99 Reasons: Udi's and Udi's

I love that the 99 cent store carries a lot of gluten-free products throughout the year.  While I am not necessarily gluten-free and do not have Celiac like my mother-in-law, sometimes it's fun to try these other options.  Today, we saw Udi's bagels in the freezer section so I grabbed my phone to take a picture.  The Redhead thought this was so cruel to send to her grandmother, but I knew she'd be okay with it.  I wasn't torturing her, I was just sharing my finds with her.  She'll be in Arizona soon near her own 99 Cent stores.  Fortunately.  Hopefully she will have some luck there too.

Last Tuesday, The Redhead and I saw a lady with a cart full of treasures.  Apparently she has friends that work there, according to what she was telling another shopper.  I was trying to figure out what sort of box of Pillsbury goodies she had and never did get my answer.  But she had so many boxes of them!  Well, today, we found them!  Little did I know in the beginning that those boxes hold THREE PACKAGES of cookies in a box!!!  Two boxes is overkill, but once I realized there were three in a pack, I was too lazy to put one back.

We also found these huge packages of tortillas today.

And while coffee and dairy are not things I can consume anymore, I figure I will do something fun with that creamer.  I'm sure The Pinterestese will have some sort of recipe...I'm sure of it.

Mmmm....bagels.

Walgreens' online has this stuff at $20.  I'm curious what it's really like...

I shouldn't have bought all of those lemon bars, but I just couldn't help myself!!  Months ago, I was excited enough over a FIVE PACK.  TWELVE?!  Are you kidding me?!

 I'm so glad we had just bought these an hour earlier at Target for over double the price....on clearance.

The Redhead bought them for her father's stocking...

Thirsty sheets!  I could have used those a week ago when my sink threw up water underneath.  But now they're there.  I just hope there isn't a next time.



As you can probably tell, we find some interesting items at the 99 Cent Only Stores.  However, I don't always buy all the fun things.  Like a month ago when I found both a huge bottle of Tang and a huge canister of Tang mix.  Tempting though....as a joke.  I also passed up Nestle cut out cookie dough today.  And the big packs of bacon.  All of these lovely finds more than make up for not finding much in the last month....

99 Reasons: Christmas Goodies

Although I don't share my finds nearly as often as I should, I still continue to find treasures.  Those aprons above were $1.49 and a lot cheaper than it was going to be to sew aprons for our baking party.

We bought that Hallmark gift bag for our teacher's gift.

I LOVE the Challenge brand!  And we bought the pencil grips to put in the classroom goody bags.

I bought the latte packets for me until I remembered to check the ingredients after I came home.  Coconut oil.  Nope.  So, I had an idea to put them in the teacher's lounge instead.  That's a better place for them.  After all, I'm allergic.  Also, buying butter, real butter at the 99 cent store is always amazing.

Look at all of that cream cheese!  I've been going through cream cheese like crazy this month.

My feet are in excruciating pain almost every single day.  That Kerasal is fantastic.  I went back later and bought five more.  I'm not even kidding.

Also, we love Pillsbury cookies around here.  We can bake just a few at a time.  It comes in handy when I don't feel like making a big batch for just the three of us.  I'm sure I've skipped some trips, but it's not like you will know the difference.

Day 16: And 17 Too

Since this is a holiday week, I had the brilliant idea to bake on Sunday for both Monday and Tuesday.  

Molasses looks like I'm turning anything into a sundae.

Also, it's amazing that in under a week, I went through an entire jar of molasses making various treats.

While the molasses mix hung out in the fridge for a few hours, I started on Tuesday's treat.

This was by far one of the easiest and most perfect recipes I could have ever gotten my hands on.  Everything was explained so well.  In fact, both of Sunday's recipes were very well thought out.

I enlisted The Redhead's assistance.

She's a champ.

Meanwhile, this was our mop of a dog.

Pretending she's not waiting for something to fall on the floor.

Once this dough had served its time in Fridge Jail, it was ready to bathe in cinnamon sugar and bake.

And these beauties were ready to go too.

And that concludes this year's baking project.  I made a ton of new things and treats I've wanted to bake for years.  And I managed to do so without gaining any extra weight and taste testing very little of it.  I think that's the most success I could ask for.