We received some news a few weeks ago that our baby girl, Gracie, due March 13, has trisomy 18. Coupons-Feed-U will be on hold for a while, I’m not sure when I will get back to it. I am updating her status and keeping our process of dealing with this in this blog: God’s Gracie.
Posted on November 1st, 2009 by admin
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We barely have anything left in the garden. I picked as many tomatoes that were starting to turn as I could and placed them on our covered picnic area to ripen. My mother-in-law says she had tomatoes ripen all the way up until Thanksgiving last year doing it this way, so I thought I’d try it.
We still had tons of Anaheim Peppers to use a few bell peppers and lots of green tomatoes. My friend gave me the perfect recipe to use up all the rest of our stuff, Green Tomato Enchiladas. I made a few modifications to it and it turned out really good. It’s a very forgiving recipe, you can probably throw in as many green tomatoes and peppers as you have left in your garden. It’s a pretty labor intensive recipe. I started about 9 am this morning a just finished about 12:30 pm and used almost every appliance and pan in my kitchen. But it was well worth the work because it tastes so good. Plus I was able to make up 2 casserole enchilada pans (one for tonight and one to freeze) and 4 quart size jars filled with 3 cups of sauce which I used my food saver to put a seal on the lid and stuck them in the freezer.
Green Tomato Enchiladas
Here’s what I did:
10-15 Anaheim Peppers, cut in half, seeded and roasted under the broiler until dark brown, then cut into 1 inch pieces
2 Red Peppers, cut into 1 inch chunks
1 Green Pepper, cut into 1 inch chunks
15 Green Tomatoes, remove stem and cut into 1 inch chunks
4 cups Chicken Broth
6 large chicken breast (cook however is easiest for you, then dice, I boiled them in water, you could grill them to cut down on the pans), or 2 pounds of beef or turkey
3 cups of whole wheat flour
1 1/2 TBSP Chili Powder
2 garlic cloves minced
1/2 sweet onion diced
several squeezes of lime juice
salt to taste
pepper to taste
3 cup sour cream, (I used fat free)
1/2 cup shredded Monterrey jack cheese
24 small corn tortillas
Put the green tomatoes, bell peppers, Anaheim peppers and chicken broth in a large kettle. Bring to boil and let simmer. In a medium pan cook the onion and garlic until soft, add the cooked diced chicken, salt, pepper, chili powder, and a few squeezes of lime juice. When peppers and tomatoes have softened, ladle the broth out and set it aside. Scoop 1 cup of pepper, tomato mixture into food processor or blender and blend until smooth, add 1 cup broth and 1/2 cup flour mixed together to the food processor and mix together. Pour this mixture into a sauce pan and add the sour cream. Reserve 3 cups of this sauce and mix the remaining sauce with the chicken. Layer 2, casserole pans, with 6 tortillas each, then top with chicken mixture, layer with 6 more tortillas in each pan, pour the reserved 3 cup sauce on top and sprinkle with cheese. Bake at 350F until cheese is melted about 20-30 minutes. Cover the extra 9×13 with tin foil, label it and place it in the freezer. Take the remaining pepper and tomatoes and repeat all the steps except adding the sour cream, and chicken and pour into 4 quart sized jars, seal them with the food saver, label and place in freezer. Once you thaw a jar of sauce to use, just at the sour cream and chicken and follow the remaining steps.
More Green Tomato Recipes:
Another Green Tomato Recipe that we just tried is this Green Tomato with Country Ham Soup and I made my first loaf of Artisan Bread to go with it really good!!
Posted on October 16th, 2009 by admin
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We love the Artisan Bread at Safeway except that it’s $3.60 a loaf!! I found a great recipe with beautiful instructions at An Oregon Cottage here. The bread was excellent and had that great Artisan crust. It only has 4 ingredients, yeast, whole wheat flour, white flour, and salt that you can keep on hand so that you can make it anytime. It also makes more than one loaf so you’ll have at least another loaf to bake for up to 14 days after you make up the dough. We love that it becomes more of a sourdough bread the longer you keep the dough. It includes whole wheat flour which makes me feel better than just 100% white flour kind that you get at the store. And it’s cheap, at 65 cents for 2-4 loaves!!
Posted on October 15th, 2009 by admin
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I tried to get my ink jet cartridge refilled today and it didn’t work. I was hoping to use a register reward to pay for the ink, when I remembered that Walmart now accepts competitors coupons!!! So I headed for the Longview Walmart and sure enough they had no problem accepting my $4.00 register reward.
Posted on October 12th, 2009 by admin
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Today I headed to Safeway and bought these things:
The best deal was the Nature Valley Nut Clusters=$2.50
-$1.00 e-coupon short cuts
-$.40 e-coupon short cuts
-$1.00 e-coupon cell fire
-$.40 e-coupon cell fire
-$1.60 internet printable
Final Cost=$1.90 money-maker!!! This went towards my diapers:)
Huggies Overnight Diapers=$9.99
-$1.00 e-coupon cell fire
-$1.50 e-coupon short cuts
-$3.0o mfc from a mailer
Final Cost=$4.49
Tillamook Cheese=$3.99 limit 2 thru today (Sunday)
Then we headed to Walgreens where I bought these things:
The best deal was the Sponge Bob Bandaids=$1.99 with in ad coupon
-$2.00 activity book coupon
Final Cost=$.01 money maker!!
The Pull-ups were a disappointment but still a good deal=$18.00/2
-$2.00 Walgreen Coupon internet printable used 2, which they counted as a mfc
-$2.00 mfc internet printable they wouldn’t allow
-$1.00 Walgreen Activity Book coupon they wouldn’t allow
Final Cost =$14.00 and received a $4.00 Register Reward
Next time I will try using the $2.00 mfc first and the $1.00 activity book coupon and see if the register doesn’t beep. I’ll let you know how it goes.
Posted on October 11th, 2009 by admin
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Well I’m typing this from my dad’s Intensive Care Unit Room. He just had open heart surgery and is doing really well, already sitting up in a chair.
However, my son is almost out of Pull-ups. So thank goodness before I left to come up to the Tri-Cities I grabbed a few Pull-up coupons and I’m so glad I did because there’s a great diaper/pull-up deal at Rite Aid. Go here to Frugal Living NW for the details. And here for the $5 off $25 Rite Aid Coupon.
Posted on September 23rd, 2009 by admin
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There are some great cereal, granola money-maker deals this week. I’m having such a hectic week though and no time to do my own post. In between stirring my pot of salsa that will go into the canner soon and putting muffins in the oven, I was able to put this post together.
Please check these Safeway deals:
Frugal Living NW: Cocoa Puff money-maker, Nature Valley Nut Clusters money-maker and other deals
Saving 4 My Family: Cereal coupon match-ups for the buy 4 save $4 sale, Nut Cluster money maker, and other deals
Moneywise Moms: Cereal sale coupon match-ups, and other deals
Posted on September 16th, 2009 by admin
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Don’t get burned with burnless bakeware. Just wanted to give a warning to anyone thinking about doing the burnless bakware deal that I posted here. Both a friend of mine and myself had fraudulent credit card charges, mine were around $120 and hers were over $300 after doing the burnless bakeware deal at easybakeware.com. Her credit card company associated the charges with easybakeware, possibly they sold her credit card info to another company, who put the charges on at 3am in the morning. Luckily the fraud department of her credit card company caught it and were able to stop any other charges. My credit card company as well caught the charges, called my husband and asked if they were legit and they weren’t. So thank goodness we weren’t out any money. I will never do this deal again and hopefully will keep others from doing it as well. If you have used your credit card with them in the past you may want to keep a close eye on your credit card charges to make sure there isn’t any illegitimate charges.
Posted on September 16th, 2009 by admin
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There could be up to 5 coupon inserts in Sunday’s Paper!!! Here’s a peak at DealSeekingMom. They look like really good coupons for our family so I plan to buy 4 papers. Plus there will be 3 double coupons (Sept 13-15) in the Albertson’s ad and some good looking Albertson’s deals, if I can make it down there. We love those Del Monte Fruit Naturals!! Here’s some match-ups from Frugal Living NW.
Posted on September 11th, 2009 by admin
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Here are some dining out deals for the weekend or longer:
TGIFriday’s Free Burger by becoming a TGIFriday’s Face Book fan by Sept. 30 or print off a $5.00 off burgers and entrees.
Denny’s build your own Grand Slam Breakfast 5 am-11 am and get 20% off with this coupon thru Oct. 10.
Jamba Juice buy one smoothie and get one for $1.00 with this coupon thru Sept. 27
Elle Pollo Loco buy one 5 piece buffalo wing combo get one free with drink purchase with this coupon thru Oct. 4.
Quiznos buy a sub and drink get a sub free with this coupon thru Oct. 12.
Thanks CouponSavvyinCowliztCo and Frugal Living NW!!
Posted on September 11th, 2009 by admin
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