Black Friday Deals

If you are wanting to plan for the biggest shopping day of the year, here is a website that you should check out www.theblackfriday.com It has the black Friday ads for majority of the retail stores. If you have not already heard Target is going to have appliances on sale for $3. I do not know what type of appliances they will have but it is worth it for me to get up early and get some of the best deals of the year.

If you find some great deals let us know, we all love to save money!

Great Deals

The week of 11/8-11/14 has sooo many deals. I love this time of year as you can stock your pantry and get games for your home for cheap...cheap...cheap.

Here is the deal that I am most excited about:

Toys'r'us

Buy 4 boxes of: Candy Land, Chutes and Ladders, Ants in the Pants, Don't Break the Ice, or Memory--on sale for $3.99 each (eligible for a $2 rebate for each game, maximum one rebate per title)
Buy 1 box of: Connect 4 or Scrabble--on sale $9.99 (eligible for a $3 rebate)
(Buy 4 of the $3.99 games and one $9.99 game = $25.95 total)
Get a $10 Toys "R" Us gift card
Plus, submit for $11 in rebates Here
$4.95 (plus tax and stamp) after rebates and gift card

Thanks money saving mom! Go Here
to check out a ton of savings
For huge savings at Fry's go to Here

Taco Bell Mild Sauce

Thanks Kristine for mastering this sauce for us.

Dry ingredients- (you can pre mix the dry items and store for future use)
1/2t. paprika
1/2t. sugar
1t. cayenne pepper
1t. garlic powder
1t. garlic salt
2t. cornstarch
2t. salt
4t. chili powder
1T. cumin
1T. onion powder

Wet ingredients
3T. vinegar
1 can tomato paste
3c. water

Combine all together and bring to a boil. Reduce the heat and simmer for 15-20 minutes. Cool, enjoy, and store leftovers in the refrigerator.

White Chicken Spaghetti

4 cups cooked spaghetti (broken into 2" pieces)
1-2 cans sliced mushrooms (optional)
1 cube butter, melted
4 cups chicken, cooked & cut up
2 cans cream of chicken soup
1-2 cups sour cream
1-2 cups mozzarella or monterey jack cheese, shredded
parmesan cheese to sprinkle on top

can add onions and garlic too.

Mix above ingredients all together in large bowl. Put into greased 9x13. Sprinkle with parmesan cheese, cover with foil. Bake at 350 for 30 minutes, or until bubbly, remove foil last 10 min. to get brown top.

Free Diapers!

To get a chance to win go now to www.moneysavingmom.com website and place a note on the Luvs diaper post to win 3 MONTHS of free diapers. Thanks, money saving mom! Also, go to www.luvsdiapers.com and enter to get a $5 coupon.

Did someone say Free!

Here is a link to free gardening and landscaping classes that the city of Chandler is hosting.

http://www.chandleraz.gov/default.aspx?pageid=580

Reuse those milk jugs ladies!

This comes from Kristine. I think she said that she got the idea from The Family Circle magazine.
Go here-
http://reducing-waste.suite101.com/article.cfm/how_to_make_a_reusable_sandwich_container

To learn how to turn this:



Into this-



She placed a button on top and added elastic that goes around the entire thing to keep the lid down...smart she is.

Here is another site that has tons of ideas for those milk jugs. http://www.plantea.com/milk-jug.htm