Ball Blue Book Guide to Preserving

Thank you Organic Coupons and Deals for passing on this deal.

The Ball Blue Book Guide to Preserving is on clearance on Amazon.com
Normally $24, it is now only $8.45

This would be a great resource to have on hand if you are venturing into canning your own food.

View it here on Amazon.com

• Each edition is filled with fresh solutions for today's busy lifestyles to help everyone enjoy good food at the peak of flavor.
• The ultimate guide to all home canning
• 125th anniversary edition
• The Ball Blue Book® Guide to Preserving is packed with over 500 tried and true recipes
• Guides you to the right tools and ingredients that make it easy to capture freshness.

$1.00 off ANY Earthbound Farms Products

This is a nice coupon because it is open ended.
You don't have to buy a specific item, just any product by Earthbound Farms.
It means you can check for sale items and get those to save you even more money!
(Consider things that might freeze well, or that you can dehydrate)

Print your coupon HERE

BPA FREE baby food kits

	$30 for $60 To Spend at Sage Spoonfuls OR
	$50 for $100 To Spend at Sage Spoonfuls

View the deal HERE

What you need to know:

• The perfect baby shower gift for new moms and a great way to prepare healthy baby food for summer travels!
• Featured on Good Morning America, in Daily Candy Kids, Parenting Magazine, Cool Mom Picks, and more
• Sage Spoonfuls easy-to-use baby food-making kits include anaward-winning healthy recipe book, BPA-free baby foodstorage jars, insulated totes & cooler bags, an immersion blender, a food processor, and more
• Entire voucher must be used at time of purchase; limit 1 voucher per transaction; may not be applied to taxes or shipping

Current Healthy Coupons: Tom's of Maine, Kashi, Food Saver, Uber, etc

The REACH toothbrush coupons should allow you to get FREE toothbrushes. Put them in your food storage or save them to send to the next Natural Disaster Relief.  The Dollar Tree will accept coupons, so if they carry REACH, they will be free there. You can most likely find them on sale at Safeway or CVS for around a dollar as well. I always list the Hormel lunch meat coupon because their Natural Selections is one of the only brands of lunch meat that is nitrite/nitrate free.

It should also be noted that I get these coupons from an Affiliate. If you print them out, I get compensation. I have yet to see any of this so called compensation, but for the sake of honesty, I am letting you know.

Flash Sale on Bulk Items at Whole Foods Tomorrow Only

I wonder if sugar is included. I want to buy some organic sugar for some canning recipes I plan on doing in the fall.

These coupons make me happy! Wahoo! Canning coupons!

Buy 2 boxes of Lids and Get 1 FREE --- Ball or Kerr

and

Save $1.00 off  Ball RealFruit Pectin or Food Mix (Flex Batch)

Hurray!
I love it when I find coupons like this.
Thank you Healthy Life Deals!

click on the coupons and print them HERE

Food Saver Coupons

I love my Food Saver. I can buy in bulk when the price is right and nothing goes to waste.
I especially love it for chicken.
When organic free range chicken goes on sale, I buy a ton, cook it in my crock pot and then divide it into dinner sized portions. They go into the Food Saver and then into the freezer and I have cooked shredded chicken available for easy dinners.

Chicken Broth At Costco

Julia over at The Frugal Find ran up a nice comparison of the Costco prices for Organic Chicken Broth versus making your own Organic Chicken Broth using Better Than Bullion.

Read her results HERE



Thank you to The Frugal Find for your great article and the use of this photo!

Food Saver Coupon for Machine and Bags

There is the really cool Food Saver and then there is the little hand held on that sucks air out of specially designed bags. I have the little hand held one. It does the job just fine if you are freezing a few things here and there. If you plan on doing alot of food storage in the freezer, I would opt for the larger one.

With the $15 off coupon-- you should be able to get the small hand help one for FREE.
I used this coupon last year and got it totally FREE.
Here it is on Amazon for $15.23, just to give you an idea on pricing.

Then you use the coupon for the bags and you are ready to start preserving food!
I use mine so I can take advantage of sale and bulk pricing.
For example, I get a bag of organic bell peppers from Costco. I slice up 4-5 of them and put them in some freezer bags and use my little handy dandy Food Saver and then I don't have to worry about wasting food. I pop open the bag, grab what I need, and reseal.
I get the awesome Costco price on Organic.
And I don't let food spoil.
Good all the way around.

I through in the Brita filter coupon because I believe very strongly in filtering your water. I even use filtered water for boiling pasta, etc etc.

Common Kindness Coupons

Common Kindness has 78 coupons currently available to print.

Quinoa, Organic Ramen, peanut butter, pasta, chips, juice, oatmeal, cereal, CHOCOLATE,  sugar, seasonings, soaps and lotions, dairy, and more.

View available coupons HERE

( I don't get anything when you print these, just FYI. I just want you to realize coupons for health products are available even if they aren't as abundant as junk food coupons)

Organic Palm Shortening on SALE

I've been trying hard to minimize the amount of processed foods in my house and that means I need to make things from scratch. The candy and chocolate recipes I've been eye-balling all seem to require PALM SHORTENING.  So for the past month or so I've been watching prices and my dear friend sent me a HOT deal today.

1 gallon of Organic Palm Shortening for $23.59

That is 7 lbs!

And if you use code: 183313 you get FREE SHIPPING.

And for 7 lbs you need free shipping. 

The deal is only good through March 17, 2013.

I ordered 2 gallons so I can start my kitchen experiments.

The first thing on my list is Homemade Creme Eggs (like Cadbury but Paleo style)

Recipe and Photo: ThePaleoMom.com

If you need to stock up on Palm Oil check out the link below.

Organic Palm Shortening by Tropical Traditions

Whole Foods Sale: Saturday Only 25% off ALL frozen foods

This might be a good time to go to Whole Foods.
I don't go there very often because it's a 35 minute drive each way for me, and I just can't justify that when I've got a Trader Joe's 3 blocks away.

I will, however, venture on down when a good sale is going on.
Several months ago I stocked up on organic grass fed beef.
A few months before that, I stocked up on lunch box snacks.

This sale might make for some great deals, especially if we can find coupons for frozen foods.
I will spend some time tomorrow trying to hunt down some coupons that can be used.
Off the top of my head, I am thinking Van's and Alexia.

If you know of an available coupon that would work well with this sale, please let me know.
Thanks!

I need your opinion on gluten free flour!!

I really want to try some gluten free flours and I saw this one on Amazon:

Namaste Perfect Blend


$50.63 for 288 oz

• Wheat Free, Gluten Free
• Dairy, Corn, Soy, Potato, Casein & Nut Free

Ingredients
Sweet Brown Rice Flour, Tapioca Flour, Arrowroot Flour, Sorghum Flour and Xanthan Gum.

Opinions? 

Free Sample: Nature Made Vitamelts

I am a big believer in being prepared for a rainy day.
I think all homes should have a 72 hour kit they can grab and go in an emergency.
I think all cars should have a modified 72 hour kit for it you get stranded on the road somewhere or need to drive away in a hurry. When disaster strikes you won't always be at home and able to grab your 72 hour kit and favorite keepsakes. You might be at the grocery store or work or driving- so your car needs to be equipped with essentials.

Many people tell me they simply can't add prepping into their budgets because they are struggling to feed their kids on a day to day basis. So when I see a free sample of a vitamin supplement, I like to pass it on.

This is the perfect way to slowly build up an emergency supply without any impact at all on your budget.
Simply fill out this form, wait for your sample, and when it arrives, put it directly into your 72 hour kit, or first aid kit in your car. I've gotten ACE bandages, samples of OTC's, vitamins, energy bars, batteries, and others   all for FREE by filling out free sample forms.

Request your sample HERE

This sample is provided  by:

Surefresh Containers at the Dollar Store

I skipped into the Dollar Store the other day for some trash bags and saw these little cuties on an end cap.

You get 10 tiny storage containers for a buck.
And they are BPA FREE!
Hurray!

I think they are perfect for the kids' lunch boxes.
They might also be good for your home office-- push pins, safety pins, rubber bands, etc.



We don't always need to go to the specialty stores to find green goods.
If you ever find a sweet deal at the Dollar Store please let me know!

Keep your Produce Fresher Longer

Spreebird has a deal for 2 bluapple produce keepers.
You get 2 for $5, plus $3 for shipping.
So $8 total.

They absord the ethelene gas made by your fruits and veggies to prevent them from wilting, browning, rotting, etc.

I asked what exactly what is IN the bluapple, since I don't want to be adding harmful chemicals to my refrigerator.

The 2 main ingredients are

Sodium Permangate
and
Natural Zeolite

Sodium Permangate is an inorganic salt compound.
Natural Zeolite is volcanic ash.

It seems pretty good to me?
Your opinions?
Do you think this product aligns with a green life style?
I would love to hear your thoughts.

View the deal HERE

Great price on a chest freezer from Lowes.com

Not sure how many they have in stock, so you may need to decide quick on this one.

Lowes.com is offering up a Frigidaire 12.9 cu ft chest freezer for $266.40 SHIPPED.
Use code 470011506922654 to get 10% off
Normally $479.00 plus shipping.

A full sized upright freezer is usually 18-22 cu ft- to give a size comparison.
I think mine is 21.9 or something weird like that.

I just bought my freezer this summer and I am so excited to have the extra storage space. I bought 30 lbs of organic beef when Whole Foods was having a fantastic sale. I cooked up organic chicken, shredded it, divided it into 1 cup portions and froze those too. I buy produce in season and freeze them, like strawberries and bell peppers.

It allows me to take advantage of food in their season and coupons/sales. It also means I have healthy clean food on hand and at the ready which reduces my last minute trips to the store or fast food drive thru.

All in all- I have been very happy with my investment of a garage freezer.

View the freezer HERE

Thank you Hip2Save for this deal!

Food Saver on Sale!

Target has the Food Saver V2244 on sale for $69.99.
There is a coupon available HERE for $15 off.
That brings your total to $54.99

The same model on Amazon is currently $84



This is a great way to buy in bulk and save $$$$
Especially if you buy Farmer's Market produce and want to save it for winter.
Or buy meat in bulk and divide into pound size portions.

Thank you to The Frugal Find for this deal.

Cyber Monday: Cucina Antica

Check out the package deal HERE

$27.95

1 Organic Ketchup - $3.99

1 Imported Italian Artisan Spaghetti Semolina - $5.99

1 Imported Italian Artisan Penne Semolina - $5.99

1 16oz La Pizza Sauce - $5.99

1 16oz Tomato Basil Sauce- $5.99

1 Organic Low Fat Italiano Dressing - FREE!

1 25oz Tuscany Pumpkin Pasta Sauce - FREE!

PLUS FREE SHIPPING!!!

Imagine Organic Broths Give Away

Whole Foods is offering up a give away for a case of Imagine Free Range Organic Broths.

Leave a comment telling how you would use the broths and a winner will be chosen at random.

Enter the Give Away HERE