Fun and Frugal

If you have a business, including a home-based, network marketing, catalog business, Vistaprint is a great resource for ordering business marketing tools with your name and contact info on them.  Even if you do not have a business, their custom-made products make great gifts.  For example, you could order a coffee mug with your children’s photo on it to give to a grandparent.  Right now, you can get the following free samples – just pay shipping & handling.  I’ve been ordering from Vistaprint for years and have always been pleased with the quality and value.  Go here to browse.

1. 250 business cards (choose from 42 designs)
2. 25 Mommy cards
3. 1 20-page 4×6 photo flip book
4. 25 checks
5. 1 pad of sticky notes
6. 1 note pad
7. 100 standard post cards
8. 10 invitations
9. 1 mug (36 designs to choose from)
10. 1 mouse pad (24 designs to choose from)
11. 1 canvas tote bag (24 designs to choose from)
12. 1 t-shirt

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On the Go Dinners helps you by providing wholesome family-pleasing meals at an affordable (usually LESS than fast food) price. They will deliver a ready-to-heat meal that serves 4-6 people starting at only $14 and offer FREE delivery inside the Cleveland city limits! Live outside the city? They will also delivery to Bradley County addresses for a small delivery fee.

The menu rotates weekly with meals such as chicken pot pie, fajita pouches, chili mac, jambalaya, chicken or beef enchiladas in a homemade sauce, and much more!

Beef Enchiladas is a local favorite from On the Go Dinners.

This week’s family-pleasing favorites are sure to make your weeknight plans easier.

Chili Mac – Our HOMEMADE chili made with ground beef, pinto beans, tomato sauce, our HOMEMADE chili seasoning and yummy macaroni and is topped with cheddar cheese. Sure to be a hit with your family! $15 Only 10 ww pts per serving (Steak n Shake version is 18!)

Chicken Pot Pie – seasoned chicken breast, peas, and carrots in a creamy HOMEMADE chicken sauce topped with homemade biscuits (gramma’s biscuit recipe.) Family pleasing comfort food at it’s yummiest! $14 Only 12 ww pts per serving

Salsa Skinny Chicken – 4 foil pouches filled with yummy 4 oz chicken breast seasoned with garlic, cumin, and other spices served with zucchini and carrots, topped with salsa. Quite tasty and very light! 5 ww pts per serving. $15 serves 4

Add a family-sized side of fajita rice for only $5.

Dinners start at $14 and include tax & delivery*

*See ordering and delivery info for times and more info.

Regular delivery times are 3:30 – 5:00 pm Tuesday – Friday and pick-up only on Saturdays. Ordering is simple! Just call or text your orders to 423-464-2322 or email onthegocleveland {at} gmail {dot} com (brackets & spaces removed). For more ordering & delivery info you can check out our information section at http://onthegodinners.blogspot.com/p/ordering-delivery-info.html. “Like” their facebook page here, which is updated frequently.

Fun and Frugal posts On the Go Dinners’ weekly menu each Tuesday, so stay tuned for upcoming delicious dinners!

Thanks, On the Go Dinners for sponsoring FunandFrugal.com! Business owners: click here for more info about becoming a sponsor.

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Many stores offer savings and incentives for using a store credit card, but did you know Target offers a debit card with rewards?  It’s called a REDcard and will save you 5% off your purchases every day in Target stores and on target.com.  You also get free shipping on target.com.  You can enroll your REDcard in their Take Charge of Education program, where they will donate 1% of your purchases to eligible K-12 schools.  Plus you can earn additional 5% off coupons when you fill five prescriptions and pay with your REDcard.  That’s on top of the every day 5% discount.  Even though it is a debit card, you do need to fill out a credit application and provide a voided check so they can get your bank routing numbers.  Just ask for an application at the customer service desk.

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Take a few minutes to sign up yourself, your spouse, and your children for birthday clubs this week from various restaurants and stores so that when your birthdays roll around, you’ll get lot of freebies in your inbox.  Some of them will email you a thank-you offer (some for a free meal) just for signing up!  Below is what I posted this past summer after my birthday and at the bottom is the list of kid birthday freebies.

Here’s all the following free coupons I got by email (except the Starbucks and Hallmark coupons came in the regular mail.) Sign up for each birthday club below online by clicking on the links for each company.  Some are for free items with no purchase required and the majority of them have expiration dates a week or two past your birthday, so you don’t have to try to use them all in one day or anything. Even if your birthday won’t be here for a while, go ahead and sign up for these clubs. If you know of a birthday freebie I missed, please leave a comment!

NEW FOR ME THIS YEAR

• Swagbucks – sent me an email for 50 Swag Bucks! Have you joined Swagbucks.com? It’s a Search Engine (similar to Google) that randomly rewards you with digital dollars called Swag Bucks that you can spend on a variety of items in the Swag Store, including gift cards for itunes, Amazon.com, Target, Starbucks, O’Charley’s, CVS and lots more! All you do is use Swagbucks.com to search for things online that you would search for anyway. It’s completely legit. My husband and I use it nearly every day and have received the prizes we have earned.
• Old Navy – (click on “Email Sign-Up” at the bottom) e-coupon for $15 off an Old Navy purchase of $50 or more on an Old Navy card
• The Melting Pot – e-coupon for free chocolate fondue for two (with purchase of any Big Night Out or any two entrees and a cheese fondue)
• Panera – notified me by email they loaded a “special surprise” on my MyPanera card. It was a free pastry of my choice. Ask for a MyPanera card next time you’re in Panera.
• Rave Motion Pictures – e-coupon for a free medium soda.
• Ruby Tuesday – e-coupon for a free handcrafted burger (no purchase required, must show ID and printed copy of email)
• Big River Grille – e-coupon for a free entree with purchase of any other entree of equal or greater value (they have restaurants in Chattanooga, Nashville, and Lake Buena Vista, FL)
• Chili’s – e-coupon for a free brownie sundae with purchase of one or more entrees.
• Steak ‘n Shake – e-coupon for a free double steakburger with cheese and fries (no purchase required)
• T.G.I. Friday’s – e-coupon for a free dessert with purchase of an entree
• Sephora – e-coupon for a free bottle of Vanilla Birthday Cake scented shower gel (some Sephora stores are located inside larger J.C. Penney’s with makeup counters)

RETURNING OFFERS

• Sonic Cruisers Club – choice of one printable e-coupon for a free medium drink, tator tots, or regular CreamSlush treat
• Firehouse Subs – Get a free medium sub on your birthday when you show your ID or birth certificate. Sign up for the Firehouse Copy That e-newsletter (ages 13+) and they’ll send you a reminder a few days before your birthday to come in for your free birthday sub.
• Baskin Robbins – e-coupon for a free 2.5 oz scoop (I actually didn’t receive my free icecream coupon this year, like their website states I should as a member of their birthday club. I just got a coupon for $3 off an icecream cake. Has anyone else gotten their free icecream cone coupon this year?)
• Red Robin – email notifying me they loaded a coupon for free gourmet burger of my choice on my Red Royalty Card (ask for one of these free cards next time you’re there; there’s a Red Robin at Hamilton Place Mall.)
• Fazoli’s – e-coupon for free dessert (no purchase required)
• Cold Stone Creamery – e-coupon for a free creation with purchase of any creation
• Marble Slab Creamery – e-coupon for a free regular cone and $3 off any icecream cake (expired on my birthday)
• Moe’s – e-coupon for a free entree (no purchase required, excludes fajitas) – my coupon expired 3 days after my bday
• Starbucks – postcard in the mail for a free drink of your choice. To sign up, you must join the Starbucks Rewards program and register a Starbucks gift card (doesn’t have to have a balance on it.) You can earn free Starbucks gift cards for free from the popular search engine Swagbucks!
• Hallmark – I got a birthday card in the mail and coupon for 20% off at my local Hallmark, Sara’s Hallmark in Cleveland.
• Captain D’s – e-coupon for my choice of one of these dinners for free or $5 off any other dinner: 2 pc fish dinner, fish & shrimp dinner, or seasoned Tilapia dinner.
• IHOP Pancake Revolution club – e-coupon for a free Rooty Tooty Fresh ‘N Fruity (or any menu item of equal or lesser value, no purchase required)
• Great American Cookie Companie – e-coupon for a free cookie cake slice with purchase of a regular soda (last year it was for a free cookie cake slice with no puchase required)
• Marco’s Pizza – free medium one-topping pizza with purchase of equal or greater size pizza (pick-up only.)
• Bruster’s – e-coupon for free waffle cone when you buy a waffle cone of equal or greater value
• Arby’s – e-coupon for 12 oz shake with any purchase
• Logan’s Roadhouse – e-coupon for a free Nutter Butter Fudge Slide with any entree purchase
• Smoothie King – e-coupon for a free 20 oz smoothie with purchase of a 20 oz or greater smoothie.
• Provino’s – (click here for locations, including Chattanooga, TN; Atlanta & Roma, GA, and other GA cities) will give you a free pasta specialty dinner (up to $12.75 value) with your ID on your birthday.
• Not sure if this deal is still on (it was June 2010): Ocoee Dam Deli & Diner – free meal on your birthday (located at 1223 Hwy 64 Ocoee, TN 37361) Does anyone know?
• Not sure if this deal is still on. As of 3/14/11 Antonio’s Corner Restaurant in Cleveland at 3700 Michigan Ave Rd NE – free meal on your birthday with purchase of an adult meal of equal or greater value. Must show ID if 16 or older. Please call ahead before making a special trip to see if they are still offering this because it was to be a trial offer. (Thanks, Leslie for the tip!)

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Now for birthday freebies for kiddos!  This is what I posted last March after my older son just celebrated his 6th birthday.  I kept track of all the birthday freebies he received so that I could share them with you so you can sign your kids up for them, too. There’s still some places that offer a freebie with no purchase required (although the list shrinks each year). Some of the things we got last year did not come around again this year (Steak n Shake, Moe’s, Children’s Place, Olan Mills), but I found a few new ones, too (which I starred at the bottom). Do you know of any birthday freebies for kids I missed?  Please leave a comment!

• Zaxby’s – coupon in mail for a free kids meal (no expiration date, no purchase required)
• Sonic – coupon by email for free Wacky Pack Kids Meal (expires 30 days from birthday, no purchase required)
• Chuck E Cheese’s – coupon by email for 20 free tokens (I think expires 2 weeks from date you print coupon.) They also some coupons for extra free tokens when you book a birthday party.
• Captain D’s – coupon by email for free kids meal with purchase of adult entree (expires 30 days from date sent)
• Baskin Robbins – coupon by email for free 2.5 oz scoop (If I remember correctly, you have to sign up yourself for the bday club, then it will let you add members of your household for their bdays. This one has a short exp. date. It was only good for 5 days after my son’s bday.)
• Brusters – coupon by email for free waffle cone when you buy a waffle cone of equal or greater value
• Great American Cookies – coupon by email for free cookie slice cake with purchase of regular soda (expires 1 week from date sent)
• The Children’s Orchard – coupon by email for “special birthday surprise” when you print and bring in the email. Expires one month from date sent. I haven’t redeemed it yet, but last year they said we could get $3 off any purchase of $3 or more, so we got a pair of free shorts for this summer.
• Toys R Us – coupon by mail for $3 off any purchase of $3 or more. (Expires about two months after your birthday.)
• *New* Barnes & Noble Kid’s Club – coupon by email for a free cupcake or cookie from their cafe (expires one week from birthday)
• *New* Old Navy – (click on “Email Sign-Up” at the bottom) coupon by email for $10 off any purchase of $50 or more online or in stores (I don’t see an expiration date, but I’m sure there is one.)
• *New* Marble Slab Creamery – coupon by email for a free regular cone + $3 off any cake (they emailed it one week before his birthday and it expired on his birthday)
• *New* IHOP – coupon by email for a free Rooty Jr or menu item of equal or lesser value (no purchase required, expires one week after birthday)

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There’s a lot of great high-value printable coupons available on Coupons.com, such as

• $10 off Enfamil tub 22 oz or larger
• $8 off Hasbro Games: Scrabble Flash, Simon Flash, or Yahtzee Flash
• $8 off Hasbro Baby Alive doll
• $8 off Playskool Sesame Street Let’s Rock Elmo toy
• $5 off Play-Doh mega pack
• $5 off Pictionary, Catch Phrase, or Taboo
• $5 off Evenflo kid booster seat for the car or ExerSaucer
• $3 off Transformers deluxe action figure
• $1.50 off two Planters peanut butter

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