Went to Walmart today only because I had to pick up dd at a friends. Only spent $6.50. I needed cottage cheese for the lazanna I am making. It was really hard to pass up the $3 movies they have. They are dvd's without the fancey packaging. There were about 5 I wanted to get. I'm addicted to movies! I guess that's another reason why we don't have tv.

I also decided to pick up carrots and cabbage for the chicken noodle soup that I will be making from the chicken bones from that chicken I almost lost. While I was in the store, the deli clerk called me over to her. She asked me if I wanted to buy a whole, cooked rotisserie chicken for $1? I bought the last 2 she had. So, the time to go into a super Walmart is just before the deli closes and see if they have any chicken on sale!

I made applesauce spice cake for the girls' lunch next week. I used the home canned applesauce from free apples that we made a couple of years ago. No one would eat it because we made it without the apple presss, and the texture was just not good. No I have a way to use it up. If the girls don't like it, I will add frosting to it because everything taste good with frosting. Because it is for lunches, I will cut the cake in half long ways to frost the center. That way the cake can go in baggies without making a mess.

I made mock lazanna for dinner for Sunday night. I used elbow mac. because I had an over-abundance. I also used up the hamburger that was on its way to freezer burn. For the sauce, I used 1 can of Hunts spagetti sauce. I also used a quart of home canned, homemade tomato sauce. This sauce has been sitting for 2 seasons because I followed balls suggestion and but 2 tablespoons of lemon juice in it. Big mistake! Everytime I used it, the dish I had made tasted like lemon. Now I have a way to use it up.

I ran out of salt yesterday. Instead of going to the store, I used the pickling salt that I bought a few years ago but never used. So an unwise choice is now being used up. I hate waste.

I made chocolate syrup to go with the ice cream for Sunday night dinner. It was so easy and cheap too. I tastes just like the Hershey's chocolate syrup, but about 1/10 of the cost. I even used it for a glass of chocolate milk tonight. Haven't had chocolate milk in years.