In the early morning hours on
Sunday I baked two loaves of whole wheat bread and made cream puffs. We had friends over for dessert and to play
games that afternoon.
I kept our grocery shopping
minimal and only bought what we needed keeping it under $20 - milk, flour,
shredded wheat and some produce.
I used my Fred Meyer rewards
points to top off the gas tank on the car and saved 30¢ a gallon. Whoo hoooo!
I also took another store survey to add 50 additional bonus points back
to my card for the discount on my next fill up.
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| Our latest grocery haul |
We fed the chickens our
kitchen scraps. I shared some bread,
grapes and tomato slices with them as well.
I love spoiling them and they loaded us up with eggs again this week.
After work I went to ShopKo to
buy a new pair of running shoes and some cotton athletic socks as both were on
sale. The shoes were on sale for $39.99
(regularly $59.99) and the socks were buy one get one 50% OFF. While there I checked the clearance racks and
found two dry wick work out shirts ($7.49 & $4.49) and a pair of long work out pants
($7.49). At checkout I was also able to
use a $10 OFF coupon to lower my purchase total even more! Love that!
I got my free samples from
Kotex in the mail, I thought they came really fast. They also included four adult coloring pages
(totally unexpected) which I gave to my girls to enjoy.
I got online and negotiated a
50% discount via chat to renew our Norton security software for our laptops and
computer. Only took me ten minutes.
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| Dueling bread machines |
Now that the weather is
cooling we went ahead and pulled the A/C units out of the upstairs
windows. I usually try to get those out
and stored away over Labor day weekend.
Now we can use our box fans to bring in cool air and then close
everything up during the warmest part of the day. That will save us quite a bit on our electric
bill and help offset the cost of the new fans.
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| Two large lovely loaves baking |
We did really well sticking
to the meal plan and using up leftovers with minimal food waste. Hurray!
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| A visitor arrives |
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| Silly girl |
Our week was fairly busy so I
didn't get my midweek wash load done. On
Saturday I was pleasantly surprised that we only ended up with two large loads to
run after an entire week. Pretty good, I'd say.
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| One of our delicious meals his week |
I washed out quite a few
Ziploc bags to reuse.
How thrifty was your week?
Bread looks yummy... Love the girls with their visiting chicken..ha
ReplyDeleteHave a great week.
She is a silly chicken. She loves to come in and visit. Beg for treats. :)
DeleteI had to laugh at your chicken. :) She sure is friendly. You did really well this week. We are starting to do a few winterizing things here also. My husband turned off the water to our swamp cooler but we can still use the fan to vent in cooler air at night. In about 2 weeks he will have to wrap the whole thing up though because we will lose too much heat once we have to start up the pellet stove again.
ReplyDeleteOur weather changed like someone flipped a switch. I'm glad we pulled the A/C units when we did because it is really getting cold at night.
DeleteOur Edith is a sweetheart. She loves to come inside to visit and will beg for treats in the kitchen. Sometimes I think she thinks she is one of the cats.