Yum! Yum!

Since my baby boy has been getting closer and closer to the big 1, and now has finally turned a year old, I have been slowly trying to get him used to 'table food' and have been trying to give him less baby food. So far it hasn't been too bad of a transition but I am always trying to figure out how I can give him food that he can be excited about with the confidence that I know that he is still receiving good nutrition! A couple of weeks ago I purchased the cookbook Deceptively Delicious! I was so excited when I found this book for a decent price at Target. Anyway, today I decided to go ahead and make a Sprouts run and buy some ingredients so that I could finally try out a few of the recipes!

Speaking of Sprouts, not only did I get some great deals on produce, but I was able to get 2 Silk Chocolate Soy Milk 1/2 gallons for $.25 each! I am in love with this stuff! They were on sale for 2/$5 and I had two coupons for -$2.25! (I received the coupons off of the Silk website. I checked again today and it looks like they aren't running the promotion anymore. Make sure to check back from time to time though!) I was really impressed with the produce selection today! I usually find with Sprouts its hit or miss. The past few times I have been there the produce looked yuck, but today it rocked my world! Yes! :)



Ok, back to the book:

Today we tried:

• Tuna salad (with cauliflower) on whole wheat pita bread
• Ranch Dressing (made with Great Northern Beans) with vegetables
• Italian Meatloaf (with carrot)
  
• Mashed Potatoes (with cauliflower)

Before purchasing this book I read through some reviews on amazon. I don't really understand why so many people gave bad reviews. So far everything has been really good to me and my family! There are a lot of people that gave the book good reviews too! I am really looking forward to trying some more of Jessica's recipes! If you have been thinking about getting this book I would say go for it!

**I am not going to use the ideas and recipes in this book to replace eating fruits and veggies on their own. I want to make sure that my baby has a 'taste' for nutritious food without it always being snuck in my mommy. I just want to use what I have learned from this cookbook to be able to prepare healthy, nutritious meals not only for my son, but for my husband and I as well! It is nice to know how you can sneak a fruit or vegetable into foods that are usually not considered to be healthy!**

CVS week of 6/1

*HAPPY 1st BIRTHDAY to my precious baby boy, Deacon! I love you!*

This week I had 2 transactions:

*ECB's to start with: $39.37*

First store:

*2 Pampers 40 ct.
*2 Pampers wipes

-$5 CVS
-$1.50 Pampers
-$1.50 Pampers
-$2.00/2 Pampers


Total: $11.96

*I used $10.00 in ECB's & $1.96 + $.56 tax OOP.
*I earned a $5 ECB!

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Second Store:

*4 Dawn dish soap
*2 Listerine Smart Rinse (June freebie)
*Always pads 16ct.
*CVS brand pocket tissues (a filler item so I could use my -$5/15 coupon)

-$5 CVS
-$.25 Dawn
-$.25 Dawn
-$1 Listerine
-$1 Listerine
-$4.99 (Free Always pads coupon I had)

Total: $3.98
*I used $3.79 in ECB's & $.19 + $.62 tax OOP!
*I earned $8.98 in ECB's!

*I now have $39.56 ECB's!*

Want to see more CVS savings? Visit the Centsible Sawyer's CVS Superstars!


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Here are a few of the freebies I got in the mail this week!

*Here is the link for a free Playtex drop-ins bottle.
*Click here for free Purex!
*Click here for a free GE caulk sample.

Gymboree Score!

I received my American Baby magazine the other day and was SO excited to receive a 50% off Gymboree "Peel-A-Prize" coupon inside! It was my lucky day because that NEVER happens to me! I always end up with the lowest % off coupon with deals like this, hehe! So I had to go use it today! Baby D will be workin' it for his 1st birthday tomorrow! When I went to check out the lady that rang me up was like "Oh my gosh!? You have a 50% coupon, this is gonna be a great deal!" Then a little after that a few ladies were in line behind me and I had the coupon in my hand and I guess they were able to see it because 2 of them were like "NO FAIR!!! You got the 50% off??"

I was able to get (2) 1 pieces, 4 shirts and 2 pairs of shorts for $51.25! The regular price for everything would have been $161.00! (whoa!) AND I received $25 in Gymbucks to use in July! This worked out great because earlier today I found a $50 check that I forgot we had, so it will almost be like it never happened! I am getting addicted to Gymboree clothes. I never really got excited about that store in the past because I thought all of their stuff was over priced (which it is) but if you always buy the clothes on sale or marked down and pair it with a coupon or Gymbucks then you really get a good deal! Today I paid about the same (probably less actually) that I would pay at Target (or a similar store) but I got better quality clothes that all match! I love that they have certain lines of clothing out so you can mix and match everything and get a few different outfits out of it!

Praying for green thumbs.

For the past few months Malachi and I have been slowly starting random vegetables and herbs in containers in hopes of soon having our very own garden. On Memorial day we decided to get the rest going and do a square foot garden. So far we have a few different herbs, tomatoes, and peppers, squash, and watermelon. We filled in 14 spaces. We still have quite a few spaces left so we thought we would go ahead and try to plant some seeds even though its a bit late. I also got a little strawberry plant to add to my container garden! Earlier this year we also planted an orange tree , lemon tree and a few weeks ago planted a lime tree! I am so excited that for little out of pocket I can plant, nurture, photograph (hehe), smell, look at, pick and taste fruits and veggies that were born in my very own backyard.


We took this picture before we added the watermelon plant.


Here is D getting into the strawberry plant.


A few days ago we harvested our very first cherry tomato. We decided to cut the tiny thing in half so we could both try it, haha!





I just want to throw this out there too...if you haven't joined The Home Depot Garden Club, then you need to. Not only do you get e-mails with great advice and stuff but you get some really awesome coupons both in emails and in the mail!! We used some great coupons for our garden, and even got a free book that is full of awesome information for gardening! Also make sure you join Lowe's Learn 2 Grow as well! You get some sweet info and coupons from them as well!

A few days ago we used this coupon from Home Depot to score 2 Mandevilla's for about $21!

Our yard is a work in progress, but it sure is coming along nice!

I am praying for green thumbs.

CVS & Bashas

I wasn't too excited about the ad for CVS this week, but I still went in so that I could take advantage of a $5 off $15 coupon and roll a few ECB's. I thought I was going to leave with more ECB's though. I made a mistake, I didn't realize that the limit for the May allergy med deal was 3, I thought it was 5. I already have 2 at home and I got 2 more this time...oh well. I only ended up losing about .20 something cents worth of ECB's though, so I still pretty much got it for free, I just didn't get the ECB. I was bummed because I thought I was gonna get paid this run. Hehe.

Here is what I got:

(ECB's to start with: $39.56)



* 2 CVS allergy med (May deal)
* 2 Rolaids (May deal)
* 1 Excedrin
- $5 CVS coupn
- $2.00 Excedrin coupon

Total: $8.45

**I Paid $7.98 in ECB's and $.47 + $.20 tax OOP.

I now have $39.37 ECB's!

*Want to see more CVS savings? Visit the Centsible Sawyer's CVS Superstars!*




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$1.50!



I had to make a quick run into Bashas to score some cheap toilet paper after I left CVS. They have these Charmin 4 packs on sale for 10/$10. I used (3) -$.25 coupons that doubled to $.50 ea. So I paid $1.50 for 12 rolls of TP!

Fry's & Wal-Mart

Tuesday I went to Fry's to score a few deals since it was the last day of their ad. It was my first time using e-coupons. When I first heard about e-coupons I wasn't too excited because I don't want them to replace paper coupons, hehe. I enjoy cutting and sorting coupons, call me crazy but its fun to me!

Anyway, I loaded coupons from P&G and Unilever to my Fry's VIP card and was able to use them along with paper coupons as well! So I did pretty well!

* 2 Covergirl eyeshadows
* 2 Herbal Essences hairspray
* 1 Wisk laundry detergent

- Buy one get one free CG e-coupon
- $1.50 Wisk detergent e-coupon
- Buy one get one free Herbal Essence e-coupon
- $1.00 Herbal Essence coupon
- $1.00 Herbal Essence coupon
- $1.00 CG coupon
- $1.00 CG coupon
- $1.50 Wisk coupon

= $3.07 + tax for $16.65 worth of stuff!

I also went to Wal-Mart this week and scored the following:

* 3 packages of Farmland Bacon
* 2 packages of Hebrew National Franks
* 1 Silk Chocolate Soy Milk
* 1 Bagelfuls
* 2 Wishbone Bountifuls dressings
* 2 Tobasco sauce
* 1 Motts for Tots juice
* 3 Bush's Grillin' Beans
* 2 Snuggle Dryer sheets
* 3 Dixie napkins 160 ct.

I paid $14.39 for $36.14 worth of stuff!

I finally made it to CVS!

Its been a pretty rough week here. My baby was sick pretty much the whole week, and Wednesday night we actually had to take him to the ER because he was very very dehydrated. They gave him an IV and pumped 2 bags of fluids into him. While we were there I got super duper sick and could barely even be there for my baby. Thank God I have such a wonderful husband who is also such a wonderful Daddy! I hope nobody else gets this awful stomach flu, but we are finally doing better!

I was thinking that I wasn't going to be able to go out and get any deals this week and I was sad, hehe. I had deals planned for Walgreens, Fry's, CVS, and Basha's. Lucky for me with the 2 grocery stores I have until Wednesday. For Walgreens I had a plan to roll a $3 RR, but it was going to expire on the 22nd so I had to use it that day. Since I was sick I sent the hubby to go get some free Gatorade with it instead of my original plan. Hey, at least it kind of worked out because I needed the Gatorade, hehe. I REALLY wanted to get to CVS this week, i'm such a nerd, I have withdrawls if I don't get there at least once a week. Haha! I was finally able to go tonight though. I was pretty happy with what I left with for $.78 OOP.

ECB's to start with: $38.55




Almay i-color $6.99
Almay i-color $6.99
Maybelline Great Lash (my fav!) $4.79
Maybelline Great Lash $4.79

= $23.56

-$5.00 off $15 CVS coupon
-$1 Almay coupon
-$1 Almay coupon
-$4.79 Maybelline Sale, Buy one get one free
-$1 Maybelline mascara coupon
-$1 Maybelline mascara coupon
-$6 ECB
-$2.99 ECB

Subtotal = $.78
+ tax: $.38
= $1.16 OOP


I now have $39.56 ECB's! Yay! I am $1.01 ahead!

*For more CVS deals visit The Centsible Sawyer's CVS Superstars!