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Now that fall is nearing, are you left with lots of green tomatoes? Don't throw them out. There are many things you can do with green tomatoes.

Fried green tomatoes

Mexina Salsa Verde (green tomato salsa)

Green tomato Relish

If you don't want to make anything with your green tomatoes that's okay! Did you know you can get them to ripen after you pick them? It's true! This is my favorite way to use my green tomatoes. Let them ripen.

Just pick all your green tomatoes before frost hits. Put them in a cardboard box in the garage. Wait a few weeks and they will ripen into red tomatoes. I do this every year and it's my favorite thing to do with my green tomatoes. It stretches my fresh tomatoes from the garden even farther into the year.

What do you do with your green tomatoes?

I love growing fresh herbs in my garden. But I also hate to see them go to waste. Dehydrating them is a perfect solution! It is fast, easy, and it will give you spices to use in your cooking for months to come. It saves money on buying them. And if you have ever tasted fresh dried herbs you know that they are much more flavorful than herbs purchased from the store.

There are probably many ways to dry herbs, but I will share with you how I like to do it. If you have done this before and have advice to share, please feel free to comment!

The first thing to do is to pick the herbs from your garden. Here I have parsley, chives, and lemon basil. Oh, they smell so good! I love picking herbs and having my hands smell so fresh and tangy.

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Wash them well under fresh water. I like to put them on paper towels, then dab off the extra water with more paper towels on top. Make sure they are completely dry. You can let them sit out to air dry but I just dry them off with the paper towels then shake them a bit to get the extra water drops off.

When the herbs are all clean, you will notice the longer stems, like here in the parsley. You want to cut those off before dehydrating.

This is how I like them to look before I put them in the dehydrator.

After you have all the herbs cut to the proper size, then put them on the trays. I like to pack them in, but not too tight because they will dehydrate faster. Herbs generally only take about 4 -5 hours anyway to be done. I have found with my dehydrator (I have a Ronco) that it works more evenly if I have them spread out a little more.

I have five trays on my dehydrator, so I have plenty of room. When I did all the herbs here all five trays were packed. I had 2 trays with chives, 2 trays with parsley, then this tray pictured here, with parsley and lemon basil. Notice I did the basil like the parsley, the longer stems I cut off before placing in the dehydrator.

Here are the chives. I snapped these in half and laid all over the tray.

Now, just follow the directions according to your dehydrator. Here is what mine looked like when done. Notice how the pretty color is gone and they get all shriveled up. The basil especially. But the wonderful flavor and smell is still there. I love how my house smells when I dehydrate herbs!

When you are finished, there are many ways you can store your herbs. You can crush them and place them in empty spice containers from the store, or in your own containers. I read somewhere that fresh herbs like this keep their flavor better when they are crushed immediately before using. So I choose to store my dehydrated herbs in sandwich sized baggies. I can fit an entire tray of parsley in one baggie. Then I can crush them right before using. Another tip I read was that fresh herbs like these keep their flavor much longer than the ones you buy in the store. Who knows how long they have been on the shelf. My parsley and chives that I dried last year still smell as fresh as the herbs I did last week. Awesome!

On the back page of the Rite Aid this week it details how if you spend $50 of participating P&G products, you get $15 +Up Rewards back. If you are needing some of these items, this would be a good time to get them!

Here are the P&G items participating in this deal, valid this week only:

Charmin bath tissue, 24 big rolls, $12.99
Bounty paper towels, 15 rolls, $12.99
Duracell batteries, various sizes, $9.99
Gain dish liquid, $.89
Always pads or pantiliners $2.99
Tampax tampons, $2.99
Vicks DayQuil or NyQuil $4.99
Olay Complete or Regenerist Skin Care, B1G1 50% off
Secret, Old Spice, Gillette Deodorant, select varieites, 2 for $8
Gillette Body Wash, 2 for $8 Gillette Venus, Mach3, Sensor3 or Custom Plus disposable razors, $5.99
Scope Mouthwash, 710-1 liter, $3.50
Fixodent, $3.50
Crest Rinse, 440- 1 liter, $4.99
Crest toothpaste, 6.2 oz, twin pack, $4.99
Oral B Pulsar toothbrush, $4.99
Crest toothpaste, $2.69
Oral B manual toothbrush, $2.69
Scope mouthwash 250 ml, $2.69

PLUS, you can also get over $110 in coupons from P&G when you send in your receipt and fill out the required form from yesterday's P&G insert. Remember, the $50 total is before coupons!

Okay. Here is what I did this morning. I needed everything except the toothpaste and mouthwash. I wanted to buy razors, but my store was already out. So I bought the toothpaste and mouthwash instead to bring up my total. I will just donate those items. 🙂

(2) Charmin @ $25.98
(2) Gillette deodorant @ $8
(2) Gillette body wash @ $8
(1) Tampax @ $2.99
(1) Scope @ $3.50
(1) Crest @ 2.69
Total: $51.16

Minus:
$5/$25 Video Values coupon
(2) $1/1 Charmin coupons (I got these in the mail awhile ago)
(2) Gillette Deodorant or Body Wash, any excluding trial size $2/1 (8-31-10) PG-8/1
(2) Gillette Body Wash Free with Purchase of Gillette Deodorant, Excludes Trail Size (9-30-10) PG-8/29
(1) Tampax, any 18 ct. or higher $1/1 (9-30-10) PG-8/29
(1) $1/1 Scope from P&G Year of Savings Booklet
(1) Crest Toothpaste, any 4 oz. or larger or liquid gel excluding Crest Cavity, Baking Soda, Tartar .75/1 (8-31-10) PG-8/1
Total after coupons: $29.41

Then I got a $15 +UP Reward that printed!

Now, I will also submit for $2 in Single Check Rebates for the toothpaste and Tampax. So my grand total after coupons, rebates and reward will be $12.41. I consider this a very thrifty price on the items I purchased today. I mean…look at all that toilet paper!

And I will get another P&G coupon booklet with over $110 in savings to use on future sales.

Awesome. I ♥ Rite Aid!