This Week Thursday

Freebies
- Orville Redenbacher Natural Gourmet Popping Corn from Kroger's (Kroger Plus membership is optional)

- A packet of Cream of Wheat cereal (your choice of flavor: original, maple brown sugar, cinnamon swirl, apples & cinnamon, or strawberries & cream)

- Wal-Mart.com is offering samples of Rachel Ray's Delish Dog Food and Soy Joy bars. (Side note- Soy Joy bars are free this week at CVS. You buy a 6 pack for $6 and get $6 back in Extra Care Bucks. Use a Soy Joy coupon and you "make" money.)


Interesting Things to Read (from the past few weeks)
-Cooking on a budget(winter edition) at allrecipes.com

-Safely Gathered In shares their adaptation of an English Muffin recipe that is made entirely from food storage (non-perishable) items and also a great pesto recipe.

-Amy from Let's Explore shares how to make file folder games over at Blissfully Domestic.

-The Thrifty Mama shows how to get 2 packs of Huggies diapers and 2 packs of Huggies wipes for $4.36 this week at Rite Aid.

-Are you interested in learning how to weave or make your own loom? Unplug Your Kids shows how to make your own loom for less than $5 and teaches some weaving vocabulary along with it.

Giveaways
-A Wrestling Addicted Mommy is giving away a mini-baking kit from Sassafrass. These kits are so cute and they have them geared for boys and girls.

-My Little Patch of Sunshine has a Superbowl party package from Pepsi valued at over $250 to give away.

-STL Mommy is giving away a makeup bag from Bagladymomma. Bagladymomma has some very cute purses at reasonable prices.

-Mummy Deals has a $50 gift card to e.l.f. They have decent make-up that is really well-priced (several items for $1 each).