Chocolate Chip Cookies.....yummmm

Well I had my grand kids at my house today and so we made Chocolate Chip Cookies.  Oh my goodness I had bought sometime late in December some Tom Thumb chocolate chips they are the Safeway brand because they were on sale for like 0.88 cents a bag and bought 4 of them thinking I would use them for Christmas and I didn't.

However I dragged those puppies out and decided to make a double batch.  That makes 10 dozen cookies.  I have some in my big cookie jar, some in the freezer and the last batch is cooling off now....opps I put a dozen in a tupperware container to take to work on Monday.  I have cookies coming out my ears.  This recipe is really quite good.  I am one of those people to doesn't really like hard or really soft cookies but these are just right.

Here is the recipe from the back on the package:

1/2 lb Butter  (2 sticks)  softened
1  cup Packed Brown sugar
1/2 cup Granulated sugar (white)
1 tsp salt
2 tsp Vanilla extract
2 large eggs
1 tsp baking soda
2 1/4 cups All-Purpose Flour
12 oz bag Safeway Chocolate chips from Tom Thumb
1 1/2 cups chopped walnuts (optional)

In a large mixing bowl with electric mixer, mix butter until creamy.  Mix in brown and white sugars, salt and vanilla until fluffy.  Mix in eggs and baking soda.  Add flour.  Mix on low until incorporated.  Mix in chocolate chips and nuts (optional).   Drop onto greased or sprayed baking sheets by rounded tablespoon about 1 1/2 inches apart.

Bake at 350 degrees for 10 to 12 minutes until tops are set when lightly pressed with fingertips and color is golden.  Let stand 2 minutes and remove to racks.  You can store air tight for several days or freeze them. Makes 5 dozen cookies depending on how much dough you drop for each cookie.

I estimated the cost of making a double batch of these to be about 0.06 cents a cookie. Try comparing that to store bought cookies and I think you will agree that making homemade cookies is cheaper.
And if you look at it this way I would call them free....lol since I already had the ingredients on hand!  I did not try to figure the cost of the electric stove use but I still feel homemade is better simply because I know what went into the cookies.  No additives except for what was in the Chocolate chips themselves and fresh ingredients!  Simply yummy.

Hope you try these out sometime this is now my favorite Chocolate Chip cookie recipe!

If your a Nestles Toll House cookie fan then go here for a .50 cent off coupon for their Chocolate chips and if your store doubles then that's even better. 
Here is the Nestles Toll House Chocolate Chip link for coupon.

Coupons Are Just Like Cash.....Use Them!!!

Hi I am back again, sorry I don't post as often as I should but I will try to do better in the future.

So for all you new coupon user's out there here is a very good site that will list all the coupons that are likely to be in your Sunday Inserts.  So please bookmark it and you will know ahead of time if it's worth spending that extra $1-$3 bucks or more each Sunday.

http://www.sundaycouponpreview.com/ 

Coupons are just like cash so use them folks!  Especially with the cost of things rising every day.  Your food budget is among one of the largest bills you pay each month and it's also probably one of the only one's that you can make a big dent in by just learning to use coupons.  Why pay an arm and a leg for something when you just don't have too.  By knowing a few tricks about couponing,  you can take that big food bill each month from $600 down to possibly $300  or less each and every month if you learn how.

There are so many excellent websites for printing online coupons, finding great sales, learning the in's and outs of coupon clipping that will really help reduce you over all monthly budget.  Really all you have to do is google Coupon Savings and you have just hit the jackpot!

I have used coupons off and on but never really learned how I could save a fortune off my grocery bill each month until the beginning of 2011.  I have saved so far over $800 dollars easily.  I have also started my own little stockpile and now I don't spend nearly as much each month on groceries.

So go ahead and take that leap into the Awesome World of Coupons!  Men this is not just for women so grab a pair of scissors and get your behind in gear for some great savings and who knows you might be able to save enough for that awesome ___________ well you fill in the blanks.  Good luck and happy couponing.

Food Prices Getting The Best of YOU?

I have started using coupons and stockpiling and it has paid off big time. If you use to use coupons and then just stopped because you just didn't think it made a big enough difference...then you might want think again.

You can save a lot of money if you know how to do it! Oh, I know you think it's a lot of trouble or time consuming. Well, it can be if you do it alone. So in my recent quest to save money I have found a site called SavingsAngel.com

This is a wonderful site that will walk you through everything you need to know. It has fabulous tutorials and videos to teach you what you need to know when it comes to saving money on food and other things your family needs and uses everyday. Once you see how easy it is you'll wonder why you hadn't found out about this sooner.

What if all you had to do was buy a Sunday paper for each person in your household....for me that's 4 papers with 4 sets of coupons inserts. Then all I have to do is go to my SavingsAngel.com and plug in the stores I shop at to see what's on sale and what I need and it tells me what Sunday paper insert a corresponding coupon is in for that sale item and I just go to my handy file and look for say Sunday 2/20/11 (RP, SS, P&G, GM, Unilever) that's RP (RedPlum) SS (SmartSource) P&G (Proctor&Gamble) GM (General Mills) and so forth and then cut out the coupons. Yep, I don't cut coupons until I am ready to make my list and go shopping. But that's not the only source for coupons. There are plenty of good online sources for printing off internet coupons to use at the grocery or pharmacy type stores and yes they will take them.

To get the most bang for your buck is when you use a manufacturer coupon with a store coupon and the item is on sale. Or manf. coupon, store coupon, sale item and with stores like Walgreens, CVS, RiteAid and a few other they have rewards on top of all everything else. And with the money you save you can use that for things like your produce, meat or dairy items that may not have coupons available.

My last trip was to Target recently. My total bill before coupons or anything else was $119.72 but I only paid $84.00 that's a savings of $35.72. I don't know about you but for a savings of $35.72 I will continue to use coupons. I have had other trips that were better but not all trips will save you like they show on TLC extreme couponing where a the person walks out only paying 1.02 for hundreds of dollars worth of groceries. Don't get me wrong it can be done but it's not an everyday occurrence but makes for good TV.




Always be sure and check out all the benefits a store may have to offer because you might miss out on something great like Kroger's .10 cents off a gallon promo or Target with their extra 5% off all purchases using their Target credit card or Target debit card. For that last trip to Target using my Target debit card good only at Target I get an extra $4.40 off my bill. I was excited about that and my trip before that to Kroger netted me the .10 cents off a gallon on my gas my bill was $305.10 and I only paid out of pocket $152.61 and I had two shopping carts for their big Dayton 500 sale and boy it was a good one!

So rethink the using of coupons and start saving money and yes stockpile a bit you don't have to go over board but with tough times it's time to saving cause honey the rainy days are here!

Be sure to check out SavingsAngel.com for wonderful tutorials and shopping lists they teach you everything you need to know about saving money on your groceries hands down the best site around. And you can even get your own subscription free just by referring others.

You can even get 30 days free please check it out and if not satisfied get your money back it's as simple as that. Be sure to use My Affiliate No.#: 37383

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Happy Savings to all....

Saving Money and Knowing Sale Cycles

I found this great site called the Krazy Coupon Lady and they have an awesome article that can really help you stock up on the best deals and the right time of the year buy them. This year is my year of savings. I am learning to be a Krazy Coupon Lady myself and I am find it really is worth my time and effort to ......yes CLIP COUPONS!

I have started by going to Wally World on Sunday and getting 4 of the Sundays papers which mine have them 2/$5.00 and as a bonus for the Mc Donalds customers I simply pull out the plastic insert that holds all the sales flyers and I leave the Sunday papers for their customers to ready while eating there. And it saves me the trouble of tossing or recycling the paper when I get home.

So it's a win win for all.

So for the article CLICK HERE and happy savings! Oh and be sure to bookmark that site it has a wealth of information and coupon data base and it's all free. Be sure to check out their new book too "Pick another CHECK OUT LANE, honey!" I am ording mine today.


Live well, help others and you will prosper!
Dianne