All You Grocery Challenge

It's all the buzz!! It appears that the magazine All You, from Wal-Mart is having a contest that will run from July 13th and ends August 17th. Details are as follows:

All You Grocery Challenge Guidelines
The challenge is to spend no more than $25 per family member per week on groceries. Do not include household supplies and toiletries in your total.
During the contest, groceries that you purchase count toward your weekly total. However, feel free to grow, barter or use stockpiled food.
If you eat at a restaurant or buy takeout, the cost must go toward the week’s total.

All You Grocery Challenge Tracking
Save all your receipts as you will be required to submit them if you are a finalist. You can also keep track of your spending on the optional Spending log.

All You Grocery Challenge Judging
All entries and exit forms will be judged by All You’s editors, based on the following criteria: Staying within contest spending guidelines (50%); creativity and ingenuity (25%); and healthy choices (25%). All You will select 10 finalists, from whom a winner will be chosen on or before August 24, 2009. All finalists must submit grocery receipts.

All You Grocery Challenge Saving Strategies
Post your strategies on the Grocery Challenge Blog and share your money saving tips with others!

So, if you're up for the challenge, sign up here!

I signed up! Hope you will, too!

Recipe Review

So I tried the "Perfect Fried Chicken" from Pam Anderson's The Perfect Recipe. Now, I know fried chicken a time or five, so this was a no brainer.

The recipe was very easy to follow and she explains in great detail her method to her madness. I like the idea of soaking said chicken in buttermilk and using plain flour instead of self-rising flour. I also like that once the chicken is floured, letting it sit on a wire rack before frying. She suggests using shortening instead of oil to reduce the "smell" that one gets when frying chicken. That worked as well.

Overall, a great recipe. But, if you have one that works for you, keep doing what you do. On to the next one....Oh, sorry for not having pics, the family devoured it before I could snap one!

Recipe Roundup

A little late on this post but this is what I can come up w/ from the Publix weekly sale for 05/28/2009 to 06/03/2009:


Shrimp frittata w/ mixed green salad, fresh fruit
Fish tacos w/ salsa
hamburgers, fresh fruit, chips or grilled chicken sandwiches
Breakfast for dinner-English muffin sandwiches, mixed fruit

Shrimp frittata-whole eggs or egg whites-from weekly sale, cheese-from weekly sale or pantry, mushrooms-from weekly sale, shrimp-from weekly sale
mixed salad-from weekly sale, add in what's on hand from fridge and pantry
fresh fruit-from weekly sale

Fish tacos- fish from weekly sale, grilled and seasoned to your taste
Taco bell dinner-use just the shells only
salsa- make your own or if in a pinch, use salsa from the taco dinner, cheese-from weekly sale,all the taco fixings

Hamburgers w/ chips- ground beef -from weekly sale or pantry, baked chips-from weekly sale, cookies-from weekly sale or pantry, Jell-o snacks-from weekly sale
chicken breasts-from weekly sale, although not the best price this week

Breakfast for dinner- English muffin sandwiches-English muffins from weekly sale, eggs or egg whites-from weekly sale, sausage-from weekly sale

You could even do coffee and biscotti

Of course, make sure you're using the coupons for the coffe, biscotti,English muffins, baked Lays, Jell-O, and Crystal Light just to name a few. Check CouponMom for the coupon match ups w/the weekly sales.

Happy cooking!!!