OK, I just gotta say it. Dinner tonight (I’m really writing this on Sunday) was so absolutely tasty! It was a new one for us and wow. I even got a pretty decent “OK” when I asked the hubby if he liked it. You just do not get much better than that!
The recipe claims “5 servings”. There are five of us. This ended up enough for two meals for us. So I dumped the other half into a freezer pan and we can have it in November. I’ll just reheat on a busy day when stressed from NaNo! Score!
If you don’t remember, tonight was Italian sausage with bow ties or some such. Woah. Taste of Home strikes again with a home run! That one magazine is awesome! I really need to get more copies. I am not one for magazine subscriptions, but… this one tempts me.
So what’s on for this week? Insanity! But, I’m working hard on a costume for Halloween and am a busy woman!
Monday: Book It Pizza Night. My kids read and so we’re gathering at the Pizza Hut to use our coupons. Talking about books and eating yummy ‘zza. Awesome family night adventure! Plus, after being gone all day to the Palin rally, I’ll want something fun and easy.
Tuesday: Pancakes – Yeah, we’re digging breakfast for dinner. It’s easy, it’s tasty, and everyone is happy! Expect more of these in November with NaNo breathing down my neck!
Wednesday: The usual Search and Rescue operation – Search for food and rescue yourself from starvation because it is youth night!
Thursday: Hamburger Helper. Gross, but my husband insisted. Pity me if you like. If you REALLY like, sneak me something decent. I even bought real cow meat. Ick Ick ICK! Man, see what you do for love?
Friday: Halloween! The kids will scarf and then the husband and I are heading to The Melting Pot post Trick or Treat. There’s a killer deal on the Big Night Out so guess what? We’re stuffing our guts with fondue goodness! My hope is that my costume scores me the $100 gift card award. So I can have a melting pot night again… post NaNo party? Sounds good to me!
Saturday: Pasta with bread. Mmmm We got a new type of pasta on a good coupon deal – free. So we’ll try it!
Sunday: Pork Loin. And guess what? It’s actually going to get eaten. I think we’re inviting our Home Teacher for dinner. We need something big like that for company. I keep putting this off because my husband doesn’t like the pork loin, but the rest of us love these things.
I am so glad I am now writing down our menus. It is nice to go and look at my ideas!
On a side note, Kashi cereal is on sale at CVS this week for $2.50. With the $2.00 off coupon from their website I can get it for .50! Looks like we’re trying a new cereal!
–Lady O
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shay_writes said:
You are quickly becoming my new role model.
I wish we had CVS here.
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Lady Ozma said:
HEHE
CVS is the bombdiggity.
Though this week is so so for the deals. I don’t know that I”m gonna get the killer deal like last week. 76 bucks for less than 4 bucks out of pocket was amazing.
Go to the kashi website and print the coup. Maybe you can find it for a good price. I hear walmart’s been having it for around 2 bucks. 😉 You can print two coups per machine. Not too shabby, right?
My CVS trip for tomorrow is as follows:
3 bottles Advil
2 Colgate Total toothpastes
3 bags of Nestle Candy for halloween
2 boxes of kashi
5 soy joy bars
2 bottles of palmolive
1 pack of razors
Currently it looks like my out of pocket will be like 5 bucks. If i can get these other two coupons to print (My one computer is pitching a fit. Guess I’ll try the upstairs ones. Pray it works! LOL) I can actually get my total down to like .21 before taxes. None too shabby, KWIM?
So we’ll see I guess. I’m armed with a mess of coupons! Oh and that’s saying I can get ahold of today’s paper at the Dollar Store in the morning. i need two palmolive coupons out of it. My subscription JUST ran out. GRRRR. Guess I need to ring the paper and say “yeah I want ya on Sundays.”
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Lady Ozma said:
PS
Walgreens does some groovy deals. Rite Aid as well but they are a PITA. But this week is a good week for them if you don’t mind waiting three weeks to get the money back. 😉 Do you have Wags or RA? We have a RA but I don’t go there often. we’re getting a Wags by my house but I don’t know how much longer till it opens.
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shay_writes said:
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I am impressed!
We are getting a Walgreens. It is built, but I’m not sure if it is open yet.
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Lady Ozma said:
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i can get you some links so you can learn how to play at WAGS. 🙂 I can’t wait for ours to open. Sometimes WAGS has the better week. Sometimes it’s CVS. This week is so so. I’ve got most of my coupons now though so that’s good. I’m really annoyed because I could not get the good SoyJoy to print. No “candy bars” for my kids. 😉 Well, I’m buying them anyway, but it’s just not as good a deal. Le Sigh.
I’ve got my list, I’ve got everything but my palmolive coupons (pray the dollar store still has papers, they usually do), and I’m ready to ROLL. I’m hitting Starbucks and the dollar store on my way to the Palin rally. I’m hitting CVS on my way home. I’ll post a picture to my flickr as usual with my haul!
It will be a while though because…. well… Palin rally. LOL
I’m excited. I’ve seen Obama, Biden, and this will make Palin. I’m only missing McCain.
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shay_writes said:
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Thank you!
Have fun at the rally!
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kayeita said:
I love Kashi GoLean Crunch and the Kashi one with honey! Fantastic cereals.
I’ll get those recipes out to you today!!
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Lady Ozma said:
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It was great. 🙂 I tweeted teh whole thing. Just like when I went to Obama. 🙂
I’ll get that link. It’s just a busy busy day today. I’m getting ready to head back out to go to Pizza Hut for Book It Fun
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Lady Ozma said:
I’ll be trying them!
They were each 2.50. And my $2.00 off coupon was good for “any Kashi product”. So I got two boxes of Go Lean Crunch and two boxes of the honey thing. I’ve been living on Special K varieties. So I’m excited for the change!
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