$10 Food Bank Challenge

Moneywise Moms is having a $10 food bank challenge. Get out your coupons and see how much food you can get for $10 to donate to your local food bank. Times have been rough for alot of people. The unemployment rate is at an all time high. More and more people are turning to the food bank to feed their families. Moneywise Moms is giving away 5 prizes to random participant's as an added bonus. Here is what I bought at Wal-mart for $10.96.

Great Steaz Teas giveaway

Organic Deals is giving away a six pack of Steaz teas and a $10.00 Target gift card. She has some great organic deals and coupons on her blog. I am trying to go more organic with my food and day to day living. I recently found her blog and love it.
Thanks, Organic Deals and Steaz

FREE sample of kashi

Go HERE to get your free sample of one of Kashi's granola bars. Kashi has many flavorful healthy snacks. I recently bought a box a cereal and inside was a free sample of their 7 grains cracker, loved them. And on the bottom of the cereal box was two coupons for $1.00 off Kashi products.

$10 IN ORGANIC COUPONS

Organic Valley is giving away $10 in coupons plus a chance to win a years worth of organic valley products FREE.
Thanks, Money Saving Mom

Field trip to Lazy S Ranch

My niece had a field trip today to Lazy S Ranch here in Fluvanna county. She is in the 4 year old program at Camp Friendship. The kids got to go through a corn maze, a hay maze, climb on the hay bails and take their picture with a teddy bear made of hay. We rode a hay ride were we saw longhorn cows, a donkey and a pony. Then off we went to go pick pumpkins. Krista and her little sister, Kilee, had a ruff decision on which pumpkin to pick. After picking the perfect pumpkin it was time for lunch. We sat under the beautiful autumn trees and ate our lunches. All the kids had a blast. Thanks, Miss Pat and all the helpers for a fun day!!

Peach Jam wins 1st place

The fall season is here and so are the great fall festivals. My local area has "Old Farm Day". It is a big event for our small county. I entered my peach jam and spiced apple rings. The jam won 1st place and the apple's won 2nd place. I'm not sure on how many entries there were, but not many. It is still exciting for me to win. I have only been canning and making homemade jams for about 3 years, a long ways from being pro. I enjoy making them. I use alot of my homemade jams for Christmas presents. I have more and more requests for them each year. The date on the camera pic is wrong, haven't figured out how to change that.

OLD FARM DAY IN PALMYRA VIRGINIA

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Old Farm Day is this Saturday October 3 in Fluvanna county VA. If you live near Fluvanna you should stop by and see all the great things. There are apple pie contest, guess the weight of a cow and you could win $150 gift cert. There is an animal calling contest, live music and much, much more. I am thinking of entering some of my strawberry jam. I recently won 1st place at the Albemarle county fair for my strawberry jam. This is a fun day for the whole family. Tickets are $4.00 and children 12 years and under are free. Hopefully my daughter will get some great pictures to enter in the contest. I'll post them here.