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Ideas for What to Pack in the Lunch Box

Shannon — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 02:22:00 +0000

It is time to send the children off to school, and I have some ideas for you to save money on lunches if you do not qualify for free or reduced lunches at your school. It is easy to pack inexpensive healthy lunches for your child for under a $1 each!

Main Dish:

Peanut Butter and Banana Sandwich
Peanut Butter and Jelly Sandwich
Lunch Meat and Cheese, make your own lunchable with crackers!
Crackers, and lunch meat can actually be very affordable when you find deals with coupons. In recent coupon inserts there have been coupons for Nabisco Crackers,and these are cheap at Homeland when the coupons double!

Buy your bread at the discount Bread Store. (there is a Sara Lee one on NW 19th and Broadway in OKC)

Snacks:
Avoid Convenience such as pre-bagged cookies, crackers, and chips.
Buy the baggies that don’t ziplock, or be eco friendly and use reusable containers
Carrot Sticks
Apples
Bananas
Grapes
Make your own Peanut Butter crackers
Make sure the serving sizes are correct, therefore less waste.

If you have time, it is healthier and inexpensive to make your own snacks, cookies and muffins to pack for snacks or a healthy after school lunch.

Pack reusable water bottles for drinks, it is good for children to learn the importance of water drinking at a young age, plus water is FREE!

With these tips, in combination with shopping store sales and coupons, you could easily feed 1 child for under $1 for a packed lunch. Plus, when I worked in the schools, it was amazing how much food those children wasted when they bought school lunches, there was enough food wasted to feed a small village!

Old Navy:Red, White and Blue Flag Tee’s $1 Sale

Shannon — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 03:37:00 +0000

Check this out.. Old Navy Signature Flag Tee’s for $1 of Friday, July 3. Get to the store early for this deal and grab some t-shirts for the whole family. These would even be a fun party favor at your 4th of July Party! Colors are red, white, and blue. Go here to Old Navy, to see the Tee’s. If you go to Old Old Navy Weekly, and grab a coupon, this deal is even better! Thanks, ConsumerQueen!

I just got a call Friday AM from a friend.. she said Oklahoma’s Old Navy’s Tee’s were NOT on sale. So call your Old Navy to check and see if they are running this promotion!

Target Deals This week!

Shannon — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 16:02:00 +0000

Target Deals for this week!

Are you in charge of Brocoli and Cauliflower for Thanksgiving Dinner? If so, you can get it for .33each with $1 off coupons, there is also a coupon for Archer Farms Ham meat dept. their ham steaks are $2.30 ish…. $2 off coupon makes them .30 Click Here for the coupons!

Thanks Super Target!

Week One of the September Savings Challenge comes to an end!

Shannon — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 02:23:00 +0000

Yippee… I survived my first week of documenting were all my money was spent! Here is my spending for today.

You will be amazed at all I bought at Homeland, here is part of the list.
Sauve shampoo, sauve Deo. which will be donated to my church.
2 farmland sausages
2 eggos waffles 8 pack
2 old elpaso refried beans
2 old elpaso enchilada sauce
1 bag fritos
1 bag of shredded cheese
3 bags frozen corn
1 bag frozen peas
4 ziplock sanwhich bags, 50 count each
Ragu
Ronzoni pasta
4 kraft easy mac’s single serve
there might have been a few other items, cannot remember.
Total spent…. $4.87

I also spent $5.37 at Crest
$1.08 at walmart
$3.99 Braum’s (2 malts )
$6.45 Little Ceaser’s (son’s lunch)

Target
12 poptarts 12 count
4 special k bars
total $18.67 (paid with GC)
got $20 back in GC’s! WOO HOO.. that was a money maker!

I am thinking I had a great week…. Cannot wait to see what can be done next week! Thanks for reading and holding me accountable.