This weekends Kid’s clothing, toys, and equipment sales:

**As Kids Grow
April 1: 9AM-8PM,  April 2:  9AM-2PM, April 3:  10AM-2PM 1/2 price
American Legion Hall
115 W. Richardson Avenue
Langhorne, PA

There was a lot packed into the Acme flier this week. I am going to highlight some of the deals and let you decide what is worth it for you. Now, there are still some really good deals for you if you DON’T coupon so check it out. If  you use a lot of cereal, Post raisin bran is fairly inexpensive(See Campbells Soup deal below)

London Broil – 1.99# To me this is a stock up price. I don’t remember the last time I have seen it this low.
Porkchops – .99#
Chicken legs/drumsticks/thighs – .99#
Strawberries  1# – 3.99 Buy one get one

*Buy 10 save $5 Instantly*
If you aren’t familiar with how this works, you buy any 10 items in this category and the register automatically takes $5 off the order

Oreos (9.6-18 oz.)                                                2.49
Nabisco Snack crackers (5.5 – 10 oz.)          2.49
Dannon(activia, danimals)                                1.99      (some danimal
coolisions had .55/1 coupons on them)
Powerade/Poweade Zero(32 oz.)                   1.00
Pillsbury Plain brownies (19.5 oz)                 0.99
**Remember to take $5 off whatever your 10 items total.

Tostitos tortilla chips – 2.50
Turkey Hill ice cream-2.50
Green Giant veggies – 1.00
Ocean Markets seafood portions – 1.00
2 # Clementines – 2.50
Nature Sweet cherry tomatoes – 2/$5 (if you coupon there is $1/2)
San Giorgio pasta – $1
Langer’s 100%  cranberry juice – 2.50
Ronzoni – Healthy Harvest or Garden pasta – 1.00
Kelloggs cereal – some are 2.99 – WYB 3 at once you get FREE gallon milk                 – a coupon will print out for a free gallon

Back Page -   Buy 10 save $5 instantly

*Glaceau vitamin water -                                                          1.25
*Kraft Deluxe/Velveeta shells and cheese dinner -       1.99
*Kraft salad dressing -                                                                 1.99
*Healthy Choice fresh mixers-                                                2.49
*Marie Callender Homestyle Bakes-                                      2.49
*Kraft mayo/Miracle Whip-                                                      2.49
*Juicy Juice –                                                                                   2.49
*Kraft shredded/chunk/singles cheese –                             2.49
*Jello- refrigerated pudding or jello-                                    2.49
*Reddiwhip-                                                                                     2.49
*Hebrew National Beef franks –                                                2.99
*Nabisco fruit crisps/Newtons –                                              3.29
*Hillshire smoked sausage –                                                       3.49
*Fresh Step scoopable litter -                                                    6.49
*Starbucks Coffee –                                                                            7.49

**Again, remember to take $5 off the total of your 10 items

*Buy 10 items get 200 Campbell Soup Labels OR
Buy 15 items get 400 Campbell Soup Labels
(We collect these for COMPASS so I will gladly take them if you don’t collect them)

*Campbells cream of chicken, mushroom,condensed –       5/$4
*Popsecret – 3 ct.                                                                                    1.50
*Campbells chunky/family size condensed -                               1.50
*Spaghettios -                                                                                               .50
*Post fruity/cocoa pebbles-                                                                1.79
*Post pebble treats-                                                                                1.79
*V8 Splash –                                                                                                2.00
*Prego sauce –                                                                                            2.00
*Pepperidge Farm Naturals crackers –                                            2.50
*Pepperidge Farm chunk cookies -                                                   2.50
*Pepperidge Farm Frozen Layer cakes -                                         2.50
*Pepperidge Farm turnovers -                                                            2.50

Well, my morning started by just barely missing a police checkpoint.  Whew!!! Ok, so I wasn’t doing anything wrong but still I hate those things AND they really slow down traffic.  They must have set up shortly after we dropped Dave off at work. Then, we shopped Giant. We are not even going into what a nightmare that was this morning. We are skipping right to Superfresh.

Have a I got a deal!!! Cheese – $1.   America’s Choice 8 oz. shredded/chunk cheeses are $1!!!! Again!!! They rarely have this but they did 2 weeks ago and now again! Of course, last time I didn’t buy nearly enough. So yes, today, I bought 13 packages – those bags freeze wonderfully for when there are no deals and you want homemade pizza or pasta.

They also have (for $1)
eggs
sour cream
cream cheese
Coffee mate
16 oz. half and half
frozen veggies
pizza rolls
pillsbury cake mix
Knorr pasta sides
Turkey Hill pints of ice cream
hunts snack pack pudding
baby carrots
bread
salad dressing
Heinz white vinegar (16 oz)
Breakstone 100 cal. cottage cheese
Hansen Jr.’s juice boxes
Del Monte Diced tomatoes
Yocrunch yogurt parfaits
Ravioli
Vlasic Relish
4C breadcrumbs
Fage yogurt
Lipton Soup Mix
Good Humour Popsicles
frozen bagels
orange juice
frozen whipped topping
ketchup
mustard
olives
rice cakes
Ludens cough drops

Not $1 but a deal-

Cantaloupe $1.50
Broccoli – $1.50 ( per large head)
Philadelphia Cooking Creme – $2 and they have little coupon machines at  them with coupons for $1.50 /1 (Yeah, really)
Thomas English Muffins – $1.50
America’s Choice mac and cheese – .39
porkchops – 1.99#

Once you get the “bug” called “kids’ used clothing sales” it is pretty hard not to go into sticker shock at the department stores, well, unless it is a department store FINAL red tag clearance. Ok, I do admit I occasionally STILL suffer sticker shock.

If you still need kid’s clothing, toys, or equipment here are some sales for you!!

**Bradford Heights Elementary School Outgrown Sale
March 26, 8 AM – 1PM
1330 Romig Road
Downingtown, PA

Ugh!!! So, my freezers are FULL!!! Like, really full!!  But it was so fun getting the $25 off at Giant for buying $100 worth of frozen food, that I want to do it again.
What? Oh, OF COURSE NOT!!!! Did you think I REALLY spent $100?? No way. That was BEFORE coupons, and you all KNOW I use those babies.

This leads to today’s adventure. Like deep cleaning my bathroom, and making pasta,  scones and tomato sauce weren’t enough, I am cleaning out my fridge freezer.

Oh boy!!! It is always so full I never do that. Not good!! I finally got to the bottom and of course there are all sorts of unique things accumulating in there. Thankfully the boiling water trick my mom always used works like a charm at pulling all that gunk up. I don’t look forward to moving to the basement freezer.

Any creative uses for guacamole besides the traditional Mexican dishes? I was thinking of putting some in  a veggie soup. Is that too desperate? I mean, really, we rarely use guacamole BUT it was $1 at the grocery a few months back and I just so happened to have a few $1/1 coupons. IT WAS FREE!!!! I figured it would be great for fajitas and things like that. I just never got around to using it. Thankfully I was smart enough to pop it in the freezer right away.  Regretfully I wasn’t smart enough to REMEMBER I put it in the freezer until now.

This adventure also led to a pan of frozen chicken broth and spinach melting on low, and another pan of ground chicken getting browned with onions and garlic. Plus, I have a chicken breast, chicken sausages and ricotta mixture thawing.

Three meals – chicken sausage and spinach soup, ground chicken and brown rice soup, and chicken and ricotta stuffed pasta

What does this have to do with deals besides wanting to get more frozen food? A LOT!!!!! Here’s the breakdown on those meals:
*Ground chicken – $1.47# – Total: $2.03
*Spinach – less than .50 with a coupon
*Chicken sausage – 2.49# – Total: 1.82
*Chicken breast – 1.79#
*Ricotta – 32 oz. was 1.99, used a .75/1 coupon that doubled, so .24!!!! I used part and froze part
*Turkey broth – FREE. I roasted a turkey and froze a lot of broth
*Pasta – for my soup. I made it up when I got eggs for .99 a dozen so it cost pennies to make and freeze
*Broccoli – fresh steamed in the bag – $1

All of this was in my freezer because I bought it when there was a deal.  I also have carrots, onions, etc. for the soups, in my cellar or fridge. I paid under $10 for it where as if I went out today to buy those for meals this week I would have paid MUCH more.

Remember this though, it’s only a deal if you will use it.  If you get a good deal on 85% lean hamburger but don’t cook with 85% then it’s not a good deal. Odds are it will sit in your freezer until it isn’t recognizable and you chuck it.

I am off to make the kids some lunch – that frozen pack of hot dogs, frozen applesauce, and bag of peas is going to free up some much needed space.