Zucchini Bake

Ok so I found a new recipe that I like! I had a large zucchini in the garden that I needed to do something with. I searched my recipe books and found this one:

Ingredients:
2 cups sliced zucchini
1 large onion
1 can green chilies or rotel
8 oz sour cream
1 cup shredded cheddar cheese
2 cups shredded parmesan cheese
1 cup bread crumbs
Salt and pepper to taste

Directions:
Take sliced onion and zucchini and put in saucepan. Cover with water and bring to boil. Cook until tender. Drain. Spread into baking dish.
In a small bowl mix chilies, cheddar cheese, one cup Parmesan cheese, sour cream, salt, and pepper. Spread mixture over zucchini and onions.
Top with bread crumbs and remaining Parmesan cheese. Bake at 350 for 25-30 minutes or until bubbly and cheese starts to brown on top. Enjoy!

Another Great week at CVS

I wrote up a whole blog and then lost it trying to add a pic. Here's the summary: I used $10 ECB from last week. I found the CVS app on my phone to be super helpful. I spent a grand total of $17.89 and came home with the following items: Suave Body Lotion (x2)*^ Suave Extra Hold Hair Spray*^ Suave Extra Hold Mousse*^ Suave Deodorant (x2)*^ Cover Girl Lash Blast Mascara*^ Cover Girl Eye Shadow^ Vicks Nature Fusion*^ Vicks DayQuil Liquid*^ Azo Cranberry (50)* Azo Standard (B1G1) *=Used Manufacturers Coupon ^=Part of an ECB Deal If I would have paid regular retail price it would have been $58.07, that's a 69% savings! These deals are going on all week at CVS. I then went to pick up a few groceries and spent $40.18, but saved $19.50...not bad but not my best. Hey I saved eough at the grocery store to buy that items at CVS!

Great Drug Store Deals

Today was a GREAT coupon day! With the holidays there weren't as many deals and I was sick for a while...so sick I didn't coupon-crazy huh? So it was an awesome day to get back into the swing of things. CVS Transaction 1 Skintimate Shave Gel, on sale $3.79, $4 ECB, limit 100; $0.55/1 MFC (money maker) Puffs with Lotion 56 count tissues, on sale $0.88/box; $0.25/3 MFC (neede tissue) ClearBlue Digital Tests (bonus 3 pack), $17.49, $5 ECB, limit 1 (someday I'll need these, rarely on sale) Cadbury Egg, on sale $0.87, $0.87 ECB, limit 1 (like getting it for FREE) Total $26.06 (more than I'd usually spend but I will use all items and wanted the ECB) ECB Earned $9.87 (to use on next purchase) Transaction 2 (I dropped items in car and walked back in) Irish Spring Men's Body Wash, on sale $3, $6 ECB when buying $12, limit 1; $1.00/1 MF (x2) [bought 4] Dawn Dishsoap, on sale $0.98; $1/1 MFC (money maker) Skintimate Shave Gel, on sale $3.79, $4 ECB, limit 100 (money maker) I also used ECB from Transaction 1 totalling $9.87 Total $4.26 ECB Earned $10 Total Savings $21.60 83% Savings And Now I have $10 to use next week. Not too bad I didn't think. Total spent 30.32, with $10 for next week. The clearblue tests added a lot to the total, but they don't have specials often and now I'll have them in stock if I need them someday. Walgreens Blistex Lip Balm, on sale $0.99; $0.50/1 MFC (good deal) Blistex Lip Blam, on sale 40.99; $0.25/1 MFC (ok deal) Blink Tears Eye Drops, $8.00, RR $8/1, $1/1 MFC ($1 money maker) Mars Skickers Candy Heart, on sale $0.59/each; $1/2 Mars Valentine Candy (x2) [bought 4] (almost Free) Total $9.29 RR Earned $8 Total Savings $6.94 57% Savings So Grand total for today was higher than normal, $39.61, but I have $18 to use in the next two weeks on great deals I might find!

Will Post More

Ok, so I've been a major slacker. I've haven't posted for a really long time. There are a few reasons that could probalby be good reasons or maybe just excuses! But I do have one new item I picked up with Chrismas money that will make this a lot easier...A Keyboard for my Ipad! I unfortunaltely didn't find a good deal on it. But it will be used enough times to make it worth the money! Well the deals I found in the last week: I subscribe to the Penny Pinchin Mom's daily email...there is some great stuff in there. A lot of the local store match ups I decifer on my own. But she has writers that look into online deals that I don't usually find. Earlier in the week I found "Parents" magazine for $3.87 a year and you could get up to 4 years. I got 2 years as a gift and spent right at $8. I went to the store to buy one of the magazines so I would have something to wrap for the shower, and it was $2.50 for one month! So I felt like that was a good deal and a great gift! Penny Pinchin Mom also alerted me to an onine coupon to a FREE lipgloss with a purchase at Victoria Secrets. They are having their semi annual sale so I was planning on picking up $3.99 underware. However all they had left was super smalls. So I got a regular priced pair from their Pink line and they were $10.50. The lip gloss was normally $7 so I almost saved as much as I spent! Oh and I found there is rewards to staying on the email newsletter list. I have received monthly emails from Chili's the resteraunt for a while. I got a "Happy Anniversary" email that gave me a FREE appetizer. So that was a good enough deal. I went to lunch with a friend, we ordered the appetizer and our meals. After a few minutes of visiting our meal arrived. We gave the server (not our waitress) an odd look and asked about our appetizer. Well it had gotten lost in the shuffle. So we just asked for the coupon back, no big deal. Well it turns out the server was a manager and he brought us two $5 coupons (said he had already scanned and discarded my origional coupon) and then also took $10 off our bill which made our meals half price. So that worked out really well! I've gotten behind on my coupon cutting. So I need to do that today and get caught up to go find good deals today! I have been alerted to some more FREE items this week so be looking for posts on that coming up!