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I’ve been making Sliced Baked Potatoes for years. In fact, this was one of the first recipes I started making way back in my early teens! These are versatile, hearty, and delicious. They are a fun way to dress up an ordinary potato! 
Sliced Baked Potatoes - 4 medium baking potatoes (evenly-sized)
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 2-3 Tablespoons melted butter
- 2-3 Tablespoons chopped fresh herbs (parsley, chives, thyme, sage, etc.) or 2-3 teaspoons dried herbs (of your choice
- 4 Tablespoons cheddar cheese, grated
- 1 1/2 Tablespoons Parmesan cheese
Preheat oven to 425°F. Scrub and rinse potatoes. Cut into thin slices, but NOT all the way through. Put potatoes in a baking dish and fan out the slices. Sprinkle with salt and drizzle with butter, then sprinkle with herbs. Bake potatoes for about 50 minutes. Remove from oven and sprinkle with cheese. Then bake for another 10-15 minutes until lightly browned and potatoes are done. For the first time ever, you can watch the Dave Ramsey Show whenever you want, for free! Check out the new video channel, and learn how to start your debt-free journey with daily advice from Dave.    Related Stories
For the first time ever, you can watch the Dave Ramsey Show whenever you want, for free! Check out the new video channel, and learn how to start your debt-free journey with daily advice from Dave. 
There’s a new JCPenney coupon available for $10 off any $25 purchase. This is good in-store only through October 2, 2013. Fine Print: Receive $10 off select original, regular, sale and clearance-priced apparel, shoes, accessories and home purchases of $25 or more. Extra 10% off select original, regular, sale and clearance-priced furniture, mattresses, custom blinds & shades, fine jewelry, watches and Bijoux Bar purchases. Each offer good in store only, excluding taxes.
Thanks, Capitally Frugal! For the first time ever, you can watch the Dave Ramsey Show whenever you want, for free! Check out the new video channel, and learn how to start your debt-free journey with daily advice from Dave.  Related Stories 
This is a deal that we don’t see very often! Right now, you can get a one-year subscription to Ranger Rick Magazine for only $11.99 per year when you use coupon code MONEYSAVING at checkout. You can order up to two years at this price! Ranger Rick Magazine: Ranger Rick is a book for boys and girls ages 7-12. Each issue is packed with full-color photos of animals and stories of adventure. Ranger Rick is published by the National Wildlife Federation and focuses on teaching young kids about wildlife, nature and conservation. This magazine subscription is perfect for children who love the outdoors and animals.
This offer expires tonight 9/26/12 at 11:59 PM EST. Are you looking for other magazine titles? You can use coupon code MONEYSAVING to save 20% off of most titles at DiscountMags! (Note: The link in this post is my referral link. Read my disclosure policy here.) For the first time ever, you can watch the Dave Ramsey Show whenever you want, for free! Check out the new video channel, and learn how to start your debt-free journey with daily advice from Dave.  Related Stories 
Today (September 26, 2013), Perkins Restaurants are offering a free short stack of pancakes to all customers. No purchase is necessary, but they do encourage a donation to Give Kids the World. Thanks, For the Mommas! For the first time ever, you can watch the Dave Ramsey Show whenever you want, for free! Check out the new video channel, and learn how to start your debt-free journey with daily advice from Dave.  Related Stories 
A few months ago, I was speaking at a conference and the conference coordinators gave me a gift certificate for a Legacy Bracelet as a thank you. I didn’t want to be ungrateful, but to be completely honest, I wasn’t really sure if this type of bracelet was my thing. The Legacy Bracelet folks wanted me to send in multiple pictures of my children to put on the bracelet and it just seemed like a lot of work for something that I didn’t know if I’d like. Yes, call me a cynic, but it’s true. 
After a few emails back and forth, they convinced me to send in the pictures and they promised me that it would be worth it. 
And it was! As soon as this Legacy Bracelet showed up in my mailbox, I fell in love with it. (Isn’t it adorable?!) It’s a gorgeous keepsake to me that I treasure! And I knew that many of you would LOVE a bracelet like this, too. So I asked Legacy Bracelets if they’d be willing to do a giveaway on my blog for you all. They graciously agreed! 
This week, they are giving away a Legacy Bracelet to four different winners. Each winner will have the opportunity to choose their bracelet design and to customize it with the photos they choose. If you don’t have children, you could customize it with other special photos — like your wedding photos, or photos from your childhood, or any other keepsake photos. The mission of Legacy Bracelets is summed up well in this email from them: “We create unique reversible bracelets with photos on one side and a design on the other. Our purpose is to cause women to reflect on and celebrate the relationships that God has gifted them with. Legacy Bracelets are created right in our own home. Each piece is cut, drilled, sanded, and crafted by hand, resulting in an original work of art and a personal gift to be given.” Be sure to follow Legacy Bracelets on Facebook and check out the Legacy Bracelets website. To enter to win a custom Legacy bracelet of your choice, just click on the graphic below and type in your name and email address. This giveaway ends Friday, September 27, at 11:59 pm, CST. Four winners will be chosen and posted on Tuesday. 
For the first time ever, you can watch the Dave Ramsey Show whenever you want, for free! Check out the new video channel, and learn how to start your debt-free journey with daily advice from Dave.  Related Stories 
Aldi 1 Apple Juice – $1.49 (These are a special treat for a roadtrip my little boy and I are taking this weekend. One of them didn’t make it home though…)  1 Carrots – $0.99 1 Cauliflower – $1.69 Total with tax ($0.30): $4.47 
Dillons 2 U by Kotex Liners – $1 each, used 2 $0.75/1 coupon from the 7/22 SmartSource insert – $0.25 each after coupons 2 Kotex Natural Balance Liners – $1 each, Received $2.50 catalina – Free plus overage after catalina 2 LA Looks Hair Gel – $1 each, used 2 $0.75/1 printable - $0.25 each after coupon 1 Orville Redenbacher’s Popcorn – $2.49, used Free e-coupon (no longer available) – Free after coupon 1 Kroger Ice Cream – $2.50 2 Sunbelt Granola Bars – $2.19 each, used Buy One Get One Free coupon from the 9/8 SmartSource insert – $1.09 each after coupon (Another special treat for our roadtrip!) 1 Simple Truth Whole Chicken – Marked down to $8.34, used $1.25/1 e-coupon - $7.09 after coupon 2 Kroger Cheese – $1.50 each 1 Smart Chicken Drumsticks – Marked down to $2.75 1 lb Sterling Silver Ground Beef – Marked down to $4.48 (I hate spending this much on ground beef, so I will stretch this to make 2-3 meals.) 1 pkg Baby Spinach – $2.50 0.98 lbs Roma Tomatoes @ $0.99/lb – $0.97 1 Cucumber – $0.75 1 Green Pepper – $0.75 1 Kroger Cottage Cheese – $2.25, used $0.40/1 e-coupon - $1.85 after coupon (I should have purchased this at Aldi…) 1 Romaine Lettuce – $0.99 Total before sales and coupons: $53.97 Total with tax ($2.72) after sales and coupons: $35.54, plus received $2.50 catalina (for buying Kotex) Total for all grocery items: $40.01 Menu Plan for this Week My son and I will be gone several days this week and my husband is fending for himself (he prefers it that way!), so I didn’t have to plan for as many meals. Breakfasts Personal Sized Baked Oatmeal, Cereal, Toast Lunches Leftovers, Peanut Butter & Jelly Sandwiches, Grilled Cheese Sandwiches, Carrot Sticks and Apples, Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Muffins Dinners Slow Cooker Rotisserie Chicken, Tossed Salad, Green Beans Lasagna, 30-Minute Rolls, Tossed Salad Egg Burritos, Fruit Grill Out Steaks (gift from Crystal), Biscuits, Steamed Cauliflower, Tossed Salad For the first time ever, you can watch the Dave Ramsey Show whenever you want, for free! Check out the new video channel, and learn how to start your debt-free journey with daily advice from Dave.  Related Stories  A testimony from Lindsay
My family recently returned from Disney World — and are proud to say that we did the entire trip debt-free! About a year ago, we decided that we would take our two daughters on vacation in the summer of 2013. We kicked around the idea of Disney World, but knew it was a pricey vacation and wanted to pay cash for whatever vacation we took. We starting stashing away extra cash leftover from our envelope system, held a garage sale, and cut back on spending. We researched great times of the year to visit Disney, and decided that September would be a good time for our family to visit. We found that September has historically been a low month for Disney World and that they frequently offer their “Dining Plans” for free if we elected to stay at a Disney Resort. We knew that a full week at Disney would not be optimal for our family so we found a 3-bedroom townhome with a water park for only $65 per night and stayed there for the first four nights of our vacation. This enabled us to cook at home and also to travel to attractions other than Disney. We have a zoo membership through our hometown zoo and used the reciprocating zoo list to visit a wonderful aquarium in Florida for free. In the same town, we visited a free and beautiful beach — Siesta Key. That entire day of vacation was nearly free, and probably was one of our best days! We rented a car for the first four days then returned the car to the Orlando airport. This enabled us to use the free Disney Magical Express transportation system to travel to and from the airport to our Disney Resort that we stayed at the remainder of the week. This eliminated the need to pay for parking at Disney and also for a car that we would not be using while we were there. Wal-Mart and Target stores in the Orlando area offer tons of low cost, adorable Disney t-shirts and memorabilia, so we purchased our daughter’s autograph book and t-shirts at Wal-Mart instead of in the Disney Parks. The autograph book was $1.98 at Wal-Mart compared to $10.95 and up at Disney World. The t-shirts were a 1/3 of the price of those at Disney World. Disney has a nightly electric parade, but the glow necklaces and toys are quite pricey. We bought glow necklaces and wands at Dollar General for $1 prior to leaving and packed them away in our suitcase. Our daughters could careless where their glow necklaces came from, all they knew was that they had one! We had a wonderful, memorable vacation, and returned home with cash to spare! Have you saved up and paid cash for something — large or small? Submit your story for possible publication here.
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