Ingredients

Here is a sampling of the food we will be using for our cooking this weekend. Most of it was purchased on sale throughout the past month or two. The rest was purchased at Aldi.

We hit the Hy-Vee and Fareway sales on chicken quarters and stocked up on two 10 pound tubes of ground beef when it was priced at $1.99/lb.




I've become a bit obsessed with coupon shopping. I joined The Grocery Game which gives me a list of what's on sale and what coupon(s) to pair with it for maximum savings. One of my great thrills right now is to have $30 in coupon savings, sometimes in each store! In my area, the list is available for Hy-Vee, Walgreens, and Super Target. Money Saving Mom's blog is also an outstanding, and free, resource.

Ahhh, the perishables. We buy all of our milk, eggs and butter at Aldi. Their milk averages a dollar less per gallon than their local competitors. In the bowl we have some of the chopped onions. I do one chopped onion per pound of beef and one chopped bell pepper per 2 pounds of beef. In other words, a 10 pound tube of ground beef is browned with 10 onions and 5 bell peppers. I was also thrilled to print off 2 $5 off of 5 Kraft items this week, making my cream cheese cost $.83 and the shredded cheese cost $1.04 per bag. For the cheese I didn't have a coupon for, I purchased it in brick form at Aldi and we'll shred our own.