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Sunday, February 21, 2010

2-21-10


Free copy of The Busy Mom's Bible - First 5,000 responses
Click here: Busy Mom's Bible - Zondervan
I put in a bogus phone number.
Residents of New York and Florida are not eligible.
Must be able to upload a photo of you and your family.

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Big Lots Friends and Family Sale
20% Off Entire Purchase from 5-9 p.m.
Sunday, February 21st

Click here to print your coupon:
BigLots.com

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KROGER CATALINA'S

There is currently a Kellogg's cereal catalina at Kroger, running from 2/10 thru 3/10. The cereals that are included are: Frosted Flakes, Apple Jacks, Froot Loops, Corn Pops, Cocoa Krispies and Honey Smacks, 10 oz. or larger.
Buy (3) and get a $1.00 coupon oyno
Buy (4) and get a $3.00 coupon oyno
Buy (5) or more and get a $4.00 coupon oyno.

This week at Kroger
Buy 4 participating Kellogg or Keebler products
GET 2 FREE GALLONS OF KROGER MILK.

All items must be purchased in the same transaction
with Kroger Plus card, limit 2 free gallon of
Kroger milk per transaction.

Kellogg's Cereal or Nutri-Grain bars
(select varieties) $2.88

Keebler cookies or crackers $2.88

$1.50 off 2 cereals & $1.00 off 3 coupons


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PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS NEXT CATALINA DOES NOT START UNTIL 2/22.

Buy Nature Valley Granola Bars between 2/22 and 3/21:
Buy (2) and get $1.00 coupon oyno
Buy (3) and get $2.00 coupon oyno
Buy (4) or more and get $3.00 coupon to use on your next order.
Watch for coupons and a sale to turn this into a moneymaker!

printable coupon here

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I have a question so if anyone has an answer please
feel free to comment.

There is a $3.00 off Prevacid Walgreen coupon.

I have a Kroger Catalina $6.00 off Prevacid.
While it does have a Kroger logo on it,
it does say manufacture coupon.

Does Walgreens accept these catalinas?

Sure would like to stack coupons on this deal if I can
because heartburn medicines are sooo expensive
and my hubby uses them all the time.

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I am currently working on baking the cake for the
cupcake pops.

In order to make these cookie pops you need a dense cake.
So I did a little research and found how to make
a cake mix denser. You do not want a light and
fluffy cake that is typically made with these mixes
or it will fall apart.

CAKE MIX MADE DENSER

1 pkg of any kind of cake mix
Plus all the ingredients it calls for on the box
(I used a Raspberry Chocolate cake mix found at Aldis)

In addition:

1 cup all-purpose flour
3/4 cup sugar
1 tsp. baking powder
1/2 cup Crisco oil - OR 1/2 cup softened butter (I used butter)
1- small 4 serving size pudding mix (I used white chocolate pudding)

-Beat the butter,
-Then add all of the ingredients the cake mix called for
(ex: eggs, butter/oil, water)
-Then all of the other ingredients listed above

Blend on low for 1 minute,
then 2 minutes on medium, scraping the bowl down.

Pour into a 9" x 13" baking pan.

Generally, cook at 325F for the larger cakes,
add about 10-15 minutes to the times given on the cake mix box.
I checked every 5 minutes or so over the cake mix times.


You will get about 6 1/2 cups of batter from this recipe.

Click link for Cupcake pops above to see how to assemble.

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I do a lot of printing! Especially for coupons
and rebates. So I would like to make a recommendation
for a cheap printer.
It's an HP D1660 printer.
Can be found at Microcenter for $34.99

I just refilled my ink cartridges today for the first time
and it was a breeze! Just pull back the top sticker
and wallah, it already has predrilled holes for
filling your ink. Can't get easier than that!!
Directions for refilling are here.

I DO NOT RECOMMEND A 3 IN 1 PRINTER if you are looking to
save money printing things!! If you need the scanner & copier
then fine. It is VERY expensive because those type of
ink cartridges CANNOT be refilled. It just won't register
with the printer/computer. So don't waste your time nor money
no matter how cheap they may be. It will cost you in the long
run buying new cartridges which can cost upwards of $50 plus for
both color and black!!

I find my printer ink refill kits at Big Lots for $7.99
and can refill my cartridges many, many times!!

While you can save some money at Walgreens when they
run sales for refilling ink cartridges, you can
save soooo much more by doing it yourself!!

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8:30pm

Cake's done and cooling. Will start assembling everything
together tomorrow. Too tired tonight to do anymore with it.
For about the next half hour I'll sit here and do about
8 more favor boxes. Ahhhh!

Maybe Tuesday I'll start making large cookies
and icing them to resemble smiley faces.
I can't wait to get all this stuff done!!

I bought a pack of 50 paper cd sleeves with
plastic circular fronts for $1.99 today
at Microcenter. I plan to use those to put
the cookies in. Here's an example of how the
cd paper sleeves work for cookies :-)

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My name is Sherry, 39yrs old, from Columbus, Ohio. I am married, a SAHM, and have 3 children ages 9, 10 and 20. I have been frugal/thrifty all my life. I would like to share on this blog how we get by day to day on one income with a family of 5 with a dog and a cat. You will also hear about my everyday gripes about daily life and the cost of living. Hubby says my favorite saying is, "and that is another thing that pisses me off!"

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