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Get a best friend for Half Price!

January 10, 2009 by · Leave a Comment

Now that’s a bargain. In case you were unaware, Pennsylvania has a huge puppy mill problem. As a result, new, stricter laws were passed and went into effect 1/1. As a result, many of these “commercial breeders” (read: puppy mills) find themselves unable to comply and have turned in their dogs to the Lancaster Humane League. Lancaster county is home to over 10% of the state’s puppy mills.

For the month of January, they have reduced their adoption fees by half price. Due to so many turn-ins, they currently are housing over 350 dogs and are turning people away who want to turn in animals. Their website doesn’t give very many photos or bios of the animals, as the staff is just too busy actually caring for animals to be updating the website. But you can be sure they have all shapes, sizes & colors of dogs. Lots of purebreds too, since many are from the commercial breeders.

Visit their website for hours & location.

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{recipe} banana sour cream cake

January 8, 2009 by · 2 Comments

Edited, October 2012: Breathing new life into old posts, since I now have a fancy recipe plug-in. I originally posted this recipe in January of 2009. Acme and Superfresh shoppers may remember that around that time, we had more freebies than we knew what to do with! We had free cream cheese, cake mix, sour cream (remember that, during Superfresh triples??) and more. So since I had so much of this stuff around, I had to figure out something to do with it. Enter, this cake! I now make it quite often in the cooler months. It’s also a good go-to recipe for brown bananas.

Banana sour cream cake
 

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This is a recipe I got from a Kraft ad many years ago. Like many recipes, I’ve modified it to suit my tastes. This is an indulgence, not for fat and carb counters!
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Recipe type: Dessert, budget friendly
Cuisine: American
Serves: 12

Ingredients
  • 1 pkg. (2-layer size) yellow cake mix
  • 1 cup mashed ripe bananas (about 3)
  • 1 cup Sour Cream
  • 3 eggs
  • ¼ cup oil
  • 1 pkg. (8 oz.) Cream Cheese, softened
  • ½ cup butter, softened
  • 1 pkg. (16 oz.) powdered sugar
  • 1 cup finely chopped Walnuts (optional)

Instructions
  1. HEAT oven to 350°F.
  2. BEAT first 5 ingredients with mixer on low speed just until moistened, stopping frequently to scrape bottom and side of bowl.
  3. Beat on medium speed 2 min.
  4. Pour into greased and floured 13×9-inch pan.
  5. BAKE 35 min. or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean.
  6. Cool completely.
  7. BEAT cream cheese and butter with mixer until well blended.
  8. Gradually beat in sugar.
  9. REMOVE cake from pan.
  10. Carefully cut cake crosswise in half using serrated knife.
  11. Place 1 cake half, top-side down, on plate; spread with some of the frosting.
  12. Top with remaining cake half, top-side up.
  13. Spread top and sides with remaining frosting.
  14. Press nuts into sides.
  15. Keep refrigerated.

Notes
I often split this recipe up and just make parts of it. If I don’t have cream cheese, I use a container of ready-made frosting, either chocolate or cream cheese. I love bananas and chocolate together. Also, if I need a recipe for cream cheese icing, this is what I use. We love cream cheese icing on chocolate cake. I have also used two rounds instead of the 13x9x2 and cutting it. I also do not care for nuts on things and have never made it with the walnuts.

 

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Dansko-Grand Opening

August 16, 2008 by · Leave a Comment

The Dansko outlet is having their grand opening today. There is a 20% off coupon that is good until the end of September. I would assume it’s going to be a mob scene there today, since people come from all over to go there.
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Have $10 Extra Care Bucks to roll? And your free gift!

August 4, 2008 by · 1 Comment

When you scan your Extra Care Card for the first time in August, you will receive a coupon for a free gift. It varies from a free bottle of aspirin, ibuprofen or other items. But free is free, so why not get it?

If you have a $10 ECB to roll from either the photo book, dvd or Revlon-here are some ideas:

5.79 children’s advil
1.29 kleenex
0.00 bogo kleenex
1.29 kleenex
0.00 bogo kleenex
2.49 oral b toothbrush
2.49 crest
1.50 chex mix
1.50 chex mix
16.35 total
-1.00 advil coupon
-1.00 oral b coupon
-1.00 $1 off 3 boxes of kleenex coupon (yesterday’s paper)
-1.00 crest coupon
-2.00 chex mix coupon (print 2)
10.35 total, pay with $10 ecb and change
Get back: $5.79 advil, $1.50 crest, $1.50 oral b; $8.79 back

5.79 advil
2.49 crest
2.49 oral b
3.89 gallon of milk
14.66 total
-1.00 advil
-1.00 crest coupon
-1.00 oral b coupon
11.66 total, pay with $10 ecb and cash
get back $5.79 advil, 1.50 crest, 1.50 oral b

$5.79 advil
$6.99 folgers
12.78 total
-1.00 advil printable
11.78 total, pay with $10 ecb and cash
get back $5.79 for advil, $3.00 for folgers, $8.79 total

8.99 almay
5.79 advil
14.78
-1.00 advil printable
-1.00 almay coupon from yesterday’s paper
12.78 total
Get back 5.79 for advil, 5.00 for almay

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