Wednesday, October 8, 2008

Pumpkin Bread Recipe

This recipe is actually my sister, Tina's. It is soooo good. We eat it for dessert, snack and breakfast.

5 eggs
1-1/4 c. vegetable oil
1 (15oz.) can solid pack pumpkin
2 c. all purpose flour
2 c. sugar
2 (3oz.) pkgs. cook and serve vanilla pudding mix
1 tsp. baking soda
1 tsp. ground cinnamon
1/2 tsp. salt

In a mixing bowl, beat the eggs. Add oil and pumpkin; beat until smooth. In a seperate bowl combine remaining ingredients. Gradually beat into pumpkin mixture. Pour batter into 2 greased 8 x 4 x 2-inch loaf pans. Bake at 325 degrees for 75-80 minutes or until a toothpick inserted comes out clean. Cool on wire racks.

Tuesday, October 7, 2008

Ebates

Have you heard of Ebates? Ebates offers cash back on purchases to over 1000 stores. This is a great idea for the Christmas shopping season that is rapidly approaching. You can earn anywhere from 1% - 10% on your purchases when you shop through ebates. They will then send you these savings in the form of a big fat check. Check out the site and see what you think. If you do sign up, please give them my email address - willangel21@yahoo.com - as a referral and we'll both earn $5 in our account. If you have more questions, you can check out the "how it works" page here or you can check out the terms and conditions here. Overall it seems pretty simple and straightforward. I'm new to Ebates as well so we'll be on this little journey together. ;-)

New Free Samples

Free Sample of Sundance Organic Tea.

Free Sample of Warm Delights Minis from Betty Crocker. This sample requires you to sign up for a email newsletter that offers recipes and coupons.

Free Sample of Quaker Simple Harvest Granola Bars.

Free BOTTLE of Country Bob's Sauce. I have recieved this previously and it is very good. You can use it on chicken, hamburgers, steaks and ribs. You can find it at Wal-Mart.

Free sample of Bertolli's Premium Pasta Sauce.

Free sample of Calvin Klein Secret Obsession.

Register for $1 off coupon for Snausages Snawsome Dog Treats. These are Mr. Hoover approved!

Free Sample of Carefree Pantiliners.

These offers are courtesy of Freeflys.

Monday, October 6, 2008

How to Use Coupons

I'm sure your wondering what the big deal with coupons is anyway. A lot of people wonder if its worth all the time spent clipping and organizing them. Some people also say that buying generic store brands is cheaper than buying a name brand with a coupon. I'm here to tell you, its soooo worth it. The trick with coupons is to match coupons to sale items listed in the grocery and drug store sale papers. For example: This week at Publix they have several items that are buy one get one free and here is an example of why I suggest buying two copies of the paper. One of the items is Betty Crocker Au Gratin Potatoes. You can get two boxes for $1.73. But, if you use two .40 coupons from last week's paper, which Publix will then double to .80 each, you can get two boxes of Au Gratin potatoes for .13. I doubt Publix has generic Au Gratin potatoes for .07 or .06 cents a box. Another example is Ragu Pasta Sauce. Its also buy one get one free at $3.25 for 2 - 45oz. jars. If you used 2 - .25 coupons that were in the paper about three weeks ago then once the coupon is doubled, you would get the pasta sauce for about $1.12 each for the big jars of Ragu. There are all kinds of deals like this at Publix this week.

Another way I think of clipping coupons is this; last week I spent $30 at Publix but I saved $48, so if I spent 2 hours clipping, organizing and matching coupons, I made $24 an hour and created a nice little stockpile of the groceries I bought.

Check this out.....

I saw a commercial on TV this morning for a new site called dealtaker.com. From what I can tell, it scours the internet in search of sales, discounts and coupon codes. Check it out and let me know what you find.

Wednesday, October 1, 2008

Enter to Win...

A FREE Ziploc Brand Vacuum Freezer System Starter Kit from Right at Home - wow! thats a mouthful! Hurry! The first 20,000 entries will recieve this new product! Click Here. In addition, you'll recieve $14.10 in coupons for things like: Glade Candles, Glade Scented Oil Candles, Oust Surface Disinfectant, Ziploc Brand Vacuum Bags and Windex.

Free Samples From Walmart

Check out this site for free samples from Wal-mart. They include:

Goodnites, Benefiber, Cascade, Huggies, Nicorette and Crest.

And here's an idea - place your free samples in a basket in a guest bathroom for guests to use if they forget something. They'll appreciate the extra thought!