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There will now be just one weekly post with grocery store deals for Albertsons, King Soopers and Safeway – the three major grocers in Colorado Springs. I’ll round up any great natural, real food or organic grocery deals and coupon match-ups and have them here in one place for you. I will continue to have separate posts for Sunflower Farmers Market, Whole Foods and Natural Grocers. Remember: I only post the deals that are true deals. These are the items that offer the best savings.

ALBERTSONS

Navel Oranges $1/lb

Wild Harvest Organic Lemonade or Apple Juice $2.99

Stash Tea $2.50 ea
*Use the $1/2 Stash Tea coupon from the 2/5/12 Red Plum to pay only $2.00 each

Wild Harvest Organic Coffee $6.49/10 oz

Arrowhead Mills Cereal $1.79/ea

Wild Harvest Organic Mustard $1.59

Marcal Bath tissue $1/4 pk or Paper towels $1/1 roll

Marcal Bath Tissue $5.99/24 rolls
*Use the $1/1 coupon from the 1/29/12 Red Plum to pay only $4.99/24 rolls or just .21/roll!

Plum Tots Organic Baby Food or Sprout Organic Foods $1 ea
*Use the .50/2 Plum Organics printable coupon to pay only .50 ea

KING SOOPERS King Soopers will double coupons up to a $1.00. Pricing reflects doubled coupons.

Organic Braeburn Apples $2.99/3 lbs

Organic Navel Oranges $2.99/4 lbs

Organic Lemons $2.99/2 lb bag

Asparagus .99/lb

Yogi Tea $2.99

Muir Glen Organic Pasta Sauce $2.99
*Look for peelie coupons for $1/2

Annie’s Mac & Cheese $1 ea

SAFEWAY Safeway in Colorado doubles coupons up to .50. Pricing reflects doubled coupons

Navel Oranges $3.99/8 lb bag

Organic Broccoli $1.29/lb

In-ad coupon for 30% off Amy’s & Kashi. Minimum $10 purchase.
Deal Scenario:
*Kashi Cereal $2.99 (this is the typical cost – the ad doesn’t have the prices) UPDATE: My Safeway has the prices jacked up to $3.79/box
*Buy 4 cereals
*Use the 30% off coupon
*Pay only $2.09/box – or save .99/box

Muir Glen Pasta Sauce $3.00
*Look for peelie coupons for $1/2

Trident Gum Buy 2 Get 1 Free
*Use the $1/3 coupon from the 1/8/12 Smart Source (Should be priced somewhere around $1. Would guess you would pay around .33/pack)

Vogue Organix Shampoo Buy One at $6.49 Get One Free
*Makes it only $3.24 ea when you buy 2

Welcome to Everybody’s Gotta Eat Wednesday! I only post the deals that offer the best Organic and Healthy Choices deals. These are the items that save you the most greenbacks while feeding your family a Green Diet!

Wednesdays are double ad Wednesdays where you can buy this week AND last week’s deals. To see all of last week’s specials, click here.

ORGANIC DEALS

Celery or Carrot bunch $1.50

Lettuce $1.50

Cabbage .99/lb

Organic Valley Flavored Half & Half $1.99

HEALTHY CHOICES

Avocados .33/ea

Grapefruit .25/ea

Chicken Sausage $1.99/lb

*** GREAT DEAL!***

Here are the items for Whole Foods One Day Sale 2/22/12:

Asparagus $1.99/lb

Blueberry Muffin 4-pack $1.99

To see the items that are on sale through 2/28/12 and all Whole Foods coupon match-ups, click here.

I know I’m not the only mom who opens up a lunch bag to find the crust off a sandwich has not been eaten. When reading the statistic that 27% of food in America gets thrown away – I wonder how much of that is bread crusts and ends? What if we were to use 100% of a loaf of bread? We’d be stretching our food dollars and eliminating quite a bit of food waste.

Here are three tips on how you can make sure your family is consuming 100% of a loaf of bread.

Tip #1: Place a bread end in a tight-sealing jar with your brown sugar to keep it fresh.

This is a simple enough solution to keeping your brown sugar from being wasted. Instead of throwing out a bread end, keep it in your brown sugar. The moisture from just one bread end helps to keep brown sugar from hardening.

Tip #2: Use bread crusts to make homemade croutons.

I really do encourage my girls to eat ALL their sandwich. But if I know I am making a salad or soup that night, I usually send them to school with a sandwich with the crusts cut off. I then use them in this amazing recipe for Homemade Croutons. Try to make this recipe right before you need the croutons. Otherwise, you might just end up eating them all before you can use them!

These croutons are seriously yummy!

Tip #3: Take your bread ends and turn them into bread crumbs to be used in a variety of recipes.

Paying for bread crumbs is crazy! They are so easy to make at home and require very little effort on your part.

You can adjust the seasonings in this recipe to suit your family’s taste. Use the breadcrumbs to bread chicken or sprinkle them over casseroles. You’ll wonder why you ever threw out a bread end!

Did anyone else wake up today and think it was Wednesday? Your Green Resource is a linky for all your green ideas that gets published on THURSDAYS! Sorry it is late getting up today! When you link up, your link gets seen on these great sites:

Stacy at A Delightful Home
Emily at Live Renewed
Megan at Sorta Crunchy

We know that many of you have posts of your own about your green journey that our readers will love. Some examples of Green Resources you can link up:

* Real Food Recipes
* Repurposed Projects
* Upcycled Projects
* Organic Gardening Tips
* DIY Natural or Green
* Thrifty Solutions

In addition to making this a weekly place where you can both share and learn new green ideas, each week we’ll be Pinning our favorite post to the Your Green Resource board! We want your green ideas to go viral – so we’ll pin the post for you!

My pinned post from last week was:

The Barn Raising at Live Ready Now!

I am totally fascinated with those who are homesteading. (I love my cable tv too much, so I love to live vicariously!)

*Please make sure to link to the post with your green/natural living idea, not your homepage. Also, to spread the word about Your Green Resource to your readers, please make sure to include a link back to one of the four hostesses for this weekly link-up!

I’m excited to see what you have to share this week!

Sweet enough to be the real thing!

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Just an FYI – in November, Whole Foods had whole organic chickens for only $1.29 ea! So we are definitely seeing prices creep up. And for cost comparison: whole organic chickens are $2.29/lb at Costco everyday.

These are whole chickens, which I prefer. If you decide to stock your freezer, you may want to try making your own organic chicken stock. By using the chicken to make 8 cups of organic stock – you get more bang for your buck!

Welcome to Everybody’s Gotta Eat Wednesday! I only post the deals that offer the best Organic or Healthy Choices deals. These are the items that save you the most greenbacks while feeding your family a Green Diet!

Some Whole Foods allow you to stack a Whole Deals coupon with a Manufacturer coupon. Check with Customer Service at your local Whole Foods.

ORGANIC DEALS

Pears $1.49/lb

Romaine Hearts $2.99/3 ct

HEALTHY CHOICES DEALS

ONE Coconut Water $1.33 ea

Lundberg Rice Chips $2 ea

$1.25 off Nasoya Product priced at $2.99
*Stack with the .75/1 Nasoya printable coupon to pay only .99 each!

$1.00 off 1 box Tazo Tea priced at $4.69
*Stack with the $1/1 Tazo Tea coupon from the 1/22/12 Smart Source to pay only $2.69/box!

$1.00 off 2 Blue Diamond Almond Breeze priced at $2.69
*Use with the $1/2 Blue Diamond coupon to pay only $1.69 when you buy 2

$1.00 off 3 Fig Soups priced at $2.60 ea
*Use with the $1/3 Fig Soups printable coupon to pay only $1.93 each when you buy 3

.75 off Earth Balance Soymilk priced at $3.00
*Pay only $2.25 ea

.50 off 1 Luna Bar priced at $1.19
*Pay only $1.69 ea

$1.50 off two Nature’s Path Waffles priced at $3.69
*Stack with the $1.00/2 printable coupon to pay only $4.88 for 2

$1.00 off 2 Honest Beverages priced at $4.00
*Pay $7.00 for 2

$1.00 off 2 Lifeway Keifer priced at $3.69
*Pay only $3.19 each when you buy 2

$1.00 off 1 Method item laundry is priced a $14.99
*Stack with the $2/1 Method Laundry coupon from the 1/8/12 Smart Source to pay only $11.99

.75 off 1 Naked Juice priced at $3.39
*Pay only $2.64 after coupon

$1.50 off 2 Nature’s Path Granola Bars priced at $3.69
*Stack with the $1.00/2 printable coupon to pay only $4.88 for 2

.75 off 1 2 lb bag Lundberg rice priced at $3.39-3.99
*Pay only $2.64-$3.24 a bag

$1.00 off 2 Pacific Natural Soups priced at $2.69
*Pay only $2.19 each when you buy 2

$1.00 off Stoneyfield Yogurt priced at $4.99
*Use with the $1.00 printable coupon to pay only $2.99 ea

$2.00 off Xclear Nasal Spray
*Stack with the $1/1 printable coupon

.55 off 1 San-J Product
*Stack with the .55/1 printable coupon

$1.00 off 1 box Clif Crunch priced at $2.50
*Pay only $1.50/box

$1.00 off 365 Everyday Value Rice priced at $2.99-3.39
*Pay only $1.99-2.39

$1.00 off 2 boxes Kashi GoLean Crunch priced at $3.89
*Pay only $3.39 when you buy 2

$1.00 off 365 Everyday Value Beans

$1.00 off ANY Pacific Soup Starter

$1.00 off any 4 Clif Bars

$1.00 off Organic Valley Cheese

$1.00 off any 2 Clif Mojo Bars

$1.00 off 1 Garden of Eatin’

$5.00 off Raw Protein Powder

$1.00 off 3 Larabars or Jocolat Bars

$2.00 off package Balance Bars

.50 off Organic Valley Creamer