End of May: The cheapest chicken of the year

Well it's that time of year again. Every Memorial day (or the week before or after) Ridley's has the most amazing deal on boneless skinless chicken breasts! This year the sale is happening Saturday, June 3rd only. Boneless skinless chicken breast is just $1/lb. This year you have to buy it in increments of 20lbs, but at that price, you should be stocking up anyway!

Chicken NEVER goes this cheap at any other time of year, so make sure you get lots! Remember, if you buy a lot of chicken at the cheap price now, even if you still have a couple pounds in your freezer, then you'll avoid paying a higher price for it later, as well as the shopping trip. Money saved all around!

Other really great prices on their one day meat sale:
Bacon is $1.66/lb
Cheese is $2/lb
Beef Patties are $2.50/lb
Boneless pork chops are $1.57/lb

Some of these are the cheapest or almost the cheapest that you'll ever see prices for this kind of meat go. Especially the chicken and beef patties.

Have fun filling your freezers!

May 2017: Back to business, AKA getting cheap and FREE groceries through couponing.

Well, long time, no blog. Life has been crazy the past several months. Weddings, graduations, Christmas, moving. We've been through a lot. I had some major health issues creep up on me in the last 6 months, and the depression and anxiety were not my friend. Couponing was taken off my priority list because it was too stressful for me. Too much work, too much anxiety, and I was just "too busy". Couponing isn't the only thing that fell to the wayside (I may or may not have struggled to even shower regularly), and the horrible winter forcing me to stay cooped up inside didn't do me any favors. Thanks to counseling and my fantastic husband, I'm starting to get back on the mend. :)

Today I did my first couponing shopping trip of the year! I just want to add really quick that I was still sales shopping and trying to buy in bulk when something we use regularly was on sale, but coupons and cash back apps went out the window right after Christmas. One of the sales that I've been taking advantage of lately are diapers at Albertson's. Diapers are always cheapest between February and July in my experience. Not at Albertson's, but just in general. Anyway, Albertson's has a deal where you automatically get $5 off when you spend $40 or more in baby products. There is also a digital coupon on their Albertson's "Just4U" app where you get $5 off any purchase of $25 or more.

Fresh berries for free?! Yes please!

It's no surprise that it takes a while to get back into the swing of things after having a baby! That's why I've only posted once since like, March?!  Well it's time to fix that. Luckily for my family, I haven't taken a break from couponing, I just haven't been recording my deals here.

The first thing I want to address is that right now you can get laundry detergent for $0.99 at RiteAid! The 40oz bottle of OxiClean is on sale for $3.99, and there is a $3.00 off coupon this month from coupons.com (you can only print 1 coupon per device). This is one of two times every year that laundry detergent gets this cheap, so STOCK UP! I bought 4 bottles, but I would have bought more if I had more devices hooked to my printer.

Starting our Food Storage

Food storage (also known as "stockpiling") is a huge part of my life. There have been countless times both while I was growing up and since I left home that I've been able to survive difficult financial circumstances because I took the time to store food and other needed supplies on a regular basis before the crisis hit. I am an avid believer that couponing is the smartest way to grow a stockpile while spending as little as possible. It allows you to grow your stockpile faster and do so without breaking the bank - which is why couponing has it's own section on this blog. This section of the blog is a place to record our food storage so that I can keep track of what I need, what I have, and how I acquire each thing. I wanted to have this space to also talk about how having food storage is blessing me right now.