Farewell for now . . .

OK so I have been stressing and stressing and stressing and I feel horrible about doing this, but I have decided to no longer blog about the deals. I know that there are people who appreciate this Las Vegas friendly blog, but I literally am ridiculously sick lately that if I do go shopping the minute I walk in the door I am throwing up and leaving my hubby to put the groceries away. I don't feel like I am doing anybody any justice by blogging once every month and so I feel like I need to take a break for a while. For how long I am not sure.

I also feel like there are so many other amazing blogs out there that give better information and more frequent information than I do and I feel like I am letting all of my followers down every week by never updating. So I am going to refer you to another amazing Las Vegas blog which is done by the manager of the Las Vegas region. She is the Grocery Geek and between her and one other amazing lady they update their blog atleast every other day. You can check her out here.

Thank you so much to all of my faithful followers and friends that I have made. Hopefully I will start feeling better soon and can return to the wonderful world of blogging.

Do you price match?

I have recently started price matching at Wal-mart for produce. I love love love fresh veggies and fruit, but am very picky about the produce I eat. I was talking to one of my fellow couponers and she told me that she price matches her produce from the Hispanic store ads. I thought I would give it a try and I love it! There are so many good deals on produce. Some of the items I picked up this week were:

6 lbs of oranges for .97
4 lbs of roma tomatoes for .99
3 iceberg lettuce for .99
cucumbers for .50
10 lbs of watermelon for .99

Right now I am going through the best part of pregnancy (morning sickness, which is not only in the morning but all day and night) and the idea of eating anything is absolutely revolting. Especially if I have to open my mouth too wide to eat it. So I have been eating a lot of finger foods and produce hits the spot perfectly for me, so it is nice that I can have a ton of produce for a little amount of money every week.

Some tips on price matching:

Learn the stores policy before attempting this. Often it is found on the stores website. Currently at the Wal-mart next to my house they have a display of all of the ads in circulation and they will cross out any items that they will not price match.

Wal-mart will not allow you to price match and use a coupon for the same item, so I still go to Smith's and Albertson's to hit their promotions or pick up any item that is on sale with a coupon. I mainly just price match produce, meat and dairy.

You don't have to have 6lbs of oranges to get the rate - the store will figure out what it is per lb and then weigh and charge you accordingly. One time I got 3 jalapenos to make pico de gallo for .01

I make a list of all items I am buying and how much the item is and what store ad I found that price in and I bring all ads in the store with me. I have never had to show the person the ad, but I still bring it just in case someone asks I am prepared.

I put all items I am price matching at the end of the belt and tell the cashier immediately that I will be price matching, these seems to be the least stressful way of doing this so I am not holding up the line at all.

Typo on Smiths ad

so if you are like me and was super excited to see cereal for forty eight cents a box, then like me you will be disappointed to learn that it was a typo and cereal is two ninetynine a box.

however, there are still some killer deals at smiths so check out grocerysmarts lists and have fun shopping. i stocked up on powerades, sunnyd, sobes, and sodas. no one will be thirsty at my house.

btw if you are wondering why my grammar is so horrible i am typing this on my phone.

Busy Busy Busy

I feel like I am always apologizing for the lack of posts and for that I am truly sorry, but life has been so hectic lately that even though I have been scoring some great deals I haven't had the time to share any of them.

Some of the things that have been keeping me busy are:
1. a trip to Idaho for a week
2. Our ward being dissolved and we were realigned into a new ward. I was the first counselor in the Primary presidency and didn't lose my calling (there are currently two first counselors) and there are 90 kids in the primary so we have been trying to figure out all of the logisitics of that.
3. My daughter was in her first dance concert at Cashman Field, and we had rehearsals every Friday, dance class every Saturday and the week of the show we had rehearsal Wednesday, Thursday, and then Friday was the show, then on Saturday my cousin was married.
4. On top of all of this I just found out that I am expecting our final baby! I am only six weeks along and am EXHAUSTED! Literally I could sleep all of the time.

Life has finally calmed down and looking at the ads this week there are some killer deals, if I were I would be checking out Grocery Smarts tomorrow (especially the Smith's ad) and check here throughout the day where at some point I will be putting together a list of my picks!

Free Tortillas at Albertsons

Mission Tortillas are on sale at Albertson's for 1.49, and in this Sunday paper there were coupon doublers for Albertson's and in the Smart Source in that same Sunday paper there is a coupon for .75/1 Mission Flour Tortillas. When you combine both that coupon and the doubler at Albertson's it makes the tortillas FREE! I picked up 4 of them yesterday all for free!

Coupon Class

*updated email address, I typed it in wrong, sorry!

I will be having a coupon class at my house on
Saturday August 14, 2010.

If you are interested in coming to learn how using coupons will save you a TON of money please
email me at

frugallivininglv@yahoo.com
and I will give you more details!

New email address

I have a new email address for this blog, it is frugallivininglv@yahoo.com feel free to email me anytime about any questions!