Becoming Betty Crocker: Kielbasa with Peppers & Potatoes

A couple of weeks ago when we had dinner with our neighbors at their house, +Daniel Segall made kielbasa with peppers, potatoes & onions.  Since then I've wanted to try it.  Hillshire Farm sausages were on sale this week (bogo & I had a $1/2 coupon = approximately $1.70 each). 

Since I'm still in the Becoming Betty stages, I needed a recipe to at least give an idea what to do and I found this one - Kielbasa with Peppers and Potatoes.

I did a couple of things a little different.  I used Smoked Sausage, only used green peppers & added onions.  I also used McCormick's Seasoned Pepper Blend.

Pre-cooked sausage & potatoes

 

cooked with the peppers & onions (minus Dan's serving already taking out)

 

This was REALLY good!  Usually we just have smoked sausage cooked in the skillet with pierogies.  Definitely will be doing this again.  I have one other sausage recipe that I want to try, so we'll be trying that probably next week.

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Savings Summary Saturday - February 23, 2013

Items sent for:

• n/a - nothing this week.

Grocery Shopping (and other savings) this week:

• picked up these Spot Skinneeez Masked Bandit at the grocery store for the pups.  They were marked down to $0.75 each.  They were totally marked wrong.  The detailed sticker said 12" black balloons regularly $1.50.  Pups were happy with the purchase!
• Just because something is a bargain doesn't mean you will like it.  I bought Smart Balance spread that I haven't used before.  This was their new product - well, it SUCKS.  Every once in awhile, I got this fishy taste.  I had 5 tubs that I got for about $1.25 each (which is a good deal) and threw them all away.  The first time we used it, was on a grilled cheese sandwich and the next day, my stomach was horrible the next day.  Then I used it on a bagel 2 days later and still had the fishy taste every once in awhile. 

Gas Savings:

• Hubby used the Exxon card which gives us money in the Upromise account.

Income (Starting to post again to Ebay & Yardsellr & Listia. My goal is to post at least one item a day.):

• n/a - been too busy cleaning!

Items received in the mail:

• Rolling Stone Magazine (rewardsgold.com)

Rewards programs:
MyPoints - 15095 points (personal account) - 14975 points -last week)
MyPoints -  4857 points (coupon account) - 4712 points-last week)
Swagbucks - 3486 points (3437 points-last week)
Listia - 41551 credits  (41,401 credits last week) $0 paid out for shipping (when buying credits it is 1 cent/credit)
Postpoints - 3290 points (3,280 points last week)
mycokerewards - 6819 points (6707 points-last week)
Bondrewards - $27.36  ($27.26 - last week)
Upromise - $21.42 ($21.42 last week) available for transfer
Capital One Rewards - 9056 miles (8846 miles-last week)
Thanks Again - 1075 points (1075 points last week)
Viggle - 42953  points (40649 points - last week)
NCP - 46505 points (45965 points last week)
Daily Feats - 1695 points (1695 points last week)
ExpoTV - 120 points (120 points last week)

2012 New Year, New Goals - to continue in 2013!

• Use rewards programs to get gifts and daily stuff -
• Use Restaurant.com coupons -
• Set up an Estate -
• Monthly Review/Net Worth
• I created a new budget with only one income and used Quicken so that I am able to run reports to see how well we are staying on track.
• See From D.I.N.K to O.I.N.K.- January summary