Here are a couple of great summer smoothie recipes.

Cantaloupe-Coconut Smoothie (contributed by Elizabeth Bushman)
1/2 cup low fat milk
1 cup nonfat frozen vanilla yogurt
2 tbs cream of coconut
3 cups chopped cantaloupe
1/2 cup chopped fresh pineapple
1-1/2 cups crushed ice cubes. 

Kid Friendly Spinach Smoothie

2 c blueberries

1 vanilla yogurt

fresh pineapple chunks

ice cubes

2 c fresh spinach (yeah spinach)

Kids are lovin' em!

Smoothie Tips*
Freeze the yogurt, bananas, and berries, etc.  I have never frozen cantaloupe.
If your fruit is frozen then you can skip the ice.
I don't really chop a lot or crush the ice, as my blender does this well.
Freeze any leftovers and make Popsicles.  I use the 5 oz wax bathroom cups and spoons or Popsicle sticks.

Here is my .pdf of the newest school supply deals.  It includes a easy shopping list with the best deals as long as 2 pages of ads that you can print and take to Walmart to do the price match with.  Happy Shopping!

Download Sales Here

Hi!  For all those of you with the dreaded school supply list...

I have made a printable .pdf of my excel  sheet showing the best deals in the area.

I have found it way easier to actually visit each stores website and print out just the pages of what you need.  If I get time I will make that printable too.  Then take your ads to Walmart and do it all there as they will honored all advertised ads that are not Buy 1 Get 1.

Click here to print and view my list.  (Please feel free to add comments on your finds)

Here is a .pdf of all the items I took off the online ads.  Hopefully this will be an easy way to get the deals at Walmart.

Also, I have found Walgreens doesn't inforce the limited amounts in McKinney and Allen.  My friend Renee added this on facebook:
At Staples - teachers have a limit of 25 rather than the posted limit of one or 2 items. Especially awesome on their penny sales! 

Great Deals this week at Aldi's (Click here to find one near you). 

June Group Special   Reg. $17.50 on sale now for $13.00  (min. order 12)  We have 12 ordered so fill free to order anything from Emergency Essentials with FREE shipping.  Orders need to be placed by 6/21/10.

First it was baby products, then reusable drinking bottles. Now a new report released last week by the National Workgroup for Safe Markets, a coalition of more than 17 public and environmental health groups, shows that bisphenol-A is present in most food preserved in cans (not just in the lining of the cans themselves, where it is used to protect food from corrosion and bacteria). BPA, as the chemical is also called, has been linked to a range of ills including cancer, infertility, and obesity.

For the new study (charmingly titled "No Silver Lining"), researchers analyzed 50 cans of food from 19 U.S. states and Ontario, Canada. BPA was found in a whopping 92 percent of the collected samples, with the top level being the highest yet reported in the U.S. -- 1,140 parts per billion. (In case you're keeping track, it was a can of Del Monte French Style Green Beans, and it came from Wisconsin.)

In the past, some have argued that while BPA is certainly present in a variety of plastics, the amount that actually leaches into our food is negligible. Not so here. Mike Schade, a co-author of the study, told AOL News that "real-life meals involving one or more cans of food can cause an individual to ingest levels of BPA that have been shown to cause health effects in laboratory animal studies."

The report further warns that the BPA was found across the board, regardless of brand, nutritional quality, or the price point of the foods. Whether it was the fancy gourmet stuff or the store label, BPA was in the can and therefore also in the food. Walmart's Great Value Green Peas from a store in Kentucky, and Healthy Choice Old Fashioned Chicken Noodle Soup from a pantry in Montana, also scored high according to researchers.

As one might expect, politicians have started crying foul. Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D. California, had already called for a ban on BPA in food and beverage containers. "Nearly 200 scientific studies show that exposures to low doses of BPA, particularly during pregnancy and early infancy, are associated with a wide range of adverse health effects later in life," she wrote in a column for the Huffington Post. This report will certainly add weight to her argument.

Read more: http://www.slashfood.com/2010/05/24/bpa-found-in-92-of-canned-foods/?icid=main|aim|dl3|link5|http%3A%2F%2Fwww.slashfood.com%2F2010%2F05%2F24%2Fbpa-found-in-92-of-canned-foods%2F#ixzz0oweiPyC8