Food Storage/Couponing- Giving Back

     This morning I saw a post on Facebook. Someone is tight and need help with food. I have been there as a single mother (before my amazing hubby), there were day's I couldn't eat because if I did my little one wouldn't. Therefore when I hear that someone needs help, I try all I can do to help. 

My morning conversation 

      Luckily I have my food storage and can throw together a bag or two to help the person get to the next paycheck. By using my coupons, it doesn't kill me to help out. We aren't rich, we are the poor middle class doing what we have to get bye. It makes me happy that we have our food storage just to make one persons life better is a blessing. 

Food Storages/Couponing - My Weekly Shopping List for 4/26/14

This week I'm working on 2 shopping trips. 

Giant

8 jars of Pergo Pasta Sauce  $23.92 ($2.99 each)

Use (4) $.75/2 Prego Italian Sauce Coupons  

Get $24.00 in gas 

8 bottles of aqua-splash $8.00

 4(BO/GO) 

Get $6.00 in gas  

Pay $24.67

$2.50 catalina
Total: $8.33 moneymaker after gas and catalina

CVS

Buy 2 Crest Pro-Health $9.98

 2 ($1.00/1 Crest Pro-Health Mouthwash Printable)
Buy 2 Colgate Toothpaste $5.98
Buy 1 Mars Single $.75
($3.00 off $15.00)

Pay $12.71
Get back: $8 ECB for Crest, $6 ECB for Colgate, and $.75 ECB for Mars

$2.04 moneymaker after coupons 

This week I'm hoping to stock up on tomato sauce and mouth wash. There are several more deals out there. Check out forthemamas.com and make your list!

Food Storages/Couponing - My Weekly Shopping List for 4/26/14

This week I'm working on 2 shopping trips. 

Giant

8 jars of Pergo Pasta Sauce  $23.92 ($2.99 each)

Use (4) $.75/2 Prego Italian Sauce Coupons  

Get $24.00 in gas 

8 bottles of aqua-splash $8.00

 4(BO/GO) 

Get $6.00 in gas  

Pay $24.67

$2.50 catalina
Total: $8.33 moneymaker after gas and catalina

CVS

Buy 2 Crest Pro-Health $9.98

 2 ($1.00/1 Crest Pro-Health Mouthwash Printable)
Buy 2 Colgate Toothpaste $5.98
Buy 1 Mars Single $.75
($3.00 off $15.00)

Pay $12.71
Get back: $8 ECB for Crest, $6 ECB for Colgate, and $.75 ECB for Mars

$2.04 moneymaker after coupons 

This week I'm hoping to stock up on tomato sauce and mouth wash. There are several more deals out there. Check out forthemamas.com and make your list!

Food Storage/Couponing - Target Deals for May 18th - 24th

This week is a great week to make some money! You spend $9 out of pocket then leave with $13 in gift cards and product!

I would do 2 transactions! 

Transaction 1 

3 Swiffer Dusters starter kits $14.97

      3($2/1)                            -$6.00

                  Pay $8.79

Get $10 back in gift cards!

Transaction 2 

2 Dr. Scholl's ball                 $10.97

      2($2.50/1)TG 2($2/1)P     $9.00

Use gift card for above $1.97

         Have $8.03 on the gift card

             Get another gift card for $5.00

End up with $13.03, and over $4.00

You can find the coupons links on Forthrmomas.com 

What are you getting this week? How is your food storage stockpile? 

Couponing and Food Storage ~ Gaint Deals - May 4th-10th, 2014

Giant Deals For May 4th-10th, 2014

If you have a stockpile or thinking of having one this week's Giant's deal will definitely help you stock up!

Here is what I am doing this week

 (I'm doing three transactions)

Transaction 1

7 Chef Boyardee ($1/4) $1.16

6 bag of Kraft shredded cheese $10

1 gallon of milk $4

7 soups $3

4 hunts snack packs $2

3 sunflower seeds $1

Total $21.16

Transaction 2

14 Chef Boyardee 2($1/4) $2.32

Total $2.32

Transaction 3
(Hubby is doing this transaction)

21 Chef Boyardee 3($1/4) $3.48

Total $3.48

I know it Chef Boyardee seems like we have a lot but we love the for a quick lunch!

Gardening and Cooking- harvesting and canning cucumbers (mmmm pickles)

I am canning my cucumber if I get enough. I want to get at least 3 cans of Sweet Pickles and 3 cans of dill pickles. I am looking up several times of types ways to can them. Here is what I have found on line. I have a few books at home too. I'm going to look in.

Thank you Marisa for your picture 

I love garlic so when I came a crossed Garlic Dill Pickles by Marisa  at Food in Jars. I had to save the recipe. I am putting this one aside to see if I want to try it. I will have many different types of recipes by the end and Hubby will pick out ones he likes the best.

Thank you Marisa for your picture 

While I checking the recipe on Food in Jars I came a crossed Urban Preserving: Refrigerator Dill Pickles. This looked awesome. I want to save this recipes and decided to share it with you. This would be an easy recipe for people starting to can. 

Thank you Ann for your picture 

I also came along this awesome recipe Craven County Sweet Pickles Recipe from What's Cooking America. It looks perfect for my sweet pickles.

            Thanks allrecipes.com for the picture

This looks like a great recipes for Pop's Dill Pickles, these look perfect. The recipe came from allrecipes.com it got 4 1/2 stars.

Hope you like the recipes I have come up with. I will let you know how they turn out if Hubby decide we should try them. What is your favorite pickle recipe?

Gardening and Cooking- How to Save and Store Peas

Fresh picked peas

I have been harvesting peas throughout the spring and early summer. I hope to have a hole garden box of peas this fall. So I started to think, how can I save the peas for dinner during the winter.

Thank you pickyourown.org for the picture

First thing I though of was canning. I don't know much about canning peas or anything that has to be presser cooked canning. That scares me a little... Here is an awesome site that has information on canning peas Pick Your Own.

Thank you for the picture

Then I thought about freezing them! I love peas, and freeze them can't be that hard. According to Leda Meredith at About.com the best away to store them is to blanch them quickly and freeze them. I might do this way seems safer and easier.

Thank you Good House Keeping for the picture

Then started to thing about the soups in mason jars. Started to think, how easy is it to dry peas. Jenny Harrington from ehow home article "How To Make Dried Peas" says it is so easy. I think I this would be awesome, because I can us the bad canning jar and old lids to store them.

Thank you eHow Home for the picture

I'm not sure how I'm going to store them, I'm going to have to talk to Hubby and see what he thinks. Plus My Little One would have to stop eating them all. How are you saving you pea?