Thursday, February 4, 2010

Menu for the week with what' on sale for Feb. 3-Feb. 9

There are a few ideas for main dishes that would be Super Bowl weekend appropriate posted in the past week. And if you still have coupons and a Fry's nearby you are good to go for cheap to free eats for a Superbowl party or at least dinner one night this week. Check out your coupons last Sunday in the paper, you know, the SmartSource and Red Plum inserts. On the back inside page of one of them is a coupon for Wholly Guacamole guacamole or salsa. Use it with the sale price of $1 at Fry's this week and it will be free. Get the salsa and use it for Salsa skillet chicken, posted previously, just a week or a few days ago. The Hormel Chili Masters white chicken chili or other varieties was and is free this week also using the coupon that came out a week or two ago. or use the regular Hormel chili to make macho nachos. Or make a six foot sub using 3 french bread sticks at Bashas' for $1.49 each. Cut off the ends of the french bread except for the 'ends' and lay end to end. Slice down the middle and add your favorite meats and cheeses. Spareribs at Bashas at a great price, .99 lb., see my mom's recipe for BBQ spareribs at the left side. They are a juicy, soupy, saucey kind of sparerib that need to be eaten on a plate with a fork and knife, so keep that in mind if you're thinking party food. Canned tomatoes are cheap, cheap, cheap on the buy 10 Fry's deal. Use them to whip up a chili or Taco Soup. The Velveeta style mac and cheese is cheap on the buy 10 deal. So is Mott's apple juice and a host of snack crackers and snack foods. Nabisco snack crackers, aka wheat thins and triscuits are a great buy on the buy 10 deal. I picked some up last week using a coupon worth a dollar for .88 per box. Asparagus is .99 lb. at Fresh & Easy if you wanted to make a more healthy snack, see the recipe for aparagus beef wraps on the left.

Random thought....If you save a mere $10/month buying sale priced items matched up with a coupon, that's $120/yr. saved. But, you can do better than that. If you save $300/month with coupons and sales that's $3,600/yr. Multiply that by five yrs. and that's $18,000. Eighteen Thouuuuuuusaaaaaaaand dollars! That's a car or several nice trips or bills paid or a college fund or two mission funds or 900 piano lessons. So you may never look at a coupon again and think, it's just a .50 coupon. Go to http://www.pinchingyourpennies/ and spend a few minutes matching up coupons to the sale items. You'll be happy you did.

NOTE: also, http://www.couponsense.com/ and http://www.hip2save.com/

$79.66 a little higher than I wanted it to be but I had to work around the Fry's 10 deal

Breakfast
1-Breakfast tacos. Egg, cheese, sausage, tortilla
2-Cold cereal, milk, banana
3-French toast. Do something wacky and 'fry' it in the waffle iron for a grid effect
4-Cold cereal, milk, apple juice
5-Cold cereal or eggs and toast
6-Cold cereal, milk
7-Eggs, toast

Lunch
1-PB&J sandwich, goldfish crackers, grapes
2-Pork sandwich, apple
3-PB&J sandwich, orange
4-Pork sandwich, cookie
5-PB&J sandwich, cookie, if there are enough eggs left, hard boiled or deviled egg
6-Hot dog
7-Ramen noodles

Dinner
1-Pork loin, baked potato, green salad w/ dressing
2-Pizza, green salad, Pepsi
3-Teriyaki beef kabobs, grilled or roasted asparagus, green salad w/ dressing
4-Canned chili, cheese toast using hamburger buns
5-Macaroni and cheese, steamed broccoli
6-Fish tacos using fish filets or fish sticks
7-Spaghetti, sauce, garlic toast, green salad if any lettuce left

Desserts:
Cookies
Cheesecake pie, see recipe at left side

Grocery list:
Bashas':
Roma tomatoes, 2 lbs./$1, buy 2 lbs.
Boneless top sirloin, $1.89 lb., buy 2 lbs. at $3.78
Mission flour tortillas, 2/$3, buy 2
Food Club butter, $1.99
Shamrock Farms sour cream, 2/$3, buy 1
Russet Baking potatoes, .49 lb., buy 6 lbs., or $2.94
Bashas milk, $2.19 gal., buy 2, $4.38
Ramen noodles, .25, buy 2 at .50

Fresh & Easy
Asparagus, .99
Bananas, .19 each, buy 4 at .76
Pantry Select hot dog buns, .88
Pantry Select hamburger buns, .88
Farmers Gem large eggs, 18 ct., $1.57, buy 2

Fry's
Pork loin, $1.77, aprox. $8
Navel oranges, 3lbs./.99, buy 3 lbs.
Bar S Jumbo meat franks, .67
Wholly guacamole salsa, $1
Farmer John pork links, 10/$10, buy 1
Kroger Value, peanut butter, $1.47
Kroger Value bread, .88, buy 4
Kroger Value cereal, I've allowed for $1.50 each, buy 2
Fry's spaghetti, .88
Kroger Value sauce, $1.15
Grahm crackers, I've allowed for $2
Iceberg lettuce, $1

Buy 10, save $5
1-Mac & cheese, .49
2-Mac & cheese, .49
3-Hormel chili, .79
4-Hormel chili, .79
5-Hormel chili, .79
6-Pepsi, .79
7-Kraft cheese, $1.49
8-Kraft cheese, $1.49
9-Tombstone Pizza, $1.99
10-Tombstone Pizza, $1.99
1-Goldfish crackers, .88
2-Goldfish crackers, .88
3-Goldfish crackers, .88
4-Mama Bella garlic bread, $1.99
5-Mott's apple juice, $1.49
6-Krusteaz cookie mix, $1.49
7-Kraft Salad dressing, $1.49
8-Van de Kamp's fish sticks or filets, $2.99
9-Philadelphia cream cheese, .99
10-Philadelphia cream cheese, .99

Sprouts
Grapes, .88 lb.
Pinova apples, .77 lb., buy 3 lbs. at $2.31
Broccoli, .88

Items not on the grocery list:
syrup or powdered sugar for the french toast
jelly
soy sauce
molasses
garlic
oil
spices, herbs
sugar
brown sugar
mayonnaise
mustard
ketchup

Other great deals this week:
Ribeye, loin, NY steak in a bag, $3.99 lb.-Safeway
Hass avacados, 3/$1-Bashas
Pork spareribs, .99 lb.-Bashas
Food club dip, 2/$3-Bashas
French stick bread, $1.49-Bashas

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