Saturday, December 23, 2017

Last Day for the Gift Card Giveaway!

Today until 11:59 ET pm is the last day to enter my Boring Blog GIFT CARD Giveaway.
$15 to either Chili's, Macaroni Grill, Maggiano's or On the Border.



Go HERE and leave a comment and make sure I have an email to contact you at.

I am off to scarf down more OJ, Hot Tea, and Cold-Eze.
Then it's cookie baking and fudge making time with the kids.8-)

What's on your agenda today?

Sluggy

Friday, December 22, 2017

Frugal Friday.....the December 22nd Edition

Here are a few things we did to stay the frugal course this past week........

*  Some Rite-Aid trips last Friday.....


And this past Wednesday for free and almost free items after Plenti Points used.......

* More Weis(PMITA)Markets Deals..........


 The 8 O'Clock coffee is still BOGO this week and I plan on picking up 10 more bags as I have enough coupons for all that.


* We went out to celebrate the Daughter's birthday at lunchtime to her favorite Mexican restaurant.  I snagged a $20 certificate for $10 2 days ago to use there since I knew she wanted to go there, snf saved me $10 off the bill.

That's about all I can think of since I am feeling sick. Ugh.  Sinus Infection just in time for Christmas.
Hohoho



Sluggy

My Tomato Vegetable Soup w/Pasta Recipe

By popular demand......


The recipe I used for my Progresso Tomato Vegetable Soup copycat is HERE.

But......
I didn't use vegetable stock, I used chicken stock instead(because that's what I had).
I also subbed puree tomatoes for diced tomatoes and I tripled that ingredient from the recipe, I subbed cut up green beans for the celery hearts as well.
And I doubled the amount of zucchini and tripled the amount of pasta.
Soooo....basically I made up a new recipe. lolz

Progresso copycat Tomato Vegetable Soup with Pasta by Sluggy  8-)))

5 C. chicken stock or broth
1 large can tomato puree
1 C. water
1 C. pasta(small shells)
1 can whole kernel corn
1 1/2 C. green beans
1 1/2 C. carrot slices
2 small zucchini, chopped
1 yellow onion, chopped
1 TB.. garlic powder
1 TB EVOO
Salt and Pepper to taste

* sweat onions in EVOO
* Add garlic powder to EVOO/onions to "bloom" for 1 minute or so.
* Add stock, water and tomato puree, to boil.
* Turn down heat to simmer, add any  "fresh veggies" to pot to cook them.
* When fresh veggies are tender, add any canned or frozen veggies.
* Wait 5 minutes, then add pasta, cover and simmer until pasta is done.
* Serve.

--Frozen, Fresh or Canned veggies are all fine.
--If you wish a thinner soup/broth just adjust amount of stock/broth and/or add more tomato puree to taste.


Sluggy

Wednesday, December 20, 2017

Rite-Aid & Weis This Week

I forgot to mention this second trip to Rite-Aid last week Friday afternoon...........


More of those .88¢ Snapple drinks which earned me back $2 in new Plenti Points, a couple of Daylogic razors and blade refills I had rain checks for from earlier in the year which were free after Plenti Points earned so I got them free on the rain checks.
$3.63 w/tax and earned $2 back in Plenti Points so I spent down PPs by $1.63.
The catalina machine spit out a $2/1 Gillette save gel on that transaction so I bought a Gillette shave gel and a .69¢ candy bar since the shave gel was $1.79 on sale and the $2 CatalinaQ would have made me negative .21¢.  After .11¢ tax this transaction came to .59¢ which I paid for on a gift card.


I quick trip to Rite-Aid to pick up an Rx this Wednesday and this stuff too.......


1 x Gillette shave gel on sale $2 off=$1.79
1 x Axe Shampoo on sale=$4.50
1 x Axe deodorant on sale-$4.50
1 x Colgate toothpaste 20% Wellness disc. less than sale price=$3.43
2 x Bic Disposable razors bogo50%=$7.78
SubTotal.....$22.00

Coupons Used
1 x $1/1 Gillette shave Load2CardQ=$1.00
1 x $2/1 Axe shampoo Load2CardQ=$2.00
1 x .50¢/1 Axe deodorant IPQ=.50¢
1 x $2/2 In-Ad Axe R-A Q=$2.00
1 x .50¢/1 Colgate toothpaste Load2CardQ=.50¢
1 x $3/1 Colgate toothpaste In-Ad R-AQ=$3.00
2 x $3/1 Bic disposable razors IPQ=$6.00
Coupon Total.....$15.00

$22.00-$15.00=$7.00+ .42¢tax=$7.42
I used $7.42 in Plenti Points to pay and earned back $4 in new Plenti Points($2 wyb2 Axe, $2 wyb2 Bic)so I "spent down" $3.42 in PPs.

I had gotten 12 bags of coffee as of Tuesday at Weis.......


12 X 8 O'Clock coffee BOGO=$32.94

3 x $2/2 Weis 8 O'Clock coffee Q=$6.00
3 x $2.50/3 8 O'Clock coffee IPQ=$7.50
3 x $1.50/1 8 O'Clock Infusions IPQ=$4.50
1 x $1/1 Weis 8 O'Clock coffee Q=$1.00
Coupon Total......$19.00

$32.94-$19.00=$13.94 Total OOP
Or $1.16 per bag.
Nice.

I went back Wednesday and bought this stuff(more coffee too!lol)


4 x 8 O'Clock coffees BOGO=$10.98 - $6 in Qs=$5.98 for all 4.
2 x Minute Rice medley blend on sale=$3.98-$2 in Qs=$1.98 for both.
1 x Sandwich Bros metls on sale=$3.49-$2.50 in Qs=.99¢
The following was part of the Mix and Match 6 items/Get $3 off Instantly--
2 x Tyson chicken nuggets=$10.98
3 x Green Valley beans=$4.47
1 x Cool Whip=$1.49
Total on those 6 was $16.94.
I had $6 in Q + $3 off instantly, so $7.94 for those 6 items or $1.32 each.


I got my FREE smoked ham too for 50 points.
$14.50 I didn't have to spend on that item.
I also found 2 packages of cube steaks $9.31 with $2 meat stickers on them so $5.31 total for both packs.
I also found these 3 Bob Evans fridge sides, reg. $4, on sale for $3 each with $2 discount stickers on each.  I also had a $1/3 Bob Evans ManuQ so $9 on sale -$7 in Qs/discounts stickers=$2.00 for all 3 packages.

I also bought 5 more cartons of Minute Maid OJ($1.87 ea.)and earned another $2 Catalina(plus I used a $2 MM OJ Catalina on this transaction).
A couple of bags of Tostitos(using a $1/2 eon those)rounded out the order.
$38.22 OOP and I saved $75.50 w/sale prices and Qs or a 66% savings rate.


Sluggy

Xmas Stuff





We are five days away from Christmas and almost through Hanukkah too.....EEK!

I just wanted to update on here since I don't have time to email everyone individually who sent in cards for Sonya.

These are the cards I have received so far......

S Steiner
D Hartwick(2 cards)
Anne at the Table
N Alexander
Cheap Chick
Jen-Absolutely Sweet Chaos
R Davis(2 cards)
American Dreamer(at least I think it's yours due to the postmark) ;-)
Jen G.
Lorraine-We are Clamco

Keep 'em coming! 8-)))

If you want to email me a note since it's so close to when I need to send these off, I can print that out and include it too.  Just send me an email.

Back later with more "stuff".

Sluggy