One Dollar Lunches on Groupon Now

Groupon Now will be offering $1 lunches.  This will be on Friday only so be sure to check it out at this link or google it.   Groupon Dollar Lunch

Groupon will be partnering up with Feeding America to provide half-a-million meals for families that are in need.

I'll be checking it out and I have no idea what restaurants will be making the offerings.  I hope someone can benefit from this, and hopefully I can too. 

  We don't eat out too often, unless we have a coupon or some special deal that we find.  Okay, we have had a few moments of desperation and ended up at Taco Tuesday or picked up a Five dollar pizza.  But we really do try to avoid that when possible. 

   I'm especially disgusted at the fact that I actually ate at a McDonald's this week.  Yes, yes I did.  As I bit into that delicious addictive hamburger along with the fries I forced my mind not to dwell on what I already know the ingredients are.  I'd probably get more nutrition from my leather shoe.  But well, the leather shoe was costly and I know it wouldn't taste near as good.

   So, back to the dollar lunch, do check it out.  It's always best to eat organic and healthy unprocessed foods.  But when you can't, or just get a serious craving, it's nice to at least get it at a discount.

A Case of Chicken From Zaycon Foods

     My zaycon foods boneless, skinless chicken breasts arrived on Tuesday, November 1st and the pickup was really easy.  In fact, it was so easy that we thought something must not be right.  So, we pulled off and opened the box and discovered.........boneless, skinless, chicken breasts.  All we had to do is  pull into the church parking lot, follow the cones to the refrigerated truck, they put it in the car for us after asking our name and that was it.  Done!
 
      After arriving back at my daughters house we labeled our plastic bags and proceeded to repack them.  I used both quart and gallon size  I used two entire breasts in the gallon size bag with plans to make my chicken nuggets/strips the following day.  The rest I put into the freezer.  My daughter chose to put a marinade on hers before she put them in her freezer. 
   
We were already of course thinking of what we were going to cook.  The first thing I wanted to make were the chicken nuggets or rather more like  chicken strips. 

I've decided this was a decent deal on the chicken, and I am quite sure I'll purchase again.  The only bad thing about it that I could see is that I should have ordered two cases.  I didn't do my "homework" with the math, which would have told me how much I would be getting.  We tend to worry that we won't have freezer space, but as you can see, I had enough for one more case.

What Do You Scrub Your Pots With?

       One of the ways I save money in my kitchen is to make my cleaning products.  It wasn't all that long ago that I would stand in the the store examining every cleaning product and try to decide which one I needed to buy.  I now very rarely go on that aisle which saves me a lot of money.

    What I thought seemed impossible is really quite simple since you don't need to add fillers and other unnecessary chemicals to your cleaners.   With a few ingredients you can make most all of your everyday cleaners.  Not only is this easier on the budget, it is a healthier option for your family.  Best of all though is that it really does work.

Despite all this there was one cleaner that I continued to use since I hadn't found a better alternative.  That was my scouring powder, although it wasn't any ordinary cleanser.  I replaced my everyday cleanser with baking soda, but could not find a suitable replacement for my Barkeeper's Friend.  I just never found anything that cleaned and scrubbed as well as the Barkeeper's Friend.  I also would boost it with those steel wool soap pads.  Oh how I hated those, the soap being slimy and the soap pads rusting before they were all used up. 

   Then just recently I was in the .99cent store and spotted something I'd never tried before.  Some of you may laugh at me if you've always been using these,  just not too hard, please.  What I saw were little balls of coiled stainless steel metal.  These always seemed weird odd to me, but for the price I thought it would be worth trying.  So here it is many weeks later and am I a happy camper.  I not only don't need to use my Barkeeper's Friend, but these little things do not rust one little bit.  They do spread out a little, but so far it's working just fine for all my heavier dish washing .

I went back to the .99 cent store to see if there were others, and there were a bunch of them.  They all basically looked the same, some were just coiled a bit tighter.  I'll be testing them out over the next few weeks to see which ones I like the best.  Some of my criteria will be first that they are cheap.  They must be able to scrub the pots well with less effort than the slimy soap pads.  They also cannot rust, or have slivers of stainless steel entering my hands  I'll of course be testing them on pots and pans and my stove which seems to be perpetually dirty. 

There was only one drawback to these that I could see, and that's the fact that they aren't made in America.  I do try to buy local or at least in the United States as much as possible.  I will keep my eyes open on that but some items are just not obtainable here.

So if you are needing to try to get away from cleanser to try to get chemical cleaners out of your kitchen, or just want to save a few dollars go spend a dollar and try these out.  I'll be letting you all know which ones I like the best, or if it even matters.  Just remember, it needs to be stainless steel, do not buy the imitation scrubbers or you may find that they rust.