Day 2 of No Spend July

For the entire month of July I am hosting a “No Spend July” here at Stylish Saving!


As many of you know, I am a first grade teacher which means I don’t get paid in the summer. My husband and I have a great budget so we factor this in. After scoping out my pantry and linen closet I have decided to challenge myself to a “No Spend July.” The only exception to this is David’s 29th birthday on July 12th, we will be hosting a birthday party for friends and family. My goal for the party is $30 for everything including food/drinks and gift.

Here’s My Goal for the month of July
- Spend no more than $20 a week on gas/milk/produce groceries (using gift cards for as much of this as possible)
- Find creative recipes to utilize all of the food in my pantry/freezer
- Throw my husband an AWESOME 29th Birthday Party for 20 guests
- Enjoy as many vegetables from my garden as possible
- Find fun free entertainment
- Still “rock” free deals or deals that I pay pennies out of pocket. I still have RR’s to roll, Up+ and ECB’s!

What Will I do with the Money We Save?
- All of the money we save will go in an account to serve as an emergency fund for our family.

How You Can Join in on the Fun!
- Decide to spend as little as possible during the month of July.
- Get creative with your pantry and freezer
- Spend time, not money with/on your family


Each day I will post my menu, breakfast, lunch and dinner. I will also post what we spent. Please leave comments if you are joining in on the fun or just leave words of encouragement for David and I! You can also grab the no spend July button on this page in the upper left hand corner and post it to your blog if you would like!

My Progress:

Yesterday I spent $3.99 total! $1.00 paid my tax at CVS and $2.99 was used for lettuce. I still have $16.01 left for the rest of the week.

Are you joining in on the FUN? How are you doing?

Sobe Heads or Tails Game

Just a reminder that you should be playing the "Sobe Heads or Tails Game" each day! Save your BOGO coupons for the BOGO Sobe deal at CVS next week! I LOVE FREE SOBE!

I am playing each day! I have one BOGO coupons, Free Sobe Coupons (in the mail) and I even won a free Tee Shirt!

No Spend July Day: 1 Tequila Chicken

Tequila Chicken


4 Chicken Breasts
1 cup Tequila ( I only use Jose Curevo)
2 cups crushed Tortilla Chips
1 cup Salsa
1 cup Ranch Dressing
2 Cups Cheese ( I shred my own, it is much cheaper)




Marinade the chicken breast and tequila over night in a covered dish

Grill Chicken until completely cooked, set aside


Combine ranch and salsa in a small dish, stirring until well mixed

Crush Tortilla chips. The easiest way to do this is to place chips in a sealed bag, run a rolling pin over the chips until coarsely crushed.




Poor chips into a 13 x 9 in pan

Place chicken on top of chips

Spoon a generous amount of salsa/ranch on top of chicken

Sprinkle cheese on top of salsa/ranch mix

Place in your broiler until cheese browns

I serve this delicious with sides of salsa, sour cream and salsa/ranch mix

We ate it too quickly for me to remember to take a photo! Sorry!

It is SO yummy! I use fat free ingredients! Which makes me feel much better about serving this meal!

Resturant Deal's Round Up

Captain D's

Free Kids Meal with Any Adult Dinner or Platter Purchase
10 pc Fish or Chicken for $9.95
Buy a full priced beverage and get a Fish & Fries for $2
Click HERE to print all three coupons (Exp. 7/8/10)
Find a location near you HERE

Boston Market

Free Family-size Dessert or Entree Salad with purchase of any Family Meal
Offer valid July 2 – July 5
Click HERE to print the coupon

California Pizza Kitchen

FREE Small Cravings menu item (value up to $7) with any $20 purchase
Click HERE to print the coupon (Exp. 7/9/10)

Applebee's

Two Free Kids Meals with the purchase of one adult entree
20 percent off all Carside To Go orders.
Offer valid July 3 - July 5
Click HERE to find a location near you

Souplantation & Sweet Tomatoes

Buy One Get One Free Adult Entree with purchase of 2 beverages (Exp. 7/8)
$5.99 Weekday Lunch with purchase of 1 beverage (up to 2 adult lunches) (Exp. 7/9)
Buy One Get One Free Breakfast Entree with purchase of 2 beverages (Exp. 7/25)
Click HERE to print all three coupons




Thanks, Smart Couponing

Daily Meal Plan

As I told you earlier, I will be posting our Daily Menu as part of "No Spend July"

Breakfast:

Eggo Waffles with Strawberries

Lunch:

Mary: Chicken Noodle Soup

David: Left Over Tacos

Dinner:

Tequila Chicken

Sweet Corn Cake

Mexican Rice

and yummy fudge brownies for dessert!

I will post the Tequila Chicken Recipe later tonight with pictures~ It is one of my favorite dishes.

Pamper Gift To Grow Points

Here is another code for the Pampers Gift To Grow Program.

FACEBOOKJUL2010

Head over and enter it now.

Also be on the look out at Walgreens.

I have had 4 different codes worth 10 points each print out of the register rewards machine.

Hewitt's Coupon

If you are in the Albany Area and are planning on

doing some planting this 4th of July Weekend be sure to check out

these awesome Hewitt's Coupons!

I FINALLY planned my summer flowers this morning. They have been sitting in the plastic pots for about a week now. I'm such a graden slacker!

Children's Place SALE $2.99 and up

The Children's Place is having a HUGE Sale! Price Starting at $2.99 online or in stores.

Could be a great time to stock up!

Thanks, Michelle

I spent $3.99 Today

No Spend July Day 1

I need to start this post by saying that Price Chopper, CVS and Rite Aid are 3 minutes from my house. In fact I pass every time I drive anywhere. I am a lucky girl, because I am not spending (a lot) gas to shop my favorite stores. If you do not live 3 minutes away from the store it is not in your best (saving money) interest to head to the store multiple times a week. Now that I am home alone from 8:30 to 7:00 each day I look forward to these shopping trips.

My CVS TRIP

My fabulous friend Amanda let me know that your Spring Spending ECB's were printing at CVS today! So I decided to head over and see how much I had.

Transaction:

5 Betty Crocker Warm Delights .88 each

10 Xtra Laundry Detergent $1.50 each
Used 4 $1/1 Betty Crocker Warm Delights from 6/27 SS (One had to be adjusted to $0.90)

Used 1 $0.50 Betty Crocker Printable

Used 10 $1/1 Xtra Coupon

Total before tax :$5.00

Used $5.00 in ECB

Paid $1.00 in TAX (some days I don't Love New York)

I think stopped at Price Chopper to take Advantage of their Double Coupons

Transaction:

2 Hood Sour Cream $1.99 each

Romaine Lettuce $2.99

Used (2) $1/1 Hood Sour cream

Used (2) $1 Price Chopper Doubler's

Paid $2.99

So I spent $3.99 today, I was not planning on purchasing the lettuce but David called me at 10am and informed me that his boss and co-worker will be coming to dinner. I did not have enough lettuce to make a decent salad. It still leaves me $16.01 until next Tuesday. Hummm this could be difficult!

No Spend July Day: 1

For the entire month of July I am hosting a “No Spend July” here at Stylish Saving!


As many of you know, I am a first grade teacher which means I don’t get paid in the summer. My husband and I have a great budget so we factor this in. After scoping out my pantry and linen closet I have decided to challenge myself to a “No Spend July.” The only exception to this is David’s 29th birthday on July 12th, we will be hosting a birthday party for friends and family. My goal for the party is $30 for everything including food/drinks and gift.

Here’s My Goal for the month of July
- Spend no more than $20 a week on gas/milk/produce groceries (using gift cards for as much of this as possible)
- Find creative recipes to utilize all of the food in my pantry/freezer
- Throw my husband an AWESOME 29th Birthday Party for 20 guests
- Enjoy as many vegetables from my garden as possible
- Find fun free entertainment
- Still “rock” free deals or deals that I pay pennies out of pocket. I still have RR’s to roll, Up+ and ECB’s!

What Will I do with the Money We Save?
- All of the money we save will go in an account to serve as an emergency fund for our family.

How You Can Join in on the Fun!
- Decide to spend as little as possible during the month of July.
- Get creative with your pantry and freezer
- Spend time, not money with/on your family


Each day I will post my menu, breakfast, lunch and dinner. I will also post what we spent. Please leave comments if you are joining in on the fun or just leave words of encouragement for David and I! You can also grab the no spend July button on this page in the upper left hand corner and post it to your blog if you would like!

Hannaford Green Works Laundry Detergent

Attention Hannaford Shoppers!
Hurry and print the $3.00/1 Green Works Laundry Detergent
Green Works is only $2.99 at Hannaford!

Nothing Beats free detergent!

CVS Aveeno with Rebate

There is an awesome deal going on this week at CVS! Buy $25 worth of Aveeno products earn $10 in ECBS. Pair that with the $10 Rebate on the purchase of $25 of Avenno and it's a ROCKING Deal!

My Transaction

2 Aveeno Shampoo $6.49 each

2 Aveeno Leave in Conditioner $6.49 each

Use (2) Aveeno Nourish $1.50 shampoo or conditioner printable

Use (2) Aveeno Nourish $1.50 Style Products printable

Pay $19.96 OOP

Earn $10.00 in ECB

Submit for Aveeno Rebate

Final Cost: FREE

Cheap Laundry Detergent at CVS

Grab your Smart Source Inserts from 6/6 and look and see if you have the $1 xtra laundry detergent coupon.

If you do you can use it at CVS this week to score laundry soap for $0.50 each.

I know it was in the 6/6 SS in Buffalo and I am hoping other areas got it too!

Swagbucks Code

There is a swag code located on my swagbucks widget box! Just click on "SC" and get a code worth 4 points!

Not using Swagbucks yet? Head over and sign up! It is an awesome FREE program where you earn points just for using their Internet tool bar. I personally love this. You can turn your points into gift cards. I use my swagbucks for Barnes and Nobel Gift Cards for my nook! Some of the others available are Starbucks, Amazon, Target! Go and sign up, you will not be sorry!

Hellmann's Coupon

Here is a GREAT coupon for $0.75 off Hellmann's Real Mayonnaise. If should make for a good deal if your store doubles!