Ralph’s Ad W/E 08/23/11

Serves 3-4 people

Dinner:

Chicken Wonderful

1 can Campbell’s Cream of Chicken Soup  (.87 ea.)    
     CPN: 3/6 SS  .40/4 (qualifies for Save $5 offer)
1 Whole Chicken .69/lb.  (5 lbs. $3.45)
1 Fresh Romaine, Red or Green Lettuce ($1.49 ea.)
2 Tomatoes on the vine 1.49 lb.  ($1.49)

3 c. cooked rice (est. $1.50 – not in wkly ad)
     CPN: 5/1 RP  .75/1

Cut chicken into 8 pieces, brown all 8 pieces until nice and golden brown. Open can of soup, pour into medium size bowl, add 1/2 c. of water or milk, mix.  Place browned chicken in baking dish, pour soup mixture over chicken. Cover with foil. Place into oven at 350 degrees for 45 minutes. Remove foil for the

Welcome!!!

Hi Everyone, I’m starting this blog to hopefully inspire everyone to use coupons.

I will take my weekly grocery circulars and along with coupons create a recipe(s).  All recipes will include sale items in the grocery circulars.
I started using coupons out of necessity.  I needed money quickly and thought of couponing.  I saw that families were saving significant amounts of money just by using coupons.  So, I headed out with coupons in hand and hit all 3 of my local grocery stores, which is what I would normally do anyway.    My goal was to only buy items I needed and they had to have a coupon (excluding meat), easier said then done.  Normally without coupons I would spend about $250.00 a week, all 3 stores combined.

WOW!! was I surprised the first time I used coupons.  My order was $124.00, before my loyalty card and coupons.  After my loyalty card it dropped to $68.76, a significant saving in itself.  Then, I handed over my coupons (my store doubles coupons up to a $1.00 and will only double 1 like coupon).  $68.76 dropped to $35.89.   OMG, I was hooked.  After 2 weeks I couldn’t get enough.

So, in tracking my saving I hope to inspire everyone to at least try couponing  once, if you do, trust me you’ll be hooked.