Idaho Jan

I love this...

This is a 1/2 slice of a piece of Cheesecake Factory cheesecake. Victoria and Zane gave us a piece yesterday. Since each slice is 720 calories, I thought I'd better cut it in half for Dale. He enjoyed it throroughly!

One of the things I'm grateful for today is my crockpot. I love the way I can put food in it before church, come home to some good aromas, and have a great meal after fasting. Yesterday I found this pork roast at WinCo in IF and had a $1 off coupon for it. I figured that it served 4 servings so that came to $1.25 per plate. Much cheaper than dining out and my house smells good! This is another great tool for my kitchen that my husband Dale bought me several years back. I found a recipe that makes about 1 dozen rolls and so they don't go bad while waiting to get eaten up. Dale is the one who eats the rolls so I freeze them and then pull one out forhis dinner or lunch. The finished product. . . I love the smell of bread!

Picture Mary Jones took for us at the dance last Saturday. Thanks Mary. You did a great job!

Here we are at the Valentine's Dance. We had a nice time with nice people and nice music! People noticed how tall Dale is and how short I am compared to me when we danced. Oh well... I got lucky getting a tall Valentine! The refreshments and appetizers. Dale had enough to cover for both of us. Half-time Entertainment was very colorful and enjoyable to watch. I hope you all had a nice Valentine's Day too!

Thanks Gladys for making me a cute necklace. I wore it several days this week.

My first big score at doing the coupon clipping. Albertsons had a "double coupon" promotion so I went to see what I could get. I had an ad from Fred Meyer for the Life cereal at $2 a box which they matched. Then I had a coupon for $1 off the cereal too (which they doubled). Then since I'm into dill pickles on my salad, they were originally $2.50 each but with my $1 coupon doubled, they came out to 50 cents per jar. Last but not least, I had a Yoplus yogurt coupon doubled for a grand total OOP (out of pocket) price of $3.89! The receipt said I had coupons totalling $49.18! Not bad for me. These double coupon deals don't come around very often so I was glad to make some good use of it. Thanks Patty, for helping me do the coupon thing!