Money Saving Challenge Today

Today was just a beautiful sunny day with the nicest breeze. Nice days always make me very energetic. So this is how I saved money today:

- Breakfast was 7 Grain Hot Cereal with flaxseed and cut up peaches. 

- I reorganized my pantries to accommodate a huge box of food that my son brought to us last night. They are now following the Evolution Diet and some of their food did not fit in with their plan. Since they have always eaten very healthy, I was more than happy to take the food off their hands. Besides the aforementioned cereal, he brought another kind with flaxseed, honey, sugar in the raw, Splenda for baking, candied cherries for baking, Edy's fruit pops, condensed milk, 2 bags of basmati rice, a bag of organic unbleached white flour, a huge McCormick Barbecue seasoning, many different bags of dried beans, 2 jars of Hellmans mayo ( much to DH's delight) and so many other things that I can't remember them all. I was thrilled. I will always take any free food that comes my way. He mentioned he needed to go to the market for dishwasher detergent, so of course I went to my stockpile and gave him 2 boxes and 2 containers of Dawn dish liquid also. One hand washes the other!

- UPS brought me 12 - 8 oz. Kraft Parmesan Cheese ( pictured) that I ordered at Amazon.com through Subscribe and Save the other day. One container at Top's cost me $ 3.49. These cost me $ 21.13 after coupon code and free shipping. I used gift certificates earned through SwagBucks to pay for them. Even if I had to pay for them, it would have cost me only about $ 1.76 a container. There have been no coupons for these so this is the cheapest way I could get them. Are you jealous, Michelle? ( She is my DIL and loves this cheese!)  

- Did two loads of laundry today using cold water in the HE washer and I dried them on low in the dryer. My back wouldn't let me hang them today.

- Did a full load of dishes in the dishwasher on the quick cycle. I put them away after they air dryed.

- Continued reading my John Grisham novel that I received free through BzzAgent.

- I have been organizing a grocery list for Budwey's - a new to me market that I want to check out.

- Lunch was spicy chicken bites with blue cheese dressing.

- DH and I watched a DVD, late this afternoon, from Netflix: The Lincoln Lawyer with Matthew McConaughey. 

- The mail today brought a magazine from Wegmans with some nice coupons inside and $ 6.29 in a rebate. 

- I made a new recipe ( pictured ) for dinner. The recipe is here:  Chicken ala Crescent . But I made some substitutions. I used leftover turkey from our dinner on Sunday. When I went to make it I realized that I had no curry powder, so I substituted a mixture of  coriander, turmeric, cumin, and ginger. I also used pepper jack cheese instead of monterey jack cheese. I used my fresh chives from my garden.
I also made bigger packets with the crescent rolls. We ended up with 4 larger ones which will give us two meals. These were absolutely delicious but I think they would be even tastier if I add thinly sliced green olives with pimento next time. Actually I think I will add them to the leftover sauce for tomorrow night's dinner. This recipe brought back memories of my grandmother making us creamed chicken on toast when I was a kid. 

- Now I am going out and join DH on the glider in front of the fire he has going. We are still burning the wood from the pallet that the fireplace came on. I will use free wood any day. I can't wait for them to start building in here soon so that I can raid the dumpster for the pieces of wood they throw away.

Please feel free to leave a comment and share with us what you did to save money today.