Kroger Mega Sale = Serious Shopping Savings

\I absolutely love Kroger Mega Sales Combine with Coupons!

It makes for some really cheap or free items.

I made alot of trips to Kroger this week and wanted to share some of them with you.

Basic Breakdown...
After Mega Sale and Coupons:
Water: Free
Chocolate Chips: $1.00 a bag
Playtex Living Gloves: Free
Regular Playtex Gloves; .50 Profit
Profit from gloves went to the chocolate chips making them .50 a bag...
Final Total
$1.00
Total before Sales and Coupons:$61.77

Basic Breakdown...
After Mega Sale and Coupons:
Snuggle Fabric Softener: Free
Oikos Greek Organic Yogurt: Free
Noodle Ramie: Free
Milk: 2.39
Ocean Spray Cranberry Lift Drink: Clearance Priced 1.49
Total Paid: 3.88
Total before sales and coupons:
$110.57



Basic Breakdown...
After Mega Sale and Coupons:
Surf: FREE
Chocolate Chips: $1.00 a bag
Oats: 1.99
Smart Start Spread: FREE
Evaporated Milk: .39 each
Total I Paid:
14.69
Retail before Sales and Coupons:
$100.05

I am real proud of these deals.
I am stocked up on many thing now.

Share your deals you got for this week in my comments....I can't wait to see how you all did!

The Best Banana Muffins You Ever Put In Your Mouth!

I have two daughters that go to our local community college. The whole day is basically on the run....and food is on the "Grab it and Go" basis.

I had come up with some things that had been working for the first several weeks...
Fruit, Cheese Sticks, Boiled Eggs, Grapes, granola bars... are some of them...
but they were getting tired of the same ole thing...so I was wracking my brain for something healthy and portable for them to take.

I came up with this Muffin Recipe that we really liked....It is full of stuff that is good for them.

I like to call them:
The Best Banana Muffins You EVER Put in Your Mouth!

2 Cups Whole Wheat Flour
(Fresh Ground is Best of course)

2 Cups Old Fashion Oats

1 Cup Brown Sugar
(You can cut this to 1/2 Cup is low sugar is your desire)

2 tsp Baking Powder

1 tsp Baking Soda

1 Tbs Pure Vanilla

In a separate Bowl Mix

1 Cup Unsweetened Applesauce

3 Ripe Bananas Mashed Well

2 Eggs

Mix Well

Add:

1/2 Cup Walnuts-Chopped

1/2 to 1 Cup of Mini Semi-Sweet Chocolate Chips
(I added 1 cup, of course...lol)


Mix Wet Ingredients with Dry Ingredients.

Using a Mini Muffin Tin...
spray with cooking spray and fill each tin

Bake at 350 degrees for approx 10 min.

makes approx 36 mini muffins

makes approx 36 mini muffins

They turned out really good. They were moist and we put them in little snake size zip lock baggies and put them in the freezer.

The girls grabbed them with some other goodies and off to school they went.

Variations for this recipe are as follows:
(we tried them all in the past two weeks....:))

Applesauce Raisin Muffins

2 Cups Applesauce replaces the applesauce and bananas
1/2 Cup of Raisins replace the Chocolate Chips
2 tsp of Cinnamon replaces the Vanilla
Everything else the same

Pumpkin Cranberry Muffins

1 Cup Applesauce
1 Can Pumpkin Pie Filling replaces the Bananas
2 tsp of Cinnamon replaces the Vanilla
Everything else the same


Anyone have any recipes that might be useful for school "Grab it and Go" Food!
I'd LOVE to have some other recipes.
Leave them in the comments section so all can see.
Let me also know how you like these and
report back any changes you might make to the recipe and how it turned out.

Thanks

Fazoli's: Free Spaghetti with drink purchase

Print a coupon here for a free small Spaghetti with a drink purchase at Fazoli's. This coupon expires January 18, 2010.

Thanks, Wichita Coupons!