Gift Basket offered by:

Covenant Ranch Trucking

Please visit their Facebook page – there is also a FREE e-book for their fans!

https://www.facebook.com/azuremidwestroute?ref=ts&fref=ts

Covenant Ranch Trucking has partnered with Azure Standard to bring high quality, affordable whole foods to towns across the country and we’re excited to announce that we are in three new states starting in April. We want to make sure we’re coming to your town! Covenant Ranch Trucking is owned and operated by Joe and Jeanette Wood, a homeschool family based in Topeka, KS. They are delighted to have had the opportunity to serve folks across the midwest and beyond and want to add your family to the list of happy customers.

Products included in this gift basket are:

Norpro Pizza Roller: This wooden Pastry and Pizza Roller rolls thin, uniform crusts and rolls out drop cookies. The large roller spreads dough over broad surfaces, while the small roller fills in edges. $2.55

Norpro Pizza Cutter: This deluxe pizza cutter has a slightly contoured wooden handle with a finish. It is designed with a cutting guard for protection. $4.75

Mama’s GF Pizza Crust Mix: Mama’s Pizza Crust Mix. Gluten-free pizza crust that tastes like the real thing. Wheat, Gluten and Dairy Free! Gluten Free Mama “Making Gluten Free Living Tastier.” $5.50

Truly Raw Cheddar Cheese: Consumers love our Truly Raw Cheddar because it is the real thing! Our Truly Raw Cheddar cheese was North America’s first truly raw, pasture fed cheddar cheese. $12.10

Natural Value Sliced Black Olives: Sliced black olives with no ferrous gluconate (2 cans) $1.35/each

Eden Organic Pizza/Pasta Sauce: A thick spreadable sauce for pizza or pasta made from family fresh red ripe organic Midwest Roma tomatoes packed within hours of harvest for maximum flavor, aroma, and nutrients with organic Spanish extra virgin olive oil, a bit of Eden’s sea salt, and 100% organic herbs and spices. Fresh unpeeled tomatoes provide the best flavor and most nutrients. EDEN
is the only sauce in the U.S.A. in amber glass protecting it from photo-oxidation of nutrients and flavor components; is low fat and a good source of beneficial fiber and antioxidant vitamins A and C. Each serving delivers 7.2 mg of the lycopene. $3.70

ONE winner will receive the Gift Basket from Azure Standard.

Enter below. The winner will be randomly chosen and notified by email. Entries will close at 12:00 am EST, Monday, April 15, 2013.

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I’m thinking spring, are you? I’ve got garden layout plans rolling around in my mind and seed magazines strewn about. Break new ground this spring! Great ideas have bloomed in my MARCH 2011 Molly’s Money-Saving Digest-Molly Saves in the Outdoors, from gardening tips to outdoor décor.

Warmer weather is just around the corner, and with it comes the opportunity to go outside and get growing! Even novice gardeners or those who live in a condo or apartment can start cultivating a green thumb with the ideas in this Digest. You’ll not only save money by growing some of the things you would normally get at the grocery, but you’ll also know the satisfaction of working with your hands and producing something beautiful and worthwhile.

• Find out everything you need to know about how to create an herb garden.
• Use free resources to help you design and plan for your garden.
• Learn how to use every inch of available space for gardening, even if you have just a balcony to work with.
• Investigate the most frugal way to garden: using heirloom seeds.
• Check out some inexpensive ways to turn plain, plastic pots into designer digs for your plants.
• Get lots of ideas and inspiration for jazzing up your outdoor décor on a budget.

If you’re already a MOLLY MEMBER this issue is waiting for you in your member’s page, just search out MARCH 2011! If you haven’t taken advantage of our membership option yet, now is a great time to sign up. You can begin TODAY for just $3.85/month, SEE ALL THE DETAILS HERE. You’ll also be automatically be entered to win our FEBRUARY GIFT PACK.

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Are you a movie lover? You’ve got a chance to win an AWESOME movie gift pack just by SIGNING UP for our month-to-month membership program!

Discount Home School Supplies (www.dhss.com) is giving away one Fireproof DVD with the Love Dare book and Love Dare Cards to help you celebrate Valentine’s Day. The retail value of all three items is $37.97. Discount Home School Supplies has them on sale this month for a total retail price of $32.97.

Your marriage is worth a date night to watch the DVD. When combined with reading the book and using the Love Dare Cards, you may see wonderful fruit in your marriage.

The movie Fireproof stars Kirk Cameron stars as Capt. Caleb Holt who lives by the old firefighter’s adage: Never leave your partner behind. Inside burning buildings, it’s his natural instinct. In the cooling embers of his marriage, it’s another story. After seven years of marriage, Caleb and Catherine Holt have drifted so far apart that they are ready to move on without each other. Yet as they prepare to enter divorce proceedings, Caleb’s dad asks his son to try an experiment: The Love Dare. While hoping The Love Dare has nothing to do with his parents’ new found faith, Caleb commits to the challenge. But can he attempt to love his wife while avoiding God’s love for him? Will he be able to demonstrate love over and over again to a person that’s no longer receptive to his love? Or is this just another marriage destined to go up in smoke?

For more information about the DVD and book, please visit the home page of Discount Home School Supplies at WWW.DHSS.COM.

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Financially, times are tough. Everywhere you look, stores are closing, prices are rising, and great deals are getting harder and harder to find.

We here at Econobusters understand everyone needs a helping hand. That’s one of our main principles, everyone working together to bust through these hard economic times!

Easy Ways to Save Money

Search the weekly ads and use coupons. Most grocery ads come out every Wednesday and retail ads come out on Sundays. The age of the giant Sunday newspaper full of ads and coupons has almost passed us by. Now days, you might find good deals in the Sunday paper, but your best bet is to hit the web. One of the best ad websites for supermarkets and retail chains is SundaySaver.com. They post links to almost all of the national chain stores.

Have you read The Coupon Craze: Chaos or Common Cents issue of Molly Green Magazine? Check it out!

Major Coupon Networks and Companies

Most coupon lovers are familiar with the  inserts found in the Sunday newspaper. The three main companies that provide these coupons are Smart Source, Red Plum, and Proctor & Gamble. All three companies also provide coupons online. Providing printable coupons on the Internet makes collecting and sharing coupons with others very simple. In fact, one website, Coupons.com, usually hosts them all in one place.

Make Shopping a Game

Create a monthly challenge. Each month, make it a goal to save more than the month before. Find ways to collect more coupons, stack more deals, and earn more rebates. Over time, shoppers learn pricing and predict when items will go on sale. Look for deals all year long: garage sales, thrift stores, second hand stores, Goodwill, and Salvation Army.

Don’t Forget FREE and FREEBIES

You might begin by signing up for your local Freecycle group. Anytime you need something for yourself, the home, or the kids, ask your Freecycle group first. This is an easy way to receive TVs, electronics, small appliances, clothes, toys, and books. You can also list things you no longer need on this group!

Speaking of books, we all know about Amazon, but occasionally, you can find what you want for free on Paperback Swap. You post the books you no longer want. Other people request those books from you. You mail a book to that person, (at your cost), and then you get to pick a book to be mailed to you! If the book you are looking for isn’t listed, check Deal Oz. This website does the book searching for you and finds the best deals on the web for books, CDs and DVDs.

Lastly, you might be interested in these points incentive programs: MyPoints, Swagbucks, and Amazon. You can earn points toward free gift cards simply by reading MyPoints daily emails, (no purchase required). If you use Swagbucks as your search engine, you also can earn points toward free gift cards, but it’s not as easy as MyPoints. Amazon has started a new incentive program where you agree to review products. If you are chosen. They send you the products free of charge to keep!!! It’s called the Amazon Vine. Check it out!

What great deals have you found that save money, especially during the holidays?

Have you seen today’s Freebie on our  Econobusters with Molly Green Facebook page?

Free Handmade Pizza Slices!

That’s right, Domino’s is luring in customers today by giving away 100 slices of pizza at each store from 12-2 PM.

However, being the frugal Econobuster that you are, you know that one piece of pizza is not going to satisfy, and Domino’s hopes you will like their pizza so much, that you’ll buy one, or two or three whole pan pizzas and take them home for an average price of $7-$11 a pizza!

One 13″x18″ rectangular baking sheet makes an extra large pizza that easily feeds 7 people. What was the cost? Well, that depends on the toppings you chose, but for our family, we averaged $5-$7 for one extra large hamburger pizza

“Forget about it!”

Take the pizza delivery guy off speed dial and out of your contact list and let me show you how you can have a cheap fun family pizza night.

Tonight, enjoy preparing dinner together. The children will love it!

Family Sized Pizza at Home

Making pizza at home can be quick and easy.  I use my Kenmore mixer with a dough hook attachment.

Dough Recipe:

• 2 Tbsp Rapid Rise Active Yeast
• 1 Tbsp Sugar
• 2 Cups of Warm Water
• 2 Tbsp Olive Oil
• 5 Cups of All Purpose Flour
• 1 teaspoon salt

Directions:

1. In a small plastic bowl, add yeast, sugar and 1 cup of the warm water.Let that stand and begin to activate for at least 5 min.
2. In the mixer bowl, add flour, salt, olive oil and the additional cup of water. Lastly add the bubbling yeast mixture
3. Start the mixer on low and slowly increase speed until the dough hook begins to work the dough into a ball and pull the dough off the sides of the bowl. Let the dough hook do all the work for you kneading and forming a good solid dough ( about 3-5 min on high speed)
4. Stop mixer, place dough in a cool dark place, ( a greased bowl works) Let it sit and rise for 1 hour
5. At the end of the hour, grease a rectangular cookie sheet, roll and flatten and form the dough to the pan. Poke holes in the bottom of the dough to allow air to escape when baking. Now you are ready to top the pizza.
6. Top the pizza first with a layer of cheese: mozzerella, cheddar, whatever the family likes. Then a layer of spaghetti or pizza sauce (cheap store bought from the jar works fine), and then top with the family’s favorite toppings!
7. Bake at 400F for 20 min. Let cool 5 min, cut and serve!

Pizza Themed Games and Activities

Keep the pizza theme going with fun family games. If fresh dough is used, have a dough tossing contest. Purchase a few unfolded pizza boxes from the local pizzeria and have a pizza box folding race to see which family member can fold boxes the fastest.

As for us, we make it a movie night too! This has become a weekly event at our house, and would you believe, my family actually prefers our homemade pizza to store bought or take-out. Sorry Domino’s.

Share Your Pizza Night With Us

If  you enjoyed this post and decided to give it a try. Share with us how it turned out and how you and your family made your own Family Fun Pizza Night!

In just 8 days, guess where I’ll be? At the Expo! Will you be there?

If you’re not familiar with an expo, it is an exposition of all things wonderful. I’ll be speaking at The Old Schoolhouse Expo, have you heard of it? This is truly where frugal meets FABULOUS! You will be blessed by this absolutely FREE night of encouragement and homemaking helps brought to you in the comfort of your own home! I will be talking about homemaking how-to’s and ways to hone your skills on a frugal budget. Malia Russell from Dinner 9-1-1 will also be speaking about “Freezer Cooking Four Ways–Getting dinner on the table using the freezer”.

There are always amazing giveaways and tons of fun to be had- not to mention AMAZING tips and information! Put it on your calendar and come visit me! After my talk, there will be a time of question and answer. I’ll be available to answer your questions, personally! It’s easy (and fast!) to sign up, see you there!

Join the Free Online Schoolhouse Expo on Thursday, September 27th at 7 pm EDT!
(6pm CDT, 5pm MDT, 4pm PDT)

Home Economics and Bulk Food Preparation with Malia Russell and ME!

There are limited (FREE) seats for this webinar, Sign up now!

If you’ve been getting my weekly newsletter, A Minute With Molly, you know that I answer Midge’s question here on Tuesday mornings. This week is a little different! Exciting things are happening here at Econobusters. We have wonderful things in store for you, and they’re just around the corner! A Minute With Molly newsletter has now become Freebie Friday With Molly. Instead of receiving the usual newsletter on Tuesday mornings, you will receive a new and improved version on Fridays.

If you don’t get my newsletter be sure and subscribe via the sticky note in the upper right corner of the blog! You can expect to find many of the same money-saving tips as in the past, PLUS a free gift, PLUS new and interesting ways to live a fabulously frugal life. Don’t forget about Midge; she’ll be waiting there to share her stories and blunders.

You won’t want to miss out on this treasure, so be on the lookout for Freebie Friday With Molly in your inbox just 3 days from now! Be sure to sign up TODAY so you don’t miss our very first giveaway!

MOLLY MEMBERS:

Have you logged in to read the September issue? If you’re a member, you will find How Prepared Is Your Pantry? in your member pages. If you’re not a member, we’d love to have you join us. If you sign up now, you will receive our membership special. Starting September 1, sign up as a Molly Member and pay just $0.99 for the first month! Consecutive months you will be charged only $3.85 a month. You will receive each new magazine as it hits the shelf (retail price $4.95), as well as all of my back issues! Don’t miss this amazing deal!

See you soon, Molly

NOTE: Contest is closed. Winner is Janice Campbell, entry #36

If you received the Sept. issue of Molly Green Magazine, I hope you enjoyed this month’s Kid’s Corner article by the Sather sisters who shared about their unique jewelry business, Gilded Gears. Helping your children start and run their own business is a great way for them to learn SO MANY life skills. That’s why we’re hoping to inspire you with stories like last month’s feature on Tarren Jace James and his Drivers’ Magnets and this month’s Gilded Gears articles. Thanks so much to these young entrepreneurs for sharing their experiences, challenges and success with our readers.

As a special treat, the Sather sisters have generously allowed us to offer one of their special necklaces (shown above) in a giveaway!

Pendant measures approximately 3/4″ wide by 1 1/2″ long (including heart charm), and comes on an 18″ chain with lobster clasp.  Valued at $25

So how do you enter? Just click the Rafflecopter link below, choose the options that appeal to you then click the “enter” box by each when done. Enjoy!

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Do you have an artist on your Christmas list? You need to look at these art instructional videos by Brian Neher.

Brian has developed a series of instructional courses which focuses on teaching the foundational principles of representational art by demonstrating how each one can be applied directly to the art of painting. When understood and applied, these four principles are what govern every decision that is made during the painting process and give the artist the freedom to better communicate his message to the viewer. An understanding of Drawing, Value, Color and Edges is vital in the education and growth of an artist. By learning the principles that go into the decision making process, the artist is then equipped to face any challenge in painting, regardless of subject matter. The purpose of this series is to help educate and provide a source of information in order to answer some of the important questions that many artists are faced with.

You can watch a FREE 50 minute painting lesson for artists which focuses on introducing the fundamental principles of drawing, value, color and edges by painting a simple demonstration of an apple.

If you’d like a chance to win the Principles of Painting Volume 1 set from Brian, please leave a comment on this post and tell me about the artist on your list. (It can be yourself!)

For additional entries, you can:

1. Like Brian Neher on Facebook.

2. Become a friend of Molly Green on Facebook.

3. Subscribe to the Econobusters newsletter. (Sign up at the top right of this page.)

4. Share about this giveaway on FB and/or Twitter.

Please leave an additional comment for each entry.

To enter this giveaway you must be 18 or older and reside in the U.S. All entries must be received before midnight (EST) 11/30/2011. The winner will be selected by a random drawing and notified on 12/1. Be sure to leave a valid e-mail address with your comment so that I can contact you.