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Are you Lactose Intolerant? I am slightly but many of my family members are totally. It’s hard when there are so many things with dairy in them around.

Well just in time for National Lactose Intolerance Awareness Month in February, Yoplait has announced its new Yoplait® Lactose Free yogurt. Inspired by the Yoplait yogurt we know and love, Lactose Free comes in four delicious flavors – Strawberry, Peach, French Vanilla and Cherry – and contains 50% of the recommended Daily Value of calcium, with vitamins A and D in every cup. Lactose Free contains no artificial sweeteners and can be used in some of your favorite recipes – like chocolate crème brulee and strawberry cheesecake.

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I’m also hosting a giveaway for a prizepack of Yoplait goodies.

One winner will receive…

• A VIP coupon to purchase Yoplait Lactose Free yogurt
• Lunch tote
• 2 Gel packs
• Individual bowl
• Spoon

Starts 2/3/2012. Ends 2/10/2012.

I will notify the winner by email so if you enter please, please check your email on 2/10-2/11.
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So I thought you might like a teeny update on my goals for 2012.

Finances: The goal here was to bump up the savings as we are able. We’ve been doing well so far. Plunking any extra cash into our savings and it’s slowly building up.

Home: I’m still working slowly on making taking care of home a more lovely experience. I’m working on my Housekeeping Card File. Which must be pretty. But I do need to think on this also a bit more.

Business: A chunk of the new Homemaking Planner is just about ready to go. Just stay tuned. I’ve been working hard here. Evident by the neglect in all other areas.

Personal: I’m still working at dropping 15 pounds. Boy these are hard to get off! I exercise 6 days a week at what would probably be called the intermediate level.  And while that is nice I’m here to say that it does nothing to drop pounds! I had dropped the 3 pounds but being female they found their way back at a certain time. I haven’t given up though.

How are your goals going?

Did you see where I mentioned yesterday that I needed a Digital Die Cut Machine? Well Shery K. Designs (who has some really cute digi scrapbooking stuff by the way) is having a giveaway for a Silhouette Cameo (the exact machine I have my eye on). Ends February 28, 2012. Three ways to enter. So make sure you do.

So here we are next week and I have a whole 7 days to agonize over what kind of Housekeeping Card File I felt would meet my needs.

Mostly it needed to be pretty. Something lovely to the eye. And that I could keep out on my miniscule desk area. And I wanted to make or decorate it myself.

So that’s what I’ve been doing. We’ll call it Part 1. This part is finished and this is the result…

I took this picture with my computer camera so sorry it’s not the best.

Even though the card file is not that fabulous, it took me some time to get here. I bought a white tin from the store. I went about painting it a green I wasn’t too happy with. I was trying to get a more chartreuse green but that didn’t happen. Then I Modge Podge’d it and let it dry.Then the whole kit and kaboodle started to peel. So I peeled off the whole works. Some of the paint was harder to get off than the rest.

So I ended up with a blank slate again.

I decided I would Modge Podge some paper I had around the house onto it and then once that dried Modge Podge over it again to seal it in. Then I Modge Podged some ribbon and used the glue gun to add the ribbons and buttons.

Over the whole process I discovered and found out that I NEED a Digital Die Cut machine. If you have any recommendations that would be greatly appreciated.

So once I finished the file itself I’ve been working on the dividers and cards. We’ll call the cards part 2, and the dividers part 3. The cards are just about done but I don’t think I will unveil them until next week.

For more on this see Part1 and Part 2

 

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Another free Kindle book available. How to Declutter Your Home and Your Life by Martha Sinclair. Not sure how long it will be available but it’s there right now.

Go to Amazon and load it to your Kindle.

Don’t have a Kindle?

Even if you don’t have a Kindle you can read Kindle books on various devices. I read them on my Mac.

Go here => Kindle for Your Machine

 

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One of my best friends is newly pregnant and sent me an SOS. Feeling queasy and out of energy she wanted to know what she could make for hubby for dinner that required 30 minutes or less.

If we weren’t separated by close to 3000 miles I would cook dinner for her. It’s hard when friends move. My friend is a bit of a food and a very into organic and natural foods. She has two freezers stocked with the basics.  But how to turn them into quick meals? She probably has no canned food in her home.

So what’s a girl to do? Admittedly I survived on pizza and tacos when I was pregnant. I couldn’t stomach anything else and the spiciness seemed to settle my stomach.

Quick meals in my home (that don’t com out of the freezer) are…

• Spaghetti with meatballs
• Minestrone soup (I chop quick and go)
• Canned soup and sandwiches (usually on Saturdays)
• Stirfries
• Sauteed chicken with veggies over rice
• Bakes salmon (I find this incredibly easy and it is often our Monday meal)

I’ll be coming back to this topic of course but what does one cook when one can barely stomach food?

 

 

 

Get Quick & Easy Family Dinners Cookbook from Gooseberry Patch for the Kindle free on Amazon. Don’t know how long this will last but it is $0.00 as of this writing.

If you don’t have a Kindle never fear. I don’t either but use the Kindle App on my Macbook.

Check here to see if your device can get a free App for your device.

Gooseberry Patch is offering free downloads of the chapters of their cookbook Circle of Friends (see pic below).

• Click the link which takes you to the page.
• Click on your selected chapter which takes you to a new page with the link to download the chapter.

Enjoy!

Thanks MoneySaving Mom