Amy's Wandering

Wandering through life one season at a time

stretching a ham

By: amyswandering4 Comments

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Several stores have ham on sale right now for $1 a lb. or less. You can really get a lot of mileage out of the leftovers:

Ham & biscuits for breakfast

Hash Brown Ham Quiche

Add the ham bone to a 15-bean soup mix

Add all the little leftover bits to homemade macaroni & cheese

and my favorite recipe for using up extra ham:

Cheesy Ham & Potato Soup
12 potatoes, peeled & cubed
1 lg onion, finely diced
1 clove garlic, crushed & finely diced
1 lb velveeta, cubed (2 if you want it extra cheesy)
1 lb cubed ham
3 ½ T flour
1 c. milk
black pepper to taste

Place potatoes, onion, garlic & ham in a large stock pot. Cover with water. Cook until potatoes are almost tender. Remove 1 cup of potatoes & mash in bowl with fork. Add some liquid from pot (1 T. at a time) along with flour until you have a thick paste. Add back to pot. Add cheese to soup & let simmer until cheese melts. Stir in milk & add pepper to taste.
Serves at least 8.

What is your favorite way to use up a ham?

wfmw – lazy woman’s price book

By: amyswandering4 Comments

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I love couponing, and save quite a bit of $$, but I’ve never taken it to the next level: the Price Book! I even have a great one printed out & waiting in my home management notebook. I just can’t get into the whole chart thing – I’m a random list girl. I realized this morning, as I was making my weekly list of grocery ad deals, that I already have a quirky sort of price book & didn’t even know it.

Every week when the ads arrive, I sit down with my handy dandy Motivated Moms chore planner & jot down any great deals I see. I just write it on the back of the previous week’s page. It dawned on me this morning that I can flip through my lists and take note of the sale patterns. It’s not as organized as a price book, but it works for me!

Here are some not-very-good pics  :o)
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Run on over to Rocks In My Dryer for some great tips!

Tips I want to remember:

Cheap & easy table runner

Kitchen notebook

Beauty reference book/website

saving $100

By: amyswandering2 Comments

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Crystal at Biblical Womanhood shared 5 ways she saved $100 last year, and is inviting us all to post our lists.

Here are some things we did last year that made a big difference:

1. Canceled Netflix and started using Redbox. Sign up for the Inside Redbox mailing list and get a free rental code in your email every Monday.

2. Canceled our landline & went to cellphones. We live in the boonies & had to have a metro line, so this saved us $35 a month.

3. In November we discovered a problem with our central heating, so we used the fireplace and 2 small space heaters through a cold spell (we are in N. Texas). We discovered 2 things: we survived quite nicely without the heat on, & our electric bill was $100 lower than normal!! We still haven’t turned the heat on.

4. I visited gottadeal.com every day or two to find the best (& a lot of times FREE) deals on the internet.

5. I finally got Sassyfrass out of diapers WOOHOO!!

    wfmw – repurposing Christmas clearance

    By: amyswandering7 Comments

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    This time next week, shelves & shelves of Christmas fun will be marked down 50-75% off. Put on your creative thinking cap and you can stock up for several holidays to come.
    • Holiday M&Ms can be sorted and bagged to be used for Valentine’s Day & St. Patrick’s Day. You can also divide up things like sprinkles & icing from baking kits.
    • Candy canes make adorable Valentine treats when put in the oven.
    • Chocolate candy and stocking stuffers are good for Easter baskets – many items have Christmas packaging, but just take them out of the package.
    Christmas decorations can be used for all sorts of things:
    • New Year’s Eve- shiny tinsel to drape everywhere, silver or gold tablecloths
    • January- we leave our non-Christmasy snowmen and snowflakes out for the whole month
    • Valentine’s Day – heart decorations, red ribbon, red tablecloth, napkins, plates, cups
    • St. Patrick’s Day – green tablecloths, napkins, plates, cups
    • Easter – crosses, anything pastel, cellophane for baskets
    • Fourth of July – anything red, white, blue or silver – tablecloths, plates, napkins, cups, strings of lights, garland, anything with stars on it
    • Birthday parties – candy & toys for goody bags, non-Christmasy gift bags & wrapping paper. Target will have a major toy clearance in January so you can stock up on gifts too.
    What ideas do you have? Share them in the comments!
    Run on over to Rocks In My Dryer for some really great tips.
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    online christmas steals

    By: amyswandering3 Comments

    There are some awesome deals floating around the internet. I just paid $10 shipped for 2 of these digital keychain cameras for my girls – reg. price is $29.99. (If you want just one, it is FREE!)

    Click the link below, add the camera(s) to your cart, & use Google Checkout to get $10 taken off your order. You must have a new Google Checkout account to get $10 off, & you must sign up for the Google account through Buy.com. Be sure to choose the free shipping option!

    Digital Keychain Camera

    Here are some awesome toy deals from Amazon.com

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