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Hi! Another tip that fits here. For freebies and coupons sign up at Betty Crocker, General Mills, Pillsbury etc. Oh and go to kraft. Be sure and sign up for Food and Family. It is a magazine that send out every two months. Good recipes and they will also send you either free samples or coupons for free stuff. This month was thin crisp triscuits, sent one get one free coupon and also a dollar off coupon. Oh right now go to nabiscocrackers.com...

These might be good for you Awesome Pierogi Casserole Old Farm Fry - Eggs, Bacon, and Potato - Longmeadow Farm Fast and Easy Paprika Potatoes Roast Beef Hash Breakfast Burritos (Once a Month Cooking) Potato Mushroom Casserole Hobo Casserole (Oamc) Baked Potato Soup

I suppose the altitude could have affected the potatoes, since water boils at a lower temp. I'm thinking maybe it was the variety of potatoe or the large size of the pieces. Don't know, frankly don't care. I just won't do it again.

They will definitely last longer and better if you put them in to FoodSaver bags and removed the air. Popcicles do get freezer burn otherwise and will pick up that freezer taste if not protected. You might also considered the Reynolds or Ziplock vacuum bags that have zippered openings so that you can get one out and then reseal without a hassle.

Check out this thread from last year. Lots of great ideas! Frugal Gifts from the Kitchen

Since this post has been resurrected, I'd like to add a tip: If you ever do online shopping, make sure you sign up for mypoints.com! You earn points everytime you shop online (I know I've increased my online shopping when gas prices went up). You then redeem those points for gift cards of your choice (to national companies/restaurants, etc). You also earn points for doing surveys, signing up for online services, etc. Any time I plan...

Okay so Black Friday approaches and while I did get a lot done after Xmas last year for the kids I am not feeling so good about the parents, inlaws, grandparents, etc. For the past four or five years I have done a gift bag or basket with homemade decorations from the kids then a food type gift from the whole family. It comes down to I am out of ideas. I am not at all creative when it comes to crafting and I am having a hard time figuring out...

2ChinaGirls wrote: I've been lurking for awhile, but I've got to add my "money saving" idea. Rather than gather points for miles or $ off at a department sotre, our most-used credit card gives us "points" that we can use for many, many things. We recently redeemed our points for the past year or so and we got: $250 in Safeway gift cards $50 in Target gift cards $50 in Amazon DH redeemed them, I would have put all...

Jean in Alvin wrote: I spent $166 at the store, this weekend, for all of the fancy Thanksgiving trimmings, 9lb turkey, baking goods, cat food, 2 bottles of wine, & One "give away" holiday plastic ware (home made cookies as hostess gifts). It was frivolous, decadent even. I thought about this thread. $166 is more than I would have spent in six weeks when our daughter was a toddler! Funny - our buggy wasn't very full and...