Hairspray Score at CVS!

As I wrote in a recent article on Blissful Style, Tresemme Tres Two hairspray is my fa-vo-RITE! So when I saw CVS had a good ECB deal on Tresemme this week I had to get me some o’ that. So here’s what I got!

36 cents at CVS. and I made 5 ECBs, boo-yah!

Three Tresemme hairsprays, $10
Glade Soy candle $4.99
Edge Shave Gel $2.89
Crest $2.88
Total = $20.76
Coupons: CVS $4/$20 email coupon (expired but my CVS takes them for 30 days)
Glade $1 off coupon
$3 off Glade Walgreens coupon (my CVS takes competitor q’s)
$1 off any Glade CVS CRT
$3 off any $10 hair care purchase CVS CRT
Three $1 off Tresemme printable q’s
75 cents off Crest manu q

Total = $5.01

I paid with 4.99 in ECB and paid 36 cents cash and got back 5 ECB for the Tresemme, 2 for the Crest, and 2.89 for the Edge. That’s makin’ money! Woo-hoo!

That’s all the exciting couponing I did this week. Hope you all did great! To see how everyone else did, head over to CVS Superstars at the Centsible Sawyer, Shopping Superstars at the Thrifty Mama and Super Savings Saturday at Money Saving Mom!

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Ah, CVS I Missed You!

I went back to CVS today to get some good deals. Still nothing I jumped up and down about, but at least there were a couple freebies and a great diaper deal. Here’s what I got:

CVS $3.12 got back 5.49 ECB

Skintimate shave gel $3.49
Colgate toothpaste $2.99
CVS paper towels $.99
Two Excedrin Migraine @$1.99 each – $3.98
Advil Liquigels $3.99
Two Schick Intuition refills B1G1 free $10.99
Total = $26.43

Coupons:
$5/$25 Rite Aid q (my CVS takes competitors q’s)
75 cents off Colgate q
Free CVS paper towels coupon
Two $2 off Excedrin manu q’s (adjusted down)
Two $4 off Schick Intuition manu q’s
Total = $7.71
Paid with 5 ECB and $3.12 cash and got back $5.49 ECB

Next transaction: diapers!!

CVS paid $1.86 got back 10 ECB

Two packs of Huggies $20
Wipes $5
Total = $25

Coupons:
Rite Aid $5/$25 purchase
Two $3 off Huggies diapers printable q’s
One $5 off any Huggies Gentle Care product printable

Total = $9
Paid with 7.49 ECB and $1.86 cash and got back 10 ECB!

That’s all I got! I still have those 10 ECB so I hope to get some great deals next weeks. We shall see! To see how everyone else did this week, check out Shopping Superstars at the Thrifty Mama and Super Savings Saturday at Money Saving Mom!

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Cookin’ It Up!

I told you on Friday that Bobby and I were going to attempt part of the March menu available from the once-a-month-cooking geniuses at Once a Month Mom. The menu contained 15 great recipes which really do make up an ENTIRE month’s worth of meals! To do the whole menu, you need about 8 kid-free hours with a cooking partner. Because of the busy-ness of spring that has already sprung, Bobby and I didn’t have a whole day to devote to OAMC, so we picked our six favorite recipes from the menu and set aside two blocks of time on Saturday – in the morning, my parents came and got the kids at 9. I made a small start getting organized, and after Bobby got home from his Bible Study at 10 a.m., we got to work! Since we were just cooking for one family instead of two (if you cook with a partner and stick with the original menu you’ll have enough meals for both families), I adjusted the recipes according to how many servings we wanted to make of each meal. In our morning session, we made Raspberry Chicken (3 meals), Orange Marmalade Pork Chops/Salmon (4 meals – the recipe called for salmon but I don’t like fish, so we made one meal of salmon for Bobby and the other three we made with pork chops), pizza roll-ups (6 meals) and chocolate-raspberry pancakes (3 meals). We finished up by 12:30, ate lunch, and got ready to go to Sammy’s first birthday party, where we picked up the kiddos. Here are some photos from our morning cooking session, where we made 16 meals!

The marinade for our raspberry chicken. Yum!

raspberry marinade

Orange marmalade pork chops ready to go in the freezer:

orange marmalade pork chops

Pizza roll-ups, before & after baking. They smelled and looked so good we wanted to eat them right then & there!

pizza roll ups before they were cooked

pizza roll-ups

Bobby manned the griddle and cooked our chocolate chip-rapsberry pancakes:

flapjack Bob

We had originally planned to do 3 recipes in our morning session and 3 in the evening, but everything went so smoothly in the morning that we got four recipes done!! Woohoo! So that night after the kids went to bed, we started on the Baked Chicken Fingers and Mandarin Orange Chicken. We made 3 meals of each, and it only took us about an additional 2 hours of cooking and clean-up!

Here are our finished chicken fingers. We had these for lunch today after church and they were really yummy!

baked chicken fingers

And here’s our Mandarin Orange Chicken, ready to go in the freezer:

mandarin orange chicken

All in all, we cooked 22 meals in about 5 hours, including clean-up. And since I only spent about $70 on all the groceries for this endeavor, that means our meals cost us $3.18 each. Pretty darn good for 10 dinners, 9 lunches, and 3 breakfasts! And I can’t even imagine how much time I am going to save this month since I won’t be cooking nearly as often!

Bobby and I had such a great time cooking together. I don’t know if all married couples could stand to do this together, but Bobby is a MUCH better person that I am, which enabled us to have a successful & peaceful cooking day. 🙂 We still loved each other at the end of all that! Here we are about 11:00 at night, after we finished cooking.

we still love each other

We really LOVED the once-a-month cooking experience, and we hope to be able to do the FULL menu and FULL cooking day in April! There is a really yummy menu from Once A Month Mom here and lots of things on sale for it this which, which Tricia posted about here. So get a partner, get a plan, and get once-a-month cooking! Tricia and Cortney have all the resources you need at Once a Month Mom including printable menus, grocery lists, and grocery store sale match-ups.

(I also submitted this post to I am Blissfully Domestic! Head over there and check out all the great posts!)

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