What a week!

It has been very busy since I last updated my blog.  We just got back from our friends' wedding and it was fabulous.  I ate cake, which always makes me happy.

There was a lot of eating out while we were out of town, and I am not even going to dwell on it, because I knew it was going to happen and it did so now I can focus on cooking at home and eating healthier.  Yay?

Yesterday I took a trip to the grocery store.  I had both of the munchkins with me and they were doing their best to aggravate and irritate each other.  It was fun.  So in between the squishing and biting and patting and squealing I managed to grab a 4 lb carton of strawberries on the way into the produce section.  I almost did not.  I thought about grabbing some, and then thought that I would pass it by because I didn't want them going to waste and therefore wasting my money but one of the munchkins saw the ripe red strawberries and the battle was lost.  happily, I can report that we somehow managed to eat probably 65% of them yesterday alone.  So it looks like there will be no strawberries going to waste around here.  I may have also decided to make chocolate fondue last night before bed.  It may have been delicious.

So there I was in the grocery store with my little ziploc bag of coupons that I try to take with me when I leave the house.  Before we left the car I had sorted through them and picked out the coupons I wanted to use that day.  I needed milk among other things and I had coupons for both Horizons Organic and Organic Valley brand milk.  Yay.  We made our way around the store and I picked up most of the items I had coupons for, while deciding against several I had brought with me.  They actually had the yogurt in stock that I wanted to try, with my coupon I printed off of the internet.  If its good I need to get more.  Yogurt is a staple around here.

I always leave the frozen section for last.  I had a coupon for 55 cents off of ANY Red Baron brand product.  I grabbed a frozen pizza, and noticed that the store had little individual pizzas, three to a tray.  They were 89 cents each.  Hm.  There I was wishing I had more coupons for the Red Baron products when I remembered that the store had recently begun keeping coupons at the front of the store.  I thought, what the heck, its worth a shot.  I pushed my brawling children in the big blue Rocket Ship cart full of food back to the entrance, and scanned the coupons.  I didn't see them.  Darnnit.  But then I noticed some fliers on the bottom of a two shelf unit.  I picked one up and flipped to the inside, and there it was!  My Red Baron coupon stared out at me, the lone coupon on the flier.  I grabbed a few and made my way back to the frozen foods.  And yes, there I stood trying to tear along the dotted lines hoping to neatly remove the coupons from the fliers.  I folded, I pressed, I tore in straight lines.  I bought nine packages of Red Baron Deep Dish Mini Pizzas for 34 cents each.  Hello.

At checkout my bill rang up to $78, but after I handed over my mountain, er neat stack, of coupons I paid $52.00.  Not bad considering the items I paid full price for.  All said and done I am happy with the end results.  Sometime this week I need to make a casserole bake. It will be one of my favorite childhood dishes, chicken and rice with cream of mushroom soup.  Mmmm, yummy.
Thanks for hanging out with us!
Love, Katie

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