My Magazine _Back to School Mission_Free Samples

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I signed up for the Kroger My Magazine Sharing Network community which is an awesome place where you have the chance to collaborate with other like-minded individuals in discussions and missions. Through the missions you are asked to share about the community and your experience with the products on your social media outlets and also in person with friends and family. Sometimes the missions offer a free sample to try and then share about while others require sharing with the chance of winning a prize. I definitely suggest you check out the Kroger My Magazine Community because it’s a great time.

This time I was selected to participate in the Back to School mission to help get back into the swing of things with school starting back up for the year.  In this sample pack I received a lot of coupons and unfortunately all of them had expiration dates right after I opened the package so I had to make some quick decisions and had little time to share the coupons beyond leaving them on the shelf at the store.  I have had this complaint in the past about the My Magazine missions that the coupon dates are not far enough in the future.  I have also noticed that the missions seem to correspond to the themed sales in the stores and often the products for the mission are also on sale.  This is great for saving money for the mission but it can be difficult to find the products required as they are often sold out.

In the sample pack I received: 

• 1 Kroger Lunchbox
• 1 Coupon for 1 Free Market & Mill Bread 
• Extra Coupons for Market & Mill bread 
• 1 Coupon for 1 Free any size box of Kroger Sandwich Baggies 
• Extra Coupons for Kroger Sandwich Baggies
• Coupons for $0.50 off 2 Kroger Fruit Snacks 
• Coupons for $0.60 off 2 Kroger Carrot Snack Packs 
• Coupons for $0.75 off of 16oz Kroger Lunch Meat
• Coupons for $1.00 off Snack Variety Packs 

The Lunchbox: The lunchbox is awesome for me to take to work since my son is a bit embarrassed to take this one to school with him.  My son typically gets a hot lunch at school so often does not take a lunch with him and he has a Pokemon lunchbox that he uses so does not like this one but it is a great item for me for work.  It is obvious that this is someones lunch rather than putting it in a plastic bag so I don't run the risk that someone might accidentally take my lunch from the office refrigerator.  I also like that it has two pockets so that I can separate some items into the front if I do not want them getting crushed with the rest of my food.  This box also has great insulation, I have about an hour drive from home to the office and this keeps my food cold the whole time.  I would definitely look into purchasing Kroger brand lunch boxes and coolers in the future based on my experience with this one.  

Market & Mill Bread: I was unable to get this bread because my store apparently does not carry the Kroger Market and Mill bread.  I asked the worker if I could purchase another Kroger bread in replacement but the very unfriendly manager was on duty that day and would not allow me to do so.  I would definitely have liked to try this bread as it looked great in the pictures I saw but I will just have to wait and see if my store ever carries it.  I was surprised that my store did not have it because we typically are the store that tries out all of the new products so it is strange for us to not have a product but I guess this one is carried at other Kroger locations around the country and not King Soopers where I shop.  

Kroger Sandwich Baggies: This was an amazing deal on the baggies, I read the coupon details several times over to be sure I was doing the right thing but it said ANY SIZE.  Thanks to the Any Size detail, I was able to get a 180ct package of sandwich baggies for my family.  I have been very impressed with these baggies, in the last few years I have felt that the quality of Ziploc brand baggies has gone downhill and the often rip or leak but I have not had any issue with these Kroger bags so far.  I have not used them enough to go so far as to say they are much better than Ziploc but they are certainly equivalent in quality in my opinion.  

Kroger Fruit Snacks: I chose not to purchase these because we typically purchase large quantities of fruit snacks from Costco or Sams Club and the coupons provided did not give enough savings to make this a great deal.  When my son was younger we did purchase these quite often and I love that they are often themed for the holidays making it exciting for the kids, they have a great taste and we loved them but they just do not have the right price for quantity options in comparison to bulk purchase stores.  

Kroger Carrot Snack Packs : I thought these packs were so cute and I thought they would be great for the family but in reality they are not as practical as they seem.  Plain carrots are not the greatest and my son struggles to have time and space to have carrots with dip at school so that didn't work out for us.  As for myself, I often have carrots with ranch dip at work but found these little packages to be too small for the quantity I wanted.  I think for myself it is easier and a better deal to just purchase a regular bag of carrots and serve the amount I want each day.  This is where the lunchbox comes in handy to store my bag of carrots in the work refrigerator.

Overall we love Kroger products, and we already knew we did, so this was an awesome mission to participate in!

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