Posted by Tracy Zdelar on February 28, 2010
SO! The girls are doing it again and I’m planning to join along like I did about a month ago. I still have meat in my freezer that I bought back in January I believe (or before) so I’m going to cook that. {See what I made during my January Freezer Cooking Day.} My basic plan…
Cook a whole chicken in the slow cooker.
Cook a pork roast in my other big slow cooker.
Perhaps make a smaller crock pot of mashed potatoes with my remaining potatoes.
I’m thinking about making some pancakes to freeze as well.
The big question is…what do I want to use the meat for? I need some inspiration, I want to think outside of the box. I already did barbecued turkey. So if you have any great ideas for pork roast and chicken feel free to leave me a comment here!
You can go to MoneySavingMom.com and link up your Freezer Cooking Day plan too.
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Thanks to my friend Kathy’s post about scoring 2 free packs of Marcal toilet paper per $2 off coupon I dug out my $1 off coupons and found one more $2 off and got myself some free tp too (paid .30 cents tax). The Marcal coupons expire 3/7 and the toilet paper is marked at .99 right now at my Marc’s store. Marc’s will give you 2 packs at .99 cents for each $2 off coupon- that means, free tp- you just pay the tax! Check with your local Marc’s store to be sure this is their practice as well.
I plan to share pics of my household/misc stockpiles this week so you might want to subscribe here or in the sidebar for my free email/rss updates right now so you don’t miss anything! I also want to share a little info about why doing a little stockpiling is a good thing 
I also am writing a post about some basic steps to couponing. There are some great tips in there to help you be ready to save!
Posted by Tracy Zdelar on February 26, 2010
Today I stopped in Walgreens to pick up my .50 bottle of Excedrin and see if a Register Reward would pop out! Nope. I guess it wasn’t the right type of Excedrin but it was $2.50 and I had a $2 off coupon. While there I spotted Purex on sale for $2.99 and I knew I had some buy one get one free coupons at home. I paid for my Excedrin and a .49cent Reese’s Cup for Jack and…
…went back home for my coupons 
Then we went back to Walgreens and I bought 6 bottles of 32 loads each Purex for about $9.00 total before tax. Which comes out to about .05 cents or less a load! Whoo-hoo! My kind of savings
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I’m thinking about all these blogging conferences I’ve been reading about for the past year or so and I’m thinking I’d like to go to one or two this year. Well, one mainly. I’d like to go to Relevant being held in Pennsylvania later this year. The other one is BlogHer ‘10 in New York. But I know BlogHer will probably be huge and its in New York. So maybe I don’t want to be in New York unless I’m totally chauffered and flown? Pennsylvania sounds more like my comfort zone.
At any rate, I would need to find a company or two to sponsor me because I can’t afford a trip like that.
If you are a blogger, are you planning to go to BlogHer ‘10 or Relevant? Or some other bloggy conference I may not have heard about?
Posted by Tracy Zdelar on February 25, 2010
Well, remember my post the other day about my “stacking the deals” at Target? I got 2 $5 gift cards at that time to use in the future. Well the future came and went last night. I got out the coupons I wanted to use along with my gift cards and got all of the above for $13 and change out of pocket (OOP). I saved over $20!! Here’s what I got…
4 / 8oz packages of Kraft Cheese
2 bags of at least 10 oz. each Reese’s Pieces (paid .49 a bag after coupons)
FREE Rimmel Mascara
2 NYC Nail Polishes (buy one get one free coupon)
100ct Excedrin (paid $1.00 after using a $5.99 coupon)
600 tissues (3 boxes of 2ooct) Target brand Up&Up tissues ($2.89/ had a $1 off $3 purchase for an UP & UP item)
1 canister of Carnation Breakfast Drink Mix ( had a $1.00 coupon) Note: Our Target sells this item for $4.89- considerably cheaper than I can find elsewhere.
Orange juice and vitamins- no coupons
Finding coupons.
I not only get my coupons from the Sunday paper (which I buy extras on Mondays at half price) but I get coupons from magazines. I’ve found magazsines in All You (great source!), Weight Watchers, Family Circle (I think), Martha Stewart and anywhere else. I get most of my magazines for FREE too. I either come across free magazines or discounted subscriptions by keeping up with other bloggers and if I pay, I use my Swagbucks (click here to sign up for free) points to redeem for Amazon egift cards. Of all my current subscriptions which are Good Housekeeping, All You, Family Circle, Weight Watchers, and Martha Stewart…I’ve only paid maybe $1. something out of pocket. Everything else I think was free or I used my Amazon egift certificates for.
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Freezer Cooking Day plan for March
