Coupon Spotlight -- Fruit Snacks

And because I missed the entire month of May, here's a Coupon Spotlight.

Remke Biggs has Betty Crocker fruit snacks (think Gushers) on sale for $.99. Here's the weekly ad, see page 2. (Random aside, why isn't there a cent symbol on the keyboard?)

This is already a good deal because they are normally $2.99.

But you can make it even better with a coupon.

Coupons.com has a printable coupon for these products. It's $.50 off two. Sorry, I don't how (or if I can) link directly to the coupon.

Anyway, Remke biggs will accept that coupon, and in fact double that coupon. So it's $1 off two. So as long as you buy an even number (Remke Biggs allows up to six of the same coupon in a transaction), you're getting them for about $.50 a box instead of $2.99.

You can stock up for either next school year or summer day camp lunches.

Cookies and Cream Puppy Chow

I didn't really have a reason for making this particular item. My man and I were going on a trip and I wanted to take along a sweet snack. I also happened to have Chex cereal (when don't I, really?) and Oreos sounded really good.

Oreos sounded *really* good.

So I went and bought a bag.

And then the trip got postponed before I made the puppy chow, so I started eating the Oreos and by the time we actually went on the trip a few weeks later, I had to go buy another bag of Oreos.

Sad day? Only for my wallet.

I followed the directions exactly, except for perhaps the type of chocolate chips. I used a combination of milk chocolate and semi-sweet because, first, I had both types, and second, I didn't want the sweet to be any more overwhelming than it was already on track to be.

So I made the mix. And I packaged up most of it to go to Gatlinburg.

I didn't try it until we got to Gatlinburg.

Where I found that it satisfied a need for something sweet, but didn't really taste anything like Oreos. Unless you got a bit of cookie. I think I should have added more cookies.

I feel no need to make this again.