Egg Flower Soup

One of my favorite foods to order out is Chinese. Part of what I really enjoy about Chinese food is the soup. One of the things that we do to save money is to make restaurant foods at home, it was only appropriate that I find a recipe for Egg Drop soup, my favorite soup to order from Chinese carryout. This recipe is different than what I get from my local carryout place, it has a lighter feel (less oily if you will) and it adds peas.

Egg Flower Soup

4 c chicken stock
6 slices of fresh ginger
Salt & Pepper
1/4 c thinly sliced green onions
1/2 c fresh or frozen peas
3 eggs, lightly beaten

Add ginger to stock and bring to a boil. When boiling, discard the ginger and season to taste. Add the green onions and the peas.

Pour eggs over surface of soup, allow to set for a few seconds, then use long chop sticks to stir briskly, creating tender egg flowers.

Serve immediately.

In a pinch, you could use ground ginger, it will just be a different flavor since instead of infusing you will be leaving the ginger in. I recommend white pepper instead of black pepper. My experience at Chinese restaurants is the that the pepper on the table is not generally black pepper.


For other soup recipes for these blustery fall days, check out the Recipe Swap: Soup's On! at Life As Mom. For more recipes, check out Mmmm Wednesday at Mommies with Cents and the weekly recipe swap at the Grocery Cart Challenge.

CVS Deals - 9/30

I had a pretty good, albeit small, trip to CVS today. We only had three ECB deals in our circular this week and I took advantage of two of the deals. I might head back later this week to take advantage of the Coke deal, but it wasn't a priority today. I wanted to make sure I used my $1 CRT for Total and my $1 Covergirl coupons that expired today. It turned out that it was a good thing I didn't go earlier this week, because yesterday while at the dentist I got coupons for $2 off Colgate toothpaste, making the Colgate deal a $2 profit for me.

Here's what I got:

2 - Covergirl Clean Makeup
2 - 6.0 oz Colgate Total

- $1 Colgate CRT
- $4 (2x$2) Colgate Mfg coupon
- $5.49 BOGO Covergirl Mfg coupon
- $1 Covergirl Mfg coupon
- $3 $3/$15

Paid $1.90 OOP, earned $5.79 and $2 ECBs. The Covergirl Makeup is printing 5.79 instead of the $5.49 reflected in ad and I was able to use both the $1 off coupon and the BOGO coupon. I made a profit in the form of ECBs of $5.89 today. Not too shabby.

For other great CVS deals, check out CVS Superstars at The "Cent"sible Sawyer. For other great deals, check out Super Savings Saturday at Money Saving Mom.

Super Doubles at Kmart

It looks like it has come to my area. In my mailbox yesterday, amidst my other fliers, was one for Kmart advertising their Super Double coupons. I still need to confirm if this is all stores in my area or only at the Super Kmart.

The way I understand it, your coupons, up to $2 will be doubled (that would be $4 off!!), you can use up to 4 of the same coupon, 1 coupon per item and 75 coupons per day. I'm not currently a Kmart shopper, but this deal will pull me into the store to help me maximize my $$. Internet coupons (and, duh! copies of manufacturers coupons) are not accepted.

The offer runs from October 1 - October 5, so you can shop this week's ad and next week's ad as well.

You can see some free and nearly free deals after coupon over at this post at Common Sense with Money.