October 3-10th

Here is my Meal plan for October 3rd through 10th.

- Monday the 3rd: Went out to Mexican
- Tuesday the 4th: Raviolis
- Wed the 5th: BBQ Shredded Chicken Spaghetti with Red Onion
- Thurs the 6th: Pizza Lasagna
- Fri the 7th: Zuppa Toscana Soup (Olive Garden Recipe)
- Sat the 8th: Tacos & than Shredded Chicken Taquitos for dinner
- Sun the 9th: Pasta with French Bread for lunch & for dinner is  Chicken Tostadas
- Monday the 10th: Slow Cooker Sticky Chicken

I realize I have a lot of "Chicken" in a row, so I have 2 "floater" meals prepared in case we have to be somewhere quick or my pregnant self gets sick of chicken: Sloppy Joes and Grilled Cheese.

 As far as breakfast goes, it's typically the same these days in our house:
- Cereal
- Eggs
- Poptarts

And for lunches & snacks at work, it's going to be simple foods:
Snacks:
- Fruit/Granola Bar/ Snack Pack/ Fruit Snacks/ String cheese/ Yogurt/ Celery & PB
Lunches:
- Leftovers
- Sandwiches and Chips
- Cheese, Crackers and Lunch Meat (our own version of Lunchables)
- or use Free coupons to go out to eat (If you sign up for Del Taco's list, you get free food randomly & I love the Del.)

I tend to get pretty creative on our lunches depending on what we have in our cupboards already.

I've made 2 shopping trips so far this week:

Trip 1 - I ran over to Walgreens on Monday because we were completely out of toilet paper. This was my trip:

- Toilet Paper was on sale for $5 for 12 rolls. I had .50 off Cottonelle (10/2 SS)
and use $1 off 1 Walgreens coupon to make it $3.80 with tax

- Softsoap Body was advertised as 2/$6 so I bought 2
I used (2) $1 off Softsoap Body Wash (9/25 SS)
and used a $2 off 2 Walgreens Coupon
to  make them $1 each so $2.20 with tax

- Ricola was advertised in the Walgreens ad this week for $1.29
so I bought 2 (1 was Dual action) and I used Ricola B1G1 (10/2 SS)
AND I had a .50 off coupon but, since Walgreens doesn't do overages and the cashier couldn't drop down the price .. Apparently, I picked one that was less than $1.29 because my total was .27 for the 2 bags

SO this transaction was about $7 including Utah tax

Trip 2 - I made a trip last night to Walmart for all of our items for meal items, fruit, snacks, cereal and milk. I had :
- (1) .55 off Frigo String Cheese (10/2 PG)
- (1) .75 off Honey Nut Cheerios coupon that came from a mini box
 and for Personal Items:
- (2) $8 off when you buy 2 Cover Girl products (10/2 PG)
- (2) $1 off any Old Spice product (10/2 PG)

I don't have a picture of my groceries, but I did just run out of blush this past week and the hubby will need some new deodorant super soon - so my goal was to use the 2 CG coupons for blush and than use the 2 Old Spice coupons for deodorant.
The blush at my walmart was $3.75 each, it was the cheapest CG face product, and for each coupon I had to buy 2.. so I picked up 4.
Than I read on one of the blogs that the Trial size of Old spice body wash was .97 so it would be a .3 overage (or Money Maker) - but hubby doesn't use Body Wash, so I looked at how much the regular size of deodorant would be. It was $1.97, so I grabbed 2 because my coupons would make them .97 each.
The total for all 4 blushes was $7.50 for every 2, so $15.00 total.. and I had $16 off in coupons, so I had $1 overage - which paid for 1 deodorant so the total I paid was $1.

For Personal Items it was $1, and I spent exactly $49 on groceries/fruit/other things so after my coupons I paid $50.

My total so far for this week is: $57