Sunday, March 27, 2011

Starbuck's Cake Pops

Starbucks has a new line of petite yummies....and they are YUMMY!  Rosemary and I had to sample the Birthday Cake Pop....wow!  They are $1.50 each or 2 for $2.50.  Online you can order a small pot w/ 6 in it for $30+ !  OUCH!  That started the wheels in my brain turning...we're all in trouble now!

I decided to make my own!  Let's see my cost breakdown...
Cake Mix - .60 coupon and sale
reduced sugar vanilla frosting - I only used half, so .33 clearance @ Big Lots
lollipop sticks $1.50 for the pack
3 eggs - .22
1/4 c oil - .05
vanilla almond bark - used 1/2 package - $1.50
chocolate melting chips - used 1/3 package - sale after a holiday - .42

Made 30 cake pops. 


Entire recipe costs 4.68
That makes each cake pop .16!!  Awesome!!

**side note - we also used sprinkles but i get all sprinkles on clearance for almost nothing so I'm thinking MAYBE .05 for sprinkles in all!

Let me know if you need the recipe!  They were yum!  Kinda like an truffles inside! 

I'm going to pop away now!

Joy

Food Lion SCORE!!

Hello, fellow frugal friends!  I had to blog (even though it's 2am) and tell you about an awesome trip to Food Lion!  My niece and I went tonight (or last night, I guess) and here's what I got:

Trip 1
2 - 2 Ltrs of Diet Sundrop
2 - 2 ltrs of Diet Dr. Pepper
20 oz. Diet Mt. Dew
1 box of NY Texas Toast garlic bread
1 Freschetta pizza
Total BEFORE coupons & MVP:  $20.13
Total AFTER coupons & MVP:  $10.34

Trip 2
4 - 2 ltrs Diet Dr. Pepper
18oz. jar of Jiffy PB
4 bananas
Total BEFORE coupons & MVP:  $11.42
Total AFTER coupons & MVP:  $1.12

So, I got $31.55 of groceries for $11.46!!

I SO LOVE a bargain!  

Have you found any good deals lately??  Please share with me!

Your Frugal Partner,
Joy

Thursday, March 24, 2011

AWESOME Suave Freebie & 100 recipes for LESS than $1

It has been a long time....

I have missed blogging!  I WILL be getting back into it soon!  For now, check out the 2 links below.  1 is for a FREE FULL SIZE Suave shampoo.  The other is for a site that has 100 recipes for less than $1 to make!  I'll be back to blog more soon!


100 CHEAP Recipes from AllYou