Kroger...yet again...slightly disenchanted though...

So, tonight was my first experience Kroger with employees annoyed at my tactics for saving. I must admit that because I made a mistake and rang up several like items with q's that I need to double, I caused their frustration. However, I was very polite AND apologetic the entire time. Sometimes I think they believe that me saving with coupons is going to come out of their paycheck...I don't understand their thought process. I use manufacurer q's...they will get the money I save back!!

Anyway, my total bill was just over $42 and that about did me in for the night. I don't remember the last time I paid over $30 in one trip. I did get A LOT of great stuff though:

12 boxes ritz
16 tubs I can't beleive it's not butter
12 cans hunts diced tomatoes
1 can rotel
1 bottle frank's hot sauce
2 bottles kraft dressing
1 2 liter mug root beer
1 pkg goldfish
7 pkg kraft block cheese
7 pkg kraft shredded cheese
4 pkg sargento's shredded cheese
1 12 pk toilet paper
1 gallon milk
1 8 bar pk irish spring

My total before my kroger card and q's was $242 +. After my card and q's I paid just over $42. It came out to about $.60 per item. That's pretty good considering the items that are there.

Blessings,
Kristelle

Eggs, eggs and more eggs!

Our chickens are laying in high gear. We are getting almost one dozen eggs a day from the girls. This is a sampling of what we might get in one day. They are just so pretty...if an egg can be pretty.

Klahdia is responsible for letting the girls out every morning as soon as she wakes. Initially she loved getting up and letting them out. However, with the cold weather we've been having, she's not quite as interested in visiting with them.

Karter on the other hand LOVES everything there is about the chickens. He will go out several times a day to check for eggs...even in the wet and cold. Gary found him cleaning the coop the other day all on his own accord. He is just precious!

One day Karter came in after checking for eggs and announced, "Who wants to see the biggest egg in the world?" Well of course we all did. He wasn't kidding either. It was certainly the biggest egg I've seen. Here it is with others collected that day. Keep in mind not all the girls started laying at the same time so some of them are still laying what's called pullet eggs. Their first eggs they lay are smaller than what they will eventually be laying. The larger one is on the far right. The picture to the left I had put it with the smallest one of the day for comparison. To be fair, the smallest one was pretty little for an egg, but the larger one was pretty big too.

I decided I wanted to measure it because the pictures just didn't do it justice. It was over 2.5" long and measure 5" around. It was huge...okay, it was just really big! We knew when we cracked it open it was going to have two yolks and sure enough...it did. That was my breakfast for the morning.

This is the second double yolk we've had so far. I'm surprised...I don't know why, but I am. Thank you girls for breakfast.

Klahdia's 10th birthday present

Soo, after months of her asking to get her hair cut, I finally caved and cut it for her on her birthday. I kept telling her that her hair was probably going to get darker like her dad's did and she should wait until then because it was too pretty now to cut it. Yeah, she didn't buy it either. We did agree that she would wait until she had enough to donate to 'locks of love'. They require 8" and we cut off 10". Someone will have a beautiful wig.

She has so much hair that it took quite some time for me to finish...it didn't help that I really don't know what I'm doing either:-) As much as I loved her hair long because she looks so much younger, I really do like the new look. She still hates having such thick hair. She wants it to be flat against her head. I apologized and told her that was just a dream...one of these days she will appreciate it.

Guess what? More Kroger deals!

So here it is! This was my trip tonight to Kroger. Most of the q's used were printed from the internet. Do ya wanna know how much I paid? Guess? Nope..lower...lower...$14.49!! i had a q for EVERY item. Here is the basic break down:

Ritz $1.99 $2/2 q

ICBNB $o.99 $1/1 q FREE

Rotel $0.49 $.30/1 q tripled(each of these q's actually gave me a credit of $.41 after they

tripled:-))

Goldfish $0.88 $.75/1 q

Cheese $1.49 $1/2 q

Chex Mix $1.49 $1/1 q

I knew that I'd become little obsessed with the savings when I stood in the dairy section of the store trying to figure out which items needed to be checked out with which to maximize the savings. For example (keep in mind this is the mega event at Kroger so you had to buy 10 select items to get the cheapest price therefore explaining why all my transactions had 10 specific items in them)

The goldfish were $.88 less the $.75 q making them $.13 each. That's a great deal, but free is even better. So what I did was purchase 7 goldfish, 3 rotel and 10 other items for the mega event.

7 goldfish at $.88 each $6.16 less $5.25 in q's total $.91

3 rotel at $.49 each $1.47 less $2.70 in q's total credit of $1.23

Take the $.91 off making the goldfish free and I STILL had a credit for the rest of the items of $.32...make sense. I made sure to purchase 3 rotel with every transactions so I would get that same credit of $1.23. I think I had 6 transactions which means I earned $7.38 toward my purchases just by using a q that tripled on an item that was priced less than the q. I'm really getting the hang of this now!

Needless to say, my children are going to be happy when they see the goldfish and ritz crackers...they love to eat!

Blessings,
K