Coupon Group and sending expired coupons over to the military

I've had a busy couple of days.

I started a coupon swapping group online on Yahoo groups.

It all started because I had to start using coupons again because grocery prices are just too high and getting higher. I'm sick of it.....so I started clipping and actually using the coupons....scary I know.
Then I looked at all of the ones I don't use and the ones that have expired. I don't need baby coupons etc. but I know many do so why not share them. I started thinking of friends and homeschoolers nearby that we could just meet up every once in awhile and swap the coupons. Then I thought about those that could still use them all but (as a friend said) for the price of a stamp once in awhile. So I started the yahoo group and my friend also mentioned that the military overseas could still use expired coupons for up to 6 months after the expiration date.
I think that's the greatest thing and its so simple really.

So, here is some info for all of you.

The Yahoo group I started up: The_Coupon_Group - just let me know that you read about it here on the blog so that I accept you!
The two sites I found, check them both out as they have valuable information on them and it should be read first before just sending out coupons.

OCP - Overseas Coupon Project - Military Base Adoption Program - In operation for 17 years.

Grocery SavingTips Military Family Coupon Project  

I feel better already clipping coupons knowing that if I don't use them others can until they expire and I can help our military and their families overseas even after they do. :-)

On another subject: Just when I fix three things on this page and get them working something else stops working......ugh...now my recent updates aren't updating....

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Grrrrrr......Welcome to the land of stress...

Hello fellow bloggers,

Remember that less stress thing I was talking about...well...its not working, its not that I'm not doing my part but "stress" is overbearing, obnoxious, ill-mannered...I think you get the general idea. If nothing else that fact that I haven't posted in two months should give a much better idea. Although, I may not have posted on the blogs but our schoolwork got done.....just not anything else. SIGH -

So, here we go again......funny some tune just popped into my head and now naturally I can't get rid of it!
I can't even begin to write most of what has happened in the past couple of months but foremost is this economy we are in for sure. I've even had to seriously start using coupons again with the prices of groceries going to ridiculous levels. In 4 days awhile back prices jumped 30% and the following week they went up again! I was saying to my aunt while looking at the prices of milk and eggs that they (they being whomever is in charge) are forcing this (according to some articles) overweight, obese country of ours to lose weight by starving us! Using coupons made me think of all of the ones that I throw out because we just don't use the items or can't afford to get them anyway...LOL...
I checked with my local homeschooling group and it didn't seem anyone had started a coupon exchange and there was some interest in it so I started a yahoo group for it. There's only a couple of us but I did add some coupons that I have that have expiration dates soon and I'll be adding all of the ones that end in the month of April this weekend. Speaking to a dear friend of mine (she knows who she is...I hope...) about the coupon group she mentioned to me that the expired ones are even good for the military past the expiration dates in the PX's. What a great idea, we'll get that link up soon so that we can all send them off where they hopefully can be used. Meanwhile I'm hoping that the coupon exchange group works out, for local people we can just meet up and exchange them and for the cost of a stamp others can use what we don't.
I don't need diapers or baby items anymore but I'm sure there are plenty of people that do.

I got awards from another blogger and I haven't done anything about them, yet, but I'll be passing them along soon. The trouble will be choosing the blogs to give them too!
I'm also having tons of problems with the blog itself, all sorts of things on my page have disappeared even though the boxes are there. They just aren't showing up on the blog........no matter what I do. Sigh...again...

Here's hoping that the next couple of months are easier because I can't handle anymore stress and I'm so weary of being down all the time. Hope things are going well for everyone else!

Here's the link to the coupon group if you are interested just make sure you let me know that you follow my blog so that I accept you!
The Coupon Group 


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In a cooking mood today....

I have absolutely no idea why but I wanted to cook today. It could have been because it was cold, rainy and getting dark at 4pm or maybe it was just that I was staring at a package of ground turkey and had no idea what I was going to make.

So, what else do you do when you don't know what to make and its cold and dreary.

Simple, you make soup!

I started off making a vegetable beef (well turkey) soup, DH had asked for a really good soup just the other day and then realized as I was breaking up the ground turkey into the pot that there was just too much ground turkey for one meal. So, I made stroganoff as well. Two dinners completed, so NO cooking for me tomorrow other than mixing up rolls to have with our soup.

We had the stroganoff tonight because soup is always better the next day.
Here's tonight's dinner:



I had to improvise and DH loved it so much he said he would have paid for that meal. (grin) I actually let this ground turkey cook in the pot for the soup so I cooked the entire package in one pot. Used a frozen container of tomato juice from a can of plum tomatoes, left over from making my spaghetti sauce, melted it in the pot with chicken broth and added all my seasonings. Oncethe meat was cooked I took slightly more than half to make the stroganoff.

I then combined the cooked ground turkey in the skillet with a jar of beef gravy and then doctored it up with 1 packet of Newman's Own Ranch Dressing left over from my McD's salad and then sprinkled some grated parmesan and romano cheeses into the pan. Cooked up some rice instead of noodles and with a nice side garden salad with mixed veggies on top and your choice of dressing its a very filling meal.

Now, here's tomorrow's dinner.
Although DH sampled it tonight!


After I removed some of the ground turkey for the stroganoff, I added 1 package of frozen soup veggies (baby carrots, peas and sugar snaps), 1 can of creamed corn, 1 cup of rice and seasoned again to taste. Now, tomorrow all I have to do is mix up my package of Tastefully Simple Biscuits and dinner is DONE.

In this day and age of having to start making things stretch even further than before. I did really well, two dinners and even a couple of lunches from one package of ground turkey. Two really good hearty meals for cold weather.
Considering that I'm ahead maybe I'll bake something tomorrow. DH is off from work which means he will take The Red Ranger to the bus stop, I just have to get him ready for school and he will pick him up when school is done. So, maybe I'll bake.
And....can I just tell you how great this house smelled tonight!