Food Prices Getting The Best of YOU?

I have started using coupons and stockpiling and it has paid off big time. If you use to use coupons and then just stopped because you just didn't think it made a big enough difference...then you might want think again.

You can save a lot of money if you know how to do it! Oh, I know you think it's a lot of trouble or time consuming. Well, it can be if you do it alone. So in my recent quest to save money I have found a site called SavingsAngel.com

This is a wonderful site that will walk you through everything you need to know. It has fabulous tutorials and videos to teach you what you need to know when it comes to saving money on food and other things your family needs and uses everyday. Once you see how easy it is you'll wonder why you hadn't found out about this sooner.

What if all you had to do was buy a Sunday paper for each person in your household....for me that's 4 papers with 4 sets of coupons inserts. Then all I have to do is go to my SavingsAngel.com and plug in the stores I shop at to see what's on sale and what I need and it tells me what Sunday paper insert a corresponding coupon is in for that sale item and I just go to my handy file and look for say Sunday 2/20/11 (RP, SS, P&G, GM, Unilever) that's RP (RedPlum) SS (SmartSource) P&G (Proctor&Gamble) GM (General Mills) and so forth and then cut out the coupons. Yep, I don't cut coupons until I am ready to make my list and go shopping. But that's not the only source for coupons. There are plenty of good online sources for printing off internet coupons to use at the grocery or pharmacy type stores and yes they will take them.

To get the most bang for your buck is when you use a manufacturer coupon with a store coupon and the item is on sale. Or manf. coupon, store coupon, sale item and with stores like Walgreens, CVS, RiteAid and a few other they have rewards on top of all everything else. And with the money you save you can use that for things like your produce, meat or dairy items that may not have coupons available.

My last trip was to Target recently. My total bill before coupons or anything else was $119.72 but I only paid $84.00 that's a savings of $35.72. I don't know about you but for a savings of $35.72 I will continue to use coupons. I have had other trips that were better but not all trips will save you like they show on TLC extreme couponing where a the person walks out only paying 1.02 for hundreds of dollars worth of groceries. Don't get me wrong it can be done but it's not an everyday occurrence but makes for good TV.




Always be sure and check out all the benefits a store may have to offer because you might miss out on something great like Kroger's .10 cents off a gallon promo or Target with their extra 5% off all purchases using their Target credit card or Target debit card. For that last trip to Target using my Target debit card good only at Target I get an extra $4.40 off my bill. I was excited about that and my trip before that to Kroger netted me the .10 cents off a gallon on my gas my bill was $305.10 and I only paid out of pocket $152.61 and I had two shopping carts for their big Dayton 500 sale and boy it was a good one!

So rethink the using of coupons and start saving money and yes stockpile a bit you don't have to go over board but with tough times it's time to saving cause honey the rainy days are here!

Be sure to check out SavingsAngel.com for wonderful tutorials and shopping lists they teach you everything you need to know about saving money on your groceries hands down the best site around. And you can even get your own subscription free just by referring others.

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Happy Savings to all....

Hate Paying for Veggies Grow Your Own

Would you rather grow a few of your own vegetables instead of paying those high prices at the grocery store. Well I found this really cool website with this awesome product called

Monkeypots.

Check this site out especially if you live in a condo, townhouse or an apartment this is an incredible way to grow some of your own food. You can grow just about anything in these planters and it's only 30" wide and over 5 fee tall and comes with one large planter and 2 small ones. And it sells for $129.99 but looks like there is an introductory price of$ 99.99.

Just click on the title of this post and it will take you to the Monkeypots.com site.

Happy gardening!

Have a blessed day everyone,
Dianne In Texas

Do You Like To Garden and Grow Your Own Food?

Funny how the people on the Hill are going after AIG and it's all over the media but do you hear anything about H.R. 875? Do you even know what I am talking about?

To anyone who has ever had a garden, grown their own food or herbs be prepared for what the government has in store for us. Trust me you won't like it!

There is a bill H.R. 875: Food Safety Modernization Act of 2009

Here it is if you have a mind to read it, if not go to Youtube type in H.R. 875.

You will no longer be able to grow any food if the government has it's way.

http://www.govtrack.us/congress/billtext.xpd?bill=h111-875

And yes it is filled with mumbo jumbo so you can't figure out what the hell they are talking about.

But the bottom line is you won't be able to have those lovely tomatoes you grow, or those nice juicy cantaloupes, or even those awesome tasting strawberries that your kids love to eat. Ok, I am getting more pissed by the minute. If your caught growing them, you may have the government swoop down upon you take your food and seize possibly your property, fine you and more, who knows what's in the minds of these insane lunatics....now isn't that going to be special!
I THINK NOT!!!

Here is a list of cosponsors of the bill while it does say at the bottom it may not be update see if there is anyone on this list who is your Representative. Write them let them know this can not happen and it needs to be stopped NOW!

http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=h111-875

How much longer are we as Citizens of the United States going to just sit by and let the insane people on Capitol Hill take way our freedoms one by one.

Wake up people they are killing our country strangling the life out of it each passing day. You can make a difference if you, your neighbor, or your friends speak up. If you are reading this then you have a computer, and if I am sending this to you I know you have email...duhhhh and you have a friends list. Sit your butt down take the time to call someone and everyone or email them and tell
them, enough is enough and the people on the Hill have got to go if they no long wish to serve US the people who put them in their position in the first place!

Stop voting in these senators and congressmen who are voting, doing, supporting, being swayed and bought by lobbyists who serve Corporate Giants who think they are God almighty and who seek to squeeze the life out of us everyday, to tear our country apart until we will no longer recognize this Country we hold so dear.

I bet our Forefathers are rolling over in their graves right now wondering how on God's Green Earth did this ever happen. They fought long and hard for this great Nation and WE have let the fox in the hen house. Yes you heard me right ...WE did this, We let this happen and now what are WE going to do about it? What are you going to do about it?

I hope I have struck a nerve in someone, anyone, who has the guts and fortitude to take action. Thank you for your time in reading my words as they are sincere and I myself did not vote for anyone who voted on the bailout in NOV. I also did not vote for a REP. Or DEM. for President. I did not even vote for my Senators I voted against both of them.

WE NEW BLOOD PEOPLE, FRESH IDEAS, PEOPLE WHO WANT LESS GOVERNMENT THAT'S WHAT THIS COUNTRY NEEDS. WE DON'T NEED BIG BROTHER TO TELL US HOW TO LIVE. WE NEED LEADERS TO GUIDE US NOT DICTATE OUR EVERY MOVE!

Ok, I think that's all for the moment. But I can tell you this, if you speak up I am sure it will in some way help us all PROSPER MORE!

This is Dianne In Texas hoping everyone one will SPEAK UP AND MAKE THEIR VOICE BE HEARD! YOU CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE!