$10 Stop & Shop Gift Card Winner!!

And the winner of the $10 Stop & Shop Gift Card Giveaway is....




Comment #5 - JC!


Congrats, JC! Look for an email from me verrry soon!

Giveaway: $10 Stop & Shop Gift Card

I am pleased to be able to offer 1 lucky reader a $10 gift card to Stop & Shop, courtesy of General Mills & My Blog Spark! These gift cards are accepted at Stop & Shop, Giant, Super G, Giant Food Stores, Martin's Food Markets, and peapod.com.

There are 6 ways to enter - for a maximum total of 6 entries per person. Please leave a separate comment for each entry, and make sure that each entry contains a valid email address or blog URL so I know where to contact you!

Free Entry: Leave a comment on this post and answer this question: Does your grocery store sell gas, and if so, do you purchase it there? Don't forget to include your first name and email address!

Bonus Entries:

1. Blog about this giveaway – Leave a separate comment below with a link to the blog entry.
2. Grab my button for your website or blog – Leave a separate comment with the link to your site.
3. Add Young, Fabulous & Frugal to your blog roll – Leave a separate comment with the link to your site.
4. Follow me on Twitter (@YoungFabnFrugal) or tweet about this giveaway and include me in the tweet so I see it – Leave me a separate comment below if you have done this.
5. Subscribe to my RSS feed and/or email updates via the links in the top left corner – Leave a separate comment below once you have subscribed.

This contest ends at 11:59 pm EST on Friday, September 18. Winners will be contacted on Saturday, September 19.

This contest is open to residents of the US and Canada only. The winner will be determined using random.org and will be contacted via email. They will then have 48 hours to claim their prize or an alternate winner will be chosen.

Stop & Shop Promotion - Ending TONIGHT!

If you haven't taken advantage of the General Mills promotion at Stop & Shop this week, you may want to run over there tonight!

1. You'll find great sale prices on the following General Mills brands: Cheerios, Lucky Charms, Reeses Puffs, Cinnamon Toast Crunch, Cookie Crisp Sprinkles, Cookie Crisp, Fruit Snacks, Old El Paso Dinner Kits, Pillsbury Strudel, Pillsbury Scrambles, Green Giant Boxed Vegetables, Yoplait Yo-Plus Multi-Pack, Fiber One Yogurt Multi-Pack, Pillsbury Refrigerated Cookies, Pillsbury Crescent Rolls, Pillsbury Sweet Rolls and Yoplait Delights.

2. Stop and Shop is currently running a promo where you can earn savings on gas or pass those savings along to the school of your choice. Here's how it works:

- If your store sells gas: buy 4 participating General Mills items and you will automatically receive 100 points on your Stop & Shop card. Then, run outside to the gas pumps and redeem these points for a discount on your gas fill up. Each 100 of points gives you a discount of .10 per gallon.

- If your store does not sell gas: You can still participate! Buy 5 participating General Mills items and you will automatically earn 20 bonus Box Tops for the school of your choice.

Menu Plan Monday - 9/7

I have just recently started menu planning and am amazed at how much it has simplified my life! Not to mention how much we've saved by staying out of the drive-thru. We no longer shell out $15 for Wendy's or $25 for pizza because we can't think of anything to fix.

Here's my menu for the week:

Monday: Hamburger Helper made w/ ground turkey (an easy meal since I was focused on unpacking from our trip and settling back in)

Tuesday: Fettucine w/ vodka sauce

Wednesday: Slow cooked BBQ Pork Chops w/ potatoes and corn

Thursday: Chicken Ceasar Salad and Soup

Friday: Sweet & Sour Chicken

Saturday: Chicken Quesadilas w/ rice & beans

Sunday: Leftovers

Stop by http://orgjunkie.com for a boatload of menu ideas from other bloggers and to join in the Menu Plan Monday fun!

Hello all :)

I apologize for such a lengthy absence. I was getting really bogged down with some other issues I was working through and needed to streamline a little for a while.

Over the last few weeks we took on some overtime at work and completely reorganized our finances into a written budget (Dave Ramsey style :-P). I think I have finally settled into some home management routines that I can actually maintain - I had a bad habit of trying to everything and then getting completely overwhelmed by a 5 page to-do list. I'm still tweaking them a little, but these basic routines have seriously reduced the stress in my life.

The boyfriend and I spent last week in Nags Head, NC. We stayed in an awesome beach house with all 21 of my crazy family members. It was hectic to say the least, but we had a blast. I miss them already!

I missed blogging a lot, though - it feels really good to be back :)