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I've been neglecting this blog lately, but for a very good reason!
I've taken leave of my senses and signed up to walk a marathon. As in a 26.2 MILE marathon for The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society's Team in Training.
For the past several weeks, I have been training to walk a full marathon in my favorite place on earth, Walt Disney World. I'm also working to raise $3,700.00 to help stop leukemia, lymphoma, Hodgkin lymphoma and myeloma from taking more lives. I am walking in memory of my late friend Cliff Gorman, who died from leukemia in 2002.
Please visit my Team in Training Page at
http://pages.teamintraining.org/nyc/wdw10/cmartzinek for updates, info and to make a donation in support of my efforts.
To keep up to date on my training progress and adventures along the way, you can visit the Crawl, Carol, CRAWL!!! blog at http://crawlcarolcrawl.blogspot.com
There's also the Crawl, Carol, CRAWL!!! store at http://www.cafepress.com/crawlcarolcrawl
From now through the end of October, I will be holding an online Tastefully Simple party, and the consultant has generously offered to donate 20% of the total sales to Team in Training on my behalf. If you would like to help by purchasing delicious food and holiday gifts, please e-mail me with "Tastefully Simple - TNT" in the subject, and I will send you a link so that Team in Training gets credited for the sale.
Anything you can do to help me get the word out, and raise needed funds in this challenge will be greatly appreciated! If you have a facebook page or web site, and can place a link to my Team in Training page on it, it would help so much!
Thanks!
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This is it! The final week of the ALL YOU Grocery Challenge!
I have some catching up to do as far as posting last week's details, but I managed to feed myself on $25 or less yet again! Not only has this been helping me budget-wise, it's also been helping me use some of the stuff that's been hanging around my kitchen for a while.
Last night, I tried something new - stuffed baby portabello mushrooms. They were really easy (and cheap) to make. A box of dozen mushrooms were on sale for $1.49, then I simply added some bread crumbs from my stockpile, mixed with some melted Smart Balance spread, and popped them in the toaster oven on 350 for about 20 minutes. Very Weight Watchers POINTS-friendly! I had 4 mushrooms with a Boca Cheeseburger on an Arnold Sandwich Thin for dinner. Total meal cost was less than $3.00!
For lunch, I had a Lean Cuisine Margherita Pizza that I bought on sale $1.99 each, less a $1.00 off coupon for 4 or more. I bought 5, so it brought the cost down to $1.79 each. Breakfast was my new favorite cereal - Reese's Puffs that I got on sale at WalMart 2/$5.00, less a manufacturer's coupon for $1.00 off, with some stockpiled Skim Plus milk (purchased on sale for $2.49 before the challenge, on 7/3/2009). Total cost per serving - $0.17!
"Good Housekeeping", a magazine that you would think would have coupons, doesn't have any! "Family Circle", on the other hand, has a few. "ALL YOU" has loads!
