Bountiful Baskets produce co-op is currently serving parts of Arizona and Utah, and is expanding into Idaho and Washington! You pay $15/basket and receive approximately $50 worth of fruits and vegetables. You don’t get to choose what fruits and vegetables you receive, but you will get quite a variety.

To participate for the first time do the following:

1. Visit the website at www.BountifulBaskets.org

2. You may make contributions between Noon on Tuesday and 10 pm on Wednesday (Look at the available sites, pick up times, and week A & B schedule on the main page too!)

3. Click on Log-In and create an account. Use the Zip Code that is listed on your credit or debit card statement for your address. This will prevent issues at checkout.

4. Go back to www.BountifulBaskets.org when you are done making your account.

5. Look at the middle of the front page and click on the state you reside in. (You must do this between Noon on Tuesday and 10 pm on Wednesday.)

6. Add a basket to your cart. Select any items you would like to add to your basket (bread, case fruit, Ethnic Food Ingredient Packs, etc.)

6. Go to View Cart/Checkout in the lower left corner when you are done.

7. Contribute with either your debit or credit card.

Other Information:

To find Pickup Times/Dates go to www.BountifulBaskets.org and click on your geography. They are on the main page.

To find Directions to your exact pickup location go to Co-op Locations and click on your geography.

PYP has an awesome prize to give away to one lucky member!

Our friends at Camp Chef are helping us give a Outdoor Camp Oven 2 Burner Range and Stove (retail value $277.99) away to one LUCKY PYP member.

Outdoor Camp Oven 2 Burner Range and Stove

You’ve always wanted an oven when camping – Now you can with the Outdoor Camp Oven. Don’t let its compact size fool you. The Outdoor Camp Oven features over 13,500 total BTU’s, the twin burners and spacious oven have plenty of power to get your cooking/baking done right. This stove’s folding lid is designed with portability in mind. This camp oven is loaded with features. It is just perfect for your cabin, summer camping, or RV. Perfect for muffins, cookies, casseroles, and Dutch oven dishes. Simplify your life with the Outdoor Camp Oven.

Enter this giveaway here in the PYP forums. (Posting on the PYP blog or Facebook DOES NOT enter you into the giveaway!)

• Save $1.00 on any four (4) Campbell’s Condensed “Great for Cooking” soups.
• Save $1.00 on any two (2) cartons of Swanson Stock.
• Save $0.50 on any one (1) French’s French Fried Onions.
• Save $1.00 on any two (2) bags of Pepperidge Farm Stuffing.
• Save $1.00 on any four (4) Campbell’s Gravies.
• Save $1.00 on any one (1) Pepperidge Farm Cookie Collection, Holiday Cookie Bites or Pirouette® Rolled Wafers.
• Save $1.50 on any three (3) can or microwavable bowl varieties of Campbell’s Chunky soup.
• Save $1.50 on any three (3) can or microwavable bowl varieties of Campbell’s Select Harvest soup.
• Save $1.00 on any two (2) packages of Pepperidge Farm Puff Pastry Turnovers.
• Save $1.00 on any two (2) packages of Pepperidge Farm Frozen Bread.
• Save $1.00 on any two (2) 64 oz. V8 100% Vegetable Juice or V8 Splash beverages.
• Save $1.00 on any one (1) 46 oz. variety of V8 V-Fusion Juice.
• Save $0.50 on any two (2) cans of Campbell’s Condensed Tomato soup.
• Save $0.50 on any two (2) Campbell’s Condensed soups (excluding Tomato, Chicken Noodle & Creams).
• Save $1.50 on any three (3) Campbell’s Healthy Request soups.

Link to Campbell’s Coupons

Here are some Thanksgiving traditions shared by PYP members. Feel free to share your Thanksgiving traditions!

• We start a Thankful tree in the beginning of Nov. I post a cardboard tree on the wall in our kitchen with a basket of paper leaves underneath it. Every time we think of something we are thankful for we paste it on the tree. We spend the time after Thanksgiving dinner talking about everything we have posted on the tree.
• We take the time to call all of our family members that live out of state and visit with them.
• We try to take our pictures for our Christmas cards that weekend, always fun!
• Starting Nov. 1st each of my kids get a turkey without feathers that I make out of a poster board. I hang them on our big sliding doors in the kitchen so we can see them all the time. Then all month as I see things that I love that they do or good choices that they make, I write those things down on a colored paper feather (ie: DS shared his prized Transformer with DD who is 2 or DS got a great score on a hard test, or DD helped make her bed without being asked)…that kind of stuff. Then the night before Thanksgiving we go through all of the feathers together while we make the place cards for Thanksgiving dinner the next day.
• Email or call or just ask each person that will be at dinner what they are thankful for, then make a list on the place mat with all the answers. It would be fun to try and guess who said what or have each person say why they chose that.
• We always have a big (1000 piece) puzzle set up on a card table that people can sit around and work on while visiting.
• We like to make gingerbread houses. Graham crackers, icing, and everybody brings candy to decorate.
• Last year we played Thanksgiving Bingo as a big group–I had a list of about 50 Thanksgiving-related words, split into columns under “T-H-A-N-K” and blank bingo boards. Everyone wrote in the words they wanted, then when we drew a word we would say the letter it was under (easier that way). Everyone ages 3 to 90 enjoyed it!
• The ladies in my family do a craft – usually something for Christmas decor or something like that.
• After dinner, we had a picture scavenger hunt all over town. We divide up into groups and have a list of all the things we need to take a picture of within a certain time frame. Like for instance one of the things was a picture with the most people, so we went to some random church where there was a lot of cars and took a picture with some unsuspecting family that was finishing up their dinner. It was a lot of fun!
• About a week or so before Thanksgiving I give everyone invited the beginning of the same story. Each person makes up their own ending to the story and we share them at dinner. The first year the story was written from the perspective of a turkey that didn’t want to be Thanksgiving dinner and how he was going to get out of it, this year the story is centered around two feuding neighbors that are trying to outdo each other with holiday pranks…It has been hilarious to see the product of everyone’ s imagination and we have really enjoyed this.

There are some great Thanksgiving deals at Target this week!

Non-Food Deals:

If you are starting to accumulate lots of coupons you might be wondering the best way to use them. Just heading out to the grocery store and using your .35 cent coupon on tuna fish is not the best way to utilize your coupon. If you know how to use your coupons you can make your money stretch farther than you thought possible!

1. Wait to use your coupons. Don’t use them right away. Wait closer to the expiration date for a good sale. For example, take a $1/1 Colgate toothpaste coupon. When Walgreens, Rite Aid, CVS, Albertson’s or your local store has them on sale, THEN use the coupon on the sale price. many times these stores will have toothpaste on sale for $1, then you could get the toothpaste for free! Or when Walgreens offers Register Rewards on the toothpaste you can actually come out ahead when you use your coupon on the sale price, then get back a RR for the full purchase price!

Virtual Meal-In-a-Bag Feeds Families in Need
Smith’s Food & Drug shoppers can help alleviate hunger in their community through the 5th Annual Smith’s Gift of Giving Program.
Smith’s checkers will be taking donation orders for a $7.00 meal-in-a-bag or a $10 ham or turkey from November 8 through December 26. The food is then delivered by caseload to the Utah Food Bank for distribution to individuals and families in need.
A Gift of Giving meal includes 13 nutritious food items like tuna, rice, mixed vegetables, peaches, macaroni and cheese, red beans, and peanut butter and jelly packaged at cost by Smith’s to assure the highest value of the donation.
In 2008, Smith’s customers in Utah provided 2,789 turkeys & hams and 2,745 staple items, which equaled 46,352 meals for hungry people.
“Smith’s holiday food drive allows their customers to directly help people in their own community,” said Jim Pugh, executive director of the Utah Food Bank Services. “These most basic and nutritious food items are so crucial to individuals and families who are depending on the Food Bank in these distressful economic times. We are truly grateful to Smith’s and their customers for their support.”

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Check out our Gift Idea forum for ideas on what to get just about anyone in any age group.

Do you know about the amazing powers of vinegar? You really don’t need to be spending all that money on various cleaning supplies….vinegar will clean almost anything! It is extremely cheap, good on the environment and safe around children and pets. Vinegar has been around for thousands of years, and is really one of the best things you can always have on hand. There are over 1000 uses for vinegar that I could find, probably more! Check out the tips on the websites listed here.

Vinegar Tips
Cleaning with Vinegar
Vinegar: The only cleaner you will ever need
The Vinegar Institute

Here are some of my favorite uses for vinegar:

• cleaning out my washing machine. Ever notice how there sometimes gets to be a film on the inside of the machine? Or it might just smell a little? Well, fill the washer with hot water, pour in about 3/4 c. vinegar and let agitate for several minutes. Then let sit overnight. In the morning, let agitate again for several minutes, then rinse well.

• cleaning the shower. Stop spending money on those ‘clean shower’ sprays! Use a mixture of vinegar and water after you shower and it keeps the mildew away. Also, spraying full strength vinegar on your shower doors and letting it sit before spraying it off will help get off water deposits.

• cleaning windows. I pour water into an empty spray bottle, add a few Tbl of vinegar and mix well. It does a great job cleaning my windows.

• making my own buttermilk. I never buy buttermilk…I always make my own! Mix in 1 Tbl vinegar to 1 cup milk, and let it sit for at least 5 minutes. Whalla…Buttermilk! I always use this in recipes and no one can tell the difference.
• cleaning the microwave. To make cleaning your microwave easy, get a bowl of water, mix in a few Tbl of vinegar and put in the microwave for about 1 minute on high. The hot water will steam up the caked-on food, and wipe up will be a breeze…not to mention having a fresher smelling microwave!

There are still places in my house I like to use disinfectants on, but vinegar can do it for many other spots for me. What do you use vinegar for?

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