Cheap, Easy, Tastey, Semi Healthy

Please forgive how this is written, it is from a St. Anthony's Cookbook. Church cookbooks are not known for being well edited.

Italian Meat Loaf

Meat Loaf Ingredients 

• 1 1/2 lb ground beef ( I use in thethe leanest I can find in the store
• 1 egg 
• 1 small onion finally chopped
• 1/2 cup tomato sauce 
• 1/2 cup tomato sauce 
• 1/2 cup celery chopped (optional) 
• 1 cup soft bread crumbs. 
• 1 1/2 tsp salt
• 1/2 tsp basil leaves 

Sauce Ingredients

• 1/2 cup of sauce
• 2 Table spoons of Brown Sugar 
• 1/2 tsp mustard
• 1 dash garlic salt 
• 1/2 cup water

1. Pre Heat Oven to 325-350 depending on your oven. 
2. Mix loaf ingredients together and form into a loaf. 
3. Place in a glass pan like this  
4. Mix sauce 
5. Cover meatloaf  with sauce 
6. Bake for an hour occasionally basting if you remember.

Free Snacks and More!

Today's mail was pretty nice! I have a policy to not keep a lot of snack foods in the house. Snacks here are either completely from scratch or free with coupon. This is how I prevent myself from snacking and lose weight.

1. Free Ritz Crackerfulls from Walmart Free Samples.
1. Walmart offers free samples and coupons on their website here, 
2. 3 $0.75 off Stubbs products!
3. $1.00 off Charmin from P&G Sample t
1. P&G offers samples and high value coupons here
4. JoYva sent a free recipe booklet

UPS arrived !

Badia Spices was kind and sent a few of their products to try in response to my question about the strength of spice in a few products. ( My six year old loves to try new foods )

Mom's Meet sent an awesome package to try with my Mom's Group.  It is Veri Soda!

Mom's Meet- Mommy's Bliss

Review Coming soon! I can't wait to share!

$0.00 at Harris Teeter!

Today I went to Harris Teeter and was able to buy all of these for FREE with coupons sent to me directly from the companies.

1. Two MADE IN NATURE DRIED FRUITS ( great for our swim bag this summer) Regular price $6.49
2. 1 6 pack of Hansen's Orangic  Regular price $2.99
3. 1 package Gailleo Salmai   Regular price $4.69
4. 1 package Gailleo Peperoni Regular price $4.69
5. 1 package Pacific Soup regular price $4.59
6. 2 packages Mama Mancini Meatballs  They are Buy 1 Get one Free and Harris Teeter and I had a coupon for a free package. The regular price is $7.49. I was able to get both packages for free. 

 Total Value $44.96 of free groceries!

Mail Call!

1. Truvia Sample and $2.00 sample.
2. Samples of Cavender's Greek Seasoning ( I can't wait to try it and if it is good I will share the recipes! ) 
3. 3 $0.50 House- Autry Seasoning
4. Mezzetta sent several coupons