10-3-10

Homemade Simple coupon booklet with over
$35 in savings.
Takes 4-6 weeks to get.

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Here's a suggestion for an upcoming
baby shower where they are possibly
serving chili.
I just now thought about this
as this was what we were having
for lunch today.
How about making chili bowls
for the chili and serving sides
such as onions, cheese, sour cream and
a bottle of Frank's Red Hot Sauce???

The bowls are really easy to make
with a can of regular size biscuits.
Kroger 8 count biscuits are $1.00
but today is the last day of that sale.
Remove biscuits from can,
lightly spray the backside
of a cupcake pan
and press the biscuits over
each cupcake part.
Bake according to directions.
Remove from pan and
spoon chili inside cups.
Kroger shredded cheese
is going back on sale starting tomorrow
for $1.00 a 2 cup package!
(reg. $2.99 each)

Watch for the sour cream to go
on sale for $1.00 also.

If you go HERE you can sign up
and are able to print 2 coupons Frank's Red Hot Sauce.
If you use the coupon doubled at
Meijers you can more than likely
get it for FREE!

10 cans biscuits $10 (1 chili bowl each, double for 2 each)
5 pkgs cheese $5.00 (about 1/4 cup per person)
2 tubs sour cream $2.00 (if it goes on sale)
3 onions, diced .60 cents
Hot sauce -Free
Someone else makes the chili- Free

Total cost to doodle up your chili
for a party of 80 people:
$17.60
for 40 people:
$9.60 to $10.60

You could bake the biscuit bowls
now and freeze.
Then rewarm in oven on about 200 degrees.

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Well I no sooner got lunch done
and now time to throw supper in the
crock and a load of clothes in the washer.

Supper:
Tilapia in the crock
marinated with butter & Italian seasoning
Baked & seasoned potatoes
Cut potatoes into wedges then
coat with olive or canola oil
then shake in a large zip bag
with some flour & seasoning then bake 400 degrees
for about 30 minutes.

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3:20pm

Got the fish filets marinating.
Thinking about wrapping the filets
up in aluminum foil and baking them
along side of the potatoes in the oven.

2nd load of wash is in.
Another in the dryer.
And yet another I did the other day
got folded and hung up.

Now will work on getting the kids
lunches made for tomorrow
and plan a menu for them for
the rest of the week.

Thinking about pb&j roll ups.
-cut the crusts off bread slices.
Roll bread out with rolling pin
or the side of a glass.
Spread with a little peanut butter
then jelly.
Roll up like a jelly roll.
Then cut/slice into 4 pieces.
.

.

other ways of making:

-use flour tortillas instead of bread.

-place a banana on tortilla
along with peanut butter or nutella then roll up.
.

-Bologna & Cheese Sandwiches

-Chicken Salad Sandwiches

-Spaghettios

-Hot Pockets

Meijer Deal

Hot Pockets – $2.00
$1.00/1 Hot Pockets Printable
Final Price: $1.00

Other Meijer Deals:

Meijer brand canned corn, green beans

or peas .33 cents each 3 for $1.00.

Meijer canned kidney beans .59 cents

Meijer pasta .69 cents each

Meijer applesauce 240z jar $1.49

Buy 2 Clorox disinfecting products

get Clorox Disinfecting to go wipe 9 count FREE.

Clorox bleach or toilet bowl cleaner $1.67

Meijer twin pack 200 count Ibuprofen $3.00

(I just paid $3.48 for Kroger 100 count ibuprofen! grr)

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Well around 6:00pm

we're heading out to Hilliard to check out a TV

we saw on craigslist.

Our TV has broken buttons on it

but still works with the remote.

Christopher has a tv with no remote

and the volume down button won't work.

The volume is stuck on a louder than

normal setting than I would prefer.

So we're giving him our tv, trashing his

and buying another used one for our room

with a remote.

I know I have owned our bedroom tv

for at least 16 years!!

Amazed it is still going!

And no siree, this new tv is not

an LCD.

Can't afford another one of those

just yet, not even a smaller one!

Because our radiator has started

leaking on the Suburban.

We noticed a puddle under

it Friday when eating at Taco Bell.

I don't want to know how

much another one costs! We bought

one for out tracker at $150 to $160 I think

and that was a tiny radiator compared to this one!

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8:00PM

Went to Hilliard and got a tv.

Got about 1/4 of the way home

and realized the remote didn't

go with the tv so turned back around

to see if they had the correct remote

and they did.

Home now and still working on laundry,

getting tvs hooked up and moved around,

kids need to get their shower soon,

got lunches all ready to go for tomorrow.

Now need to lay clothes out for everyone.

Is it possible that one weekend go by

that we don't have to go anywhere

and do something?

Not sure if I'm going to the store tomorrow

or not. I really need to stay home

and get bills done!

Then Tuesday and later on this week

go to Meijer and Kroger.

The only thing I really need from Kroger

is pop and cheese.

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8:45PM

Just got an email for Fazoli's

with a coupon. You would need

to sign up with them to receive

special offers in your email.

Anyway the printable coupon

is for a Free small spaghetti entree

with the purchase of an adult entree.

Wonder if those $3.99 deals are still going on

for spaghetti, ravioli or zitti?

If so I could take mom and my step-dad,

they split the $3.99 entree which is enough

for 2 people and includes bread sticks,

and I could have the free spaghetti.

We could drink water for free

or they could get a senior discount

for a soda for .50 cents.

Me and mom could split a refillable soda

and step dad could get one.

So for a total $4.99 I could

take the three of us out to eat

at an Italian restaurant.

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9:00PM

Me and Tony are sitting here doing

an experiment. He has an electrical tester.

You're supposed to put the end of it to

a wire and if the wire has electric current it will beep like

crazy and won't beep if no electrical current.

Here's a scary thought, and I don't know why it

does it for only me as we tested the kids also,

when my hands are off the computer or mouse

the electrical tester does not beep when he puts

it to my shirt BUT when I touch the mouse or

lap tap and he touches my shirt it beeps like

crazy which says their is a small electrical current

running through my body from the computer!!

How do I know it's the computer setting it off

by only touching the tester to my shirt,

I kept removing my hand from the mouse

and it would beep only when touching the mouse,

not beep when I let go, then beep again when

touching the mouse again.

So think about that next time

you are on your computer and

what may be entering your body.

So maybe there is some truth behind

those stories told about cell phones

and them possibly be cancerous.

Scary thought!

Looking at my mouse and computer

a lil differently now!

No, I don't feel an shock from my computer

or tingling hands.

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This next group of photos I will
leave at the bottom of the blog since
it is so long.
Any new posting for today will
be listed above these.

Stopped in Walmart yesterday
once we got into Logan.
We had to find a gift bag large
enough for the crock pot we got.
Check out what is parked
in a parking spot and tied
to the light pole!


The rain held off long enough for the wedding
to take place out doors, yeah.
But it rained during the reception
and for the drive home.

Me and Tony yesterday.
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View of the backside of the lodge where
the reception took place.
The area we took the picture from
was a gazebo and deck.
There was an additional deck
off the lodge to the left of the photo.
.The lodge sat atop a hill
and there were many steps that
went to the bottom of a hill
where there was a field and stream.
All guests and wedding parties
had to go down these steps!
.The field where the wedding took place.
..

The groom awaiting his bride.
.The bride and groom lighting
remembrance candles
and combining unity sand.
I think it's something like
liking a unity candle.
.Gotta love the zoom on my camera.
You'd of thought I was standing right
next to the bride when she was getting married
but was sitting about 3 rows back.
.
Her name was Sarah.



The groom's name was Randy.
He is a coworker of Tony's
and a friend of ours.Now married and walking across the field.
.Everyone who attended the wedding
was asked to walk over to the stream
and gather on the bridge for a photo.
Here is a picture of the bridge.
This view was from the gazebo
atop the hill.
.Everyone trucking back up the steps
back to the Lodge for the reception.
Handicapped and elderly guests
got a lift by way of a golf cart or car
that drove around to the bottom to
take them back up.
.The wedding cake.
.The reception area.
..Other coworkers at our table.
Another maintenance man
and his wife.
.
The lady on the right works
in the office at Tony's work.
Not a good photo, lol.
We were playing a game with our
cameras taking pictures when others
didn't know it then passing the camera
around the table to laugh at them.
And this was one of them photos
where I caught them off guard, lol.
.The bride and groom at the head table.
.The cutting of the cake.
.After this, photos were hard to get.
They had about 3 photographers
a camera man and family taking their
own photos.
So crowds gathered around
for feeding of the cake, dances, garter toss
and flower toss.
I gave up and put the camera away.

The video person went around
to each table asking everyone
to say something to the bride and groom.

Dinner was:
Marinated chicken with mushrooms,
Prime Rib,
Rolls, steamed green beans,
mashed potatoes, salad, rolls.
Served with beer, wine and pop.

Then there was appetizers
like an assortment of cheeses,
vegetables, truffles, cookies,
& chocolates.

The drive home wasn't fun at all!
Pitch black country side
with rain, newly paved blacktop roads
that reflected every light like a mirror,
fog, twists, turns & hills in the road,
and wipers that were really crappy!

We were so tired and I was achy
by the time we got home.
Any smoke breaks at the reception
were outside under a tent
(where the bar was)
and it was cold and rainy.
Once home I couldn't wait to get out
of my dressy clothes and into pj's and crawl into
bed with an electric blanket, ah!
We had left for Logan around noon
and got back at 9:00pm.