Homemade Chicken Nuggets

I enjoy chicken nuggets and when I found a recipe on Pinterest for them I decided to try it out! (You can find the original recipe here)

Here's what you need:

Chicken breast (I cut up 2 breasts which was plenty!)
1 cup milk
1 large egg
1 1/4 cup flour
2 Tbsp powdered sugar
2 tsp salt
1 tsp pepper
1/2 tsp chili powder
Oil for frying (we have a deep fryer so I didn't have to worry about using a pan for frying)

Mix together milk and egg in one bowl
Mix together all dry ingredients in another bowl
Cut up chicken into bite sized pieces

Dip the chicken pieces into the milk/ egg mix, shake off excess, then put into the flour mix and coat well.

I put my deep fryer on 360 and place a handful of pieces at a time into it for 6 minutes. The original recipe calls for frying in a pan 2-3 minutes on each side to make sure it's cooked.

Finished product! (Well, some of it :) ) Because it's fried I served these with some sweet potato fries (not sure if that helps but it made me feel better haha). Serve with a variety of dipping sauces!

We try not to make this too often since it is fried but sometimes chicken nuggets are just what you need!

Triples Success!

I woke up early and headed to Harris Teeter to get my deals with triple coupons!

Here's what I got:

I spent $9.82 and saved $50.24!

All of the hot sauces were free, the 2 dish soaps were free, the floss was free, the 3 bags of Pepperidge Farm cracker chips were .25 each, the box of Trix was .50, the rest was all really cheap.

I may head out and get a few more things as the week goes on but this is my biggest trip.

Preparing for Triple Coupons

I did a post a few weeks ago about Harris Teeter's coupon special event, Super Doubles, starting this Wednesday they are doing their other special event Triple Coupons.

The rules of Triple Coupons are:

1- They will triple coupons up to .99 cents. A .50 cent coupon will be worth $1.50, a .75 coupon will be worth $2.25, etc.
2- They will triple up to 20 coupons per day (you can use more than 20 but they will not triple)
3- You can only use 3 "like" paper coupons and 2 "like" printed coupons
4- You can stack their online digital coupons with paper coupons.

Again, my biggest piece of advice is to let someone else do the work for you! Find some couponing blogs that you like and follow them. I follow Moola Saving Mom and she is by far the best I have ever seen! She sets up lists and tells you what items you can get for free, where to find specific coupons, and which deals are the best. Here's her triples list she's made up so far, it will probably be updated one more time later tonight with all the unadvertised deals she finds.

I've already started my list and gotten a lot of my coupons together so I will be ready to go early in the morning when the store opens! Let me know if there are any questions and I will be more then happy to help anyone out :)

Crafting for my new nephew!

My sister-in-law is having a baby exactly 1 week from today! I am so excited and cannot wait to meet this little boy :). Of course I bought her the typical gifts for her baby shower; diapers, outfit, shoes, etc. But I wanted to make something for him also so I decided on a banner with his name (which I found the idea on Pinterest from the Michael's website here).

Mine looks slightly different since I couldn't find the exact plaques they were suggesting and used different colors.

I first painted the plaques, front, back, and sides.

Then I cut out scrapbook paper to fit on the front of the plaques.

Then I hot glued the letters onto each plaque.

Then I hot glued the plaques onto ribbon and attached a D-ring to the top so she could hang it wherever she wants.

It's so cute and I can't wait to meet little Bryson next week!

Cleaning Supplies: Pet Edition

I figure it's about time for me to write a post on cleaning. As everyone knows Adam and I have 2 dogs and they are our little furry babies :) (ok, not so little but still our babies).
This is Roxy:

This is Puck:

As we all know, dogs are messy!! Occasionally they tend to get sick and it is gross. Luckily we don't have any carpet throughout most of our house so we don't have to worry about a lot of stains. Our dogs do have carpet in their crates though and that is where they tend to get sick. My sisters gave me a basket of cleaning supplies when I got married and inside the basket was this little gem:

Woolite Pet Oxygen Stain & Odor Remover. I've used this every time the dogs get sick in their crate or on the 1 area rug we have in the house and it is magic! It gets rid of the stain every time and there's no smell left. All you have to do is pick up the mess, spray Woolite generously over the area, let sit for a few minutes, then dab up with paper towel. I highly recommend this for every pet owner out there!

Monkey Bread

I love to bake! Love it! Cakes, pies, breads, muffins, you name it I love it. Pinterest has been my kryptonite when it comes to baking with all the amazing recipes there are. I found a recipe for monkey bread recently and had to try it!

Here's what you need:

2 cans of Pillsbury Grands rolls
1 stick of butter
1 cup sugar
2 tsp cinnamon (my sugar and cinnamon is already mixed together)
1 cup brown sugar
1 tsp vanilla

Cut up your biscuits into pieces and mix a few pieces at a time in the cinnamon sugar mix

Put the pieces in a very greased pan (I used 2 pie pans)

Melt your butter, brown sugar, and vanilla in a pan and let boil for a minute. Then pour it over the biscuit pieces.

Bake at 350 for 30-35 minutes, let cool, and enjoy!

I turned my pie pans upside down and dumped it out. The top of it was a little crispy just where liquid wasn't on the biscuit pieces but besides that it's sooo good!!

Super Doubles Success!

This morning I woke up early and headed out to tackle my Super Double trips at Harris Teeter and Lowe's Food.

My first stop was Harris Teeter. Here's my result:

Before store discounts and coupons my total was: $74.27.
After store discounts and coupons my total was: $18.66.
I saved $55.61!

My second trip was to Lowe's Food. Here's what I got:

Before store discounts and coupons my total was: $72.35
After store discounts and coupons my total was: $30.74
I saved $41.61!
This trip was a little more expensive since I had to buy meat and some products I didn't have coupons for.

My total out of pocket for both trips was: $49.40
My total savings was: $97.22

I will probably head out a couple more times this week and pick up a few things here and there but this will be my biggest trip during the sale.