Meal Plan Saturday

I am back to packing lunches this week and making sure the kids have a good breakfast with protein since they can't eat whenever they want. I'm going to have lots of fruit on hand and hummus and flat bread for snacks.

Saturday- Tri-tip, mashed potatoes, corn on the cobb and watermelon

Sunday- 3-cheese stuffed pasta with rolls

Monday- Kimchi quesadillas (never made them last week)

Tuesday- Beef Stroganoff

Wednesday- Dinner w/in-laws

Thursday- Breakfast burritos

Friday- Out to dinner

Finger Lickin' Ribs

HERE is a great recipe for pork spare ribs

The BBQ sauce is now one of my favorites!

I added 1/4 tsp of cayenne pepper for some heat.

Recipe by the Neely's on Food Network.

Salmon Tostadas

Salmon Tostada

Bake Salmon 400 degrees for 14-16 minutes.
Drizzle olive oil, salt and pepper over the top.

Corn Salsa

If you have not noticed, we like salmon. I make it all different ways and this

recipe is a great summer recipe. If you do not want to heat your house with

your oven then grill your salmon on the BBQ.

Recipe:

1. Cook salmon 400 degrees for 14-16 minutes. I love the non-stick foil for baking fish. Makes for an easy clean up and the fish does not stick at all.

2. Cook corn on the grill or the stove top and cool. Cut the kernels off of the corn. The best way is to use a bundt pan and stick the corn on the center part and the corn kernels will drop into the bowl.

3. Grill 1 jalapeno until charred and slice taking out the seeds. Put into a blender with the juice of 1 lime, 1/4 tsp salt, hand full of cilantro and stream in 1/4 cup olive oil while on puree.

4. Mix the cilantro jalapeno olive oil onto the corn leaving a small portion aside for the dressing. You can mix more cilantro in, chives, grilled red bell-peppers also are great in the corn salsa. Let it rest on the counter for the flavors to come together.

5. For the dressing add 1/2 cup buttermilk ranch dressing to the cilantro jalapeno olive oil mix and juice 2 limes into the blender. Puree and taste to see if you need to add any salt.

6. Mix 1 cup of sour cream with the juice of 1 lime.

7. Bake or fry corn or flower tortillas until crispy and set aside.

8. Mix the dressing and salad together.

9. Put it all together:

    Crispy tortilla

    Salad

    Salmon

    Corn salsa

    Lime sour cream

Meal Plan Saturday

I can't believe it's that time again! This coming week my hubby goes back to work, we have open house for little man's school and we are gearing up to get back into a routine around here. Having a husband as a teacher makes summers go by fast since we are so busy.

Saturday- Homemade mac n' cheese, french bread and salad
Going to the Grizzlies game

Sunday- Up to Shaver, just for the day. My father-n-law is BBQing.

Monday- Brats and fruit
Yay, my last Monday night cycle class which has gotten in the way of dinner time. I usually eat cereal or leftovers afterwards.

Tuesday- Kimchi quesadillas
New recipe!

Wednesday- Ribs, pilaf and artichokes
Little man has been asking for artichokes lately.

Thursday- Burgers and sweet potato fries
Back to school night.

Ball Classic Pectin Coupon

Apple season is approaching, great time to can apple pie filling for Christmas!

At Walmart you can find Ball Pectin on sale:

Ball Real Fruit Pectin, 0.4oz $0.97, Regular Price
Use $1.00/1 – Ball Pectin from SS 6/12
Or $1.00/1 – Ball Pectin, Salsa or Pickle Mix- (freshpreserving.com)
Final Price: $0.03 Moneymaker

Thanks The Krazy Coupon Lady!

Vons Back To School Specials

Vons Specials

*If you get the paper, store ads come out on Wednesdays. If you do not, you can look up Vons weekly specials at Vons.com or they have ads as you enter the store which you will need to pick up for additional coupons.

*Go HERE to print a $1.00/2 General Mills cereal. Make sure you back space so you get 2 of these coupons.


*This week they had a coupon in their ad spend $15.00 of frozen food products and receive $5.00 off.

*General Mills cereal is on special for $1.49 each if you buy 4 (Buy 4 save $4.00). You can find cereal coupons on Coupons.com right now. You will also get a $2.00 off 5 boxes catalina coupon at check out.

*There are a lot of coupons in the add for additional savings.

I purchased 12 items for $12.64 ($1.00 per item)!

This is what I picked up today:

5 boxes of cereal
        $2.00 catalina coupon when you buy 5 boxes of GM cereal
          $1.00 buy 3 GM cereals (Sunday paper)
        $.75 Chex cereal (coupons.com)
        $4.00 off for buying 4 cereals

2 packages of Ore Ida sweet potato fries
        $1.00 off 2 coupon (coupons.com)

2 Breyers Blast ice cream
        $.75 coupon for each (coupons.com)

1 Yoplait smoothie pack
        $.75 coupon (Sunday paper)
        $5.00 off for buying $15.00 in frozen items (Vons ad)

1 package of macaroni
        50% off from the markdown rack

Total: $45.60
Card savings: $19.76
Paper Coupons: $13.20
Paid: $12.64
Saved: 72%

Food Maxx Specials in August

Here are the items that are on special in August at Food Maxx.

 I went to Food Maxx in Clovis to compare it to the Food Maxx's in Fresno and to use my $5.00 of $20.00 Fresh and Easy coupon.

 Two gallons of milk and a 1/2 gallon of chocolate milk was the big cost.

Total for everything $17.42

Saved $26.83 

61% savings

I went to Food Maxx to use my free coupons a couple of other coupons I had. I also wanted to check out the differences between the stores. I did not see anything worth stocking up on, but with the free coupons I was able to save money. I bought; 2 gallons milk, 1/2 gallon chocolate milk, cilantro, onions, tomatillos, plum tomatoes, 2 packs of Johnsonville brats, 22 pk chips, mustard, ketchup, salad mix, mayo, hot dogs and hot dog buns.

I used my Food Maxx free coupons for:

Ketchup $.78 savings

Mustard $.89 savings

Salad mix $.98 savings

Hot dog buns $.98 savings

Hot Dogs $.88 savings

I also had coupons for:

22 PK variety chips bag $3.99 w/coupon

Johnsonville brats B1G1 $3.48 savings

$5.00 off $20.00 Fresh and Easy Coupon

I have to say that I think the Fresno Food Maxx on Blackstone is a bigger store and a wider variety. I was not too impressed with the meat and cereal prices. I saw better prices at Vons in the ad for these food items. I listed at the top a link to see the specials for August, but they do not list any prices. You can sign up for their emails, which I did to see what they send me. I will post later once I start receiving emails from them.