Giveaway Winners!

The Country Bob's Giveaway has ended...

And the 2 winners are...

#8 Jackie --

Here are your random numbers:8
Timestamp: 2009-05-08 01:21:34 UTC

And...

#74 Vanessa

Here are your random numbers:74
Timestamp: 2009-05-08 01:24:43 UTC

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I have sent e-mails to both of you. If you did not get them email me at

dailyessentialsanddeals @ gmail . com (remove spaces)

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Thank-you to ALL who entered!

And congratulations to our 2 winners!

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Be sure to enter my other giveaways going on now...

Hip-T -- ends Saturday

TSP Spices -- ends May 16

Giveaway...

Sarah at Beautiful2God is having a giveaway for a

Complete Laundy System.

It's crazy it works for like 3 years and you need no laundry detergent.

Be sure to check it out and enter here.

She has 6 ways to enter!

Sunday's Coupon Inserts

This week in Sunday's paper you should

get 1 Smartsource and 1 Valassis Insert

Here are some of my favorites to look forward to.

Dixie - .50/1

Hostess Donuts -- .50/1

Quaker True Delights Granola Bars -- $1./1

Bar-S Franks -- $1./2

A-1 Steak Sauce or Marinade -- $2./1

Betty Crocker Supreme Brownies -- .50/2

Colgate -- $1./1

Curad Bandaids -- .50/1

Dannon Dan Active -- $1./1

Dannon Activia -- $1./1

French's Mustard -- .50/1

French's Worcestershire Sauce -- .50/1

Hunts Ketchup -- .20/1

Kraft Salad Dressing -- $1.50/1

St. Ives Body Wash -- $1.50/1

Ziploc bags -- .40/1

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To see the complete list visit thecouponclippers.com

TSP Spices Review and Giveaway

I was delighted for the opportunity to try Tsp Spices.

I'm usually not real good at working with spices.

They graciously sent me the Organic Orange Zest and the

Organic Roast to Toast.

The way it was packaged and the recipes that came with it made it so easy to use the spices, even for me!!

When I got the spices they came in the cutest little tins. I can't help but think how cute these would make for gifts! Each tin had 12 individual 1 tsp. spice packets plus recipes!

You can also find recipes here at their site.

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First I tried the Organic Orange Zest. This tin had 12 - 1 tsp. packets of Orange Zest spice. One of the recipes simply said to add it to your hot cereal. So as I was having oatmeal one morning, I added 1 packet ( which is 1 tsp.) to my oatmeal. I wasn't sure about it but, it was delicious! It added so much, and I loved the Orange taste!

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The second tin they sent me was called the Organic Roast to Toast. It had 12 packets but there were 6 different spices in it. It included 3 Orange Zest, 2 Ancho Chili Pepper, 2 Coriander, 2 Rosemary, 2 Thyme, and 1 Allspice.

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I wanted to make a recipe called Ancho Chile and orange rubbed chicken but my local butcher was out of whole chickens 2 weeks in a row. I got tired of waiting and decided to use the spices on boneless skinless chicken instead. All I did was combine 2 packets of organic ancho chile, 2 packets organic coriander, and 2 packets organic orange zest. Mixed and added about 2 Tablespoons of olive oil. This made it kinda pasty and I just rubbed it on the chicken. I let it marinate a couple days and grilled it up! It was REALLY good! My daughter kept wanting more. I feel confident that the other recipe would be even better!

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Tsp Spices was founded by a couple of Southern girls who wandered north, as they say it!

I think they sum up their company with these words...

We promise you vibrant tastes with organic spices that are free of additives and fillers and packaged to preserve their freshness. We also make them easy on your storage system and pleasant to look at when they’re on your counter

To learn more about how it works go you can go here.

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THE GIVEAWAY!!

There's more... Tsp Spices is graciously giving away your choice of the

Herb Sampler or Sunshine Set.
To one lucky winner!

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To enter...

1. Go to their site and let us know which one you'd choose

the Herb sampler or the Sunshine set

(just click on the names to view the products)

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Up to 5 additional entries.

Be sure to leave a separate comment for each item you do!

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2. Become a follower or tell me you are

3. Subscribe or tell me you do

4. Twitter or Facebook about the giveaway

5. Add my button to your site

6. Blog about the giveaway

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Remember to leave a separate comment for each item you do.

Up to 6 separate comments.

This giveaway is open to US entries only.

It will end Saturday, May 16 at 8pm EST.

1 winner will be chosen using Random.org

Thanks for entering!

Things I Love Thursday

I love Spring flowering trees!

This is one I'm enjoying on our yard!

To see more Things I Love Thursday go here.

Be sure to link up and let us know what you love!

Daily Dose

Philippians Chapter 5

Verse 1-2

Be imitators of God, therefore, as dearly loved children and live a life of love, just as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us as a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.

Verse 22

Wives, submit to your husbands as to the Lord.

Verse 25

Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her

Garden Adventure!

This is my FIRST garden!

Yep it's true, I've never had a garden before.

As I'm getting into this whole being frugel thing, I decided to give it a try!

We decided to start out small....Ha!!

It grew into a pretty big garden!

It's hard to see some of the plants,

but we've already planted everything but my melons.
Since I'm new at this, I decided to share some of the tips we've gotten so far and I'm hoping you guys can chime in and give us lots more tips!
Here's what we've found out so far...
Try not to laugh too hard at us!
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1. End of April is normally too early to plant a garden in northern Indiana. I think we'll get lucky this year and be frost free!
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2. 5 pounds of potatoes is a lot to plant in a garden. We've been told that in good years 2# can produce over 100# yikes!!!
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3. A row of Zucchini (15 plants) will produce WAY TOO MUCH zucchini. 2-3 plants is more like a normal amount. opps 15!!!
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4. Put Sevin on tomato plants right away. We lost 2 plants to cut worm the first 2 days. boo
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5. Put Preen between rows to help cut down on weeds.
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6. Best way to keep rabbits out is with a shotgun! (thanks Melissa)
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7. Plant carrots right near the top of soil... not down 6 inches. I don't think we'll get carrots this year unless we replant them.
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8. Plant your watermelons in with your corn -- space saver!
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So that's what we've learned so far... Let me know your tips.
How do I get an awesome garden???

Walgreens- Cheap Van Camp's Beans

Walgreens Currently has their Van Camp's Beans on sale 2/$1.

I bought 2 today for $1. and out popped a catalina for .75 cents/2

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I used that to get 2 more cans for .25 cents...

guess what???

Out popped another .75 cents/2 catalina!!I

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I did it 2 more times for a total of 8 cans for $1.75

and I still have a .75/2 to use again.

I think I'll be returning and get some more cans for 12.5 cents each.

Wordless Wednesday

My 10 yr. old, Malachi, on the left and his 8yr. old cousin, Caleb, on the right.

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Go here for more great pics!

In His Word Wednesday - Sing to the Lord

Psalm 98 Verses 1-4a

1Sing to the Lord a new song,

for he has done marvelous things;

his right hand and his holy arm

have worked salvation for him.

2The Lord has made his salvation know

and revealed his righteousness to the nations.

3 He has remembered his love and his

faithfulness to the house of Israel;

all the ends of the earth have seen the

salvation of our God.

4 Shout for joy to the Lord, all the earth

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Shout to the lord for all he has done for us. The best gift of all...

SALVATION!!

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Now it's your turn! What has God been teaching you lately. Do you have a prayer request? Do you have a Bible verse that has stuck out to you? Even just words of encouragement. I would love to hear from you!
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Just post on your blog, then come back here and sign the linky below.(You are welcome to use my banner if you'd like)
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You can even just leave your words or prayer request here as a comment. We'd love to know how to pray for you. If you don't want to elaborate just let us know you have an unspoken prayer request. We can still pray for you because God already knows!
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Prayer Request --

My SIL goes in for her scheduled C-Section tomorrow morning. Pray everything goes great and my little nephew enters the world without a hitch!

Daily Dose

Ephesians Chapter 4

Verses 2

Be completely humble and gentle; be patient, bearing with one another in love.

Verse 32

Be kind and compassionate to one another, forgiving each other, just as in Christ God forgave you.

Kroger 5-5

Cheap Cereal this week at Kroger!
Here's what I see...
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Kelloggs Cereal $1.88- $1./1 printable = .88 cents. Ad mentioned Frosted Mini Wheats, Corn Pops, and Frosted Flakes. Hot Coupon also mentions Fruit Loops and Raisin Bran
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Milk -- 5/$7. or .99 cents for half gallons - depending on area
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Kraft Cheese -- 3/$5.
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Kroger large eggs -- .98 cents
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Campbells condensed soup -- $10/10 - .30/3 9(tripled) = .70 cents each
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Let us know if you see another great deal!

New Cellfire Coupons

Be sure to go here and load the new Cellfire Coupons to your store card. Cellfire is where you can load electronic coupons right to your Store card. I use it for Kroger!! They also have coupons for Owens, Dillions, Frys, Hilander and many more. You can check here to see if your store is included.

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Basically 2 times a month they post new coupons and you can load them right onto your store card. There's no clipping and no remembering the coupon. Just make sure you get the exact item and the money will come off automatically! It's so easy to use. They always have awesome coupons of very useable items.

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Here are a few of my favorite new coupons from Cellfire...

Pillsbury Toaster Strudel -- .50cents/1

Nature Valley Bars -- .50 cents/1

Yoplait -- .50/6 cups

Huggies -- $3.00/2

Lucky Charms -- .55/1

Banana Nut Cheerios -- .75/1

Axe Hair Product -- $1.50/1

Kotex -- $1./1

Knorr sides -- .75/2

Cottonelle -- .25/1 (if your store still carries the 4 pk)

Chex Mix -- .60/1

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Go here to load them to your card!

An Afternoon of FUN!!

Mushroom Hunting!

Here is my oldest boy (Chi 10) and oldest girl (Halee 8)

With Chi's only mushroom find. (I'll add that he found 1 more than me!!)

It's really hard to see. I put a box around it!

Here are the troops!

I think 3 grandchildren are missing from this picture. I was shocked that my almost 3 yr. old walked the entire time. Up hills and down, only asking to be held 1 time. I just did some distracting and away he went again running ahead!

They had a great time together, only problem was I don't think they bothered looking for mushrooms. They did however manage to step on a few!

So this is what we found, no we're not hiding any, this was it! I love mushrooms, only problem was when you split these between 7 adults and a bunch of kids you get ONE bite! But man was it a GREAT bite! I made it last as long as possible!

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So do you love fried fresh mushrooms? Do you hunt for them?

Sweet and Sour Pot Roast

I bought a roast last week and wasn't sure how I was going to make it! I wanted to try something different...

To my surprise I received a package from Country Bob's today! Wow they sent me a awesome cookbook and a bunch of FREE product coupons! Country Bob's has went way above and beyond sending me some great products! They are a great company!

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In looking through their cookbook, there are a ton of GREAT recipes. I hope to share more with you soon! Today I want to share the recipe for Sweet and Sour Pot Roast. I will be trying this one this week! It sounds soooo GOOD!!

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Sweet and Sour Pot Roast

1 (3#) beef roast

1 Tablespoon vegetable oil

12 small potatoes, peeled

1 cup chopped onion

1 (15oz.) can tomato sauce

1/4 cup packed brown sugar

1/2 cup Country Bob's All Purpose Sauce

2 Tablespoons cider vinegar

1 tsp. salt

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Directions...

Trim fat from the roast. Brown the roast in hot skillet on all sides.

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Place the potatoes in a slow cooker. Place the browned roast on the potatoes.

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Discard all but 1 Tablespoon drippings from the skillet. Saute the onion in the drippings until tender. Stir in the tomato sauce, brown sugar, Country Bob's Sauce, vinegar, and salt.

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Pour over the roast and potatoes. cover and cook on high for 4-5 hours or until roast is tender.

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Remove the roast and potatoes to a serving platter. Pour the sauce into a skillet. Cook over medium heat until thickened to the desired consistency, stirring frequently. Serve with the potatoes and roast.

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Sounds Delicious!!

The Country Bob's Giveaway is still going on until Thursday.

Be sure enter here for your chance to win 2 Bottles of their All Purpose Sauce!

For more recipes visit...

blessedwithgrace

inpassionate pursuit

GroceryCartChallenge (Thurs. evening)

30 Day Challenge ... Check in

Could it be Tuesday again????

Well I've been able to get my workout in everyday! I skipped Sunday of course but all the other days I was able to do some kind of workout. I would have to admit that a couple of the days I only got my sit ups in, but that's the area I need the most work!

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Yesterday we tromped through the woods for 2 hours mushroom hunting, so I'd say I got a little extra workout in then! More on that later!

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So check in! Did you get your workout in this week.

Daily Dose

Ephesians Chapter 3

Verse 12

In him and through faith in him we may approach God with freedom and confidence.

Free Magazine!

Go here to get your free subscription to Kiwi Magazine! It was fast and simple to do.

thanks MoneySavingMom!

CVS New Clip Free Coupons

Megan @ Saving Our Cents has the scoop on the new CVS Clip Free Coupon Booklet.

It looks like they will no longer have the monthly ECB deals. This booklet is reported to have NO ECB deals in it. We'll see what future months will bring.

Be sure to go here to check it out!

Meal Plan Monday- Weekly Meals

Here's the menu this week!

Monday -- Chicken with TSP Spices (review and giveaway coming this week!), potatoes, veggies
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Tuesday -- Out - Family is opening a new Old Fashioned Icecream shoppe. We're going to test out some free food and icecream treats! YUM!!!
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Wednesday-- Beef Roast in crockpot with potatoes and carrots.
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Thursday -- Pancakes and sausage
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Friday -- Out or Leftovers
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Saturday -- Homemade Pizza
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Sunday -- Happy Mother's Day! -- Hamburgers on the grill with macaroni salad and fruit
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Our new recipe is the chicken with the tsp spices. I'll let you know Tues. or Wed. how it was. Also look for a new giveaway. I have a feeling it's going to be very yummy!
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This is going to be my grocery skip week. I will visit CVS to get my milk and a few freebies. I will try to stay in my $10. budget. If you haven't read about my new challenge, you can do so here!
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Have a great week!
For more meal plans visit orgjunkie

Spring Cleaning -- Outdoor area

This week at Beautiful2God we're cleaning our outdoor area.

Mine was crazy messy.

I got a head start and cleaned a little on Saturday.

Hey, I'm not failing another week!

These pics are of course before I cleaned! I will post after pics later in the week.

We had stuff setting everywhere from winter and of course the kids have to drag tons of toys up to this area! There are lots of leaves blown up against the house (they're hard to see in these pics, but they're there!). I feel confident I'll get this area DONE!!
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This is our last week of Spring Cleaning, but it's not to late to join in.
Go here to get your assignment and to link up!
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No Cleaning today tho...
We're off to Mushroom hunt this afternoon! We hope to find lots. I'll post pics tomorrow on what we find.
Anyone had much luck with mushroom hunting this year???

Daily Dose

Ephesians Chapter 2

Verse 8-9

For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith-- and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God -- not by works, so that no one can boast.