I'm three weeks in to my OAMC and I have to say, I totally dig it.  It's so great to have so many meal options available, and with minimal effort on my part, we have an entire meal.

Tonight was chicken parmesan.  I already had the chicken breasts breaded and cooked in the freezer.  I'm not sure how pasta will do in there (rice freezes great for me so far btw!) so I made some pasta.  I popped a couple frozen rolls into the oven with the chicken and opened a jar of sauce.  Oh yes!  I do have sauce fixen in the freezer and pantry -- but I got 2 jars of Ragu for 50 cents today!  And I do love Ragu now and then!  I topped the chicken breasts with some mozzarella and sauce the last few minutes of reheating and I had a HUGE yummy meal. 

I have decided to allow myself not to be a stickler to my list.  Some nights I have some beef dish listed and I really, really want chicken.  Other nights it's soup, but we want something more hardy -- so as long as it's all used up, I guess it doesn't really matter in what order we use it.

So -- we grocery shopped today!  I have to say, I DID buy some "luxury" snacking items today.  BUT ------- with good reason.  They were on sale, I had coupons AND we got 50 boxtop points for our homeschool group!  Plus, I didn't blow the budget :-) 

I bought some Animal Planet fruit snacks (Emme just loves Animal Planet) and some cereal bars,  Capri Sun Roarin Waters and Chicken Helper chicken fried rice.  I can't help it, I love that stuff and it was only a dollar!  LOL  I have plain cooked chicken in the freezer anyway -- so can't we kinda count it as a freezer meal?  lol  Oh, I also bought some of my all-time favorite SINFUL pizza rolls!!!!!!!  But, I got them about half price -- so not bad.  And Healthy Choice frozen dinners were on sale for 1 dollar and I had coupons too -- I just bought a couple.

I'm definitely still no coupon pro.  So many women can save so much -- but I'm happy even saving the little that I did today! 

With sales and coupons, I saved 24.09 at one store and 29.20 at the other store.

(Coupons alone were:  14.50)   So coupons alone saved me an extra 20%.  For ME, that's good.  I know for people who have been doing this for years, nothing under 50% is good!  But maybe someday.

Yes, today was all about shopping and cooking.  School too.  That was about it.  I feel lazy -- but these are supposed to be simple days.  Right?