December Gift Card Giveaway

There were 85 valid entries for the December #2 Giveaway.
85 was plugged into Random dotorg and without further adieu, the Winner is entry #10................

DEB G.!!!

AnonymousDecember 11, 2017 at 5:07 AM

This would be GREAT!!

Deb G.

Congratulations Deb G.!

Please email me your full name and mailing address and I'll pop this gift card into the mail on Tuesday, Dec. 26th.

Thanks to all my readers who play along and enter these little giveaways.  It gives me joy to spread a little happiness among my blogging friends.  Thanks for coming here and reading my humble scribblings and leaving me comments that brighten my day.  8-)))

Sluggy

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

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

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