potato bars are really good to serve to big groups and company, Ellen’s Kitchen has methods on how to transport and arrange Potato Bars for large crowds.
What are you having for dinner tonight?
**Use zip 98052
WOW, there are so many uses for this high value coupon! If you have not gotten your $1.50 off Colgate Sensative coupon go HERE and look under zip 30303, 77477, 90210 or try 80222. It has been on and off today finding it! Let us know if you find it under a certain zip! Thanks Hip2Save for photo and deal.
Some Walmart stores have it in the trial size section as well as some grocery stores.
Eversave has a great deal today on Parents magazine. You can get a 1 year subscription for only $5. If you are a new member you get a free $3 credit for signing up and you can apply that to the total amount making your subscription only $2!
This is a great magazine to get for the coupons.
Also today on Eversave travel, if you are needing to make a hotel reservation for anytime soon you might want to check out the deal they have going for Travelocity. You can get a $100 gift voucher to Travelocity for only $50.
I have been posting some price match deals at Walmart lately and many of you have questions on how to price match. It is very easy, please do not be scared! Paul did a video a while back to show you how, I would suggest watching it.
There are a few things that have changed since he made it in Walmarts new price matching policy.
To see more information on price matching go HERE you can also find the link to print the price match policy so that you can have it with you HERE.
If you would like to see the best deals this week at CVS to price match go HERE. If you want to see the best deals to price match at Walgreens go HERE.
Why price match?
I price match so I don’t have to go to a bunch of stores, I want to go to just one and get in and out. Also, many drug stores sell out fast and are out of stock. There is no limit on how many items you can price match, I have done my entire cart. You can also use coupons and price match an item. Sometimes stores will tell you that you can’t, I would explain that no where in the price match policy does it say that you can’t, plus if you can’t then why price match? I would buy my items at the other store where I could use my coupons. The purpose of price matching is so that you use your coupons and buy the product in their (walmarts) store.
From September 6 – 10, 2011, participating Chick-fil-A® restaurants are giving away a variety of FREE breakfast entrées to customers who make a reservation online. To make your reservation, visit this website beginning Monday, August 29, 2011 and choose your preferred Chick-fil-A restaurant, the date, time and breakfast entrée.
Some of you will be able make a reservation right away and not have to wait.
The picture above is not actually my daughter, I am sure you knew that, but I just wanted to make sure. 🙂 It is from the Wizard of Oz and is the evil witch as she peddles to who knows where, and little Dorothy just wanted to be home.
School started last week for my kids, it was a really happy time for them as they are really excited to be biking to school this year. The thing is they didn’t really have a choice, see the school district is cutting back and if you live within a certain distance you have no bus service this year. I am like the wicked witch above and refuse to sit for an hour in car line so my kids get all hot and sweaty biking to and from school. I am sure it is building character and keeping them fit at the same time.
We practiced before school started to make sure the kids were confident getting to school. They ride in a large mass of kids (see above about no school bus ) so it is really just following the kid in front of you. Plus there are about 1,001 Moms and Dads riding also and a few crossing guards.
My oldest daughter rides with a group a street over. Last week the ring leader stayed home sick and so the group disbanded and headed off on their own. My daughter came home and asked what she should do. I asked if she felt confident going alone and she did. I told her to come back if she wasn’t sure and I would go with her. Her ride is fairly long and she took off.
After school I asked her when she got home all sweaty and red faced how school went. She told me about her adventure to school. Thinking she had gone too far and missed the school she turned around and started back only to get lost. Frustrated and shy she ended up sitting on the bike trail crying. This part breaks my heart and makes me cry also! In a few minutes a woman came jogging by and stopped to asked if my daughter needed help. She told her she was lost and couldn’t find her school. This woman told her to follow her, she turned around, and jogged with my daughter on the bike all the way to her school’s front door.
Thank goodness for Moms and women in general. My daughter would have never talked to a man (upon orders from her Mother and Father) and that lady could have pointed her in the right direction, but she took the time to make sure that she made it, possibly making herself late. I know that I would have done that same thing, but I really appreciate it when other Moms do things to help my children out. My daughter didn’t ask the lady’s name, so I can’t thank her, but I really want her to know how much I appreciate her and what she did!
Part comedian, part Dad, part athlete. He will boss around your children while they play ball.
Just as angelic as she looks, this girl could easily raise a Village by herself, and all the children would grow up to be President.
Self proclaimed, she would be a webkinz dog. Because, "they're cute, and puppies are too. And they're sweet and they always get along with other puppies."
This mini-Martha Stewart can handle ANY craft you send her way. She isn't all bows and rainbows, she's got karate kid moves!
Not "Pick-Me-Up" like caffeine, she wants you to pick her up! AND NOW!
Anything that can be destroyed WILL be destroyed!
Practically Perfect in Every Way for now! Nicknamed "The Panda" she is rolly polly and lives by the motto, "the little one, is KING!"
The resident Labradoodle, Miller got his name because Mom won and got to name the baby! Need something chewed up? He'll take care of it. Especially if it's expensive..
