Deals I am doing this week

Walgreens

Vicks VapoDrops $.99 each or 2 for $1.79
Use the $1.00 off Vicks Product coupon from the 12/26 PG or 1/16 PG
Total cost FREE!Vicks VapoDrops $.99 each or 2 for $1.79

Buy 4 Vicks Sinex 20-ct Day and Night $5 Each
Use 4 of the $4.00 off Vicks Sinex Coupons from the 12/26 PG
You pay $4.00, but you get a $10 RR back.
Total cost FREE, plus a $6.00 MoneyMaker!

$2.50 ThermaCare Pain Relief
-$1 MFQ HERE
-$2.50 RR
= $1 profit!

Blue Diamond Almonds 2 for $4.00
Use the $.60 off (2) Blue Diamond Almonds coupon from the 12/5 SS and 10/10 SS
Total cost $1.70

NyQuil/DayQuil $5.00 (buy 4)
Use (4) of the $1.00 off NyQuil/DayQuil coupon from the 12/26 PG or 1/16 PG
You pay $16.00 but you will receive a $10.00 Register Reward to use toward your next purchase.
Total cost $6.00 for (4) products!

Lysol disinfectant spray 2 for $7.00
Use the $1.00 off Lysol coupon from the 1/2 SS
or use the $1.00 off Lysol coupon
or use the $1.50 off Lysol Neutra Air Aerosol Can from the 1/9 SS
You pay $3.00-3.50 but you will receive a $2.00 Register Reward to use toward your next purchase.
Total cost $1.00-$1.50

Tom's of Maine Deodorant, Toothpaste, Mouthwash $3.99
You pay $3.99 but you will receive a $3.00 Register Reward to use toward your next purchase.
Total cost $.99!

Thanks Freebies2Deals and Slave2Save

Living Social Deal - Amazon.com $20 gift card for $10!!!!

Don't miss this deal at Living Social today! You can get a $20 Amazon gift card for only $10. To get yours click here:

I did the majority of my Christmas shopping online at Amazon.com last year. I found fantastic deals on toys. I also get most of my wet wipes/diapers through Amazon.com's deals. I can typically get my diapers for less than .15 cents each compared to Costco for. 20 cents each. Combine that with this gift card deal and it's even better!

CSN Preview ...

If you haven't heard of CSN.com yet, you haven't been blog surfing enough! They have everything from a laptop messenger bag to great toys for your kiddos.

I love CSN.com. I've been able to review some fantastic products for them including this fun toy:

My children love this slide! It gets used every day!

CSN.com has graciously asked me to do another review and I can't wait to pick something out. What would you pick out to review from CSN.com

Thinking about these wrist and ankle weights

This cute little cherry Mortar and Pestle set ...

Or what about this fun car Bundt pan? I am sure that would convince my kiddos to eat biscuits!

What would you pick to review from CSN.com?

Green Jello with Carrots Freebie

Ever since I saw a little boy at church playing with file folder games, I have been dying to make some of my own. Fast forward three years later and it is still on the to-do list.

But finally the day has come! I found this fun blog Green Jello With Carrots that sells tons of cute products. Today only they are giving away Armor of God File Folder Game (colored version) and the Thankful File Folder Game.

Go to greenjellowithcarrots.blogspot.com to find out how you can get them free, too. Look around, you will love how cute their products are! Can't wait to try them out. You'll want to head on over every Friday for their deals and giveaways!

Win a FREE Valentines Day Kit!

Romanticmarriages.com is giving away a free Valentines Kit on facebook called: "This Year I'm Giving You the Chocolates!" Their kits are so romantic and so much fun! All you have to do is like their facebook page and go to the discussion tab where you will see the giveaway. Grab your honey and come up with your own definition of love - post it to be entered to win! The entries are low right now so be sure to sign up! They will give away a kit once they've hit 200 entries.

Deals I am doing this week!

I am new to Drugstore shopping so I follow some great ladies! Here are the deal scenarios Slave2Save came up with this week that I am going to do!

Rite Aid:

$5 Tylenol Precise Heat Patch or Cream
-$5/2 MFQ (RP 12/12) or $2 MFQ (RP 12/12, SS 1/9)
-$3 +UP Reward
= FREE to $1 profit (wyb 2)!

$4.79 Special K Cereal
$0.00 Special K Cereal (BOGO)
-BOGO MFQ HERE or HERE
-$1 +UP Reward x 2
= $2 profit!
*Get $20 +UP Reward wyb $100+.

4/$5 Barilla Pasta or Hunt's Sauce
-$1 +UP Reward
-$4 +UP Reward (this is a bonus, un-advertised extra!)
= 4 FREE!

2/$5 Stayfree Pads
-BOGO MFQ HERE or HERE or (SS 1/9)
-$1 MFQ (RP 11/7) or HERE or HERE
-$2 +UP Reward wyb 2
= $0.50 profit!

Stayfree Scenario #1:
$2.50 Stayfree Pads x 8
-$4/20 Jan Video Values Coupon
-BOGO MFQ HERE or HERE or (SS 1/9) x 4
-$1 MFQ (RP 11/7) or HERE or HERE x 4
= $2.00 + tax
(And get back $8 +UP Rewards == $6 profit!)

Toilet Paper Scenario #2:
$7.99 Blink Tears, 15 ml
$3 Motrin PM, 20 ct
$3 Motrin PM, 20 ct
$6.49 Cottonelle Bath Tissue, 12 ct
-$4/20 Jan Video Values Coupon
-$6/2 MFQ Motrin PM (SS 1/9)
-$4 MFQ Blink (peelie)
-$0.50 Cottonelle MFQ HERE
= $5.98 + tax
(And get back $7.99 SCR and $4 +UP Reward == $6 profit!)

Diaper Scenario #3:
$7.99 Blink Tears, 15 ml
$3 Motrin PM, 20 ct
$3 Motrin PM, 20 ct
$11.49 Huggies Jumbo Pack
-$4/20 Jan Video Values Coupon
-$6/2 MFQ Motrin PM (SS 1/9)
-$4 MFQ Blink (peelie)
-$2 Huggies Jan Video Values Coupon
= $9.49 + tax
(And get back $7.99 SCR and $4 +UP Reward == $2.50 profit!)

Mega Profit Scenario #4:
$7.99 Blink Tears, 15 ml
$5 Tylenol Precise Heat Patch or Cream
$3 Motrin PM, 20 ct
$3 Motrin PM, 20 ct
$4.79 Special K Cereal
$0.00 Special K Cereal
$1.00 Kraft Marshmallows
$1.00 Kraft Marshmallows
-$4/20 Jan Video Values Coupon
-BOGO Special K MFQ HERE or HERE
-$6/2 Motrin MFQ (SS 1/9)
-$5/2 MFQ Tylenol MFQ (RP 12/12)
-$4 Blink MFQ (peelie)
= $1.99 + tax
(And get back $7.99 SCR and +$13 UP Rewards == $19 profit!)

Walgreens:
$5 Go! Kids Multi-Vitamin Gummies, 60 ct
-$5 RR
= FREE

$6.49 Stayfree Pads x 2
-BOGO MFQ (SS 1/9) or HERE or HERE
-$1 MFQ (RP 11/7) or HERE
-$3 in-ad WAG Q
= 2 FREE

2/$5 Kellogg's Cereal
-BOGO Special K MFQ HERE
-$2 RR wyb 2
= $0.25 each wyb 2

Target:
$0.50 Yoplait Yogurt Cups x 4
-$0.50/4 MFQ HERE
= $0.37 each wyb 4

Menu Plan Monday

This month menu planning is KEY to our success. I'm taking part in the Clean Out Your Cupboards Challenge. This challenge is easy peasy for a few days, but then my old ways start to creep back in. The old me that says to herself, "I've worked hard all day and I'm tired and the kids are tired ... perhaps the hubby should just pick something up after work." Luckily my husband is on board with the challenge and helped me save myself from sabotaging it! He came home from work and whipped up one of the best meals of the week featuring this beauty ....I'd forgotten that my in-laws had left some in the fridge before they left. Have you tried it? It is DIVINE! He cooked some brown rice and then stir fried chicken with carrots and green peppers in Sweet Baby Ray's Barbeque sauce. It was simple, semi-healthy, and SCRUMPTIOUS. And all from our cupboards!

As for my accountability for the challenge, this week as a COMPLETE success! We did not eat out at all and we stuck to our $50 a week budget ($26 of which goes to fresh fruits, veggies, and bread from Bountiful Baskets).

I was even able to pull off an impromptu dinner party with my brother in law and his family as well as a get together with college roommates tonight. I've learned it's good to have a few simple, but yummy group recipes in my pocket for such occasions like my sister's easy crockpot Salsa Chicken.

So here we go with week two which should be fairly interesting ... we may need to make a meat run early in the week!

Dinners:
Cajun Rice Dish (we've done this one many, many times before - so easy, so yummy!)
Broccoli Cheese Soup
Coconut Linguine Primavera
Curried Chickpeas and Quinoa
Chicken Paprika
Oven Risotto with Sausage and Tomatoes
Chicken with Broccoli and Garlic Sauce

Lunches:
Grilled Bacon Apple and Cheddar Sandwiches
Breakfast Pizzas
Tuna Salad
Leftovers
Italian Style Quinoa Salad
Fresh Broccoli Salad
Brown Rice and Beans

Breakfasts:
Pumpkin French Toast (another tried and true yummy way to get veggies in the kiddos) with fruit
Bacon and Egg Breakfast Muffins with fruit
Granola

Dessert:
Crockpot Apple Cake
Grain-free Brownies

To Bake:
Homemade English Muffins

P&G Samples!

Get your P&G Samplers! I hadn't signed in for awhile so I was able to get:

• $1 Cheer Coupon
• Free sample Pantene for Curly Hair
• Free sample of Head and Shoulders
• Free sample of Always Ultra Thin liners
• Free sample of Tampax Pearl

Go here and log in or to sign up!

Deals I'm doing this week!

Wal-mart

Athenos Greek Yogurt Cups $1.00
Use the $2.00 off two Athenos Coupon
Total Cost two for FREE!

Walgreens

Finesse Clean & Simple Hair care $1.99
You pay $1.99 but you can submit for a $1.99 MIR on box.
Total cost FREE!

Electrasol 20 pack $3.49
Use the $2.25 off Electrasol coupon from the 1/2 SS
You pay $1.24 but you will receive a $1.50 Register Reward to use toward your next purchase.
Total cost FREE + $.26 moneymaker!!

Omega Factor-3 $10.00
You pay $10.00 but you will receive a $10.00 Register Reward to use toward your next purchase.
Total cost FREE!

Children's Oscillococcinum Homeopathic Flu Medicin $8.99
Use the $2.00 off Children's Oscillococcinum coupon
You pay $6.99 but you will receive a $8.99 Register Reward to use toward your next purchase.
Total cost FREE + $2.00 moneymaker!

Awesome Pull-up Deal at Amazon!

Hey Moms! Great deal on Huggies Pull-Ups Training Pants with Learning Designs, Girls, 2T-3T, 58-Count. They are on sale for $19.03, but with the Subscribe and Save option you will get them for $13.32 (.22 cents per pull-up)!

Be sure you are part of the free Amazon Moms Program so you can get free 2 day shipping!

To make the deal even sweeter, if you have the 20 percent off Amazon Coupon code from the January issues of American Baby, Parents Magazine, or Parenting: The Early Years, Fit Pregnancy - then your price will only be $9.51!

Either way, it's still a good deal. Silly me, I threw away my Parents magazine without taking the code out. But I still took advantage of the Amazon deal anyone for the $13 price.

***You can cancel your Subscribe and Save Subscription at any time. Go to Your Account in Amazon and click on the "Manage Subscribe and Save Items". (If you don't cancel, you will continue to be sent the pull-ups).

Free 2011 Goals and Priorities Diary

Is getting organized one of your New Years 2011 resolutions! I was over at Orgjunkie.com and one of her sponsors is giving away a fantastic freebie to help you get organized. Get Organized Wizard is offering their new 2011 Goals & Priorities Diary for FREE, all you have to do is LIKE their Facebook Page.

I downloaded them and they are fantastic! It is fully interactive - you can type save, search, and edit the documents. The Monthly Goals Planner is perfect for setting and planning your goals for the month while the Daily Priorities are going to keep you on track every day. You should check it out!

Menu Plan Monday

Happy New Year! Last week's meal plan helped us eat out less. Two favorites - the Vintage Hamburger Goulash and the Italian Sausage Potato Roast. The Italian Sausage Potato Roast was so easy to make. Definitely a new family favorite!

This week I am participating in the Cleaning out Your Cupboards challenge so I am going to be pulling a lot from my pantry. Look for lots of recipes and pictures!

Breakfast:
Sweet Potato French Toast
Breakfast Biscuit Cups with Turkey Bacon
Peanut Butter Baked Oatmeal
Whole Wheat Crepes and fruit

Lunches:
Sandwiches and Sweet Potato Fries
Black Bean and Couscous Salad
Homemade Mac and Cheese

Dinners
Cheddar Broccoli Soup with chicken and Soft Garlic Breadsticks
Honey Lime Enchiladas
Salsa Chicken in the Crockpot
Whole wheat pizza with toppings
Turkey and Quinoa Meatloaf with Green Beans
Sunday Dinner with family
Kim's Chicken Bites
Chicken and Broccoli with Pasta

10 more Pampers Gifts to Grow points!

Happy New Year! Here is a code for 10 more Pampers Gifts to Grow points!

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Go to this link to enter your points in!