Jolene’s 99 Cents Store Shopping Trip – What did you find?

Two sections today — Grocery Finds & Summertime School Skills Maintenance Ideas!  First up are the grocery deals:

1.    Cracker Barrel Extra Sharp Cheddar Cheese block
2.    Newman’s Own Light Italian Dressing, 8 oz.
3.    Heinz Worcestershire Sauce, 5 oz.  (think Father’s Day grilling!)
4.    Banquet Sausage Crumbles, frozen 9.6 oz.
5.    Foster Farms Chicken Franks, 12 oz.
6.    Snackwells Peanut Butter Pretzels (& more varieties)
7.    Bigelow Chamomile Tea Bags, 12 ct.
8.    Lipton Herbal Tea Bags, 20 ct (makes hot or iced tea)
9.    Huge Cantaloupe, 5 lbs.
10.  Fresh Peaches, 2 lbs.
11.  Fresh Strawberries, 1 lb.
12.  Philly Indulgence White Chocolate, 8 oz.
13.  Ball Freezer Container, quart-sized

Now is the time to take advantage of fantastic fresh fruit.  If you enjoy making your own freezer jam, take a look at the Ball Freezer Containers (quart-sized).  Or, simply freeze fruit pieces to use in smoothies. On pinterest recently, I fell in love with bite-sized stuffed strawberries.  Today when I found fresh strawberries & Philly Indulgence, I thought of combining them to create Heavenly Filled Strawberries.  My fellow shoppers today were giddy over the huge cantaloupes today!  Seriously, these cantaloupes were larger than the personal-sized watermelons!

School’s out!  Yay!  But if you’re like me, “Brain Drain” over the long summer is a concern.  How do you maintain children’s school skills to ensure all that goodness isn’t lost?  In the Stationery Aisle, I found affordable learning aides:

1.   Handwriting ABC Dry Erase Cards — Includes a Dry Erase Pen and a Chain to hold all the cards together.  The student practices writing ABC’s properly.  Easy to pack & go.
2.   Draw & Story Pad — Primary grades use this type of paper.  The upper half is for drawing, and the bottom half is lined for storywriting.  Have your student keep a summer journal or a travel journal or whatever is fun.  The main point is to keep them writing, writing, writing!
3.   Not pictured — I also spotted traditional notebooks for older children who would like to maintain a summer journal.  Also, in the area of math, I saw Addition/Subtraction Flashcards as well as Multiplication Flashcards.

This week’s shopping trip highlight was brought to you by Jolene, the  TFF 99 Cents Only Store expert! Find a 99 Cents Store location near you.