My Menu Plan for this Week 12/10/18!

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Tis the season to be busy!  Is it just me or did Christmas come faster this year?   I feel like I'm going at top speed how about you?  I've decided I'm going to make every easy meal I know this week in order to accomplish some things.  Otherwise my week will consist of making breakfast, lunch, and dinner then washing dishes!   

I'm slowing down tonight and having some crafting fun with the grandkids tonight after dinner.  We are going to make that gingerbread train that I bought at Aldi's last week.    It will be a good time for all of us.  



Here is what I plan on having on the dinner table this week:



Monday                Leftover Pork Chops and  soup beans  (Homemade hamburgers for the grandkids)

Tuesday               Tuna fish sandwiches (we found this wonderful bread at Meijer's called Sola..3 net carbs per slice) and  sweet potato fries

Wednesday          Easy stuffed peppers and green beans

Thursday             Meatloaf (freezer meal)  and a salad


Friday                  Leftovers

Saturday              Slow Cooker Chicken with rosemary and thyme,  and a salad 

Sunday                 Out to eat


What's on your menu?


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Free Kindle Books for Today 12/10/18!

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Free Kindle Books for today 12/10/18  Make sure you check the price before you buy, Amazon prices can change frequently. If you don’t have a Kindle you can download your favorite Kindle Book on any tablet or smartphone with a free Kindle Reading App

Unintended Consequences (Jack Turner Suspense Series Book 3)

The Cranbury Toymaker (A Cranbury Chronicles Novel) 

The Tethered World (The Tethered World Chronicles Book 1) 

Bennett Sisters French Cookbook: Recipes inspired by the Mystery Series (Bennett Sisters Mysteries Book 8)

Leftovers: a compilation of recipes with leftovers and some tips and tricks on how to keep food fresh for longer and to save on buy list.

Sophie Washington: Queen of the Bee

BEATRIX POTTER Ultimate Collection - 22 Children's Books With Complete Original Illustrations: The Tale of Peter Rabbit, The Tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck, ... Moppet, The Tale of Tom Kitten and more

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My Frugal Ways this Week 12/9/18!

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Here are the ways I've saved this past week:

We went to see our favorite light show at our local historical village.  This is the one time of the year that they let you drive through the village for $5.00 a carload.   So pretty!  

I have so far made three Fleece tie Blankets for Christmas presents.  

Lucky for me I have someone to hold down the blankets while I work!  

Received a coupon in the mail from Hungry Howies for a free pizza and a digital coupon for a free donut from Meijer for my birthday this month.  Yes, they both were delicious!  

We are trying a different way to grocery shop this month (biweekly).   It's a learning experience but I hope to save at least $60.00 a month trying it this way.  

We bought hamburger for $1.99 a pound and restocked the freezer.  I froze patties in hamburger Tupperware containers.  I then cooked and froze hamburger in 1 pound packages for meals later on.  

I made waffles and froze some for later breakfast meals.  

I reused a couple of those big bags from the stores for garbage bags.  


My goals for this week:

Make one more fleece tie blanket and then I'm through!  

Continue fixing up the doll house for granddaughter.  I need to make cushions for the seats in the library this week.  So far I've made blankets, put down floors (samples from the hardware), crochet rugs, made a sheet set, and even found some pots and pans that were hidden in one of the dressers.  This dollhouse was given to me by a sweet neighbor.  

What are the way's you've saved this past week?

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My Grocery Shopping Total This Week 12/8/18!

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We have decided to grocery shop every other week so this week's total has been different.   A little higher and a lot more bought at once.  I really got to stock up at Meijer so that was great for my pantry.  So next week I plan on buying just the necessities to keep the bill down.  I hope I can manage this!   I would like our grocery bill to go down to $340.00 a month.  That would save us $60 a month  doesn't sound like a lot but $720 a year could pay for half of this years home taxes!  Yeah!

Meijer

2 bars of Candy Free with coupon from a promotion on Facebook
Holiday Candy $2.58
Meijer water $1.97
Half and half $1.89 -.50 cent off Meijer coupon
Koegels Bologna $4.79
3 packages of ground beef for $1.99 a pound $8.00 -$7.76-$7.94
10 Prego Pasta Sauce .75 each (after buy 5 get $5.00 off)
Chunk Cheese $1.99 -.50 cents off coupon
2 jars of Pickles $1.99 each
10 Koolaid drink $1.49 (after buy 5 get $5.00 off )
Cottage Cheese $1.79 -.(after buy 5 get $5.00 off )
2 silk milks $1.49 each after  two Meijer .50 off coupons and (buy 5 get $5.00 off)
5 jars of peanuts $1.99  (after buy 5 get $5.00 off)
Little debbie $2.00
2 Quaker Oats  $1.99 each after (after buy 5 get $5.00 off )


Total $84.99

Aldi

Fresh Whole Chicken $5.10
PB 40 oz $2.49
2 gallons of milk $1.98 each
Ginger bread train to make with grand kids $6.99
Shortening  $2.89
Navel Oranges $2.19
2 pork sausages $2.99
Ham and turkey sub kit $.99
3 Advance Bars $4.99 each
Stevia  $2.99
Lunch Meat $2.99
2 turkey snack sticks $3.49 each
Half and Half $1.55
2 bags of Pork rinds .79 each
2 boxes of crackers .75 each
Parmesan Cheese $2.29 each
Total $80.50



Walmart
Eggs (36)  $4.70
-bottle refund $3.30

Total $1.40

Kroger
Aloe water (free Friday download)
Kroger Tea bags $2.79
Bananas $1.11
Total $3.29

Grand Total:  $170.80

How did you do grocery shopping?  


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Free Kindle Books for Today 12/8/18!

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Free Kindle Books for today 12/8/18  Make sure you check the price before you buy, Amazon prices can change frequently. If you don’t have a Kindle you can download your favorite Kindle Book on any tablet or smartphone with a free Kindle Reading App

Season of Miracles: Sweet, Clean, and Heartwarming Christian Romance (Rios Azules Christmas Book 1)

Mail Order Bride - Elise's Journey: Sweet Clean Historical Western Mail Order Bride Inspirational Romance (Eagle Creek Brides Book 1) 

Love's Time: A Christian Time Travel Romance

Etsy For Anyone: How to Become a Break-Out Seller in 30 Days 

True North (An Alaskan Inside Passage Adventure Book 1) 

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Book Review: The King's Highway by Caryl McAdoo

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The King's Highway (Days of Dread Trilogy Book 1)

by Caryl McAdoo

A mysterious dead man directs the small band on their journey to a much safer corridor he dubs The King’s Highway. 

Airplanes are falling out of the sky, and all things electric rendered useless after a mysterious flash. It tests the grit of fifteen-year-old Jackson Allison when the care and safety of his younger siblings fall solely to him. No one knows for sure what’s happened, but danger lurks if they stay. With a fierce determination to keep his thirteen-year-old sister McKenzie and nine-year-old brother Cooper safe, the high school freshman is compelled to leave their Irving home in the shadow of the DFW Airport for their grandparents’ farm a hundred-plus miles northeast. 
Thrust into a lawless, chaotic world, he’s guided by an ever-changing cryptic note that leads his growing troupe along the King’s Highway. Bullies, Russians, wild animals, gang-bangers, and kidnappers thwart their progress while a lack of drinkable water and food is a constant concern. Will he ever get his people to safety in the Red River Valley in far Northeast Texas?


My thoughts:

An unexplained event has turned out the lights and the children are at home by themselves.  This story tells the dangers that come next and how they survive.  Great story line as I think this is every parents nightmare.  

Wonderful details and so many great characters I just couldn't put it down.  So many dangers lurked on every corner that I wanted know how the children would fare.  Thank goodness they had God watching and guiding them as they go along. 

I loved how this book ended, but yet it left you wanting to know more. Perfect!  I did feel that the author could back up some and explain more about the grandparents.  

This is a great book for early teens through adults.  

A great great read!   

I downloaded this book yesterday 12/7/18 and it's still free today 12/8/18!  

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