Many of these items are still healthier and cheaper to make at home. Plus, they are expensive to start with, and many of the coupons only reduce the price slightly. They are still a far cry from being real food. In my opinion, many of those items are ‘organic’ in name only. Free or not, I couldn’t deny the health issues that could arise from a constant diet of those items.Įven coupons for “natural” foods are often for organic “convenience” foods. Simply because they aren’t actually food. It didn’t take me long to realize that these 2 concepts didn’t quite match. I slowly began to realized that even though it was pretty cool to come home from the store with bagfuls of free Crisco, Hamburger Helper, and Pepsi, I didn’t really want to be feeding those things to my family anyway. For the first time ever, I was pondering the ideas of raw milk, grassfed meat, and organic produce. And let me tell you why.Īs I started reading couponing blogs, I also was reading many natural food blogs. So, why haven’t you seen me share my couponing secrets here at The Prairie Homestead? Well, it’s because I never even started.

I joined a few coupon download sites and had full intentions of learning how to work the system.

I began to look into the fine art of couponing. Oftentimes, the items would end up being completely free! This totally appealed to my frugal side. They would spend mere pennies and come home with bagfuls of food and toiletries. A common theme I found among them was that many of the moms were coupon queens. Back when I started the transition from a workin’ girl to a stay at home mama, I spent a considerable amount of time online checking out various homemaking blogs.

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