Last Minute Deals for Memorial Day

Ran across some last minute deals to grab before Memorial Day! Food, charcoal or propane gas! Celebrate our freedom by celebrating those who help keep us free! 


(See the bottom of the page for a shopping scenario.)


Bush's Baked Beans Target $1.69 price cut (pay $.19),  Winn Dixie 3/$5 (Pay $.17)
-$1.50/1 Sweet Mesquite Grillin' Beans Facebook Coupon  (it's not showing for me anymore)


Barilla Pasta $1-$2
-$1/1 any Barilla Blue Box Pasta printable here (it seems to be finicky so if it doesn't print on the first try, use a different browser)


Kingsford Charcoal twin pack 15 lb bags $5.98 (Walmart) or 2 13.9 bags $5.88 (Home Depot), Target Deal 2- 16.6 lb. bags get $5 GC,  $7.99 (Winn Dixie includes Mesquite and Match Light)
-FREE Hidden Valley Ranch wyb Kingsford charcoal and lighter fluid printable here use zip code 60606
-$2/1 Match Light, Hickory or Mesquite printable here (if included in Target Deal) 


Amerigas Propane Cylinder $15-$17
$3 printable exchange or purchase here (use zip code 43035) 
-$3 mail in rebate printable here You can find an Amerigas Location here


Breyer's Ice Cream Winn Dixie BOGO up to $6.99
- $.75/1 Breyer's Blasts printable here
-$.50/1 Breyer's Blasts here


Kool Aid or Country Time Lemonade Winn Dixie BOGO $4.49
-$2/1 wyb 2 Kraft BBQ Sauce peelie (these are on the bottles at the WD in Ocean Springs)
-$2/1 Country Time Half & Half Facebook printable here


Kraft BBQ Sauce Winn Dixie $.88
-$1/2 SS 5/2/12 (not sure we got this one in our area)


Winn Dixie Shopping Scenario


2-Bush's Baked Beans Sweet Mesquite Grillin' Beans 3/$5
- $1.50/1 printable x2
2-Barilla pasta $1
-$1/1 printable x2
1-Kingsford Charcoal $7.99
-$2/1 printable
1-Kingsford Lighter Fluid $4 (?)
1- Hidden Valley Ranch $2
-FREE Hidden Valley Ranch wyb Kingsford charcoal and lighter fluid
4- Kraft BBQ Sauce $.88
2- Country Time Lemonade $4.49 BOGO
-$2/1 Country Time wyb 2 Kraft BBQ x2
2- Breyer's Ice Cream $6.99 BOGO
-$.75/1 printable x2


-$5/$30 Enjoy the City Books check out the deal here GIVE THIS COUPON FIRST!


Pay $14.33



Spend a little more and use the $5/$55 Catalina if you have one and add these items to your list for an ENTIRE Memorial Day Meal!



1- Pork Spare ribs (3 lb bag) $1.99 lb
2- Kraft Salad Dressing (I'd buy Italian) $3.99 BOGO
1-Kraft Mac & cheese 4 pk $4.99
1-Bell pepper $1.49 lb
1- Cluster tomatoes $1.79 lb
1- Vidalia Onion $.99 lb


-$5/$55 Catalina


Pay: $37.06


Happy Shopping!

Target Shopping Scenario 5/20-5/26

It's been awhile, but this was too good a deal to resist telling others about! I hope this helps you out. This is a GREAT beginner shopping scenario. Don't discount the Advil deal with "I don't use Advil PM" it's called DONATION or you may know someone who does! It's not often that I buy products that I don't use at all, but on occasion with deals like this it's worth it. After the entire scenario you'll have spent a grand total of $12.73 on EVERYTHING!


Shopping Scenario


Transaction #1
2- Advil PM $4.69
-$1/1 MQ printable here  (print twice)


Pay: $7.38
Get back $5 GC wyb 2 Advil products


Transaction #2 (print the MQ & TQ!)
1- Hawaiian Tropic Sunscreen (several to choose from) $6.49
-$1/1 MQ printable here 
-$1/1 TQ printable here
1- Banana Boat SPORT Sunscreen $6.49
-$1/1 MQ printable here
-$1/1 TQ printable here


-$5 Advil GC from Transaction #1


Pay: $3.98
Get back $5 GC wyb 2 Hawaiian Tropic or Banana Boat products


Transaction #3
6- Suave Body washes (men's, women's children's) $1.59 
-Buy 2 get 1 FREE RP 5/20/12 (use 2)


-$5 Sunscreen GC from Transaction #2


Pay: $1.36  WOW!!!

Carrot Zucchini Bars...the kids will never know!

My Grandaddy loves to garden! I love reaping the rewards of his garden each year. The summer is just getting started and we are already overrun with zucchini! Big ones, small ones, some as big as your head! (Did you like that Lion King reference? Huh, did ya?) Anyway, we love roasted zucchini the best but I'm needing to come up with some creative ways to use up all these zukes! 

(Enter Pinterest)

I love Pinterest! All those recipes, crafts and other things right at my fingertips! This is the result, my own take on Carrot Zucchini Bars!

Carrot Zucchini Bars aka Healthy Yellow Cake

2 eggs, slightly beaten
3 T. sugar
1/2 c. canola oil
3T. high fructose corn syrup or honey (I'm allergic to honey but wanted sweet and sticky so HFCS)
1 tsp. vanilla
1 1/2 c. carrots, shredded (I used the smallest blade on a hand grater)
1/2 c. zucchini, shredded (Again, smallest blade and I peeled and seeded to help conceal it in the cake)
1 1/2 c. all purpose flour
1 tsp. baking powder
1/2 tsp. ginger
1/4 tsp. baking soda

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Beat the 2 eggs for just a minute, add oil, honey/syrup, vanilla and sugar and beat again until well mixed. In separate bowl whisk together dry ingredients. Add to wet mixture along with shredded veggies. Batter will be thick! Pour batter into greased 8x9 glass baking dish. Bake for 20 minutes or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean.

Lemon Cream  Cheese Frosting

1 block cream cheese, softened
1 c. powdered sugar
1/2 tsp. vanilla
2 T. lemon juice

Beat cream cheese until well blended, add vanilla and lemon juice. Slowly add powdered sugar until well blended. If too thick add 1 T. milk at a time until it reaches a good spreading consistency.

Click here to print

Mini Monkey Buns

I'm all about quick and easy! So this busy morning of catching up on school work for my oldest daughter Molly and getting ready for a meeting later this morning, I needed something quick and easy! So I took a cue from The Pioneer Woman and made these quick little morning buns with a few small adjustments.

(Taken with my phone because I couldn't find my camera!)

Mini Monkey Buns


8 ct. Grands buttermilk biscuits, cut into 16ths and each piece "balled" up
stick unsalted butter (cut into matchsticks; and cubed) cubes should be about the size of a pencil eraser
sugar
cinnamon
powdered sugar
vanilla
water


Preheat oven to 350 degrees. In a mini muffin pan  place one butter cube, just enough sugar to cover the bottom of the muffin tin and a sprinkle of cinnamon. Place three little balls of dough into each spot; top with another cube of butter. Bake for about 8 min. or until golden brown. Pop out of pan while still hot and drizzle with a powdered sugar glaze ( 1/4 c. powdered sugar 2 T. water and a dash of vanilla) Makes roughly 42 mini muffins.

Pumpkin Muffins

I love pumpkin just about anyway you can make it! For years I've been buying this pumpkin bread mix from the grocery store and making it into muffins for my family. It's simple and cheap and we gobble them up. 


About a year ago I stumbled across this great blog called Southern Plate and fell into a familiar world of southern cooking but with new recipes!! Christy Jordan is from North Alabama and writes this great blog full of great stories and wonderful recipes (many of which are now part of my menu rotation!) I got Christy's cookbook (that was born out of her blog) for Christmas and absolutely love it!


Anyway, back to the muffins ;) Did I mention I like pumpkin? So I found this recipe on Christy's blog and knew I had to try it. So first thing this morning before doing my morning post on my other blog I whipped these up and popped them in my oven. Oh my goodness, oh my goodness! I wish we had smell 0 vision! My house smelled wonderful! I was sitting here typing and drooling, the kids were dancing around the kitchen asking if they were ready yet. My oven was singing because of these wonderful muffins! Two ingredients and 1/2 a cup of water! That's it! The box I've been buying all these years takes more than that! This IS the new pumpkin muffin recipe from now until the end of time!

What you need:

1 box of Spice cake mix 

(Carrot will work too, trust me I know because I didn't realize that's what I used until after I dumped it in the bowl!)

1 small can packed Pumpkin

1/2 c. water

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

Dump it all in a bowl and mix! That's it! Grease 12 ct. muffin tin with shortening or spray. Fill each tin fuller than normal because these hardly rise. I put two heaping spoon fulls. 

What you need for Streusal:

1 c. flour

1 c. brown sugar

1 stick butter/margarine

Mix together using a long tinned fork (that's just fancy talk for using a grown up fork not a kid fork) to mix together all the ingredients until it looks all crumbly.

Top each muffin with a handful of steusal. Don't worry if it doesn't look neat.

 

Ta da! Pumpkin Spice Muffins! Delicious, addictive and simple!

Recipe from Christy Jordan over at Southern Plate.