30 Day Recipe Book, Recipe 1

I was inspired by Hip2Save to compile a 30 Day Recipe book that contains 30 of our family's favorite dinner recipes. This is in an effort to make meal planning just a little easier.

Chipotle Shredded beef is one to add to the book. We LOVE this recipe and it is so EASY. If you like meals with a little "kick" to them (which we do very much), this one is for you.

This is for you, Deb

I don't have many pictures of my little guy sleeping because well...he doesn't really like to do that sort of thing. Here is a shot I got of him snuggled with his new monkey from Gigi and Papa G.

"You Must Like Bread"

"You must like bread." That's what the cashier said as I loaded up the belt with my 16 loaves of bread and 10 packages of bagels. "Why the heck would you buy all that bread," you ask?

While I was looking through the grocery ads yesterday I noticed that our Italian grocer, Caputo's, had Natural Ovens Bread and Bagels on sale for $1.99-A STEAL!!! If you have every had Natural Ovens bread you must know that it is the absolute best bread for you that you can buy. Made with the most wholesome ingredients and definitely NO High fructose corn syrup. Well, my hubby LOVES this bread and will settle for pretty much nothing less. At Woodman's I can find it for around $3.79 a loaf. You can see how I was pretty excited about the $1.99. If you know me by now you know I rarely make a purchase without a coupon. I was ready to clear out the store with the $1.99, BUT I found a coupon for 60cents off any Natural Ovens product! As an added bonus this is a .pdf coupon, which means you can print as many as you want until it expires!! That brings the cost down to $1.39 a loaf!! You can hardly get a loaf of your standard crapola white bread for that price. I literally felt like I stole a cart full of bread today.

And this, my friends, is another example of how you can still eat healthy and coupon at the same time :)

So, yes...I stocked up....but don't worry I left plenty for you :)

16 loaves of bread, 10 pkgs of bagels=$36.14+tax

They have a variety of yummy flavors, such as sunny millet, whole wheat, organic wheat with flax. The bagels: cinnamon raisin, blueberry, brainy.