Shopping at Sprouts and Target and Meal Plan

Today I sat down for a couple minutes and thought about our week. Pretty easy: the kids want pizza at some point, I can work out of my stockpile, and I picked up a couple items yesterday at Target, too.

I printed some Target coupons for $1 off pasta and sauce and $1 off frozen chicken breasts. The Market Pantry brand spaghetti sauce is pretty good and the noodles are noodles (I am not picky about those). They are on sale this week for $1 each, so I got a jar of sauce and a box of thin spaghetti noodles for $1 total after the coupon. I keep Kirkland frozen meatballs in my freezer, and I always have some broccoli, so that's a complete meal for about $3. Not bad!

For our plan this week, since I was able to pick up frozen chicken breasts, I am going to make poppyseed chicken casserole with rice and green beans tonight. Then we'll have burritos/nachos, Pizza night with salad, chicken with Twice Baked Potato Casserole (http://www.tasteofhome.com/Recipes/Twice-Baked-Potato-Casserole) and broccoli, spaghetti and meatballs with broccoli, and pork chops with squash-rice casserole (http://www.myrecipes.com/recipe/squash-rice-casserole-10000000361523/) and sweet potatoes. That squash-rice casserole is actually a Cooking Light recipe and it is a great way to get my kids to eat zucchini.

Sprouts has their zucchini on sale for 88 cents a pound, so I picked up some of those, along with: broccoli at 50 cents a pound; a pineapple for 99 cents; Fuji apples at 88 cents a pound; green seedless grapes at 99 cents a pound; red potatoes at 49 cents a pound; garnet yams at 99 cents a pound; one pound of strawberries for $2.50; a bag of salad for $2.99; a yellow onion at 50 cents a pound; boneless pork chops for $2.48; eggs for $1.50; a bag of Pirate's Booty for $3.50 (!); and frozen blueberries and strawberries, vanilla ice cream, and two packages of Van's whole grain frozen waffles, all on sale 20% off. My grand total was $35.22 (after I used two reusable bags and saved 10 cents off my order). ;-)

I still will need to go to Vons for a few items...their whole chickens are 77 cents a pound this week, so I will get at least one and maybe even two or three. Grilling season is in high gear for us and whole chickens on the grill are so great. I have also cooked one in the crock pot and it turns out really tender and juicy. I also need to pick up some refried beans, but I think that's all I will need unless there is some really good deal on something. ;-) I will let you know how I do. I have only spent about $50 this week on groceries, so I am hoping to limit myself.

What is your plan this week? Good luck to you!
--Katie