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Newell Rubbermaid is giving away 500,000 Uni-ball Jetstream™ RT Pens.

Free Uni-ball Pen

Offer expires April 30th, 2010 and only 10,000 requests will be honored each day. Limit 1 request per person, no PO Boxes allowed and you must live in one of the contiguous United States.

Blessings,

Denese

Tags: freebies

Need some ideas to help you save money?

Penny Raine is giving away a free study guide to help you do just that –”101 WAYS TO SAVE MONEY”.

To get this freebie, go to Penny’s bookstore and click on the “Freebie Download For Today” tab at the top of the page, but get it soon –it’s free through this weekend only (January 22-24, 2010).

Blessings,

Denese

Tags: freebies, money saving tips

For those cold winter days and nights:

Betty Crocker Soups Stews And Chilies –Includes 28 slow cooker recipes and quick-to-fix breads, from General Mills. Read online or downloadable as an executable (.exe) or zip file, offline version is 33 mb.

Quick and healthy dinners:

20 Fresh, Light & Quick Dinners (PDF) –Recipes for pasta, burgers, chicken, fish and more.

Make a three course meal for a special occasion:

Impress Your Friends with a Three Course Meal (PDF) –Cream of squash soup, herbed pork tenderloin with buttered vegetables in cherry pineapple sauce and drunken mangoes with vanilla ice cream.

Grilled Panini recipes:

10 Best Panini Mini Cookbook (PDF) –Recipes and grilling tips from PaniniHappy.com. Only available through January 31, 2010; subscribe by email, rss or become a fan on Facebook to get the free download.

Free eBook from ZestyCook.com:

Simply Zesty (PDF) –A free ecookbook of the best recipes from ZestyCook and other talented food bloggers. Included are recipes for Baked Sweet Potato Fries, Pump It Up Muffins, Fired Up Chicken Chili, Hot Spinach and Artichoke Dip, White Chocolate Almond Brownies and many more –22 in all! Subscription required (free).

Kids in the kitchen:

Kitchen Kids (PDF) –Downloadable recipe booklet from the Wisconsin Milk Marketing Board. Contains 12 recipes using Wisconsin cheese plus tips on age-appropriate cooking activities, kitchen safety and preparation methods.

Make “secret” restaurant recipes at home:

31 Top Secret Restaurant Recipes (PDF) –Eat out at home! Includes copycat recipes for Olive Garden, Macaroni Grill and P.F. Chang’s dishes.

27 Secret Restaurant Copycat Recipes (PDF) –Included in this ecookbook are recipes similar to ones served at Cracker Barrel, Cheesecake Factory, Applebee’s, TGI Fridays, KFC, McDonalds, Chili’s and Panda Express.

Fresh pasta recipes:

Latina Fresh eCookbooks Volume 1 and Volume 2 –2 free ecookbooks full of recipes using Latina Fresh Pasta from General Mills International. (I’ve never seen Latina Fresh pasta here in the United States but I suppose you could substitute another brand or make your own.) Click on the “View Online” link for each ebook and it will take you to another page, then you can either read each one online or click the “book” symbol at the bottom right to download in PDF format.

Blessings and happy cooking,

Denese

Tags: Cooking, free e-books, recipes

FaveCrafts has a new ebook out:

25 Sewing Crafts from Bloggers eBook (PDF format) –65 pages of sewing patterns, including; a girl’s tiered skirt, easy appliqué flowers, heating pillow with buckwheat, camping or sleepover bag and many more.

Here’s another ebook, from CraftyPod Publishing:

Crafts for The Knittn’ Kitten (PDF format) –22 pages containing 9 different projects, such as; Crocheted Ribbon & Bead Necklace, Knit & Stitch Zipper Pouch and Jersey Doily Scarf.

Like to quilt? Check out this ebook from Quilting Arts:

Seven Quilted Bag Patterns: Handmade Quilt Bags from Quilting Arts (PDF format) –Patterns for small handbags to totebags are in this lovely little gem –you can’t have too many bags! 18 pages, requires registration (free)

Blessings and happy crafting,

Denese

Tags: crafts, crochet, free e-books, knitting, quilting, sewing

Not to be outdone by Betty Crocker, Pillsbury has some free goodies too!

Free calendar:

• Free Pillsbury 2010 Calendar –Register as a member and sign up for one or both of the newsletters: “Pillsbury” and/or “Cooking 4 Two”

Free digital magazine:

• Free Pillsbury Pies Digital Magazine –Pies, tarts and more. Read it online or download to your computer.

More recipes:

• Pillsbury Recipes –All kinds of recipes from appetizers to pies, even more when you become a member.
• Pillsbury RSS Feeds –Get “Today’s Recipe” in your feed reader or subscribe to one of the forum feeds.
• Pillsbury Bake-Off –All about the Bake-Off, monthly challenges, how-to videos and award winning recipes from past Bake-offs.
• Pillsbury Baking –Recipes, baking basics, tips and more.

Free coupons:

• Pillsbury Coupons –As a member, get free printable coupons for General Mills products –possible savings of $14 this month.

Doughboy fun:

• Fun With The Pillsbury Doughboy –Send a dancin’ Doughboy email, watch Doughboy TV ads and bloopers, get the Desktop Doughboy.

These last two weren’t on Pillsbury.com, so I’m not sure if these are “official” or not:

• Pillsbury Doughboy on Facebook 
• Pillsbury Doughboy on Twitter

Blessings,

Denese

Tags: baking, coupons, Facebook, freebies, recipes, Twitter

Try Dunkin’ Donuts coffee at home.

Fill out the form to receive a 1.1 oz. sample pouch of Dunkin’ Donuts Original Blend or new Dunkin’ Dark coffee.

Dunkin’ Donuts Coffee Sample

U.S. residents only, 1 per address, must be 18 years old.

Blessings,

Denese

Tags: coffee, free-samples

Become a member at BettyCrocker.com and get all kinds of freebies!

Free calendar and recipes:

Free Betty Crocker 2010 Calendar –Sign up for one or all newsletters; Betty Crocker, Dinner Made Easy, Bisquick

You can also subscribe to the recipe of the day feeds:

• RSS Feeds From Betty Crocker –Recipe of the Day, Cookie of the Day, Healthy Recipe of the Day, Cereal Recipe of the Day and Lunch Recipe of the Day

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Free coupons with membership:

• Coupons From Betty Crocker

Over $11.00 in savings are possible this month on Betty Crocker Frosting, Bisquick, Chex Mix, Green Giant Vegetables, Progresso Soups and many more. Membership is free.

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Get a free baking ebook from Betty Crocker Kitchens and Gold Medal flour:

•  Whole Wheat Baking

Note: This is an online ebook but it can be saved to your computer as an executable file or zipped pdf.

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How about some free cereal? Enter the giveaway for a chance to win:

• The Great Cereal Giveaway

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Get more savings, freebies and giveaways from Betty Crocker:

• Betty Crocker Promotions

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Want more?

Are you on Facebook?

• Become a fan of Betty Crocker on Facebook

Can’t leave out Twitter:

• Follow Betty Crocker on Twitter

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You might also like:

Download a classic cookbook for children:

Betty Crocker’s Cookbook for boys & girls (1975) –Basic cooking techniques and simple recipes for a variety of dishes, free from the Internet Archive.

 

Blessings,

Denese

Tags: baking, coupons, Facebook, free e-books, freebies, giveaways, recipes, Twitter

Count your blessings…

A Day Of Thanksgiving (1951) –A classic, patriotic film about an American family who are unable to buy a Thanksgiving turkey… but they still have many things to be thankful for. 12 minutes.

Cooking the turkey…

Let’s Talk Turkey (1951) –How to cook a turkey and it’s uses in everyday cooking.

At the table…

Dining Together (ca. 1951) –Thanksgiving dining etiquette for young children.

Thanksgiving fun…

Beverley Hillbillies “Turkey Day”  –Thanksgiving fun with the Clampett family.

These videos may be watched online and/or downloaded to your computer. For more information, please see the Internet Archive help section.

Blessings,

Denese

If you have slow internet service, a download manager is very helpful. I use the free Orbit Downloader to schedule large and multiple files for downloading overnight.

Tags: free videos, Thanksgiving, turkey

Don’t forget, today is the Book and Bake Sale at the Mary E. Tippitt Memorial Library in Townsend.

Here are just a few of the homemade goodies that will be for sale:

Sale is from 9am to 5pm, go early for the best selection.

Blessings,

Denese

Tags: book-sales, library, local events and activities, sales, Townsend

The newest freebie from CurrClick is Dinosaurs Learn N Folder published by Live and Learn Press.

In this unit, “Your child will learn about these creatures, how they ate, where they lived, how we have come to know about them, and much more. There is no reference to dates so you are free to insert your family’s personal view of the age of the earth and when dinosaurs roamed it.” Geared for ages 5-10.

While you’re there, check out CurrClick’s 4th Annual Back to Homeschool Sale, super savings on 100’s of titles with discounts up to 75% off!

You’ll find tons of activity books, notebooking pages, math workbooks, homemaking helps, language arts resources, holiday helpers, lapbooks, unit studies, history resources, copywork  and so much more!

Hurry, sale ends Wednesday, August 19th.

Blessings,

Denese

Tags: sales, Super Deals