Frugal Friday and Virtual Girls Night Out

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Go To The Movies For Free All Summer

Every year since 1991 Regal Cinema's hosts a "Free family festival" all summer long. This program can provide a great relief to stay a home moms during the summer. For free on Tuesday and Thursday at 10am, you can go see select PG and G movies. The tickets are handed out at the theater the day of the show. You can't get them early. You can also sign-up for an e-mail notification so you know what will be playing. The festival starts June 23 and runs for 9 weeks. In my area they will be playing Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium and Bee Movie on the first week. You can find out what is playing in your area by visiting the Regal Free Family Festival website.

Friday's I usually get the house in order. While I do that I also think up next week's game plan including dinner. Since, I am cleaning I can usually put together a list of what we are out of and get the shopping done over the weekend or first thing Monday. This helps me enjoy the weekend, everything is done and ready to go for next week.
Frugal Tip
For items that have a long shelf life try stocking up on the super cheap by using a coupon along with a sale at your local store. You can usually sign up for a weekly sale "paper" to be delivered to your e-mail box for your favorite grocery stores.

Coupons

If you go to my side bar and sign up to be a member of Kraft, you get access to the following coupons (to change weekly) and a great place to store your recipes. Also on my sidebar is a Coupons.com widget. Just *install the coupon printer and print what you will use. The italicazed are from the coupon.com widget.

$ Off What
3.50 Any 2 Crystal Light Drink Mix (up to $3.50)
1.00 Any 1 Crystal Light Drink Mix
2.00 2 crystal Light Drink Mix Products
1.50 When you buy any 2 Country Time canisters
1.50 10 or 12 oz bag of Starbucks coffee (not valid at Starbucks)
1.50 1 12oz Seattle's Best Coffee (not valid at Seattle's Best Coffee)
1.50 Tazo filterbag tea latte concentrate (not valid at Starbucks)
1.00 Any 2 Kool-Aid Canisters

2.00 2 packages of General Foods International Coffee
1.00 1 package of General Food International Coffee
0.50 Kool-Aid when you buy 10 or 2 2-5packs of regular packets
2.00 Maxwell house Coffee 2 8oz +
1.00 1 New Digiorno crispy flatbread pizza 12 in
1.00 Any Tombstone Pizza when you buy 2 12 in
1.00 California Pizza Kitchen on 12 in
1.00 Newman's Own Thin & Crispy Pizza
1.00 Any Velveeta Shells & Cheese or Kraft Delux Macaroni & Cheese Dinner
1.00 2 Velveeta shells and cheese cups
1.00 2 Kraft Easy Mac Cups
1.00 2 packages of Kraft singles 8oz or larger
1.00 2 kraft natural cheese (shredded, chunks or slices)
1.00 1 package of Kraft Deli Deluxe Cheese (8oz or larger)
1.00 Buy 1 package of any Oscar Mayer Deli Fresh Meat, save 1.00 on any 1 kraft cheese
1.00 2 packages of Philadelphia soft cream cheese spread
1.00 2 Philadelphia Cream Cheese bricks
1.00 2 packages of Breakstones or Knudsen cottage cheese or sour cream
1.00 Kraft BBQ sauce
1.00 A.1. Steak Sauce
1.00 Any Grey Poupon Mustard
1.00 Kraft Mirclse Whip dressing
1.00 2 Litehouse Products
1.50 2 bottles of Hidden Valley Ranch Salad dressing 16oz +
1.00 Kraft Mayonnaise
1.00 2 Cool Whip whipped topping in a can
1.00 2 Jell-O Gelatin or Pudding snacks
1.00 3 Jello-O gelatin or Pudding
1.00 2 CoolWhip whipped topping or dips
1.00 1 Kraft Bagel-Fuls
1.00 on 3 General Mills cereals
1.00 Any 1 Planters 9.25-21.25 oz not including Trail Mix
1.00 Nabisco 100 caloris packs, chewy granola bars any variety
1.00 1 Triscuit 8oz or larger
1.00 1 Ritz Toasted Chips 6oz or larger
1.00 1 Nasbisco Multi-pack (9.44oz or larger)
1.00 Boulder Canyon Chips 2 5oz +
1.00 Reesers American Classic 3lb. Salad
1.00 Rhondes Bake-N-Serv Rolls
1.00 Glen Oaks drinkable Yogurt

Coupons for Games !!!
Since summer is almost here, I couldn't help but add in these great coupons for board games.

10.00 Scrabble Diamond Anniversary
5.00 Picturka! game
10.00 Monopoly Electronic Banking game

Using my new coupons I am going to plan out my Meatless Monday right now

Breakfast
Bagel-Fuls

Snack
100 calorie granola bar

Lunch
Reese Potato Salad
Plus a grilled cheese and tomato using Kraft singles and fresh tomato slices and a little bit of basil

Snack
Triscuits (I like the cracked pepper and olive oil)

Dinner
Baked Potato w/ Knudson Sour Cream and some chives
Green salad w/ Litehouse Balsomic Viairgette dressing

Dessert
Brownies with Cream Cheese Frosting and fresh strawberries on top.


*Note about installing the coupon printer. I understand that sometimes you don't want to down load anything onto your computer. The program may collect data and slow down your computer. I have found a bit of away around this that you may also want to use for this and any other programs request permission to freely access the internet. I have McAfee and when I down load a program or use one it gives me some options, Allow Access, Allow Access Once, Block Access and I think another one. Well, I always choose Allow Access Once. I use this for tweeter applications too. Every time you use the application you'll have to answer the same way.