Monday: Grocery Game WINNER!

We are doing a lot of discussions about finances, money, making the most of your money etc. I do the Grocery Game and normally save about 40-50% off our grocery bill. Well, this week was a much bigger winner. C helped with coupons, helped with shopping and learned that with just a little inconvenience you can save a LOT of money! General Mills was running a special, with a limit of 2 per shopping trip, where if you buy 10 of their items you got 5 dollars off. We coupled that with LOTS of coupons, and basically ended up getting 300$ of groceries for 80$! This supplies us with cereal, granola bars, fruit snacks etc for a year! And the kids get a lot of things that their cheap mother would not typically buy for them! Wanna see what we got for 80 dollars?

4 boxes of Capt'n Crunch
16 boxes of granola bars
12 boxes of fruit snacks
2 packages of bacon
1 20 roll package of toilet paper
2 (50 oz) bottles of Tide with bleach (we like to make home made laundry soap but for whites I use this)
6 rolls of dental floss
2 bottles of lysterine for kids
2 "Reach" toothbrushes
2 tubes of crest pro health tooth paste
2 packages of 10 pens
1 package of 10 mechanical pencils (an absolute must for homework!)
2 jars of pickle relish
4 boxes of Romano Macaroni Grill meals
6 boxes of Hamburger Helper
4 packages of Knorr Pasta sides
1 box of Uncle Bens long grain wild rice
2 Betty Crocker potato sides
10 bottles of Diet Mountain Dew (yes, we all drink it except for Kevin)
4 boxes of Pillsbury Toaster Pastries
6 cans of Grand's Biscuits
1 package of Sargento String cheese

Any doubters left about coupons? :) We had to do 3 different orders to get a total of 30 dollars off then on top of that there were 2 general mills coupons that printed at the checkout for 3.50 off your next order.

C had so much fun that now he wants to go grocery shopping with me each time! It is like a scavenger hunt!

We are going through the Dave Ramsey book with our kids and we talk a lot about managing money, making your money go as far as it possibly can and being not spending more than you have.

Much of that stuff we make from scratch 95% of the time, but with the sales like that, we throw a little convenience stuff into our fridge to make life a bit easier.

School was pretty standard today. All subjects covered but only "Project" was science. He had a test and had to classify living things by their 7 steps of classification by putting the little slips of paper in order and had to research on the internet to come up with the information. I really think they learn more by doing it that way than by reading in a book then regurgitating on a test.