More and More Deals!

Albertsons had an AWESOME deal on fruit snacks last week. And since they are a staple in our house, I got 30 boxes! I also got 10 cans of juice and I spent..... $12.40!!! That's 31 cents per item! Amazing! I was supposed to get a $10 Catalina for buying the juice, which would have made this an even more amazing deal, but I bought the wrong kinds:( But I was still very happy with this deal!
At Safeway I bought 20 SmartOnes and with two $10 Catalinas, I got all 20 for $11.88! These are great to have on hand for my lunches. They are regularly around $2.50 each.
I was tired the night I went to Albertsons to do a frozen food deal, so I didn't get a picture, but this is what I got: 2 cartons Dreyers ice cream, 4 boxes Bagel Bites, 1 box Bagelfuls, 2 Steam n' Mash Potato pouches, 1 box Dreyers Fruit Bars. With a $10 Catalina I got for buying 10 frozen food items, I only spent $6.90!

I have to tell you that at Christmas this year, my family came to visit us and my mom went to get something out of my deep freeze. She made a comment about how much room there was in it. I laughed and jokingly said it takes money to fill up a freezer. Well, guess what? 2 months later, my freezer is FULL and I have spent LESS on my groceries!!! It doesn't take money to fill up a freezer or fridge or shelves, it takes COUPONING!

I got these HUGE packages of tp and paper towel at Safeway. With the $10 Catalina I only paid $3.48!
Here is our food storage shelves. We have had the # 10 cans, but pretty much everything else I have purchased since I started couponing the end of January. I look at what I have accumulated in 1 1/2 months and get excited to think what my food storage will look like in a year! I will need 10 more of these shelve units!
When I was putting together our RS newsletter this month, I found this quote that I really liked from Ezra Taft Benson: "The revelation to store food may be as essential to our temporal salvation today as boarding the ark was to the people in the days of Noah. We encourage families to have on hand this year's supply; and we say it over and over and over and repeat over and over the scriptures of the Lord where He says, 'Why call ye me, Lord, Lord, and do not the things which I say?"
I am going to make more of an effort to make it to the cannery more often AND to use the food storage that I have. I thought I would start simple and start making our bread instead of buying it. I LOVE that I can grind my grains in my vita-mix. It is soooo convenient and easy!
I am in search of my favorite whole wheat bread recipe, so I am going to try a bunch until I find The One. This was the first one I tried. I like it because it has the whole wheat flour AND rolled oats, which I get out of my food storage. If anyone has a whole wheat bread recipe that they LOVE, let me know! I would love to try it!