Who is tired of eating ham?? I am not yet, I have to admit… it seems like you can use it in just about anything and has made the past few nights of dinners really easy!

This coming week looks like CHICKEN in my future! Not only did we get our Zaycon chicken but Kroger and a few other stores has it on sale cheap!

Great deals on meat/protein this week: (start with this first, plan your meals around the most expensive part of the meal) * If you don’t have the same stores as I do, just start with the meat section at your store!

::KROGER::

• Assorted Pork Chops $1.88/lb
• Ball Park Franks 3 for $5
• Homestyle Ground Chuck Patties 10 for $10
• Hormel Pepperoni 10 for $10
• Kroger Fully Cooked Bacon $2.50
• Kroger Boneless Skinless Chicken Breast $1.99/lb
• Pilgrims Pride Chicken Drumsticks or thighs $1.49/lb ($.99 /lb is better, this isn’t bad)
• T-Bone Steak $4.99/lb
• Tennessee Pride Sausage $2.88 roll

::RANDALLS/SAFEWAY:: 

• Lloyd’s Twin Packs B1G1 Free
• Safeway Chicken Leg Quarters and Drumsticks $.99/lb
• Rancher’s Reserve Boneless Beef Rib Roast $2.99/lb
• Safeway Chicken Split Breasts $1.49/lb

::HEB:: 

• Country Post Boneless Skinless Chicken breasts $1.99lb
• New York Strip Steaks $3.97 /lb
• Assorted Pork Chops $1.97/lb
• Hill Country Fair BBQ Seasoned Chicken Leg Quarters $1 /lb.
• Pork Loin Country Style Ribs $1.47/lb

:: THURSDAY :: Chicken and Garlic Glaze – I am using the whole chicken breasts from Kroger on this one. Making a few extra and tearing the meat off them for Saturday’s dinner. I have everything else at home for this dish in my pantry. I just need to add a salad and side.

• Kroger $1.49 chicken breasts
• Walmart -Chicken Broth $0.50 off Swanson Flavor Boost™ concentrated broth
• Randalls – Salad Kit $2.50

::FRIDAY:: – Baked Potato Bar – My son is having friends over and I need a cheap and easy meal to feed a bunch of teens!

• Randalls – Lloyd’s Twin Packs B1G1 Free ($1.00 off LLOYD’S Barbeque product)
• Randalls – Lucerne Sour Crean $2.29
• Randalls – Lucerne 32oz Chredded Cheese $6.99
• Kroger – Kroger Fully Cooked Bacon $2.50

::SATURDAY:: – Baked Burritos – Remember the left over chicken from Thursday? I am using it tonight for baked burritos which my kids and everyone LOVES. I will also make extra for lunch on Sunday.

• Walmart – Canned Tomatoes $0.55 off any two (2) Hunt’s Canned Tomatoes
• Walmart – Canned Black Beans
• Walmart – Tortillas
• Randalls – Salad Kits $2.50

::SUNDAY:: – Steak – New York Strip Steaks. With a side brocooli salad and garlic knots. Again, make extra steak, I am going to have it for my salad at lunch for a few days. 🙂

• HEB – New York Strip Steaks $3.97 /lb
• HEB – Broccoli Organic
• Randalls – Grapes $2.99/lb
• Walmart – Green Onions

::MONDAY:: – Pan Fried Pork Chops, Side Salad and a roll.

• Randalls – Side Salad $2.50
• Kroger – Assorted Pork Chops $1.88/lb

:: TUESDAY :: We will be eating out this night… I already know what a crazy night it will be!

:: This is the last day to get these prices on the items, the sale switches over tomorrow:: 

I can’t tell you how good the Kroger ad is this week! That is really the only place I want to shop… They have pretty much everything and a great mega event going!

* Tip – Because greens peppers are so cheap at Randalls this week for $.78. Buy extra and chop up and freeze for pizza, soup and more!

THURSDAY – Easy Chicken & Cheese Casserole – Super Easy, calls for fancy mushrooms, we just skip them… Make some extra, shred the chicken and use for another dish.

FRIDAY – Easy  Fast Five Tortas – I posted this a few days ago. Since eggs are SOOOOO cheap this week, I would suggest making something with eggs. Make extra ground beef for the peppers on Sunday.

SATURDAY – Easy Fast Five Quiche – Again… I am making an egg dish as they are REALLY cheap right now!

SUNDAY – Stuffed Green Peppers – Since I am buying ground beef for the Tortas I am getting extra and using them for the peppers which are on sale at Kroger.

MONDAY – Big Steak Salad – Randalls/Safeway has the Beef Top Round on sale for $2.99. It doesn’t take a lot to make a great salad. Overall, it won’t cost you much to feed a bunch of people. Just grill the steak and slice it thin.

TUESDAY  – Best Crock Pot Chicken Taco Meat – This is sucka staple for us, because you can have tacos, soup or a ton of other dishes! We will probably have tacos!

::Kroger Shopping List::

• Boneless Skinless Chicken $1.79/lb
• Kroger Ground Chuck $2.79/lb
• Pineapple $1 (side)
• Oscar Mayer Bacon $3.69
• Kroger Cheese $1.77
• Eggs 18 for $1.50
• Kraft Salad Dressing $1.49

 ::Randalls::

• Beef Top Round $2.99
• Campbells Soup 4 for $5
• Fresh Express Salads $1.50
• Uncle Bens rice 3 for $6 ( side dishes )
• Green Peppers $.78

::ADDITIONAL ITEMS:: 

• Rice
• Items for tacos ( tomato, salsa, etc.)
• Lettuce for salad

::Last Day for these prices to your store:: 

*Heads up! I am going to be posting the weekly menu plan on Thursday’s from now on. I have always posted them on Monday’s just because it was the start of the week, but I do my personal one when the new ads come out. It just seems more natural and makes more sense that way. I hate giving you a plan with prices that expire in 2 days. Forgive me if I mess up your mojo by doing it on Thursday, but I am figuring it give you more time to shop as well.

* I will be going to Randalls/Safeway today because I am getting a bunch of the frozen food items to have as sides during the week. I am also using the $10 catalina I get to buy ground beef for another meal.

Here are some free printables if you need them:

• Shopping List – Feel free to print this off and keep it on the fridge to jot down those items that you need to pick up from the store!
• Favorite Recipes – This form will help you make a list of the top recipes that you make for your family.
• Freezer Inventory – Take stock of what you have already so that you don’t overbuy. But also so that you know what you are looking for.
• Pantry Inventory – Keep track of what you have on hand. Then make a plan on what you are using a lot of and stock up on that.
• Monthly Menu Planner – By planning a monthly menu you can better follow the sales and know what you need to buy.

OK, the kids are home this week and I had some help from the oldest girls in making a menu plan. The more you involve your kids the better they eat IMO. Let them have some ownership in the recipes you make!

THURSDAY – Slow Cooker Root Beer Pulled Pork – Since HEB has the pork ribeye roast on sale for $1.97/lb I am picking up a few of these. You can make the ribeye roast in the crock pot, grill it, or bake it. I am going to stick mine in the crock pot today. I might even do 2 crock pots full so I have left over pulled pork.

Kroger: Buns $1 (if you want them on a bun, I like tortillas)

• Recipe: Mix together 1 cup of BBQ sauce and a can of root beer. Pour the root beer mix over the pork roast in the slow cooker. Sprinkle garlic powder and smoked paprika over top. Turn on high for a few hours and then turn down on low.  After eight hours, if your roast has any bones, you will be able to just shred the meat off the bone and throw the bone away. Shred meat and if you have too much liquid you can pour off some. You don’t want it dry, just not soggy!

FRIDAY – Quesadilla Pizzas! – Taking the left over pulled pork, and adding pepperoni for some, we are making quesadilla pizzas. These are really simple and you will take the same ingredients that you would make pizzas with and make quesadillas. I am making ours with the pulled pork from the night before and adding some black olives, Monterey jack cheese and red onion. The kids will want pepperoni, olives, and cojack cheese.

Kroger has Pase salsa ($2.50) and sour cream ($1.97) on sale, Kraft Cheese $2.50
Randalls: Armour pepperoni $2.50 ( I am getting this at the start of the week)

SATURDAY – Roasted Chicken – Super simple… If you have not tried this, become Martha Stewart and do it!! HEB has got whole natural chickens on sale this weekend for $1.97/lb. so I am picking up a few chickens. If you don’t want to do a whole chicken get some boneless chicken breasts (they are not on sale this week anywhere) or pull some out of the freezer. Here is a good article on how to roast a chicken, but don’t make it more complicated then it really is 🙂 I just salt and pepper and stick it in the oven. Now I am going to get my son to pull all the meat off for me. Saturday night we will have roasted chicken with a side salad and bread.

HEB: Whole NaturalChickens $1.97/lb
Randalls: Fresh Express Salad $2.50

SUNDAY – Chicken Poppyseed Casserole – This is one of my kids favorite casseroles, they are weird, they like casserole as you can see in the pictures! I also have them help me make it.
Kroger: Town House (you can use these and not Ritz if you want)  crackers $2.00, Sour Cream $1.98, Canned Cream of Chicken Soup
HEB: Broccoli Crowns$1.88

MONDAY – Frozen Food Night 🙂– Randalls/Safeway stores have a deal going for frozen food month where you buy $30 of frozen food get $10 back, or buy $20 get $5 back. I am going to buy a few things and we are having them this night!

::Randalls::
Buy 1 Van De Kamp Seafood item get 1 free. I am buying 4 fish sticks at $3.99 each, 2 will be free.
3 Birdseye veggies get 1 free at $1.99 each.
Birdseye Viola meal $3.99 (after coupon $2.99)
2 Green Giant Frozen $2 ($1 after coupon)
2 Newmans Own Skillet Meals $6.99 ( $5.99 after coupon)
$0.50/1 Birds Eye Voila Product printable
$0.50/1 Green Giant Seasoned Steamers, exp. 4/6/13 (SS 02/10/13 R)
$0.60/3 Green Giant Frozen Boxed Vegetables, exp. 4/6/13 (SS 02/10/13 R)
$1.00 off ONE Newman’s Own Complete Skillet Meal
Total: $30.90
Get Back $10 catalina

Now, with that $10 catalina I am quickly walking back and grabbing about $8 worth of ground beef and 2 packages of the Armour pepperoni at $2/5 and using this coupon $1/2 Armour Pepperoni printable and the $10 catalina. I will be maybe a $1 out of my pocket!

TUESDAY – Spaghetti – Kroger agan this week has the Ragu sauce and noodles deal. When you buy 3 jars of Ragu sauce for $5 you get 2 packages of noodles for free. I am going to add a little ground beef to it and a side salad and call it dinner!
Kroger: Buy 3 Ragu at Kroger, get 2 free boxes of noodles $5 total.

::My shopping list::

Kroger:

• Buy 3 Ragu at Kroger, get 2 free boxes of noodles $5
• Town House (you can use these and not Ritz if you want)  crackers $2.00
• Sour Cream $1.98
• Canned Cream of Chicken Soup 1 can
• Kraft Cheese $2.50
• Buns $1

HEB:  (probably price matching at Walmart)

• Pork Ribeye Roast $1.97
• Broccoli Crowns$1.88

Randalls/Safeway: 

• 4 Fresh Express Salad $2.50
• Armour pepperoni $2.50
• Buy 1 Van De Kamp Seafood item get 1 free. I am buying 4 fish sticks at $3.99 each, 2 will be free.
• 3 Birdseye veggies get 1 free at $1.99 each.
• Birdseye Viola meal $3.99 (after coupon $2.99)
• 2 Green Giant Frozen $2 ($1 after coupon)
• 2 Newmans Own Skillet Meals $6.99 ( $5.99 after coupon)
• Ground Beef

What I have at Home: 

• BBQ Sauce
• Salad dressing
• Parmesan Cheese

:Reposting for anyone looking for my menu plan today!:

*Heads up! I am going to be posting the weekly menu plan on Thursday’s from now on. I have always posted them on Monday’s just because it was the start of the week, but I do my personal one when the new ads come out. It just seems more natural and makes more sense that way. I hate giving you a plan with prices that expire in 2 days. Forgive me if I mess up your mojo by doing it on Thursday, but I am figuring it give you more time to shop as well.

I think we are going to come out really cheap this week! Just in time to save some last minute cash for spring break, right?! We are staying home, so no big plans here. You can hang out with me all next week on the blog and wish we were somewhere exotic together! 🙂

THURSDAY: Buttermilk Chicken – I posted this recipe this morning, it is easy, simple and cheap to make, plus you can have left over chicken which is what I am planning on.

• Buy your chicken at Kroger for $.99/lb. split chicken breasts, legs and drum sticks. Get extra for another meal.

FRIDAY: BBQ Chicken Quick Pizza – Use the new coupon Paul posted about HERE, and pick up some FREE pizza dough for pizza’s! I am making BBQ chicken pizza and using the chicken from the night before.

• Get free pizza crust at Kroger and Walmart. Use chicken from night before.

SATURDAY: Homemade Hamburgers – There is a new coupon for the Ball Park hamburgers that are really good. Kroger has buns for $1 and chips for $2.50, add the toppings and you have a good, cheap meal. Make extra burgers to have some for the next night.

• Buy hamburgers at Walmart. Get buns and chips at Kroger.

SUNDAY: Cheeseburger Soup – We are not going to be having much soup anymore as it is getting warmer and this is one of our favorites, so I want to have it a few more times! I am using some of the leftover hamburgers from the night before, cutting them up and using them in my soup!

• Use leftover hamburgers from the night before! Best price on potatoes is at Randalls, so I might just price match those at Walmart. Velveeta is not on sale this week anywhere, so hopefully you have some left from when it was on sale for the superbowl.

This is my shopping list for the week:

Walmart – 

• Velveeta  (around $5) $1/1 Velveeta Item printable
• Ball Park Burgers $4.48 $3.00/2 Ballpark Fully Cooked Beef Patties (zip 77477)
• Fresh Express Salad (price match to Randalls – I am buying 3 bags) $2.99 – $0.55/1 Fresh Express Packaged Salad, exp. 6/10/13 (SS 03/10/13)
• Russet Potatoes $.99/lb  (price match to Randalls)
• Plus toppings for hamburgers and pizza $5 (tomatoes, ice burg lettuce, purple onion etc.)

*Heads up! I am going to be posting the weekly menu plan on Thursday’s from now on. I have always posted them on Monday’s just because it was the start of the week, but I do my personal one when the new ads come out. It just seems more natural and makes more sense that way. I hate giving you a plan with prices that expire in 2 days. Forgive me if I mess up your mojo by doing it on Thursday, but I am figuring it give you more time to shop as well.

I think we are going to come out really cheap this week! Just in time to save some last minute cash for spring break, right?! We are staying home, so no big plans here. You can hang out with me all next week on the blog and wish we were somewhere exotic together! 🙂

THURSDAY: Buttermilk Chicken – I posted this recipe this morning, it is easy, simple and cheap to make, plus you can have left over chicken which is what I am planning on.

• Buy your chicken at Kroger for $.99/lb. split chicken breasts, legs and drum sticks. Get extra for another meal.

FRIDAY: BBQ Chicken Quick Pizza – Use the new coupon Paul posted about HERE, and pick up some FREE pizza dough for pizza’s! I am making BBQ chicken pizza and using the chicken from the night before.

• Get free pizza crust at Kroger and Walmart. Use chicken from night before.

SATURDAY: Homemade Hamburgers – There is a new coupon for the Ball Park hamburgers that are really good. Kroger has buns for $1 and chips for $2.50, add the toppings and you have a good, cheap meal. Make extra burgers to have some for the next night.

• Buy hamburgers at Walmart. Get buns and chips at Kroger.

SUNDAY: Cheeseburger Soup – We are not going to be having much soup anymore as it is getting warmer and this is one of our favorites, so I want to have it a few more times! I am using some of the leftover hamburgers from the night before, cutting them up and using them in my soup!

• Use leftover hamburgers from the night before! Best price on potatoes is at Randalls, so I might just price match those at Walmart. Velveeta is not on sale this week anywhere, so hopefully you have some left from when it was on sale for the superbowl.

This is my shopping list for the week:

Walmart – 

• Velveeta  (around $5) $1/1 Velveeta Item printable
• Ball Park Burgers $4.48 $3.00/2 Ballpark Fully Cooked Beef Patties (zip 77477)
• Fresh Express Salad (price match to Randalls – I am buying 3 bags) $2.99 – $0.55/1 Fresh Express Packaged Salad, exp. 6/10/13 (SS 03/10/13)
• Russet Potatoes $.99/lb  (price match to Randalls)
• Plus toppings for hamburgers and pizza $5 (tomatoes, ice burg lettuce, purple onion etc.)

We have a great week of good deals on steak and lobster because of Valentines day on Thursday. The ads change on Tuesday night and I am basing my menu off the deals we have until then.

My husband makes dinner on Valentines for all of us. It is a tradition that we LOVE and look forward to all year! We usually have steak or chicken marsala. I am not sure what we will have this year, it is a surprise!

::MONDAY:: – Steak Salad – This copycat by the Pioneer Woman from Dave & Busters is AWESOME! Since steak is cheap at Kroger and Randalls, get some!

::TUESDAY:: – Roasted Chicken – Once you make chicken like this, it is hard to not have it every night! Make extra and pull the meat off and stick it in a ziploc for tomorrow night. Buy at HEB they have split breasts for $1 lb.

::WEDNESDAY:: – Chicken Tacos – Use leftover meat from night before. Just look for the toppings.

::THURSDAY:: – VALENTINES DAY! – I have the night off!

::FRIDAY:: – Pulled Pork Sandwiches – Randalls has the boneless pork for $1.99lb.