Photo a Day in September #23

23.  Mail

I've always loved to check the mail.  You never know what you are going to get!  If you are like my husband and order a lot of stuff from the Interwebz, you often forget what you ordered, so it feels like Christmas every time the postal truck passes by or you hear the clomp-clomp-clomp of someone on the bridge coming to our door.  Even though it's not technically mail, I love to get the (Sunday) paper!  (We only subscribe to the weekend papers because we want Sunday's for the coupons.)  I love looking at the advertisements and circulars and coupons and High Profile section (for the engagement and wedding announcements).  As you can see, I haven't clipped my coupons yet; thankfully, only one booklet came this week, so I can easily get that done tomorrow.  :)

Photo a Day in September #18

18.  My Passion

Ummm...I guess my current passion would be food.  I'm always thinking about what I am going to be putting in my tummy and posting pictures of my meals on Facebook and pinning every recipe on Pinterest.  I've made it my goal to attempt a new Pinterest recipe a week.  This weekend, I'm making caramel apple cider cookies!  I think they will be perfect for the fall.  :)

I cheated and took this picture last night. Ah, but these frozen Rally's/Checker's fries are sooo tasty, AND I got to use a 75 cents off coupon!  They were cheaper than the Walmart fries.  :)

Menu Monday: ALEXIA SWEET POTATO PUFFS

Sometimes you have to take it easy. That's just what we did this week because I have been EXHAUSTED! (Looks like it might be my immuno-suppressant meds I'm on... : / It's also making my hair fall out. YIPPEE! If it's not one thing, it's forty more. Today, I also lost a filling, so now I have to go to the dentist this week...) Anyway, for veggie night, we made it quick and easy with these ALEXIA SWEET POTATO PUFFS along with some steamed corn and peas. We picked these bad boys up at Target for CHEEEEEEEEEEAP because Zach found a manufacturer's coupon AND a Target coupon online. (My husband is the KING of couponing!)

ALEXIA SWEET POTATO PUFFS

All we had to do was preheat the oven, open the bag, pour out some puffs, and bake for twenty-ish minutes until golden brown. They were so tasty--slightly crunchy with the expected tator tot texture inside. I had seen these in the stores before--and now Sonic has them?--but we don't eat a lot of tator tots around here. We don't eat many "fried" potatoes like French fries or hash browns unless we found ourselves with a hankering for them or they are on sale. (I have to admit that we do tend to keep hash browns in the freezer, but I rarely fry them because that makes a mess. Actually, most of our "fried" potatoes end up baked. :) We do eat a lot of mashed potatoes and baked potatoes on a weekly basis. (HEY! They aren't rough on our troublemaker tummies!)

But I am glad that Zach found those coupons to get these because they were a nice break in the potato monotony we often find ourselves in around here... :)

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