Amy's Couponing Handout

Save where you can...Spend where you want to!!

Where to find Coupons

Sunday Paper - Smartsource, Redplum and P&G

Printable Coupons
http://www.bettycrocker.com/
http://www.boodle.com/
http://www.coolsavings.com/
http://www.coupons.com/
http://www.eatbetteramerica.com/
http://www.eversave.com/
http://www.everydayeating.com/
http://www.redplum.com/
http://www.smartsource.com/
http://www.couponbug.com/
http://www.boxtops4education.com/Promotions/

Magazines - Almost every magazine has coupons in it, just keep your eyes open.

Tear Pads - In grocery stores and drugstores, usually on end caps you can find what are called tear pads. These are the little pads of coupons that the vendors place near the products for you to take and use on that product.

Blinkies - These are also found in grocery and drugstores. They are the little boxes that have a blinking light at the top, when you pull out a coupon a new one automatically is refilled in its place.

E-coupons - e-coupons are coupons that are linked to your customer car cards from stores, like the little cards you can put on your key chains. You can go to certain websites and "load" coupons to your card. When you scan your card at the store when you check out they are automatically taken off your balance. You can combine these coupons with other manufacturer coupons, but they usually do not double or triple. Some sites are softcoin.com, p&gesaver.com, cellfire.com, and shortcuts.com.

Coupon Clipping Services - Websites like Coupon Clipping Crew and Taylor Town Preview clip the coupons for you. You just go and order the ones that you want. They usually charge anywhere from 10% of the value of the coupon to $.10 a coupon. Sometimes there is a minimum of $5.

Ebay

Excellent Websites for Couponers...
southernsavers.com
hotcouponworld.com
commonsensewithmoney.com
dealseekingmom.com
totallytarget.com
couponingtodisney.com
mylitterofsix@blogspot.com
mommysnacks.net

Always scan you loyalty card before you hand over your coupons!!!

Store Coupon Policies
Target - 1 target coupon and 1 manufacturers coupons per product
Kroger - double and triples 3 like coupons
Randalls - doubles and triples one like coupon
Walmart - face value coupon
CVS - face value coupon, 1 CVS coupon and 1 manufacturers coupon per product
Walgreens - face value coupon, 1 Walgreens coupon and 1 manufacturers coupon per product.

Price Matching
Target
Walmart

Deals!
Betty Crocker Potatoes at Kroger
Kelloggs at Target
$3 off Huggies at coupons.com

Food Storage Workshop Part I

Thank you for everyone who made it to the Relief Society Meeting yesterday!!! It was great! I'll highlight the details briefly and post some of the documents handed out last night.

I took the first half of the meeting and talk about getting your year and three month supply food storage started.

First, I pointed out the most basic foods needed in a year supply and their quantity recommendation.

• Grains (wheat rice, corn, or other cereal grains) (25 lbs/person/month)
• Dried legumes (5 lbs/person/month)
• Nonfat dry milk (75 lbs/person/year)
• Salt (5 lbs/person/year)
• Fat or oil (20 lbs/person/year)
• Sugar or Honey (60 lbs/person/year)

Second, I listed the Seven Major Mistakes in Food Storage taken from a LDS Living magazine article I have on file.

• Variety—Many people only store the four basic items: wheat, milk, honey, and salt. Most of us could not survive on such a diet. Some people are allergic to wheat and may not be aware of it until they eat wheat meal after meal. Wheat may be too harsh for young children. They may be able to tolerate it in small amounts, but not as the main staple in their diet. Be sure to add other grains, particularly ones your family enjoys eating, such as oats, rice, and pasta. Also store a variety of beans to add an array of color, texture, and flavor. Store flavorings such as tomato, bouillon, cheese, and onion. Put away a good supply of the spices that you like to cook with.
• Extended Staples—Never put all your eggs in one basket. Store dehydrated and/or freeze-dried foods as well as home-canned or store-bought canned goods. Makes sure you add cooking oil, shortening, baking powder, soda, yeast, and powdered eggs. You can’t cook even the most basic recipes without these items.
• Vitamins—Vitamins are especially important if you have children, since children may not be able to store reserves of nutrients in their bodies as well as adults can.
• Quick-and-Easy and “Psychological” Foods—Quick-and-Easy foods can help you through the times when you may be under too much stress to cope with preparing food. Quick-and-Easy foods include freeze-dried foods, MRE’s, and canned soups/chili. “Psychological Foods” are goodies such as Jell-O, pudding, and hard candy.
• Balance—Too many people make the mistake of buying all their wheat, then buying all of another food storage item. Keep balance in mind as you build your storage. If you suddenly needed to live on your present storage, you would fare better having a three months’ supply of a variety of items rather than a year’s supply of two or three things.
• Containers—Always store your bulk foods in food-grade storage containers. So often food is thrown away because it was susceptible to excessive sunlight, moisture, insects or rodents.
• Use You Storage—not knowing what to do with food storage is one of the biggest problems. It is vital that you and your family become familiar with the things you are storing. Learn to prepare these foods. This is not a skill you will want to acquire during a time of stress. A stressful situation is the worst time to dramatically change your diet. Learn how to prepare these foods and begin eating them.

Third, I talked about Ordering from the Cannery. For that you can go the How do you get your food storage and the Cannery Schedule posts.

For the last bit, we talked about three month supply. I don't think I personally covered more than what was in the Three Months Supply post, but I did appreciates everyone's comments and questions. Several people shared their experiences and what they do for food storage. That definitely inspired me to make my food storage better and not be so intimidated by the Cannery.

Amy gave an excellent intro to couponing class! I don't want to take away from the awesomeness of her handout, so I'll make it it's own post.

Upcoming Relief Society Meeting

On Thursday, April 15 at 7:30 at the church, we're having a food storage kick-off meeting. We're going to talk about how to start your year supply of food as well as your three month supply. We'll have order forms for the Cannery there, too. Our stake's next Cannery date is Friday, May 14.

Also, Amy Galant is going to teach about Couponing!!!

Hope to see you all there!

Just to let you guys know. I'm personally not going to go into Hurricane preparation. I just found out that someone else is getting that calling. However, if anyone wants to post anything about hurricane preparation on this blog, you're more than welcome to. Just email me at gibby_wirght@hotmail.com.

Best wishes!