Great Grocery tip

Yet another wonderful tip supplied by a wonderful work at home home.

Grocery Shopping is a GREAT WAY to save money! First thing you need to do is sit down and make up a meal schedule! Start by writing down all dinner meals that you will be having for 1 week. (you can expand this to 2 weeks or more later) Get the family together on this! Have this be something you talk about at dinner. The best time to do this is on a Sunday or Monday, right after the Sunday paper, all the ads and the coupons come in. When you actually do this it kinda feels like Christmas shopping, as everyone is able to (within reason) pick a meal for the family out of your weekly flier! Another great add on to this is COUPONS! I'll get into the do's and don'ts at a later date, but right now, cut them out together if possible, and make a game of matching coupons with sale items!
COUPON BINGO!

Now here's where it gets hard, STICK TO YOUR MEAL PLAN AND GROCERY LIST!
And of course enjoy your time with your family!

This tip was provided by Colleen Fleming. Collen is a Sr. Chocolatier and Team Leader with Dove Chocolate Discoveries. Visit her site today and see all the wonderful things that Dove has to offer www.DoveChocolateDiscoveries.com/CocoColleen. If you have questions you would like to ask Colleen about Dove you can email her at CocoColleens@yahoo.com, I'm sure she would love to answer any of your questions.

Home made detergent

My wonderful friend Marci Schaffer graciously jumped at the opportunity to share her recipe for "homemade laundry detergent". She has been using this recipe since December and naturally it has saved her a lot of money. I hope that this can be of help to you also.

Powder Laundry Detergent

10 oz. grated bar soap [Fels-Naptha, Kirk's Castile, Zote, homemade soap works great too, avoid the standard perfumed bath soaps]

2 cups Borax

2 cups Arm & Hammer Washing Soda

Optional for hard water dingy clothes: Add 1 cup Baking Soda and reduce grated soap by 4 oz. [This is also great to add if you have heavily soiled/stinky clothes regularly.

I grate my soap using next to smallest on 4 sided cheap metal grater. Add all ingredients to an airtight container for storage and shake, shake, shake to mix well.

Add 1 Tbsp. per load for regular clothes.

Add 1-1/2 Tbsp. per load for heavily soiled clothes.

This is completely safe for front load washing machines. I have used it in mine for almost 9 months. It does not have much sudsing. If you do not see suds it does not mean you need to add more. Sudsing is not needed for cleaning of clothes when you have the proper ingredients. Sudsing in regular laundry detergents is caused by fillers that are added for that purpose. This is also safe for baby clothing and will not cause irritation. If you have an allergy to soaps and/or detergents you may not want to use Fels-Naptha.

Thanks Marci for this post.

Marci is a consultant for Kat's Coffees & More. You can see what is offered by visiting www.katscoffees.com.

If you would rather contact Marci to find out about deals that may be offered to save some addition cash you can email her at marbek_01@verizon.net email or get her on Yahoo Instant Messenger with the same address.