Coke Deal of the Week - Albertsons

$1.37 Twelve packs!

Okay Rubber Dollar followers. Ya'll know how cheap I am on sodas...

Albertsons, LLC (sorry regular Albertson's folks... this one is for the Texas girls.) has 12 packs
4/ $10.88 and get one free. That makes them 5 / $10.88

If you've been saving your coke points, like a good little shopper.... use 4 $1/1 coupons printed from coke rewards.com and they are ....(drumroll please....)

$1.37 a 12 -pack
That's a price I can live with.

While you are in there, pick up a brisket for July 4 (99 cents a pound will make several $5 meals!) You need an additional $10 purchase. The cokes make this, because they count it before coupons. Hooray! Cheap coke and cheap brisket. I can hear the fireworks already.

Planet Hollywood Cap'n Crunch Chicken

Planet Hollywood Cap'n Crunch Chicken Fingers with Mustard Dipping Sauce

Here 's the recipie for that Cap'n crunch chicken. Check out Jen's recipie (click logo) for a great Asian Citrus Salad (yum!)

Both of these could easily be $5 meals (HELLO!) if you buy your chicken on sale, and if you have a stock of some spices. If you don't have Cap'n crunch.... you can substitute. Pick something with a little bit of sweetness.

The original recipie for this is a family favorite-- but it calls for so many spices that it's not very frugal! I've changed it a bit, to make it budget friendly too.

You need:
2 cups crushed Cap'n crunch. I've also tried other puffy cereals with good results.
1.5 cups flour (i like to mix in some onion, garlic powder and pepper)
1 cup milk
1 egg (beaten, and added to milk)
1-2 pounds of chicken tenders or strips
hot oil, about 1/2" deep in fryer (or deep fryer.)

Dip the chicken in the milk, then dredge in the flour.
Then Re-dip the chicken in the milk, then dredge in crushed Cap'n crunch.
Set chicken aside on plate and prepare a plate with towels.
Fry chicken in oil for a few minutes, until coating is golden.
Yummy!

For mustard dip- mix
honey dijon mustard (1/4 cup)
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 tsp cayenne pepper
dash of worcestershire sauce
Mix these together and serve with strips for dipping.

Menu Plan Monday chicken dump recipes!

When chicken is cheap, I stock up! Well, apparently I've been finding a lot of chicken deals, because my freezer is overrun by frozen chicken!

So this week I'm doing a lot of "chicken dump" recipes. That means you dump all the ingredients in your Crockpot and forget about them... a favorite of mine. Dinner's already cooking for tonight.

Monday - Dump Chicken Parmesan (recipe to follow)

Tuesday - Planet Hollywood Cap'n Crunch Chicken fingers with mustard dipping sauce. (recipe follows)

Wednesday - Fundraiser night for swim team

Thursday - Sloppy Joe Leftovers

Friday - King ranch casserole

Saturday- Leftover Chicken Parmesan from Monday

Sunday - Chicken enchiladas (recipe)

Dump Chicken Paremesean - This makes a chicken and dumpling tasting meal...

In crockpot on low until dinner time (start before work) - 1- 1.5 pounds of chicken cut up. I'm using tenders because they were on top. Pieces (including those with bones) or breasts would work equally as well.

Add one package of noodle roni paremesan. (I got ours free with double coupons!) Hold the noodles for now. Add the water and milk called for on the package. Omit the oil, if any.

Add one package of chopped veggies that have been "extra" chopped using a hand chopper. (This helps them blend with the noodles.) Tonight I'm using broccoli, but other great choices are three veggies mixes and (yum!) Italian mix.

Two hours before serving, add the noodles.

That's it!

Target Deals Week of 6/21-6/27

Here's the great Target Deals YES/NO for this week:

YES -SPEEDO goggles are $9. Kat is on swim team this year, and googles have a way of disappearing. This is a good find.

NO - Coke 3/$11. Even with the printable $1/1 coupons this brings them to $2.67 a 12 pack. I just refuse to go above $2.25 for soda.

YES -Eggo Frozen Waffles $1.50 each. These include the "bake shop" variety which has $1/1 Bake Shop here and redplum (print 2 in each place) Your final price $0.50 each.

YES - Lipton Tea Bags (100 ct), Iced Tea Mix (10 qt) and others - $2.50 each. Buy 4. Use $0.60/1 in 5/17 Red Plum insert, and use $1/2 here and here.
Makes your final price = $1.90-2.00 each.
It's like getting 4 of these for $2.60 ($0.65/ea) with gift card (using 4 $0.60 coupons)

YES -Ziploc Evolve Sandwich & Snack Bags - $1.77/each . Use $1/1 Target coupon in the Afullcup.com Target Coupon Generator PLUS use $0.40/1 in 5/10 Smart Source insert. Final Price = $0.37/each when you buy 2 (Thanks, My Frugal Adventures!)

MAYBE- There is another Fusion razor deal where if you buy the $7.99 razor and one other product (body wash for example) you get a $5 gc. There is a $4 Fusion coupon and coupons for the body wash. So it would be pretty low cost...

YES - GRAPES! $0.99/lb. I love when grapes go on sale!

Cheap on Cars

New Car Smell?

We had a tornado come through Flower Mound recently. The second one in five years. Although we didn't sustain any damage ourselves this time-- the neighbors lost their fence.

He came over to tell us how he was going to rebuild it, as Kev was washing the car. The neighbor was telling Kevin how he should use (some product) to wash the car. (Kev was using Palmolive, I believe.) Kev laughed.

Our van is approaching 15 years old and has over 150,000 miles on it. It doesn't look to bad, but it doesn't really need special soap at this point. In fact, it's a compilation of two different vans that were both gifted to us when we were going through a rough financial period. The repairs on this one, at this point probably cost more than the van is worth.

but...... who cares? It runs! It gets from place A to place B and isn't even that bad on mileage. (Maybe 20ish...)Now mind you, our next car will be more efficient, but that may still be several years away. Because we have learned one very important thing being frugal. NO CAR PAYMENTS.

Do I miss new car smell? Sure! Warranties? You betcha! But there is no way we're going back to having a car payment/lease payment. Our goal is to have no "payments" at all-- and that includes the house. As long as these things keep running, we'll keep driving them.

The old Dodge Grand Caravan shines a little more, just thinking about it.

Kroger Deals and the $5 Meal

The Five Dollar Meal Deal this week from...

What's the $5 meal deal? Its a meal for a family of 4, using the current specials and coupons from the previous circulars.

For clarification-- my Kroger is in Flower Mound, and your mileage may vary, based on location. They triple up to 35 cents, and double up to 50 cents on coupons.

Shopping list:

Nectarines (1 lb.) 87 cents

Lettuce 87 cents - all types are on sale, buy 1 head

Sunny Delight $1.25 - 25¢/1 coupon from SmartSource 6/14 = 50¢

Eckrich Smoked Sausage, buy 1 - $2.50

Serve sausage (pan fried) with salad and Sunny Delight, serve sliced nectarines for dessert.

If you have a few fresh veggies for that salad-- even better!

Target Deals for the week of June 14th

Degree men's deodorant (Artic Edge and Intense Sport)--$2.49
Use the $1.50/1 Target printable coupon here
and use the $1/1 manufacturer's coupon from the 5/17 RedPlum insert

it will be FREE after coupons (Thanks to Heather at nwadeals!)

Kraft Mayo--$1.99
Use the $1/1 $1/1 printables at coupons.com and from Kraft Foods (you have to register)
Use together with $1/1 Target printable here
FREE with coupons from the 4/26

Aaahhh... coupon shopping.

We all have our reasons for cheapness.

This week I needed to buy groceries (milk, bread, a few others) and I only had about $21 to spend. These are the days when I'm glad to be a couponer!

By working the sales and the triple coupons... I was able to make it another week. My total was under $20. It wasn't my best load ever, but it was 3 or 4 bags of groceries.

The lady in front of me had about 4 - 6 items.... her total was almost the same.