Tuesday, January 26, 2010

dinner this week

Monday Meatloaf & Mashed potatoes
Tuesday breakfast (waffles & eggs)
Wednesday Wangs buffet
Thursday Spinach and Artichoke mac and cheese
http://www.rachaelrayshow.com/food/recipes/spinach-and-artichoke-mac-and-cheese/
Friday hamburgers and corn
Saturday bourbon chicken over rice with green beans
Sunday mac n cheese caserole

Tuesday, January 12, 2010

What's for dinner this week?

Eating out of the freezer this week. My plan is to only buy necessities... we have plenty! This is a great way to clean out the cupboards and freezer!

Monday
Fried Rice with broccoli, peas and ham... yum!
Tuesday Mini Sloppy Joes with a side
Wednesday Chicken in the crockpot mashed potatoes, green beans
Thursday kids went to grandmas, I had leftovers
Friday pizza (takeout...$20)
Saturday oven baked chicken with a side
Sunday Lasagna

Kroger
2 loaves of bread
4 lb bag of oranges
2 lbs bananas
3 lbs of carrots
1 gallon of lactaid
paid with giftcard

1 gallon of milk 2.39
1 pkg pasta 1.00
1 jar pasta sauce 1.00
Total 4.39

Tuesday, January 5, 2010

What's for dinner? Here's the plan

Monday - BBQ Chicken in crockpot
Tuesday - Breakfast (eggs, toast, oranges)
Wednesday - Enchilada Lasagna
Thursday - grilled cheese and apples
Friday - Mac n cheese and tom. soup
Saturday - Steak, potatoes and green beans
Sunday - leftovers

$50 a week for Groceries

Week of Jan 3rd
Community Markets
10 Green Giant Steamers 1.00 - .40 coupon doubled (.20 ea)
10 lb bag of chicken leg quarters 4.90
1 gallon of milk 2.39
coke 20 pack 5.50
14.xx in cash

Community Market transaction 2
Frosted Mini Wheats
Rice Krispies
Juice
5 oranges 2.00
carrots 1.69
apples 2.50
bananas .59 a pound
paid with gift card (doesn't count toward my $50 total)

Kroger
2 cheddar cheese 1.99 ea
2 loaves of bread 1.00 ea.
Total 6.00 in cash

Kroger
1 pkg tortillas

formula
peanut butter
paid with gift card (doesn't count toward my $50 total)

Eating out (gasp... hehe)
Chinese buffet 20.00


Rite Aid

2 packs of diapers 11.99 ea
2 benevia 8.99 bogo
2 got2be hair stuff (for laney) 6.49 bogo
1 m&m .50
used
2 $5 off huggies mfg coupons
2 $1 off huggies rite aid
2 $5 off benevia mfg coupons
2 $2 off benevia rite aid
2 $3 off got2be
$5 off $20 purchase
4.00 in cash, will get $1 back for huggies in SCR

(will be going back to do the benevia deal again... I have $6 left!)

Rite Aid
2 benevia 8.99 bogo
2 got2be hair stuff (for laney) 6.49 bogo
2 hand soap 1.00 ea
3 dish soap .99 ea
1 fabric softener 3.99
1 snickers .50
used
2 $5 off benevia mfg coupons
2 $2 off benevia rite aid
2 $3 off got2be
$5 off $20 purchase
.65 cash
(my Rite Aid is now out of Benevia.... so sad!)

Community Markets
1 can of cream of mushroom 1.55 (ouch)
1 pkg dry onion soup (1.00)
2.55 cash


Total... 47.20 woooo hoooo!!!

Saturday, January 2, 2010

What's for dinner?

Eating out of the freezer this week. There were some sales on ground beef last month and we cooked up a ham and froze a lot of it. I am trying to base my meals around that.

Monday
- Cheese quesedillas and apples
Tuesday - meatloaf & mashed potatoes
Wednesday - tacos
Thursday - Ordered out pizza bought by a friend... we bought Oreos for dessert
Friday - Fried Rice with ham
Saturday - Spaghetti & Meatballs
Sunday - pizza $12.50

Bought 1.25 jar of soy sauce, 2.50 bag of tortilla chips for tacos, 5.00 Oreos,

Friday, January 1, 2010

End of the year totals

Here are the year end totals of all the survey and money making sites I do. I used the Amazon giftcards to buy Shane work pants and a whole bunch of Christmas presents.

A couple of tips if you want to start doing surveys... create a yahoo email account for just surveys. This will keep your regular email address from getting clogged with junk mail. If you are ever wondering if a survey site is legit, look it up on surveypolice.com. See if others have been paid for their time!!!

American Consumer Opinion
$19 (in paypal)

Mindfield (http://mindfieldonline.com/referral/098aa999)
$29.00 (received in cash and paypal)

Opinion Outpost (http://www.OpinionOutpost.com/join/7034921)
$40.70 (received in cash and amazon giftcards)

Swagbucks (http://swagbucks.com/refer/bethera)
$55 (in amazon.com giftcards)

epoll $5 (in amazon.com giftcards)

Ipsos isay $10 in cash... (almost ready to cash out another $10)

saynation (http://www.saynation.com/Portal/?RP=Register&Ref=7586254499)
$20 (in amazon.com giftcards)

Lightspeed Opinion Panel
$30 (in amazon.com giftcards)

Mypoints (Earned points by completing buzz reports (bzzagent.com), clicking on emails and doing email surveys). I like to redeem my points for $10 gift cards for subway (1400 points)
Current Points: 743 Points
Lifetime Earned: 14,493 Points
Lifetime Redeemed: 13,750 Points
Which is about 9 $10 Subway cards ($90)

Viewpoint Forum
$30
in cash

Pinecone Research
$36 in cash and paypal

Reward TV
$5 Olive Garden giftcard

Zoompanel
1 book


Total for the year: $369.70 and 1 book


Pending
Inbox dollars $22.11 (not received yet... payout is at $30 GRRRR)

Valued Opinions $2.50 (I don't seem to qualify for many of these surveys)

Survey Sites I quit
NDPOR Surveys - quit doing these. They have contests at the end, but after a year of not winning, I just don't have the time to do them.

Zoompanel - quit doing these. After many many many surveys, I had enough points for a paperback children's book. Not worth the time for me.