Healthy Jello

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May 092013

Even though jello isn’t usually thought of as a healthy food, it can be! You can make it with unflavored gelatin and natural juice with no added sugars  or dyes and then add some fruit for vitamins and fiber! And gelatin has all kinds of health benefits!

Ingredients:
2 Tablespoons unflavored gelatin
4 cups juice (I used mostly juice from the can of fruit plus a little cranberry grape juice with no sugar added)
Canned or fresh fruit cut up
Heat juice over the stove until boiling. Add the gelatin and mix it in. Once it’s dissolved pour into a bowl or dish and add the fruit. Let cool slightly before putting in the fridge. Let it set overnight in the fridge and it’ll be nice and jello-y in the morning!

This post is linked at Frugally Sustainable and A Blossoming Life.

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Freebies, Mini-Extreme Couponing & a Skort Re-Do

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Sep 032011

Here’s some more freebies. Seems like I’ve been getting a lot lately. =)

I love freebies!

  • 2 Huggies diapers
  • 2 Dove conditioner samples
  • Some pectin. I’m excited about this because I’ve never made any kind of jelly or jam before, so I think I’ll try a simple recipe, probably a freezer variety because I’ve never canned before.
  • A coupon for a free can of cat food…Fuzzy’s excited!
  • A Kashi granola bar, not pictured because we already ate it. :P
  • A small sample of cereal, which Gracia already ate too.
  • Sweet pea and violet lotion, which smells great! I haven’t decided if I’ll keep it for myself or use it as a gift. It’s the perfect size for a stocking stuffer at Christmas!
  • Men’s body wash
  • Suave dry shampoo
  • And 3 $1 Suave coupons that came with the samples

And as a side note, on my facebook page I try to share freebie links I find, so you can “like” my page to get  in on these goodies!

I also got some almost free juice! I saw on A Thrifty Mom you could get free lemonade and orange juice from Walgreens by using a Walgreen’s coupon plus these printable ones. When I gave the guy the coupons though he was only able to use one of the Walgreen’s ones. Maybe only one per customer, I  don’t know. But for only 71 cents I got two small bottles of juice! For a minute I felt like a mini-extreme couponer! :)

My Favorite Skirt

And on another note, see the skirt I’m wearing in this photo? A while back I was given a bunch of clothes to look through to see if I could find any that I wanted. They were in really good shape and mostly name brand clothes! One of the things I picked out was that skirt, only it was a skort. Skorts can’t make up their mind if they should be a skirt or shorts. And the shorts part kinda bunched up and made the skirt not lay as flat…so I figured it was free and I had nothing to lose, so I took a pair of scissors to that skort and helped it make up its mind on what it should be! I cut off the short part and now it’s a full fledged skirt! I didn’t even have to do any sewing, the cutting just took me a minute! And  now it’s my most worn skirt!

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