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I am sharing this post as part of a campaign through being a USFG blogger. I may receive free product as compensation for my time. I have also included a referral link. All opinions are my own.

I get asked all the time how I save money on products that have no coupons, like meat and fresh veggies. And although I have mentioned using overage and catalinas, I recently was introduced to this amazing company called Zaycon Foods.



How does Zaycon Foods manage to provide such high quality super fresh meat and produce to its customers at such low prices? The answer is strength in numbers. And not our numbers, yours!

Zaycon Foods can sell its products at bulk rate prices to individual consumers and families because our unique sales event business model brings lots of people together, adding all their purchasing power into a combined bulk food purchase. And when you buy as part of a group that’s committing to such a large purchase, the power is in the hands of the purchaser! It’s the ultimate group buy in terms of both price and consumer empowerment.

You can pre-select exactly what you want to order from a given Zaycon sales event – sometimes you may want to stock up on our amazing meaty back ribs and sometimes it might be all about the Zaycon bacon – and then, on the day of the sales event, you and a whole big bunch of your neighbors will find yourselves in a nearby parking lot watching as an entire tractor trailer’s worth of high quality natural food is unloaded into all of your cars! You will be amazed at how quickly one of our refrigerated trucks goes from being filled with natural, fresh chicken or hundreds of gallons of grade A non-homogenized milk to being empty and back on its way to the farm!



A Zaycon Foods truck sales event often lasts less time than you would spend on a trip to the grocery store, yet you will leave with a whole lot more food than you’d get at the market, and for much better prices, too!

When you use the Zaycon Foods sales event as your preferred place to purchase meats, milk, and any of our other fine products, you get advantages even beyond the bulk pricing that comes with our special sales model. You also have the peace of mind of knowing exactly what you’re going to get! A trip to the grocery store can involve wasted time wandering around looking for various foods spread out across the store; at a Zaycon Foods parking lot meat truck delivery (or milk or berries or fish delivery, too!) you have pre-ordered your foods, so all you have to do is show up and wait for our friendly staffers and volunteers to load up your car.

Also, unlike in the grocery store, the prices you will pay for a Zaycon Foods product are locked in on our website, so you will know how much you are going to spend before you have committed to a purchase.

At a supermarket, you might pay one price for chicken on one day, and then a higher price on another day. With Zaycon, you decide that you want to order a case of our fresh boneless skinless chicken breasts, you check the price and then you commit to it, knowing that from that moment on, we are committed to getting you your fresh, natural food!

To Get Started, visit http://zayconfoods.com.

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Huzzah! On June 22, Mike the Knight™ and his friends are galloping into Mall at Stonecrest for special live performances of Mike the Knight and the Mission for Hidden Treasure. The free 20-minute interactive musical adventure will also feature Mike’s dragon, Squirt, from the beloved television series on Nick Jr., and includes meet & greets, photo opportunities, giveaways, and a preview of the first Mike the Knight toys from Fisher-Price debuting in Spring 2013. Performances will be held at 12pm and 2pm.

It’s time to be a knight, and do it right! Mike the Knight and the Mission for Hidden Treasure follows Mike, Squirt, and friends, as they piece together clues to discover hidden treasure. To help Mike accomplish his mission, audience members are invited to take on special fun-filled challenges alongside Mike and Squirt, and learn lessons in knightliness. After the show, young knights in training will have the opportunity to tell Mike the Knight what knightly deeds they have done and participate in a special knighting ceremony.

Each 20 minute show will be followed by a meet and greet with Mike. In addition to the two performances, guests are encouraged to come dressed in knight and princess attire and participate in all of the fun.



Mike the Knight is a new CG-animated preschool series that invites viewers into a fantastical world of castles, quests, dragons and trolls that centers on Mike, a young knight-in-training, with a bright future ahead of him. The son of the King and Queen of Glendragon, he is determined to follow in his father’s footsteps to become a brave and noble knight. Co-produced by HIT Entertainment and Nelvana, the series currently airs on Nick Jr., Monday-Saturday, from 7-8pm. Additionally, a new line of books featuring Mike the Knight was just released from Simon & Schuster, an all-new toy line from Fisher-Price will debut at retailers in May, and Mike’s first home entertainment title, Knight in Training, releases on DVD June 4th from NCircle Entertainment.

Not only are there special performances, but you can also enter to win a Mike the Knight DVD, sword, and shield!
a Rafflecopter giveaway

This trip is a perfect example of "How To Shop Sales". I have been couponing for over a year now, but my first advice for saving money on groceries came from my mother-in-law. She said use coupons when you have them on what you would normally buy, but always try and shop sales. Great advice that has helped my family save so much money and how I can afford to be a stay-at-home mom.

This week, we were low on veggies. My family goes through veggies like they are going out of style. Nice problem to have, right? But I have been terrible about buying papers, so I had NO coupons. What's a girl to do? Kroger is having this awesome Buy 10, Get 5 free sale. PLUS my Kroger was having a 4-day sale. And of course the Mega still is going on (and a new one starts next week). :D

So this is what I got:

Buy 10, Get 5 FREE Deal -
10 Green Giant Veggies $1
5 Starkist Tuna $1
= $10 or $0.67 per item

Mega Event Items: Buy 4, Save $4 - (all prices are after Mega savings)
2 Huggies wipes $0.99
- 2 $1/1 Facebook IPs
= FREE

2 Pull-Up Training Pants $7.99
- $3/1 coupons from Pull-Ups Party
= $9.98 or $4.99 each

1 Kellogg's Fruit Snacks $1.88
- $0.50/1 from Kroger mailer (doubled)
= $0.88

1 Kellogg's Rice Krispies Treats $1.88
- $0.50/1 from Kroger mailer (doubled)
= $0.88

4 Capri Sun $1.29
- 2 $1/2 Capri Suns or Roaring Waters IP
= $3.16 or $0.79 each

4 Finish Powerball $2.99
- 4 $2.15/1 from 6/16 RP
= $3.36 or $0.84 each!

2 Keebler Cookies $0.99
- 2 $1.50/1 from Kellogg's Family Rewards
= $1.00 Money Maker! :D

BOGO deals -
2 Disney Vitamins $6.99
- 2 $1/1 Disney or Marvel Gummie Vitamin Product
= $4.98 or $2.49 each

Other Items -
Kroger Carrots $0.88
Kroger Fresh Selections Salad $2.99
- $0.40 from Kroger mailer
= $2.59
8 Kroger Frozen Veggies 10/$10 ($0.88 after 4 day sale)
2 Beechnut Fruities 10/$10
- 1 $0.50/1 IP and 1 $1/1 IP
= FREE

Total Spent: $43.18
Total Saved: $73.03
Percentage Saved: 63%! :D


Don't forget to load your 2x fuel points e-coupon at Kroger.com and shop weekends through June & July to save at the pump this summer!



By the way, have I mentioned my love of the ibotta app? I haven't? (I think I mentioned it here) Anyways it's this cool app where you can earn CASH through PayPal for items that you would normally purchase anyways. PLUS you can use paper coupons with this app!
Example, here's a deal from Publix:
Silk Soymilk or Pure Almondmilk, 64 oz, 2/$5
- $1/1 Silk Beverage: (Soy Almond or Coconut milk or Fruit & Protein 1/2 gal+) Target Coupon
- $1/1 Silk Pure Almond Milk Half Gallon
- $0.75 Silk Half Gallon ibotta offer
You actually make a quarter after coupons and ibotta offer!

And right now if you sign up through a referral link (*COUGH* I'll leave THIS right here), you can earn $10 CASH through PayPal when you redeem your first offer. ibotta currently works at these retailers: 7-Eleven, BI-LO, CityMarket, CVS Pharmacy, Dillons, Dollar General, Dominicks, Duane Reade, Family Dollar, Food 4 Less, Fred Meyer, Fry's, Giant Eagle, H-E-B, Harris Teeter, Hy-Vee, Ingles Markets, King Soopers, Kroger, Meijer, Pathmark, Pavilions, Pick 'N Save, Publix, QFC, Ralphs, Randalls, RiteAid, Safeway, Sam's Club, ShopRite, Smith's, Stop & Shop, Target, Tom Thumb, United States Armed Forces Commissary, Vons, Walgreens, Walmart, Wegmans, WinCo Foods, & Winn-Dixie.
WOW! So what are you waiting for? Don't you want to get paid for products you are buying anyways?

This is a sponsored post written by me on behalf of Dr. Sofa, as part of a Mommy Hot Spot Army of Moms Campaign. All opinions are 100% my own.




If your furniture is showing signs of wear, you may think it’s time to toss it. But not so fast, this can be wasteful and expensive. Instead of replacing worn furniture, you may try to have it reupholstered instead.

The transformation that can occur with re-upholstery is truly amazing. And as long as your furniture is still structurally strong and sound, you can give it new life by reupholstering it.

1. Save Money:
This is my number one reason! New furniture can be costly, especially when you have champagne taste, but a beer budget. Often your existing furniture still has many more years of life in it, except for the surface wear. In these cases, you can save money by reupholstering your high quality furniture instead of replacing it when it isn’t structurally necessary. Even when hiring an expert reupholster company, like Dr. Sofa, to do the work, the cost is usually less than it would be to replace your furniture with all new pieces.

2. Save Your Furniture:
When you love your furniture, but you can’t stand the unsightly wear, reupholster can be the ideal solution. Sometimes the style and lines of your current furniture become so familiar that you just can’t stand the idea of parting with your comfortable old couch or chair. In this case, you can have new life breathed into the tired furniture through re-upholstery, making it possible to continue using it for many more years. If your house is anything like mine, then you have rambunctious little ones that jump on everything and may need to reupholster couch cushions and pillows.

3. Preserve Antiques:
If you have antique furniture that needs some help, re-upholstery can be an effective method for preserving these pieces. To ensure that you don’t damage or destroy the furniture in the upholstery process, find a professional who specializes in reupholstering antique furniture. Dr. Sofa specializes in re-upholstery of all types.

4. Choose Your Fabrics:
Sometimes your interior decor needs just the right color or design, and this can be difficult to find in the ready-made furniture market. Instead of purchasing new furniture that won’t fit into your existing decor, consider reupholstering. The reupholster process will enable you to select just the fabric you want that will fit your design and decor scheme.

5. Learn New Skills:
If you have the time and inclination, you can learn this skill yourself. But why when Dr. Sofa has the skills already and tons of coupons to bring the cost down even further!

I was compensation for sharing this post, but all opinions are my own.