CVS-Black Friday

The details...

• three transactions
• began with 23 extra care bucks
• bought-5 quart crock pot, 3 G2 gatorades, 2 tubes of colgate, 1 Johnson's soft lotion, 1 aussie shampoo, 1 aussie conditioner, 1 king size kit kat, 4 hershey's dark chocolate, one colgate spin brush, 1 pair of Phillip's ear buds, 1 Magnavox universal remote.
• after rolling extra bucks for three transactions spent $0.61 out of pocket
• ended with 14.47 extra care bucks

If you have some extra bucks to spare, the sale on appliances is pretty nice. The choices include a waffle maker, coffee maker, popcorn popper, griddle, or 3 in 1 grill. They are on sale for 19.99, and you earn 10 ECB's, making the appliance 9.99 after ECB's. There are many items free after extra care bucks. Read all of them with coupon matches here. It would be worth the effort to get there! Read other savings stories at Money Saving Mom!

Thanksgiving Menu Plan

turkey

stuffing

gravy

*sweet potatoes (similar to this recipe)Mom's specialty

*mashed potatoes(I will use salt in place of Lawry's)

crock pot macaroni and cheese(I will double it)

green beans

*corn pudding

rolls

*lemon pound cake

*chocolate pie

*apple pie

*pumpkin pie (recipe on libby canned pumpkin)

whipped cream

coffee

tea

soft drinks

dishes with a * will be made the day before

Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, and into his courts with praise: be thankful unto him, and bless his name. Psalm 100:4

Rose is 10 Months Old!

We will be celebrating this child's birthday before we know it! She is such a joy and so full of personality! I snapped these pictures one after another, it is so funny to look through them and see her personality. She only knows a few words, but these pictures say a lot!

fyi...she threw her fry and it landed on her head, I laughed so hard!!!

About me...

I love

yogurt

Cheerios

apple juice

my exersaucer

chewing on Mama's keys

crawling army style

my people

my dogs

squealing

being carried

the piano (playing and listening)

nursing

my basket of toys

couch fuzz (don't ask)

I hate

socks

having my nose wiped

being put down when i am sleeping

when they take away my couch fuzz (don't ask)

when Mama leaves the room

Crock Pot Applebutter

I was inspired to make applebutter in my crock pot by this post from my cyber-twin Monica! And since I am all for cooking if it doesn't keep me in the kitchen all day, this was the perfect recipe for me! I had done this once before with some so-so applebutter that we had purchased and made the so-so applebutter into the best we had ever had...of course I did not write down how I came to that result. I am trying to take more notes on these little adventures in cooking, so when it turns out good I can actually reproduce it! This turned out really good, not perfect, but really good. Worth trying just to smell it cooking!

The ingredients:

2 large jars of no sugar added applesauce

(rinse out one of the jars to store the finished applebutter in)

1 1/2 cups organic sugar

4 tblsp. ground cinnamon

1 1/2 tsp. ground cloves

1/4 tsp. nutmeg

1 adorable 3 year old assistant (Lily)she loves and insists on helping me cook

Mix the ingredients in the crock. Cook on high for 12 hours and low for another four hours. Once it really started to simmer, I vented the lid with a butter knife placed across one end of the crock under the lid. This allows the sauce to reduce and thicken. I did stir it occasionally just to see how it was thickening, and to keep it from scorching around the edges. My crock pot gets pretty hot!

This is the finished sauce after I transferred it to a bowl, so we could have some warm and to let it cool before I put it in the jar. The two jars of applesauce made about one jar of applebutter.


Read more Kitchen Tip Teusdays at Tammy's Recipes!
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Cute Therapy

What? I'm playing dress up with my girlfriends....

....Josephine....

aka....Josie

picture credit==abby

Menu Plan

Monday
B-cereal, toast
L-tuna salad, saltines, or pb crackers, oranges
D-chilli, baked potatos, cheese, sour cream


Tuesday-
Brunch-pancakes, turkey sausage, oranges
D-BBQ chicken thighs, macaroni and cheese, peas


Wednesday-
B-oatmeal, nuts, raisins
L-strawberry and banana smoothie, turkey and cheese sandwices
D-potato soup, cornbread, peach cobbler


Thursday-
B-eggs, toast,applebutter oranges
L-baked sweet potatos, hot tea
D-baked chicken, mashed potatos, green beans


Friday-
B-cereal, bananas
L-fried rice with veggies, fruit
D-homemade pizza, brownies


Saturday-
B-pumpkin muffins, boiled eggs
L-chicken noodle soup, corn bread

Food Lion Mark Downs and K-Mart Super Double Q's

We did not do any CVS shopping this week, but our efforts to collect coupons for Food Lion and K mart really paid off! First at Food Lion, I bought 8 pounds of lean ground turkey, a 4 pound beef roast, and 3 five pound chickens that had been marked down. I bought ten pounds of frozen vegetables, 2 boxes of cheerios, 2 packs of wipes, two jars of whipped cream (very important), and two boxes of saltine crackers. I paid $39 and change for a lot of meat and vegetables! I came across a new site this week that gives great details on shopping at Kroger and Food Lion. Check out Southern Savers for all the details!

Next up was K-mart. I found K-mart to be overpriced much like CVS tends to be. I collected a lot of coupons that could have potentially been good after doubling up to $2. However, I set a goal of not using any coupon that did not make the item free or less than a dollar. I also wanted to try to get a total of $50 before coupons because I had a $5 off $50 K mart coupon. My purchases totaled $55 before coupons. After coupons my total was $12.77. A lot of items were free after coupons, some were more than a dollar, but it averaged to .57 per item. A good result considering these were all item we need or will use.

Read more savings stories at Money Saving Mom!