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Speaking event at FBC Oxford next Thurs.
by TheresaShadrix
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I will be speaking at FBC Oxford on Thursday, July 14 from 6-8 p.m. There is no cost but I do ask that you bring a canned good for the Baptist Service Center food banks.

Please register on the FBC Oxford Facebook page here. If you are not on Facebook, you may email me and I'll forward it to the church. Feel free to email me questions as well.  tshadrix@annistonstar.com.

Thanks so much!

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Walgreen's Trip
by TheresaShadrix
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Jul 07, 2011 | 224 views |  0 comments | 9 9 recommendations | email to a friend | print | permalink

I've been asked by readers about shopping at drugstores and reader Stephanie asked about Walgreens. First, before you even step foot in the store, you need to read the coupon policy.

One of the main points in shopping Walgreens is that you can't have more coupons than items purchased. That number includes store coupons, manufacturer coupons and Register Rewards. If you need another item, you have to get a "filler" item, which is normally the cheapest thing you can find in the store.

While some folks call couponing the grocery game or drugstore game, to me it is simply the math game. So, always take your calculator so you can sort out your out of pocket expense and how many transactions you will need in order to purchase your items.

Drugstores are good to find deals but I'll have to be honest in telling you that often by the time you get to the store, the item is out of stock. And, at Walgreens you can't get a raincheck on an item that has Register Rewards. You really have to take stock in the expense you have in running from store to store and the cost of gas. 

I made a quick run yesterday to see what items they had that my family members would actually use. They still have items on clearance and so I focused on matching coupons with the clearance items. Here is what I bought:

Transaction 1:

Gillette Fusion Power Razor, $9.99

Used $4 off Gillette Fusion Razor (June P&G)

Received $5 Register Reward

Total out of pocket: $5.99 plus tax=$6.89

 

Transaction 2:

Gillette Fusion Power Razor, $9.99

Used $4 off Gillette Fusion Razor (June P&G)

Received $5 Register Reward

Total out of pocket: $5.99 plus tax=$6.89

 

Transaction 3:

Plackers Orthodontist Floss, Regular $2.99, clearance $1

1 Soft Soap Refill 56 oz, Regular $7.99, clearance $3

1 U Kotex, Regular $7.99, clearance $4

Hawaiian Tropics Sun Tanning Lotion, Regular $9.99, clearance $4

John Freida shampoo, Regular $6.49, clearance $3

Right Guard deodorant, Regular $4.49, clearance $2

Tom’s of Maine toothpaste, Regular $4.99, clearance $2

Reese candy, $.69

-          $1 U Kotex printable from here

-          $2 Hawaiian Tropic Lotion or Creme SPF 15 , (Walgreens Summer Beauty Guide

-           $1 Hawaiian Tropic Suncare Product, 4 Oz. , Any (06-26-11 SS)

-          $2 John Frieda Product, any (06-05-11 SS)

-          $1 Right Guard product, received in mail

-          $1 Tom's of Maine Toothpaste or Mouthwash, any (06-19-11 SS)

-          $10 Register Rewards

Total before coupons: $19.69

Total Coupons: & Register Rewards: $18.00

Total out of pocket: $1.69 plus tax = $3.28

 

Total trip out of pocket: 15.84

That’s almost $64 in savings!

 

P.S. I bought the Reese's because the cashier at Walgreens is amazing and it helps her quota for the items sold at the register.                                                

 

 

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Food Outlet 7/6-7/9 ad
by TheresaShadrix
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Pick 5 for $19.99 for selected meats

Lean Ground Beef family pack, $1.89 lb

USDA fresh Boneless Chicken Breast tenders family pack, $1.39 lb

Star Ranch Angus Beef, Boneless NY Strip Steaks, $5.87 lb

Star Ranch Angus Beef Boneless Bottom Round Roast, $2.24 lb

2 lb Bag Top Chick Chicken tenders, $4.99

Gwaltney meat weiners, $.69

20 pack cans Coke, flavors and Classic Coke, $4.99

Gain liquid detergent, $3.99

Mr. P's pizza's, $.59

Ore-Ida French Fries, 2 lb bag, $1.99

12 oz pack 2% Borden American Cheese singles, $1.67

Kool Aid Kool Burst, $.88

Ripe Banana's, $.38 lb

Large Iceburg California Lettuce, $.89

Store Coupon: Large Grade A Eggs FREE with coupon and additional $20 purchase. (Coupon found in The Jacksonville News today)

 

 

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Winn Dixie BOGO's 7/6-7/12
by TheresaShadrix
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Winn Dixie Buy One Get One Free deals. Courtesy of The Jacksonville News. Prices in parenthesis are "save up to price" listed in the ad.

Meat/Poultry/Fish

WD Brand Beef boneless top round London broil ($5.39 on 2lbs)

WD All Natural boneless center cut prokchops ($5.69 on 2 lbs)

WD All Natural assorted boneless pork chops ($4.99)

WD All Natural boneless pork loin country style ribs ($5.69)

WD boneless chicken breats or tenderloins

Sanderson Farms split chicken breasts ($2.99 on 2 lbs)

Hormel Natural Choice ham or turney ($3.99)

Hormel pork shoulder roast with BBQ seasoning ($9.99)

Fisherman's Wharf flounder, perch, grouper, cod, whiting fillets ($7.99)

Fisherman's Wharf easy peel 51-60 ct medium white shrimp ($9.99)

Sea Best breaded butterfly or popcorn shrimp, breaded clams, scallops, calamari ($6.99)

Ocean Cafe crab cakes ($8.99)

Grocery

Nature's Own sandwich ournds ($3.29)

Thomas bagel thins ($3.69)

WD long grain rice ($2.99)

Balsamic vinegar or classic or extra light Pompeian olive oil ($5.99)

Peter Pan peanute butter ($2.69)

WD BBQ Sauce ($2.39)

WD seasonings, sauces or gravies ($10.99)

Taco Bell dinner kits or salsa ($3.29)

Reisen, Werther's (5.5 oz) or (1.6-2 oz) of Dove, Twix, 3 Muskateers, Milky Way, m&ms or Snickers candy bars  ($1.99)

Blue Bird sugar donuts ($2.99)

Welch's 100% grape juice ($4.99)

Van Camp's beans ($2.29)

Del Monte vegetables ($1.99)

Household

6 foot beach umbrella with tilt or steel quad chairs (no price listed)

open gazebo (no price listed)

Bamboo torches, selected varieties (no price listed)

Melamine tumblers, selected varieties (no price listed)

Toys, selected varieties (no price listed)

Hefty foam plates ($4.99)

Cleaners

Lysol toilet bowl cleaners, Scrubbing Bubbles aerosol ($3.49)

Health & Beauty

Nature's Bounty or Disney vitamins ($40.99)

Wet 'n Wild cosmetics ($6.99)

Arm & Hammer or Close-Up toothpaste ($3.79)

Double Play

Get (1) FREE 12 ct fresh bakes dinner rolls when you pruchase (1) rotisserie chicken in a single transaction.

Get (1) FREE 18.25 oz Pillsbury cake mix when you purchase (1) 15.6-16 oz Pillsbury frosting in a single transaction.

Get (1) FREE 16 oz Blue Bell pint ice cream when you pruchase (1) 10-11 oz Michael Angelo's dinners in a single transaction.

(Get (1) FREE 16 oz WD mayonnaise or sandwich spread when you purchase (1) 12.5 oz Valley fresh white chicken in a single transaction.

Make-A-Meal

Buy 3 particpating General Mills cereals (Lucky Charms, Cookie Crisp, Cinnamon Toast Crunch, Trix, Honey Nut Cheerios, Cheerios and get

  • Seneca 100% apple juice, 48 oz
  • 12 oz Simply buttermilk biscuits or 8 ct Pillsbury Grands
  • gallon WD milk (excludes chocolate)
  • Smucker's grapy jelly, 20 oz

What-A-Deal

Buy any (2) participating Pantene shampoo or conditioner 2/$11 and get

  • 4 bar Ivory Soap
  • 3.5 oz Crest toothpaste
  • 2.6 oz Secret deodorant
  • 200 ct TopCare cotton balls

Other Deals

WD pharmacy Store Coupon: Save $1 Take Away Environmental Return System package

Purchase $20 in participating P&G items and recieve $5 off instantly on your fresh meat purchase

  • Gain detergent 48-64 load, $9.99
  • Downy fabric softener, Febreeze fabric spray, $4.99
  • Puffs facial tissue 3-4 pack, $4.99
  • Cascade dishwasher detergent, 2/$9
  • Dawn or Ivory dish detergent, 2/$5
  • Swiffer Duster kit, $6.99
  • any Pampers bag diapers, $8.88
  • Bounty napkins 160 or 200 ct, 2/$6
  • Iams dry dog food, $16.99
  • Prilosec OTC, $9.99
  • Alway feminine pads, Tampax tampons, 2/$5.49
  • Crest toothpaste, 2/$6

 

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SavingStar July ecoupons
by TheresaShadrix
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SavingStar's July eCoupons have arrived! LEAN CUISINE, NESTLÉ, DiGiorno Pizza, California Pizza Kitchen, Skinny Cow, Dannon Greek Yogurt, Perrier and more! Click to sign up at SavingStar.

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Editorial: Schools on trial — In Anniston, improving education remains the ultimate goal
by The Anniston Star Editorial Board
Jun 18, 2013 | 60 views |  0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend | print
Any cocoon of stability that may have surrounded Anniston Middle School is now shattered. Last month, after decades of debate, the Anniston Board of Education voted to close the school on Alabama 21 and move its students to other campuses as part of a system-wide reorganization and cost-cutting measure. Last week, Superintendent Joan Frazier announced her retirement for June 2014, meaning someone else — possibly from outside the system hierarchy — will shepherd the system through the middle school’s closure. And Tuesday, the state Board of Education included Anniston Middle on its list of “failing” schools that, as part of the Alabama Accountability Act, will allow parents zoned for AMS to receive tax credits if they transfer elsewhere. For the Anniston Board of Education, the state board’s list of 78 “failing” schools represents two different headlines — both significant. No other Anniston schools made the list. (For that matter, Anniston Middle was the only school in Calhoun County to be deemed “failing” by the state board.) Anniston High School, whose dropout and graduation rates have long been serious civic concerns, and the system’s five elementary schools are free of both the stigma and the practicality of being considered “failing” institutions. We are glad that’s the case. But the other headline didn’t bring a sigh of relief to a city desperate to use public education in its efforts to reinvent the city’s outlook on vital matters such as job creation, economic growth and crime reduction. A city without vibrant and well-supported public schools is a city that struggles to educate its children and sustain its future. A city without successful public schools is a city that faces stagnation and decline, not prosperity. That is Anniston’s struggle today. Our advice is to consider Anniston Middle School’s label as a “failing” school as part old news and part opportunity. Don’t overreact. Instead, see Anniston Middle as what it is — a school already destined for closure. That’s not a rationalization; it’s a fact. What’s important now is the system’s still-developing reorganization that, once completed, is expected to lessen the system’s fiscal concerns. More important, still, is this community’s understanding that the education of the children within Anniston’s public schools must be a grade-A priority. It is not the priority solely of the city’s educators or its black community, whose children are overwhelmingly the majority of the city’s schools. It must be a priority for all who want Anniston to prosper. Make no mistake: We are disappointed that the state considers Anniston Middle School a “failing” school. But we cannot lose focus on the larger, vital picture — the reinvention of Anniston’s school system and the improvement of its public education. The ailments are well known. Repairing them with hard work and rational decisions is the key.
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Tommy Bice, the state’s superintendent of education, had the unenviable task Tuesday of carrying out a poorly conceived policy that, its authors assure us, is designed to raise the quality of Alabama public schools. Playing the good soldier, Bice produced a list of failing schools as defined by the so-called Alabama Accountability Act, the controversial law handed down earlier this year by Montgomery’s ruling Republicans. The strict definition of failing, Bice said Tuesday, meant he was “unable to remove a school from the list although they’ve shown improvement.” Sadly, that’s merely the start of the problems with this policy. As private school administrators from Calhoun County told The Star earlier this year, the law’s intent — allowing students in “failing” schools to transfer to a private school or better public school — almost certainly won’t work. The law’s tax credit — approximately $3,500 annually — won’t be enough to cover private school tuition. What’s more, private schools are balking at accepting state-administered scholarship dollars. Public schools are under no obligation to take transfers from failing schools. Several local districts have confirmed to The Star that they aren’t interested in taking on these new students. In Anniston and elsewhere across Alabama, there’s also the matter of a federal court order concerning desegregation that severely limits student transfers between public schools. All this adds up to a law that seems unlikely to have the intended effect. The shame is that Alabama’s public schools desperately need improvement. Of course, the 78 schools listed Tuesday as “failing” need help, but so does the entire state, especially when considering our ranking in national comparisons of student achievement. Perhaps the best path forward would be for the Legislature and the governor to scrap this policy’s wishful thinking and head back to the drawing board. Putting Alabama’s schools on the path to excellence will require a greater investment, in money, of course, but also in tougher standards for teachers and students.
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Speak Out: The state of foreign missions
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Today, one assumes that much of our commerce and industry have gone overseas — primarily to China. We further assume that China is a nation of non-traditional religious values, living virtually in the Stone Age with hostile attitudes toward Christianity. It may surprise the Christian community that China is now the largest Bible publisher in the world. Amity Publishing in Birmingham recently opened a sprawling printing complex in Nanjing dedicated just to the Holy Bible and is scheduled to turn out 12 million Bibles per year. But the unique twist is that local Chinese caught with an Amity printed Bible do not face harassment and are at liberty to practice their Christian faith just as they would be in America. This is a remarkable feat accomplished by the missionary effort of the Christian community. By relocating and vastly expanding the publishing arm of the effort and making it a Chinese industry, worldwide missionaries have been able to establish themselves permanently and become accepted for what they are in the previously most obstinate mission field ever targeted. To say foreign mission work has come a long way in the past 40 to 50 years would be the understatement of the year. If only U.S. foreign missionary Lottie Moon, who starved herself trying to save hungry Chinese on the mission field, could know this feat today. James W. Anderson
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Sindhi Chicken Curry
Sindhi Chicken Curry
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Cooking an exquisite Indian dish may be a daunting task for beginning cooks who are overwhelmed at first glance of a lengthy list of ingredients and directions. While many people around the world enjoy the exotic and aromatic flavors of Indian food at restaurants and festivals, few seem to imagine re-creating the dishes at home. Indian cookbook author Suneeta Vaswani is working to change this misconception by sharing her wealth of experience and knowledge with people all over the world through her books and cooking classes. Vaswani believes all a beginner needs are some basic spices and cooking equipment to cook creative, inventive Indian cuisine. “The spices are addictive,” Vaswani said. “People slowly start to taste more and more dishes and they are hooked.” Vaswani was born in Mumbai, India, and moved to the United States in the late 1970s with her husband and children. She has been teaching the art of Indian cooking for more than 30 years and has published two Indian cookbooks. Vaswani says students and friends inspired her first cookbook, “Easy Indian Cooking.” “I had this collection of very simple recipes. My friends said you should write,” Vaswani said. “Once I got the idea, I was really driven. I made sure to pick the easiest ones for people to do.” The cookbook was originally published in 2004 but was updated in 2013 with 30 additional recipes and a new chapter on street food, which consists of sweet, salty and tangy snack foods usually topped with liquid chutneys and yogurt. “Street foods are unique,” Vaswani said. “They have a certain structure and texture even for Indian food.” To begin, Vaswani says a cook simply needs six basic spices, which are all available at local grocery stores. These six spices are powdered coriander, powdered cumin, cayenne pepper, turmeric, whole mustard seeds and whole cumin seeds. “Turmeric is receiving a lot of publicity lately,” Vaswani said. “It is used in hospitals around the country as a good supplement and is anti-bacterial.” In addition to these spices, Vaswani recommends two types of cookware. First, she recommends a medium-sized pan with a tight fitting lid and second, a wok that allows the vegetables to cook in their own juices and retain essential nutrients. “If you have a wok and a three quart pan with a tight-fitting lid, you can cook 50 different dishes,” Vaswani said. With a hot Alabama summer in full force, many locals are craving cool foods. To beat the heat, Vaswani suggests whipping together a savory yogurt dish called Lassi. “Yogurt blended with ice cubes can be made sweet with a little sugar,” Vaswani said. “You add powdered cumin and salt and pepper. The dish has a nice cooling benefit.” Another enticing dish is Raita, which consists of yogurt, cilantro, mint and variety of different vegetables and makes for an easy side dish. “Raita is the equivalent of the American green salad,” Vaswani said. “It is one of the most important meal accompaniments.” Vaswani notes that in Indian culture, people typically try to make more vegetable dishes in the summertime for health purposes. “We tend to eat a lot less meat during the summer,” Vaswani said. “We eat a lot of vegetables. It’s easier on the digestive system.” As an experienced culinary artist and teacher, Vaswani has created and tasted a variety of delicious dishes from her home. However, her favorite dish is the featured Sindhi Chicken Curry, a flavorful north-Indian style dish. Vaswani, who recently moved back to Mumbai, believes that interest in Indian food has increased since she first came to the United States. She is happy to share the unique dishes of her home with any adventurous cooks who are ready to experiment with innovative, unique flavors. “When we arrived in the late ’70s, there was less interest in Indian food,” Vaswani said. “Now, everybody is traveling. People around the world are always looking around for new things.” SINDHI CHICKEN CURRY

Serves 8 This is the quintessential north Indian-style chicken curry with onion and tomato-based gravy. It is a simple home-style version, but the amazing flavors and bright, appetizing color make it suitable for company as well.

12 skinless bone-in chicken thighs, about 4 pounds
1 cup plain nonfat yogurt, at room temperature
1 teaspoon cornstarch
2 tablespoons oil
2 cups finely chopped onions
1 tablespoon minced, peeled ginger root
1 tablespoon minced garlic
1 tablespoon minced green chiles
1 tablespoon coriander powder
1½ teaspoons cumin powder
¾ teaspoon turmeric
¾ teaspoon cayenne pepper
1 can (28 ounce) tomatoes, chopped, including juice
½ cup cilantro, chopped
2 teaspoon salt, or to taste
1½ teaspoon garam masala
¼ cup cilantro, chopped, divided Rinse chicken and pat dry. Stir together yogurt and cornstarch until smooth. Set aside. In a large saucepan with a tight-fitting lid, heat oil over medium-high heat. Add onions and sauté until beginning to color, 6 to 8 minutes. Reduce heat to medium and sauté until dark golden, 10 to 12 minutes longer. Stir in ginger, garlic and chile. Sauté for 2 minutes. Increase heat to medium-high. Add chicken and brown well, 6 to 8 minutes. TIP: This dish freezes very well in an airtight container for up to 4 months. Thaw in refrigerator overnight. Reheat on low heat. Sprinkle with garam masala and cumin powder. Cover and let stand for 2 to 3 minutes to allow the aroma of the spices to infuse the curry. Transfer to a serving dish and sprinkle with chopped cilantro before serving.
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