In the Honolulu Advertiser i read an article entitiled,"In midst of recession, moochers emerge". In it there were a few good websites for getting free stuff for you and your family and some tips.Check out: http://MeTime.com, http://The Motherhood.com, 5minutesformom.com. And finally check out,HeyItsFree.net. Apparently being a moocher is a good thing now!

The authors tips are,Don't expect to get big thing for free. uSUALLY IT'S SHAMPOO, CANDY BARS, TEE SHIRTS AND THE LIKE. Don't give out more than your email address or home address so they can mail something to you. And finally if they ask a lot of questions it's probably not a safe site to use. Check 'em out!

Though I am in Hawaii for the next 2 weeks I have not forgotten you! To make you feel a little better I thought giving you some of the prices on necessary items, (ok, some not so necessary!) at the grocery stores in Kauai might make you feel better about your food budget. Here goes!
Red bell pepper 5.89 lb
cherry tomatoes 5.59 for 10 oz. pkg
Near East Pilaf 3.39 box
Berensteins dressing 16 oz. 5.39
Dairyland Milk 2% 4.99 a gallon
Betty Crocker brownies 3.99
Dreyer Fruit juice bars 6.39 for 6 bars
Walleds Pita Chips 5.49
So do not despair! Someone has it harder than you do!

$5.00 Dinners for 4!

Erin Chase was on The Rachel Ray Show this week. She was talking about how she feeds her family of 4 dinners for less than $5.00! And the food is varied, healthy and good tasting. Check out her site at 5dollardinners.com. One of her great ideas was if you see a coupopn in the sunday paper that you use all the time, go out and buy a paper for each member of the family. That way you can buy an item for each member of the family. Check this out. She really has been thinking on this!

Your Credit Score

Did you know your credit score can be going down because of something the banks are doing and nothing you have done?http://www.stretcher.com/stories/09/09apr13b.cfm This is an excellent article on how to protect your credit even when the banks are changing the rules. This comes from a website I like called The Dollar Stretcher.com. It's short and very informative!

Pat and Ocsar's Free Food

www.patandoscars.comIf you like Pat and Oscar's you need to sign up for their breadsticks newsletter. Go to www.patandoscars.com. They usually have a $5.00 off coupon or free breadsticks with an order. They have coupons available all the time for one thing or another.

I'm still working out how to edit. So I will have to add Stater Bros sales in this post.

STATER BROS.

Grand Re-Opening!! of the Poway store. Wednesday thru Saturday, April 25 they will have balloons for the kids, snacks for all and they will be giving away bags of groceries to some of their lucky customers!

whole chickens Foster farms .69 lb stock up!
asparagus 1.00 lb
red grapes .77 lb.
Milk! 1.99 a gallon whole, low fat or fat free
Sb Cheese 16 block 3.50 ea.
Glen Oaks Drinkable yogurt 32 oz. 3.00
bar S franks .99 ea pkg.
O Meyer meat bologna or cotto salami 16 oz. 2.00 each
SROREWIDE 10 FOR 10 SALE!land O' Lakes buttery spread, Chef Boyardee Pasta, 7-Up 2 ltr., SB Pasta, Hunt's spagetti sauce 26 oz., SB frozen juices 12 oz., Rosarita beans, Sb gallon water, Gerber 1st or 2nd's foods, and many more1
in ad coupon Free Chinet lunch plates or Casuals colored plates when you buy a dish or cup package at the same time.
pork ribs .99 lb.
Wild Keta Salmon defrosted 1.99 lb
Kern's Nectar 10 for 4.00
Gurrero flour tortillas 4.49 for 24 ct.
onions white .50 lb.
strawberries 4 lbs. 4.99
broccoli 1.00 lb.
In ad coupon for a $30.00 if you get a new or transferred perscription filled there!
In ad coupon for $5.00 off if you buy 10 General Mills products in one transaction.

Today is Yom HaShoah, also known as Holocaust Remembrance Day- a day set aside to remember the approximately 6 million Jews who dird in the Holocaust. In Isreal this day is typically observed by air-raid sirens sounding at 10 am for 2 minutes, during which time the entire country stops (including cars) and stands at attention to pay tribute to the dead. Flags are flown at half-mast and places of entertainment are closed. It is always celebrated on the 27th day of Nisan, the first month of the year in the Jewish calendar. So that means it may be celebrated on a different day according to our calendar, but it will not vary much.