Getting Ready for Thanksgiving

I normally head home the moment that we close the residence halls for Thanksgiving; however, I am the person on-call this week so I will be staying here! I was a little sad at first to not be able to spend the holiday with my parents, but I went home a couple of weeks ago and I will be heading back in about a month. Husband and I aren't big traditional Thanksgiving people, so we decided to make a roast for Thanksgiving. It is pretty expensive, but totally worth it and I think it is ok to splurge a little for the holiday!

We were going to make a quick trip at Publix today to pick up a couple of things they were out of the other day and then head to Walmart to pick up our roast, but this morning I got a great coupon from Earthfare and that changed plans! I haven't been thrilled with the Earthfare coupons lately, but this morning they sent out a $10/$50 coupon. We weren't planning to spend $50 at Publix, but we decided to get our roast there to make that total happen. That is our beautiful roast right there in the front, it was $20, but looks amazing! Even with our very expensive roast this whole trip was only 35!

We had a couple of cheese coupons left over because earlier in the week they didn't have enough of the kinds we wanted. The cheese is bogo $3.99 and I had 50 cents off of two coupons that doubled, making the cheese $1.50 each. Today that deal was even better because they had a new coupon book in the store for buy two Sargento cheeses and get a free dozen eggs, so both of those dozens were free! The veggies were also a good deal. They are both stir fry mixes and are a pound of veggies. They were $2.59, but on a half off sale and I got 55 cent coupons out of the new coupon book, making them 75 cents each. We grabbed some more lettuce that is bogo this week and also some onions for our roast. I also got some mashed potatoes to try. I really like the Bob Evans kind, they are amazing, but also very expensive! I have some in the freezer for us to have with our roast, but these mashed potatoes were bogo and that made them $2, plus they are 12 more ounces than the bob evans kind. I'm going to give them a try during the week and see how they compare. We rounded off our trip with that pie, another little splurge for the holiday, but it was on 50% sale, making it $4, plus there is a coupon for pie singles inside the box that will come in handy next time they go bogo! Happy Thanksgiving!