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** The Shoes are from Old Navy 
since y’all are asking
Holy Cow! It’s week 4 already!!! Where has the time gone? Well, between Monkey’s First Day of Pre-School, Final Back To School Shopping, Meet the Teacher Night for Princess, the crazy blog disappearance of 2010 and life in general, it’s no wonder that it’s week 4!
I’m not a mega coupon user like some people that I know but, the more I use them and the more that “you saved $15 today” shows up on the bottom of my receipt, the more convinced I become that coupons are well worth it.
I’m all about cooking quick and easy, what I already have on hand, no extra shopping etc… did I mention easy?
When I find a good coupon/deal/combo loco I tend to stock up, especially if it’s something that I’ll use a lot and without any extra planning.
For example one of this month’s Online Combo Locos is Buy 2 Hunt’s 14.5 oz Diced Tomatoes and get one FREE. Love.
I have many staples: a few of which are: onions, garlic, pasta of every shape and kind, block of parmesan cheese and fresh basil (if I can keep it) there are SO many more but, these are constants.
So with that combo loco and my staples I present to y’all the most super simple chop it, drop it and leave it pasta sauce. It’s perfect for tossing with fresh cooked pasta, layering with a meat, cheese and pasta for a crazy pasta bake or even topping slices of french bread and toasted in the oven for a yummy appetizer.
* One of the reasons I like this so much is it’s super simple to toss together and leave simmering while I’m getting kids ready for sports, practice, helping them with homework or listening to them talk about their day.
* you can toss the pasta and tomato sauce together, top with fresh grated parmesan and chopped basil leaves * you can add sliced chicken breasts (remember, we have those frozen chicken breasts from the other combo loco deal) for a heartier meal * you could put cooked pasta, sauce, cheese and a meat of your choice into a baking dish and bake to make an ooey gooey melty pasta bake ****** * This is also super delicious served cold for lunch the next day! There are so many options!
I decided to be silly and make a quick QUICK smashed video that takes less than 2 minutes to watch, instead of step by step pictures, here’s a video.
Also, you’re totally welcome for the earworm
you can pop through to watch it on YouTube if you want to, just make sure you come back!
I’m one of the HEB Meal Maker Challenge Bloggers and as such I’m participating in a challenge hosted by HEB and ConAgra to use in-store coupons and Combo Locos and special online coupons to create quick and unique back to school lunch and dinner recipes. Throughout the course of the program I have $50 goody packs to give away as well as a chance to win an amazing shopping spree to HEB with Phil Lempert, the Super Market Guru . My time and participation will be compensated but, as always, all opinions and ideas are completely 100% my own
Now that you’re all full of earworm goodness and you’ve seen how awful the lighting is in my kitchen/stove area
What would you have done with the Hunt’s Diced Tomatoes? What kind of easy back to school night dinner creation would you have made?
Leave it here in the comments and you can win one of these: 
Comment with up to two recipes/ideas in two separate comments for a chance to win!
I’ll leave the giveaway open from NOW (August 20th, 10-ish AM CST to Sunday Night August 22nd at 10:00 PM CST)
Congratulations to commenter NUMBER 3: Sherry! 
1. Few in the class know how to write in cursive.
2. Email is just too slow, and they seldom if ever use snail mail.
3. “Go West, Young College Grad” has always implied “and don’t stop until you get to Asia…and learn Chinese along the way.”
4. Al Gore has always been animated.
5. Los Angelenos have always been trying to get along.
6. Buffy has always been meeting her obligations to hunt down Lothos and the other blood-suckers at Hemery High.
7. “Caramel macchiato” and “venti half-caf vanilla latte” have always been street corner lingo.
8. With increasing numbers of ramps, Braille signs, and handicapped parking spaces, the world has always been trying harder to accommodate people with disabilities.
9. Had it remained operational, the villainous computer HAL could be their college classmate this fall, but they have a better chance of running into Miley Cyrus’s folks on Parents’ Weekend.
10. A quarter of the class has at least one immigrant parent, and the immigration debate is not a big priority…unless it involves “real” aliens from another planet.
11. John McEnroe has never played professional tennis.
12. Clint Eastwood is better known as a sensitive director than as Dirty Harry.
13. Parents and teachers feared that Beavis and Butt-head might be the voice of a lost generation.
14. Doctor Kevorkian has never been licensed to practice medicine.
15. Colorful lapel ribbons have always been worn to indicate support for a cause.
16. Korean cars have always been a staple on American highways.
17. Trading Chocolate the Moose for Patti the Platypus helped build their Beanie Baby collection.
18. Fergie is a pop singer, not a princess.
19. They never twisted the coiled handset wire aimlessly around their wrists while chatting on the phone.
20. DNA fingerprinting and maps of the human genome have always existed.
21. Woody Allen, whose heart has wanted what it wanted, has always been with Soon-Yi Previn.
22. Cross-burning has always been deemed protected speech.
23. Leasing has always allowed the folks to upgrade their tastes in cars.
24. “Cop Killer” by rapper Ice-T has never been available on a recording.
25. Leno and Letterman have always been trading insults on opposing networks.
26. Unless they found one in their grandparents’ closet, they have never seen a carousel of Kodachrome slides.
27. Computers have never lacked a CD-ROM disk drive.
28. They’ve never recognized that pointing to their wrists was a request for the time of day.
29. Reggie Jackson has always been enshrined in Cooperstown.
30. “Viewer Discretion” has always been an available warning on TV shows.
31. The first computer they probably touched was an Apple II; it is now in a museum.
32. Czechoslovakia has never existed.
33. Second-hand smoke has always been an official carcinogen.
34. “Assisted Living” has always been replacing nursing homes, while Hospice has always been an alternative to hospitals.
35. Once they got through security, going to the airport has always resembled going to the mall.
36. Adhesive strips have always been available in varying skin tones.
37. Whatever their parents may have thought about the year they were born, Queen Elizabeth declared it an “Annus Horribilis.”
38. Bud Selig has always been the Commissioner of Major League Baseball.
39. Pizza jockeys from Domino’s have never killed themselves to get your pizza there in under 30 minutes.
40. There have always been HIV positive athletes in the Olympics.
41. American companies have always done business in Vietnam.
42. Potato has always ended in an “e” in New Jersey per vice presidential edict.
43. Russians and Americans have always been living together in space.
44. The dominance of television news by the three networks passed while they were still in their cribs.
45. They have always had a chance to do community service with local and federal programs to earn money for college.
46. Nirvana is on the classic oldies station.
47. Children have always been trying to divorce their parents.
48. Someone has always gotten married in space.
49. While they were babbling in strollers, there was already a female Poet Laureate of the United States.
50. Toothpaste tubes have always stood up on their caps.
51. Food has always been irradiated.
52. There have always been women priests in the Anglican Church.
53. J.R. Ewing has always been dead and gone. Hasn’t he?
54. The historic bridge at Mostar in Bosnia has always been a copy.
55. Rock bands have always played at presidential inaugural parties.
56. They may have assumed that parents’ complaints about Black Monday had to do with punk rockers from L.A., not Wall Street.
57. A purple dinosaur has always supplanted Barney Google and Barney Fife.
58. Beethoven has always been a dog.
59. By the time their folks might have noticed Coca Cola’s new Tab Clear, it was gone.
60. Walmart has never sold handguns over the counter in the lower 48.
61. Presidential appointees have always been required to be more precise about paying their nannies’ withholding tax, or else.
62. Having hundreds of cable channels but nothing to watch has always been routine.
63. Their parents’ favorite TV sitcoms have always been showing up as movies.
64. The U.S, Canada, and Mexico have always agreed to trade freely.
65. They first met Michelangelo when he was just a computer virus.
66. Galileo is forgiven and welcome back into the Roman Catholic Church.
67. Ruth Bader Ginsburg has always sat on the Supreme Court.
68. They have never worried about a Russian missile strike on the U.S.
69. The Post Office has always been going broke.
70. The artist formerly known as Snoop Doggy Dogg has always been rapping.
71. The nation has never approved of the job Congress is doing.
72. One way or another, “It’s the economy, stupid” and always has been.
73. Silicone-gel breast implants have always been regulated.
74. They’ve always been able to blast off with the Sci-Fi Channel.
75. Honda has always been a major competitor on Memorial Day at Indianapolis
Thanks to my Dad for emailing this to me!
