Frugalmegan in All You Magazine!

Thank you All You magazine!

As many of you know, in July and August of this year (2009) I entered in All You magazine’s “All You Grocery Challenge”. The rules were you had to spend $25 or less for groceries each week on each family member not including children under 1 year old. We were judged based on how well we stayed within these budget guidelines, how creative we were, and how healthily our families ate. The $25/week was for groceries only, it did not include household items like paper towels or household cleaners.

I received a phone call in late August saying that I was in the Top 10 and was a possible grand prize winner. In September, I received a phone call saying that I was not the grand prize winner, but that they were so impressed with our healthy living and money saving techniques that they wanted to highlight me in their December issue of All You magazine. So of course I accepted and it has been SO exciting! You can see a full page article about our family and how we saved money throughout the challenge if you go to Wal*Mart and pick up a December issue of All You. It’s actually a wonderful magazine filled with money saving coupons, so you will likely make back the money you pay for it and then some .

You can also visit this link to see tips from all of the All You Grocery Challenge Finalists. We all submitted recipes that I hope will be loaded onto the site soon. If you watched the Early Show on CBS this morning you saw our Grand Winner Karen (who did an absolutly FANTASTIC job and was a very friendly blogger!). Hopefully if you missed her segment you can catch it online once it’s posted.

It’s been great, All You! Thank you so much for the opportunity to learn more from these other awesome women. And thank you that everyone will have a chance very soon to join the next All You Grocery Challenge. Keep your eyes open and definitely join in the fun- You never know who the next winner (or finalist) could be!! I hope everyone who participated feels like a winner from all the great tips and challenges we faced. It was a blast!

~Frugalmegan~