Kids Bowl Free

For the summer you can sign each of your kids up to receive 2 free games of bowling a day.  The cost of the shoes are not included, but this is still a great idea if you need something to do over the summer.  You can go here and sign up.  They give you an option of signing up the parents for $24.95 to have the same deal.  It asks who referred you, so if you don't mind please enter juliessavings@gmail.com in that spot.  I am not sure what, if anything, we will receive but I will be interested to see.

Menu Planning Made Easy

People ask me all the time how I can stay in our food budget.  One big thing has to do with menu planning, because it helps prevent unwanted spending based on not being prepared.  I used to put what we were having for each meal under each day.  Then I realized life gets crazy during the week with every one's schedules and sometimes what I had planned doesn't work with the day. 

I finally decided what I would do is, list what meals I would make for the week in a list.  Then I just make sure I have all the items on hand at the start of week, so I can adjust as need as the week goes on.  I cross out the meal we ate.  If for some reason plans change and we don't eat at home, I will just carry into the next week what we didn't prepare in the prior week. I was just writing it down on a piece of paper, when I game across this CUTE download created by My Computer is My Canvas.  I just printed, laminated, and it hangs on our pantry door.

I was on her site for a "Mommy's Homework" binder cover and I just fell in love with her site.  She has such great things to make your life fun and cute!

Canning Party in Hooouse!

I was introduced to House Party, which is a website that is dedicated to getting items out there for people to try. You sign up for any parties that interest you and then wait to see if you are finalist.

Well I signed up for the Ziploc one and learned a hard lesson that you must reply to the finalist request quickly, otherwise you will lose out. So when the canning party came up I thought that would be neat to have because I remember my grandmother doing this and it would neat to learn how to do. Plus my husband recently said to me that he would love to make some jelly. So when I got my email that I was finalist, I quickly replied and won! I was a little nervous because I wasn't sure what it all involved. But once I saw the website explain what we would be getting and they they would send everything we needed, I began to get really excited.