Recipes

This summer, we have thoroughly enjoyed cucumber dip with pita chips. At first, I had reluctantly bought bagged pita chips (expensive) and then I got smart and decided to make my own. If you notice in the past blog, Publix had their pita bread B1G1. Needless to say, I made enough pita chips to fill and gallon and a half gallon bag. The cost was only $1.29 and they were FANTASTIC!!!

12 loaves of pita bread (I used white)

salt (1/4 tsp)

pepper (1/4 tsp)

olive oil (1/2 c)

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Cut pita bread into 8 triangles and spread out on a cookie sheet lined cookie sheet. In a small bowl, mix together olive oil, salt and pepper. Brush mixture onto each pita bread triangle. Bake 7 minutes---watch closely because they tend to burn quickly. Let cool on wire rack.

After having bought three boxes of Honey Nut Cheerios in the past couple of weeks, I decided to search the internet in hopes of finding a cereal bar recipe. Cooks.com had a recipe and it turned out GREAT!! Instead of bars, I cut mine into squares. Try and enjoy!!

On our way to a weekend getaway at the lake, we stopped by our church and picked this fantastic basket of pears. I think a pear pie is in the making...picture and recipe coming soon!!

Grocery Shopping & Grammatical Error

I went to Publix today and got everything you see in the picture for $28!! The penny item was the Publix spring water (coupon in the Wednesday paper). Most of the items were B1G1 and I had 2 manufacturer's coupons. I am going to make pita chips with the pita bread (it was B1G1).

You may be wondering why would I take a random picture of Nabisco Cheese Nips. Well, as my daughter and I were eating them as a snack the other day, I noticed a grammatical error on the box. The box reads, "Cheese Nips has real cheddar cheese." It should say, "Cheese Nips HAVE real cheddar cheese." So, I decided to contact Nabisco and inform them of their mistake. The lady was very nice and thanked me over and over again for bringing it to their attention and that noone had ever called them about something like this before!!!! When it all was said and done, she asked me for my name/address and is sending me some coupons in the mail!!!! Maybe Publix will have cheese nips B1G1 soon:)

Peach Pie

Nothing is better than a fresh peach pie topped with vanilla ice cream!! That's the dessert we had last night. I made it using 5 cups of fresh sliced peaches and Pillsbury pie crust. Needless to say, it was YUMMY!!! I got the recipe from cooks.com and I highly recommend it. One thing I would add to it would be draining the peaches for about 10 minutes in a collander to remove excess juices.

Wheat Bread

Homemade bread is hard to beat. That's why I LOVE my bread machine. I use it to make bread, yeast rolls, pizza dough and much much more. Top the freshly baked, warm bread with a spread of butter and you are good to go!!

Breakfast Scrambler Recipe
Last night I needed a quick and easy dinner using only ingredients that I already had. So, I came up w/this recipe and it was an immediate hit at the dinner table.

Ingredients:
4 banana peppers, chopped
8 roma tomoatoes, diced
2 lbs pork sausage
1 1/2 Tbs minced onion (or half of a fresh vidalia onion)
1 Tbs hot sauce
1/2 tsp ground black pepper
1 fresh jalapeno, chopped (& seeded if mild spice is desired)

Cook sausage in skillet until crumbled and brown. Add banana peppers, tomatoes onion and jalapeno. Saute until tender. Add hot sauce and pepper. Cook on low for 8-10 minutes to combine flavors. Serves 4

As my first post, I would like to share with you a recent frugal grocery shopping trip to Publix. At checkout, after $10 worth of coupons, my bill was only $25.00!!! Needless to say, I was estatic!! I love shopping at Publix when they have BOGO. I use two manufacturers coupons (which Publix will double up to 50 cents) and a competitor's coupon.

The other savvy shopping trip was to CVS when they had General Mills cereal BOGO. I had a manufacturers coupon and the total came to $3.89. Then, I received $4 extra bucks when my receipt printed!! It was GREAT!!

I clip coupons from Sunday's paper and print ones from websites.