Goulash on Mashed Red Potatoes – $5 Dinner Challenge

by Erin, The $5 Dinner Mom on February 7, 2011

This meal was a group effort, if you will. We made this at grandma’s last week…

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Health Food Store – Shopping Trip

by Erin, The $5 Dinner Mom on February 7, 2011

On Friday afternoon we made an impromptu decision to go out to eat.  It was day 3 of our power outage last week.  We’d moved much of our food over to grandma’s house, but we’d exhausted what we took over with us…and we exhausted much of her food supply as well. After dinner, I stopped [...]

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Here are some of the latest and hottest printable coupons: $.75/1 Cinnamon Burst Cheerios Cereal $1/2 packages of Stove Top Stuffing Mix $.50/1 any Simply Asia product $1/1 Nutella jar 13 oz or larger $.75/1 any Ghiradelli Luxe Milk Bar or Bag $1.50/2 Nestle Crunch or Butterfinger Hearts bag, any size (perfect for clearance Valentine’s [...]

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The $5 Dinners Weekly Meal Plan with Printable Grocery List Every week I will post 5 links to archived recipes, plus an additional 1 or 2 recipes for breakfast, snacks or batch cooking recipes.  You can click through to see the original recipe and print that recipe if you like. (Or go green and just [...]

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HOT! Groupon – $20 Barnes and Noble Voucher for just $10

by Erin, The $5 Dinner Mom on February 5, 2011

Now is THE TIME to get my cookbooks…if you haven’t yet!!! Check out this HOT Groupon deal!

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Restaurant.com – $25 Gift Certificate for $3

by Erin, The $5 Dinner Mom on February 5, 2011

Great deal from Restaurant.com for Valentine’s Day coming up…

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Drugstore Food Deals – Week of February 6th

by Erin, The $5 Dinner Mom on February 5, 2011

Every week I’ll be posting the best food deals at the different national drug stores. I have found that the drug stores often have great prices on food, especially pantry staples!  I may occasionally highlight other free, moneymaker and ECB/RR deals to help you get the credit needed to get some of these pantry staples [...]

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Spicy Southern Chili, served in Bread Bowls

by Erin, The $5 Dinner Mom on February 4, 2011

I’d forgotten how amazingly delicious the bottom of the bread bowl tastes, after it’s had time to soak up all the chili juices…

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Super Bowl Snacks and Appetizer Round-Up

by Erin, The $5 Dinner Mom on February 4, 2011

If you are heading to the grocery store tomorrow to pick up what you need to make some snacks for your Super Bowl gathering, or to take to a friend’s gathering, be sure to add the ingredients for these goodies to your list!

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Mega Swagbucks Friday

by Erin, The $5 Dinner Mom on February 4, 2011

I’ve introduced you all to Swagbucks, and I mention them here and there.  But I’m not sure I’ve shared with you about Mega Swagbucks Day?! Every Friday, Swagbucks gives away anywhere between 100 and 1000 Swagbucks for searches all day long!  As you accumulate Swagbucks, you can trade them in for gift cards to a number of [...]

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