Eye Glasses

Hi, I think that getting glasses online was mentioned on here before, but since we recently tried them, I thought it would be good to bring it up again. Josh ordered a pair from Zenni, and is very satisfied. His were a bit more than $8, but he needed progressive lenses. As with any glasses, the price will vary with different frames and lenses. To get the correct size, you can just look at the glasses you already have(there are usually numbers on the sidepiece). He did need to call the eye doctor in order to get the PD number ( they don't normally put on your prescription), otherwise I believe the rest of the necessary info was there.



Zenni Optical - Complete prescription eyeglasses from $8.00

Fred Meyer Deals

Alice sent this note to all of us ... Thanks Alice!

Today's Columbian had three great 3 day coupons on page A6. They are good Friday through Sunday.

FM Mac & Cheese 0.15ea limit 6
FM Bath Tissue 6 Double Rolls 0.99ea limit 2
Big K Pop 20oz 0.10ea limit 5

How Are You Using Your Corn Flakes?

If you're like me, you have a good stock of Corn Flakes in your pantry. How have you been using them? I've tried a number of different things, they've all turned out quite good, and there were no pictures taken before they were devoured.

Our favorite was fruit dessert the other night.
I used the Corn Flakes as you would use graham cracker crumbs.

Fruit Dessert

I used about 4 cups of Corn Flakes, crushed slightly
1/2 cup of butter
1/3 cup sugar.
Mix well and pat into bottom of 9x13 pan. Bake at 350 for about 10 minutes, until lightly browned.

Remove from oven and cool.

Mix together:
4 oz cream cheese
40z vanilla yogurt
4oz cool whip or whipped cream
( I had about 1/4 cup of powdered sugar frosting which I threw in)
Spread over cooled crust.
Top with cut up fruit. ( blueberries, raspberries, pineapple, kiwi. I used a mix of frozen and fresh)
Very good!


Corn Flake Bars

1 10oz pkg marshmellows
1/4 cup butter
1/2 cup peanut butter ( optional)
Melt the above together, stir well to mix.
Pour over about 6 cups of Corn Flakes. Add more cereal if needed. Press into greased 9x13 pan. Allow to cool.

Corn Flake Chicken
Crush 4 cups of Corn Flakes - put into gallon size zip lock.
Sprinkle into the bag a generous amount of the 'cooking' seasonings you have ( chili powder, garlic, onion, basil, pepper, salt, oregano, etc.) Get creative... I add probably a 1/2 tsp of each of these...

Mix together. Wash your chicken pieces... remove the skin. While still damp, place a few pieces at a time into the bag. Shake well. Put chicken pieces on a greased baking pan.
Bake at 350 for about an hour. Check at the end of baking time to insure proper cooking temperature.

If you're making a casserole of any type, add a few tbls. of butter to a couple cups of corn flakes and sprinkle on top. Makes a plain 'ole mac-n-cheese a gourmet meal!

Albertson's Deals 1/6-1/13

Thank you to Jane, at Alltogetherbeautiful for this posting. Be sure to follow her blog, she has some good deals and neat ideas!
Current Catalina Deals/Promotion:
Please see my separate post HERE for the current Catalina Promotions.


Lingo Definitions:
BOGO or B1G1-Buy one get one free
Peelie-Coupons on package
WYB-When you Buy Exp-Expires
MIR-Mail in Rebate
Catalina-Thin paper coupons that print at register
OYNO-On your next order
IP-Internet Printable Coupon

Ad Highlights:
There are 3 Twice the Value Coupons on the back page that are valid all week! (through the sales ad week)

Betty Crocker/General Mills Promo: There will be numerous ways to stretch your dollar this week using this promotion, available Coupons from the Sunday paper and Coupons.com and the Twice the Value Coupons!

Buy one get one free Meat Sale

Albertsons Cheese 98 cents:
Shredded, 6-8 oz. select varieties
Chunk, 6-8 oz. select varieties
Cream Cheese 8 oz. select varieties

Lean Cuisine Entree or Panini or Marie Callender's Dinner or Pot Pie-$1.67 ea.

Red Delicious, Golden Delicious, or Granny Smith Apples 99 cents per #

10# Bag of Russet Potatoes 99 cents

Bone-In Assorted Pork Chops, 99 cents per #

In-Store Coupons-These are Albertsons Store coupons, so they can be combined with a manuf. coupon

Albertsons Whole Frying Chicken, 69 cents per #, limit 2
Skippy Peanut Butter 99 cents ea, limit 6
Alb. Mac and Cheese Dinner 39 cents ea, limit 8
Starkist Chunk Tuna 57 cents ea, limit 4
Aquarius or Albertsons 24 pk. water 2/$5, limit 4
Java Delight Ground or Whole Bean Coffee, $3.99, limit 6
Breyers Ice Cream 1.5 qt. $1.99, limit 4

Albertsons-Current Catalina deals

Here are the current Catalina Offers that I know about at Albertsons. If you know of any I missed, please let me know!

Nature Valley Granola Bars:
Buy (3) and get $1.50
Buy (4) and get $2.50
Buy (5) or more and get $3.50
Off your next order-Catalina Coupon will print at Check-out
Promotion between 12-28 and 1-24


Post Shredded Wheat Cereal:
Buy (2) and get $1.00
Buy (3) and get $2.00
Buy (4) or more and get $3.00
Off your next order-Catalina Coupon will print at Check-out
Promotion between 1-1 and 1-24

Ragu Pasta Sauce:
Buy 3 Ragu Pasta Sauces and get $2.00 off your next order
Catalina Coupon will print at Check-out
Promotion between 1-5 and 1-21

Buy South Beach Living Fiber Fit Bars, Protein Fit Bars, or 100 Calories Snack Bars:
Buy (2) and get $1.50 OYNO
Buy (3) and get $3.00 OYNO
Buy (4) or more and get $4.00 OYNO
Catalina Coupon will print at Check-out
Promotion between 1-1 and 1-24

Kraft Products:
Buy 5 Kraft cheese & dairy products between 1/1/10 & 1/24/10.
Buy 5 or more & get a $5 coupon off a future shopping order.
All items must be purchased in one shopping order. Limited to product in stock. No cash back. Offer expires 1/24/2010

Choose from the following cheese items (6 oz or larger only unless otherwise specified):

Kraft Singles
Kraft Parmasan Cheese
Kraft Natural cheese (chunks, shredded, crumbles(5oz), sticks and cubes.
Kraft String-ums cheese
Kraft Cracker Cuts Cheese
Kraft Deli Deluxe Cheese Slices
Philadelphia ready-to-eat Cheesecake filling
Philadelphia Cream Cheese
Velveeta Cheese product
Cracker Barrel Cheese
Cheese Whiz process cheese
Brakstone's Sour Cream
Breakstone's Cottage Cheese
Knudsen Sour Cream
Knudsen Cottage Cheese

Kellogg's Special K Products:
Buy any 4 participating Kellogg's Special K Products in one transation and get the 5th one FREE. These products are on sale this week for $2.49 ea.

Promotion between 1-6 and 1-26

Participating products:
8 oz. Special K Crackers
12-14 oz. Special K Cereal
19.5 oz. Special K Granola Cereal
3.8-4.86oz. Special K Bars

Ground Round Super Deal

If you have a Safeway near by, this is the week to stock up on Ground Beef. Safeway has their bottom round roast on sale for 1.99#, which you can call ahead and ask the butcher to grind for you. Buy 26# ( and either ask them to prepackage it into whatever size packages you need, or bring them home and put them in zip lock bags), the total on 26# would be $52.00, then use the 10/50 coupon from the newspaper ( in Clark County, The Columbian had it in it on Tuesday 1/5) to get your very lean, very good, ground round for a total of $1.61#!! That is a good deal!

New Year Thoughts for Wives

Here's a little interesting article to ponder:

HOW TO BE A GOOD WIFE
Home Economics High School Text Book, 1954

Have dinner ready. Plan ahead, even the night before, to have a delicious meal, on time. This is a way of letting him know that you have been thinking about him and are concerned about his needs. Most men are hungry when they come home and the prospect of a good meal are part of the warm welcome needed.

Prepare yourself. Take 15 minutes to rest so that you’ll be refreshed when he arrives. Touch up your makeup, put a ribbon in your hair and be fresh-looking. He has just been with a lot of work-weary people. Be a little gay and a little more interesting. His boring day may need a lift.

Clear away the clutter. Make one last trip through the main part of the home just before your husband arrives, gather up schoolbooks, toys, paper, etc. Then run a dust cloth over the tables. Your husband will feel he has reached a haven of rest and order, and it will give you a lift, too.

Prepare the children. Take a few minutes to wash the children’s hands and faces (if they are small), comb their hair, and if necessary change their clothes. They are little treasures and he would like to see them playing the part.

Minimize all noise. At the time of his arrival, eliminate all noise of the washer, dryer, dishwasher, or vacuum. Try to encourage the children to be quiet. Be happy to see him. Greet him with a warm smile and be glad he is home.

Some don’ts: Don’t greet him with problems or complaints. Don’t complain if he is late for dinner. Count this as minor compared with what he might have gone through that day. Make him comfortable. Have him lean back in a comfortable chair or suggest he lie down in the bedroom. Have a cool or warm drink ready for him. Arrange his pillow and offer to take off his shoes. Speak in a low, soft, soothing and pleasant voice. Allow him to relax and unwind.

Listen to him. You may have a dozen things to tell him, but the moment of his arrival is not the time. Let him talk first.

Make the evening his. Never complain if he does not take you out to dinner or to other places of entertainment. Instead, try to understand his world of strain and pressure, his need to be home and relax.

The Goal: Try to make your home a place of peace and order where your husband can renew himself in body and spirit.

This article was read the other day at a wedding shower I attended, and of course, it filled the room with laughter. When all was said and done, I spent some time thinking about it and found that maybe this is what we are lacking! Go back and reread this article, thinking of how much kindness this wife was showing to her husband, and then compare it to your normal activities when your husband comes home. Which do you think he would prefer?

Now, I'm not really suggesting that this should be your exact goal for 2010, but really, couldn't we all find room to improve to show more love and kindness to our men? It really is sort of sad to think of the new attitude that is the normal; kindness is abnormal and a man isn't deserving of it, we should be served, not serving, and that we shouldn't ever have to go out of our way for our man. I guess I have to be honest and say I disagree with all of it!

Instead, I think that it would do me good to remember to treat my husband with a little more kindness, to make him feel special when he comes in the door, to wait till after he has unwound to hear the days problems, to be thoughtful and plan a dinner that would be ready to eat, to not expect him to come home and begin cleaning when he gets done with dinner, to teach my children to treat him with love and respect and do a little extra something special for him.

Outdated, probably, but upon a little research, I find that the divorce rate was less than half in 1954 than it was in 2009. I'd prefer to see the earlier statistics. Plus, life has taught me a few hard lessons, but from them I have learned that ALL human beings like to be treated kindly, shown a little extra attention, be served, listened to, and loved. Life has also taught me that MOST human beings, upon treated that way, reciprocate and suddenly I have found upon examination that my husband treats me just about as well as that wife in the article above treated her husband, that children who are treated with respect tend to treat others with respect, and friends who are loved, love in return.

So, instead of just laughing at the article, lets give it a try in our own way, and then we can smile as the world complains of such miserable people in this world when we realize that we have found a wonderful group of people to share our lives with.

Give it a try... I think it is contagious!

Old Navy Coupon

We're really enjoying these weeks of 'vacation', reading, playing games, watching the snow, etc. Yesterday we did a little bumming, hitting Old Navy on the way home. If you go here and sign up for their email alerts you'll receive a coupon for $10.00 /$50.00. Combine that with the sales of 60% off or their clearance you can do quite well. (Not as well as what is to come, but then you'll have to deal with huge crowds and less selection. Take your pick! :) )