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eMeals: Meal planning coupon code – eat healthier this year!

Looking to eat healthier in the New Year – aren’t we all?  Right now eMeals is offering 15% off any of their meal plans using code NEWYEAR at checkout.

I would love to tell you I already meal plan – NOT!  I just cannot get into it and make it work.  Now if someone gave me a meal plan, with a shopping list… hmmmm….

eMeals is the online meal planning solution with a wide variety of lifestyle meal plans including Clean Eating, Paleo, Low Fat, Low Carb, Natural & Organic, Portion Control, Gluten Free, Classic, and Vegetarian meal plans.  What a great way to save money, stay organized (which I need!) and eat healthier all for under $5 per month.

Here is how it works…

  • Pick your Plan based on your eating style, family size and grocery store
  • Every week, your meal plan arrives in your inbox — complete with seven simple, creative, family–friendly dinner recipes. Each includes an entrée and side dishes.
  • You will also get a grocery list to go with it.

So if you have been thinking of giving eMeals a try, now is the time.

Do you already use eMeals?

Get 15% off eMeals NOW

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FACEBOOK: Can you see me now?

So I am sure you all know that Facebook is messing with things again and people are having trouble seeing posts in their newsfeed.  There are a few different solutions that might help in addition to just stopping by the Maven of Savin page.

  • First of all, go to the pages you “LIKED” and hover over the LIKED button and be sure you have checked off SHOW IN NEWSFEED.

  • Then make sure to “LIKE” or “SHARE” the posts you see in your feed or on the Maven of Savin page.  Facebook will show you more of what you “LIKE” and more of the posts that are getting any kind of interaction, comments, etc.  Remember that regardless of facebook, if you ever have a question, please feel free to comment.  We have a great group and if I do not know the answer someone else may.

  •  You can also do that directly from the post on the blog either next to the title OR below the post.  By the way, this also tells ME what to spend my time on!  Like you obviously LOVE Dunkin Donuts coffee – LOL!

  • Also make sure you always SORT by “Most Recent” in your newsfeed.  You will see the drop down in the upper right corner at the top of your feed.  I find I always have to change this – it is really annoying.

CREATE A FRIEND or INTEREST LIST on FACEBOOK

You could also create a LIST -The friend lists feature is just a way to create groups, so you can see just the updates from that set of friends, blogs, etc. at a time.  Here is what you do:

  • Go to your home page on facebook and look down the left side bar for the FRIENDS section – hover over it and click MORE.  (NOTE – you could also follow the same instructions under the INTERESTS section as well – whichever one works better for you)

  • Click on CREATE LIST in the upper right corner

  • In the pop-up box you can name the list and add members.  You do not need to add members at this time.  I prefer doing it in the next step.  Click CREATE.

  • Now you can click on ADD FRIENDS to search through and select people or pages for your list.

  • Use the drop down in the upper left of the pop-up box to select PAGES if you want blogs or select FRIENDS if you want to add people.  You will then see all of the people or pages you are following and can add them to your list by scrolling through or using the search box.  You can see this feature could also come in handy if you want to group friends as well – home vs. work vs college, etc.

VOILA – you should now have that LIST under your FRIENDS or INTEREST section in the left sidebar. When you check on facebook each day you can click on that and only see the newsfeed from those included in the LIST.

NON- FACEBOOK Options

There are many other ways to stay on top of all the deals on a daily, hourly, minute basis as well.

  • Visit and bookmark Maven of Savin.
  • Follow me on twitter @MavenOfSavin for up to the minute updates.
  • Subscribe to my RSS feed to have it delivered through your reader of choice.  I use google reader and LOVE IT.
  • Subscribe to my daily emails and get a newsletter each day around 3pm listing all posts from the last 24 hours.  NOTE that although you will see all the deals, some may not be in a timely manner.
  • The newest way to get the deals is to follow me on Google+.  The format is similar to facebook, though looks like a more basic feed right now.  I am new over there but am working on chatting over there more often and making sure all the deals get there.  Are you active on Google+ – would love to know what you think.

SO – I hope all that helped. My goal is to try to get you the info you want when you want it. So remember to LIKE or SHARE posts to tell ME what you want to see, but to also tell facebook that I am the bomb (just kidding!).

So Facebook, CAN YOU SEE ME NOW?

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FREE Food on the Table Meal Planning

Food on the Table is an online service designed to help families eat better and save money at the grocery store. They take the sales at your local grocery store and your family’s food preferences to create a meal plan based on kid-friendly recipes hand picked by their chefs.

Right now you can give it a try and use promo code: SPRINGFREE, throughout the month of April, and get the premium version of the service for FREE for life!

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Home Management COMMAND Central: A Design Challenge

I have talked before about a Home Management Notebook and other ways to be more efficient in the home. WELL my system or lack of system has gone to the proverbial hell in a handbasket.  Where did that term come from any way??  I digress…

You all know we moved into a new home and in addition to me having no desk yet, (or working printer – AHHHH!!) I realized in my last home that my desk top WAS NOT a good place to organize the family – school papers, important reminders, calendar, etc.  They got swallowed up and were not visible when we need them.  So what I need is COMMAND CENTRAL!!

Here is what I have:

This is what I WANT...

photo credit: PotteryBarn

I mean I REALLY REALLY REALLY WANT this system from Pottery Barn.  I am sooo tempted, except the price tag is HUGE!!!  So this CHEAP gal needs to find a different solution that does not short change what I NEED only to save money.

Here is where I need your help – HELP me scour the internet and stores to find similar, CHEAPER solutions.  Send me pictures and ideas.  I will pull them all together and document my progress in building my families HOME MANAGEMENT COMMAND CENTRAL.  Once we do that, then I can revisit my home management notebook, cleaning schedules and dare I say menu planning (eek!).

PLEASE JOIN MY DESIGN TEAM and send me IDEAS!!

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Happy New Year – CHANGES COMING

HAPPY NEW YEAR

I hope you survived the holidays and the BACK TO SCHOOL routine this morning.  Personally I have a love/hate relationship with New Years.  I HATE thinking about all the things I DID NOT accomplish the previous year, but I LOVE thinking about all the cool things I CAN do this year.

I have so many ideas that I want to do with the blog this year.  We have grown so much over the last year and I cannot wait to see where we are headed in 2011.  If you are NEW HERE – WELCOME and you can read all about me and Maven of Savin’ HERE. Do not worry, all the deals will still be here, but I really want to get back to my original intent for the blog…

  • saving MONEY – OK – we’ve got that one in full swing though I hope to have more tutorials and maybe a VLOG or 2… we’ll see.  Of course I will be sharing more of my shopping trips and tracking savings.
  • saving TIME - I really NEED this one and though I have shared some great tools in the past on cleaning, organizing and more.  We will be talking even more about this one as I strive to create my Home Management notebook and work through Tell Your Time – How to manage your schedule so you can live fulfilled.  I cannot wait to improve my time management.
  • saving MY MIND – this is a free for all – WHO knows what I might write about – but LOOK OUT!

Be on the lookout for our weekly LIVE CHAT on Wednesday’s from 8pm – 9pm.  I will also be creating a bunch of polls I will need you to participate in so I can better understand what you all want.  WOO HOO – it is going to be great.  You will see some new tools as well.  We already have the coupondatabase and the NEW Shipping List feature (tutorial coming…), but I love techie toys, so who knows what is next.

HOWEVER – keep in mind that I always BITE OFF MORE THAN I CAN CHEW – so rather than me making all kinds of timing promises to you all, I am going to try to pace myself.  My family is also moving in 3 weeks – so needless to say, the saving time and organizing stuff will clearly have to wait until I get settled.  So as I say… BABY STEPS.  But there is one thing I will be starting tomorrow…

I am so pleased to be starting a RENEW FOR YOU 2011 writing series collaborating with Kelly from Kansas City Mamas, Shelly from Coupon Teacher, Melissa from Stockpiling Moms and Sarah from Give Me Neither.  Sometimes we get bogged down with everything (the deals :)) and do not get to write about the things we want.  So now – cue the music – “it’s my blog and I’ll write IF I want to, write WHAT I want to, write WHEN I want to”!

This series is about Renewing yourself for YOU in 2011. Every week, each blogger will be writing about different resolution type topics like budgeting, frugal weight loss, organizing, making time for yourself and accepting you for you.  I hope you will join us as we help support each other in RENEW’ing ourselves.  Look for new posts on Tuesday afternoons.

So even though I will be doing a poll, feel free to chime in now – WHAT DO YOU WANT TO SEE on Maven of Savin’ in 2011??

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Smoky Bones: 8 FREE Wings w/ drink purchase

If you are out shopping late night this weekend, head to Smoky Bones for 8 FREE wings with the purchase of any drink from 10pm – close.  It is valid through 12/20/10.

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Tell Your Time – Black Friday sale!

There is a HOT Black Friday sale on AmyLynnAndrews new eBook Tell Your Time: How to manage your schedule so you can live fulfilled. Right now you can download it for 50% off – it is only $6 when you use code MONDAYBLACK at checkout through Cyber Monday!

Since we are also about SAVING TIME here as well, I have decided to do a series of posts as I go through this journey with Amy. Do you want to join me? I will break it up into bite size pieces and share how I am going through it – my GOAL is to have a transformed schedule with life priorities and goals by Christmas. (OK – we have had to postpone due my selling my house and moving immediately after Christmas – however, what a wonderful thing to do as I settle into my NEW home) That is my gift to me and my family. We will have live chats in my NEW chat room on as well.  Here is a preview of the table of contents:

If you want to follow along and transform your time management issues into triumphs, grab a copy of Tell Your Time: How to manage your schedule so you can live fulfilled.  It is only $6 for a few more days .  For me, this is a $$ investment I need to make today for the happiness and well being of my family.  I am hoping this will be a New Years Resolution that will stick.

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“Tell Your Time” – Join me as I make CHANGE

The other day I quickly told you about AmyLynnAndrews new eBook Tell Your Time: How to manage your schedule so you can live fulfilled. I am so excited to read every page and go through the PROCESS of MAKING CHANGE.
I NEED to do this badly for my family, things are slipping through the cracks left and right.  OK, to be serious for a minute – they are not cracks, but more like big, cavernous abysses that are popping up all around me.  Before someone falls in, most likely ME, I need to address it.

Since we are also about SAVING TIME here as well, I have decided to do a series of posts as I go through this journey with Amy.  Do you want to join me?  I will break it up into bite size pieces and share how I am going through it – my GOAL is to have a transformed schedule with life priorities and goals by Christmas.  That is my gift to me and my family. We will have live chats in my NEW chat room on facebook as well.

If you want to follow along and transform your time management issues into triumphs, grab a copy of Tell Your Time: How to manage your schedule so you can live fulfilled It is only $7 for one more day using code InTheClub – then the price will go back up to the regular $12. For me, this is a $$ investment I need to make today for the happiness and well being of my family.

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