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Giveaway -- Tropical Traditions Gold Label Virgin Coconut Oil (1/19)

Prizing for this giveaway has been sponsored by Tropical Traditions. Tropical Traditions provided me with a free sample of this product to review, and I was under no obligation to review it if I so chose. Nor was I under any obligation to write a positive review or sponsor a product giveaway in return for …

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My trip to CVS headquarters -- October 2013

CVS sponsored my recent trip to their Rhode Island headquarters as part of an annual blogger event. All opinions in this post, however, are my own. I recently had the opportunity to attend a CVS blogger event at their Rhode Island headquarters, and learned so many things to share with you! We had a full …

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Roasted Chile-Lime Chicken and Potatoes

Welcome back to Sunday Scratchups: Your weekly recipe from scratch around grocery sales and affordable ingredients. Today we're making roasted chile-lime chicken & potatoes, which is so very spicy and very good! I usually make this recipe with whole chicken but since chicken leg quarters were on sale this week I went ahead and substituted parts, …

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Home again, home again...

So, I'm back! Did you notice I was gone visiting my mom in Washington all week -- and how we still sneakily kept things running all this holiday week long? Spokane Albertsons, by the way, is a bizarre parallel universe to Chicagoland Jewel -- almost the same, but not quite right, lol. Here is a …

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Mushroom feta omelet for Sunday brunch, yum

Welcome back to Sunday Scratchups, your weekly recipe around grocery sales and affordable ingredients. This week mushrooms have been on sale -- and feta crumbles are $1.99 every day at my ALDI! Just a couple of simple additions kick up an everyday omelet into brunch-worthy territory; or Mushroom Feta Omelets also work quite well as …

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