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| about a pound of skinless, boneless chicken, cubed |
August 25, 2013
A recipe done in Pictures! Another $5 or less meal to feed a family of 4 or more!
This meal fed my family of four for two days and cost less than five dollars to make! The written recipe is after the pictures. Enjoy!
August 24, 2013
I Love My Post Blogger Opp
I Love My Post Big 1 Year Celebration!
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Event dates: 31st August -28th September
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$100 Giftcard Giveaway Blogger Opp
$100 Winners Choice GC Giveaway Event for Bloggers - Sign up today!
Blogger Sign Ups Are Now Open!
hurry sign ups close 9/1!
Join Mom Loves 2 Read for this exciting $100 Gift Card Giveaway
event runs from Sept 8th through 30th, 2013
event runs from Sept 8th through 30th, 2013
First link is free.
To sign up CLICK HERE
College Bound Giveaway Blogger Opp
Love from Elle has a great Blogger Sign Up Event that will also be Coming Soon to Our Readers!!
We’re looking for bloggers to join and help promote our latest giveaway event.
Sign-up for free or choose from any of our paid options below!
Blogger Opp: The Back to School/College Bound Giveaway Event
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Target $200 Gift Card Giveaway Blogger Opp
Christmas is almost here!!
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Enter to Win a new Trampoline from Purex 31 Days of Fun Sweepstakes
Day 24 in the Purex 31 Days of Fun Sweepstakes brings you a chance to win a New Trampoline for your home. Who doesn't like a trampoline. Except maybe really pudgy people like myself! Nah, I still love them.
ENTER HERE for your chance to win! Just like their page, fill out their entry form, and have fun! It's really that easy. Click, enter, Win! Also if you share my unique URL (right click HERE and copy link address, then share it on your social media sites) and then comment on my blog post, then you will be entered into my prize drawing for an Amazon Gift card! You get one entry for each share and for each day that you share and comment.
So go on, Enter! Good Luck and Have Fun!
Be sure to enter daily to have a chance at all the prizes. The links on any of the posts will take you to the same place, so you don't have to read each post. I just thought it would be a fun way to keep you up to date on which prizes are available on which days.
Don't forget that if you share my link and comment on this post telling me that you did, you will be entered to win an Amazon gift card. Come back every day for new prizes in the sweepstakes and more entries for the gift card!
Remember that you need to share my unique URL in order for me to be able to tell that you shared this! You can get it by right clicking on ENTER HERE up in the first paragraph and selecting copy link address. Once you have shared it on a social site, please leave a comment letting me know where you shared it. Every commenter gets an entry for every day's comment for the $10.00 Amazon gift card that I will be giving away on September 1st. I will use a random number generator to determine the winner. Then I give the name of the winner to Purex and they send the gift card out.
I want you to know that you do not have to comment here or share my link in order to win the Purex sweepstakes. The comments and shares are only for the gift card entries. Just a fun little extra!
ENTER HERE for your chance to win! Just like their page, fill out their entry form, and have fun! It's really that easy. Click, enter, Win! Also if you share my unique URL (right click HERE and copy link address, then share it on your social media sites) and then comment on my blog post, then you will be entered into my prize drawing for an Amazon Gift card! You get one entry for each share and for each day that you share and comment.
So go on, Enter! Good Luck and Have Fun!
Be sure to enter daily to have a chance at all the prizes. The links on any of the posts will take you to the same place, so you don't have to read each post. I just thought it would be a fun way to keep you up to date on which prizes are available on which days.
Remember that you need to share my unique URL in order for me to be able to tell that you shared this! You can get it by right clicking on ENTER HERE up in the first paragraph and selecting copy link address. Once you have shared it on a social site, please leave a comment letting me know where you shared it. Every commenter gets an entry for every day's comment for the $10.00 Amazon gift card that I will be giving away on September 1st. I will use a random number generator to determine the winner. Then I give the name of the winner to Purex and they send the gift card out.
Don't Forget to Enter the other Purex Insiders Sweepstakes that I have blogged about! The little tikes and Purex $1,000 gift code giveaway is going on now until August 26. You can go back to that post by clicking HERE. It sounds like a great prize as well! Also posted about another Sweepstakes. From now until September 17th you could win $1891! Go HERE to find out more. AND there is one more! Yep an all new one for my blog. Back 2 School $1,000 Sweepstakes. CLICK HERE to find out more.
Good Luck!
I am a Purex® Insider and help spread the word about the Purex® family of laundry products. As an Insider, I receive sample product and incentives in exchange for participating in brand related activities.
August 23, 2013
Visa $200 Gift Card Giveaway Blogger Opp
Christmas is almost here!!
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Visa $200 Gift Card
$200 ToysRUs gift card giveaway Blogger Opp
Christmas is almost here!!
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Toysrus $200 Gift Card
Blogger Opp $200 WalMart Gift Card Giveaway
Christmas is almost here!!
We are giving away
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Walmart $200 Gift Card
Blogger Opp: iPad Mini 16 GB
Welcome to the Trending Authors of Summer iPad Mini Event sign-ups sponsored by Reader Spoils. This is the last of our three iPad Mini giveaway events this summer and we'd love for you to sign up and join the fun. The past two events gained over 100,000 combined entries, so you will definitely receive many new followers for your social media.
This giveaway will begin on Thursday, August 29th at 12:01am and ends on Thursday, September 12th at 11:59pm. One winner will be randomly selected from all valid entries to receive a 16GB white iPad Mini valued at $329.99!
Win a sewing machine and fabric of your choice!
It's Day 23 in the Purex 31 Days of Fun Giveaway! Today's fantastic prize is a Sewing Machine and Fabric of Your Choice! It's a $250 value! This would be a great addition to my craft room. I am going to go enter for this one myself. Maybe if I win, I will find someone to teach me how to use it. Then I could make my own project bags for my knitting, and curtains, and clothes, and toys, and .......
August 22, 2013
Day 22 in the Purex 31 Days of Fun Sweepstakes
It is the 22nd day in the Purex 31 Days of Fun Sweepstakes! I can't believe that this month is less than two weeks from being over. My kids start back to school Monday! (YAY) My babies aren't babies anymore! Joey is going to be 18 this year and is a senior in high school. Serenity is starting 4th grade and will be 10 this year. I feel so old.
Anyway, enough boohooing. Now for something fun. Today's Prize! The prize for today is $250 for Baby Necessities! Imagine all the goodies you could buy for your baby with that!
Anyway, enough boohooing. Now for something fun. Today's Prize! The prize for today is $250 for Baby Necessities! Imagine all the goodies you could buy for your baby with that!
August 21, 2013
So excited over my affiliate link for Craftsy!
I just joined up with ShareASale to be a Craftsy affiliate. I absolutely love Craftsy and have enrolled in several of their classes. So it is an honor for me to have affiliate links on my site for them. There are three on my blog page right now. One to the right, one to the left, and one above my posts. Click any of them to take you to the Craftsy site and you can browse their classes and patterns.
Just $5 to make this meal that feeds us for 2 Days
Today I thought I would share one of my families favorite (and cheapest) belly-filling meals. It is a simple recipe. It only uses four ingredients plus whatever seasonings you want to add. Usually there's enough to feed my family of four until we're ready to pop, with enough leftovers for the next night. My grandmother used to make it when I was little and called it Italian Spaghetti. Now that I'm grown I know that there are recipes for American Goulash that are very similar to what we make. But, I continue to call it Italian Spaghetti. So here is the recipe if you'd like to try it out. Different seasonings result in different flavors, of course. The recipe is very versatile as you will see in the ingredients. I use what I have on hand in the quantities I have in hand.
Amanda's Italian Spaghetti
Ingredients:
- Ground beef approx 1 lb ( I tend to buy the five pound chubs at my local grocery store and then separate them into six or seven packages so it differs each time I make this) approx $3
- Part of an onion ( I use whatever I have leftover in my fridge, usually somewhere between a quarter and a half of a small to medium yellow or white onion) approx $0.20
- A can of diced tomatoes around $0.80
- A box of pasta approx $1.00
Total approximate $5.00 depending on what brands you use and sales prices
Prep time depends on how long it takes you to chop the onion! Sometimes the tears slow me down.
Cook time around twenty minutes.
- Brown and crumble ground beef with the onion and your seasonings. I prefer some oregano and basil (or Italian seasoning if I have it), salt, pepper, and garlic powder
- While beef is cooking, prepare pasta according to packaging in a separate pan, drain
- Add pasta and diced tomatoes to ground beef/onion and simmer for ten minutes
- Enjoy
I was going to take pictures of the steps, but my son cooked tonight and had it done before I realized he had really started it! Bonus points for him for cooking dinner for all of us, negative points for me for not taking the pictures. My son even filled bowls and brought them to us! Here is a picture of the dish after it was cooked and mostly eaten.
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| yummy |
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| This is how much was left after the four of us had eaten PLUS my husband and son both got a second bowl full! So there's only about two bowl fulls left probably. But that is fine. It still made about eight bowls full. And when I say bowls full, I mean full to the top! |
I'm trying to learn how to have different pages and tabs!
I want to separate my sweepstakes and giveaways on here from my crafting and other things I am into. That way people can read about what they come here for and not have to search through all of it to find it. That said, here is my first knitting update after about ten days of knitting solely on my husband's blanket.
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