"You Must Like Bread"

"You must like bread." That's what the cashier said as I loaded up the belt with my 16 loaves of bread and 10 packages of bagels. "Why the heck would you buy all that bread," you ask?

While I was looking through the grocery ads yesterday I noticed that our Italian grocer, Caputo's, had Natural Ovens Bread and Bagels on sale for $1.99-A STEAL!!! If you have every had Natural Ovens bread you must know that it is the absolute best bread for you that you can buy. Made with the most wholesome ingredients and definitely NO High fructose corn syrup. Well, my hubby LOVES this bread and will settle for pretty much nothing less. At Woodman's I can find it for around $3.79 a loaf. You can see how I was pretty excited about the $1.99. If you know me by now you know I rarely make a purchase without a coupon. I was ready to clear out the store with the $1.99, BUT I found a coupon for 60cents off any Natural Ovens product! As an added bonus this is a .pdf coupon, which means you can print as many as you want until it expires!! That brings the cost down to $1.39 a loaf!! You can hardly get a loaf of your standard crapola white bread for that price. I literally felt like I stole a cart full of bread today.

And this, my friends, is another example of how you can still eat healthy and coupon at the same time :)

So, yes...I stocked up....but don't worry I left plenty for you :)

16 loaves of bread, 10 pkgs of bagels=$36.14+tax

They have a variety of yummy flavors, such as sunny millet, whole wheat, organic wheat with flax. The bagels: cinnamon raisin, blueberry, brainy.

Super-couponing

My mom and I recently started Super-Couponing. Super-Couponing "combines the best techniques for following sales with using newspaper and internet coupons to their fullest advantage."

In these tough economic times I've been desperate to find any and all ways to cut back. It's hard when you already feel like you cut back as far as you can go. A family friend posted a note on facebook about her success with SC and it intrigued me. A few weeks ago I ordered Jill's Super-Couponing workshop on DVD. The next week my mom and I attended her 2nd workshop at a local church.

With little work or effort (thanks to the internet and the many women who do all the leg work) I was able to save A LOT of money. Just two weeks into it and look at what I did today!

-30 boxes of Betty Crocker Potatoes
-3 boxes of Chex cereal
-1/2 gallon of orange juice
-I bag traditional Chex mix
-1 box Cutie manderines
-Olay body wash
-2 Gillette Men Hair & Body wash
-Travel sized women's shaving gel
-2 tubes Arm & Hammer toothpaste
-1 tube crest toothpaste
-2 bars Johnson baby soaps
-Excedrin Menstrual Complete
-Pep. Farm Tim Tams
-Gillette Fusion Razor
-Gillete Venus Razor
-4 new placemats
-PicturiKa card game
-Trident Layers gum
-1 caramel candy

All of this for only $39.76! PLUS, I also have $12 worth of catalina coupons and Register Rewards (store money)! It's like paying $27.76 for that whole table of groceries!

You really do have to change your mindset about how you shop. Don't be intimidated. It's WELL worth your time!

I'm really excited to see where I will be 2 months from now. It can only get better, right?

If you are interested in Super-Couponing, here are a list of websites that are helpful:

Jill Cataldo's Super Couponing Website (this is the best source) She is also local (NW suburbs of Chicago), which is also really helpful. She shops at all the stores I do!

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Money Saving Mom
Happy Couponing!