Keeping up with coupons for different stores & trips

With all of the trips I have made to different stores for various coupon/saving deals, I found I was sometimes misplacing coupons or lists. In addition to my regular coupon organizers (which I carry with me to all stores in case I find unadvertised or clearance deals) I have two other "wallets" (picked up at my fav consignment shop for pennies). One is for Food Lion and one for CVS (these are the 2 stores that are on the way for most of my daily travels and from which I use the most coupons). I organize these wallets before I leave the house. In each I place:

1.) my lists of good deals that I get from reading circulars and other wonderful blogs like Money Saving Mom and Centisble Sawyer
2.) coupons needed for the deals on my lists

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Pressure Cooker -Healthy eating while saving time & money

Usually, in order to save time & energy and prevent using convenience foods (like "instant" rice, rice/pasta mixes, frozen dinners, etc), I plan ahead and cook in advance several things at once.

One evening this week, dh was jonesin' for "chinese" food. Needless to say, as I am exhausted by these last days of the school year, I had not planned any further ahead for the evening meal than thawing out precooked chicken. In addition, I had not prepared the usual container of precooked brown rice that we keep on hand in the fridge. I did not want to hold up dinner by having to wait the traditional 45 minutes to cook brown rice.

Then I remembered that using the pressure cooker can save time with brown rice. I dug out the pressure cooker and quickly researched cooking instructions. Indeed, the pressure cooker, cut the cooking time down 1/3. Using a pressure cooker, helps to retain nutrients sometimes lost while cooking with traditional methods. :)
Here are some helpful links about pressure cookers & recipes:
Dollar Stretcher
Presto (my brand)
Miss Vickie's Pressure Cooker Recipes
Fastcooking.ca

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