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Order Soy Free Chocolate Chips Before They Melt in Your Mailbox!

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I’m not joking. I’ve had this happen before. I ordered chocolate chips in the summertime, and by the time they reached my house, they had melted together into one giant clump.

Not to worry. I figured out ways to still use them. No chocolate left behind, as they say. But if you’re wanting your chocolate chips to stay chippy – I recommend you order now and stock up before the weather gets too warm.

Right now Amazon has a case of 6 – 10 ounce bags of Enjoy Life Soy Free Chocolate Chips for just $22.14. This is a great stock-up price, so buy now and freeze them for later.

enjoy life six pack

Unless you like 10-ounce blobs of melty chocolate mess. Then, by all means, wait until July to order. ;)

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20% Off Vanilla Beans Through March 30!

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When vanilla beans are offered at 20% off at Olive Nation, we have to take advantage! They always offer free shipping on vanilla bean orders, so that’s a great bonus.

Read here about how to make homemade vanilla extract.  I mean, why else would I suggest you buy a bunch of vanilla beans?! :)

Making my own vanilla has saved me so much money over the years. Plus, I know that my vanilla is absolutely pure. Olive Nation is the only place I purchase vanilla beans. Their quality and prices are best. I just took advantage of this 20% discount so my savings is even greater than normal. Super exciting!

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Find the discounted vanilla beans on this page at Olive Nation. Use the code EAST20 for the 20% discount to apply. Get your homemade vanilla started and love the deliciousness! (Coupon code expires March 30, 2015.)

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Delicious and Healthy Ways to Use Coconut Cream – Your Ideas?

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I picked up some coconut cream concentrate about 8 years ago because I heard it was really good for us. But it was early in our healthy eating journey, so I really didn’t know what to do with it. Coconut oil was still new to me at that time, so coconut cream concentrate? What was I supposed to do with it??? I was actually a little bit afraid of it. So I left it on my shelf until it expired – like really, really expired.

During the past few weeks, I’ve come across several articles sharing delicious recipes we can make with coconut cream. I told myself that the next time I found it on sale at Tropical Traditions and it is a free shipping weekend, I’m going for it.

That weekend is now. I just ordered myself two 16-ounce jars of Organic Coconut Cream Concentrate for half price, and I paid $0.00 in shipping. Next week, this will arrive at my house:

coconut cream

What do I plan to do with this coconut cream?

For starters, I’ll be putting some in my coffee as a super-healthy coffee creamer. I also plan to spread some on my toast (like butter or peanut butter). Then I’m going to play with some healthy treat ideas using this high-nutrient food.

If you need to eat dairy free, you’ll want to add this to your safe and healthy food options. Even if you can eat dairy, I think you and I will still enjoy this food. And we’ll all benefit from the high fiber content and healthy fat it provides.

If you’ve been using coconut cream concentrate for a while, I’d really love for you to share how you use it. Have any great recipes?

If you’re able, take advantage of this great BOGO deal with free shipping at Tropical Traditions. I’m looking forward to my order coming next week!

Order Details:

Find two jars of Organic Coconut Cream Concentrate for just $20 and add them to your cart (before midnight Sunday). If you shop through that link (which is my referral link) and you are a new customer with Tropical Traditions, they will throw a free copy of Virgin Coconut Oil Book in with your order. Use the code 31516 for free shipping to apply. This code is valid through Monday, March 23.

I look forward to adding this great product to our diet and hope you’ll share your ideas so we can all learn more about using it!

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Vanilla Bottles and Beans – Free Shipping, Plus a Vanilla Bean Discount!

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How’s your batch of Homemade Vanilla Extract coming? You are making some, aren’t you? It’s too fun and too delicious not to try!

How To Make Vanilla Extract

Here is a picture tutorial on how to make homemade vanilla. I always buy my vanilla beans from Olive Nation because their prices and quality are the best. So here’s this week’s scoop on bottles and beans:

~~ Olive Nation loves Heavenly Homemakers readers, so they give us an exclusive discount. So nice! If you buy vanilla beans from them and use the code home, you’ll get a 10% discount. Shipping is always free on their vanilla beans.

~~ Through March 18, Olive Nation is offering free shipping on everything else in their shop. This means you can buy the vanilla bottles you need to finish your homemade vanilla project and save big bucks on what it typically costs to ship them to you. For this, use the code MARCHFREE.

$$$$$BONUS MONEY SAVING TIP$$$$$

You can only use one coupon code per order. If you need both bottles and beans, I suggest placing separate orders so you can get free shipping on your bottles plus 10% off vanilla beans (which come with free shipping anyway). Make sense?

Enjoy making (and using) your homemade vanilla!

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Don’t Forget! Free Au Chocolate Lotion Stick Today Only!

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Here’s your reminder that today is the final day you can pick up your free Au Chocolate Stick from MadeOn.

made on chocolate stick

This is my very favorite lotion, in the form of a stick, and with the scent of chocolate. Thank you, Renee, for this awesome free gift!

Simply type in your email on this page and go from there. (Renee’s newsletter is always beneficial, providing many DIY recipes for awesome skin related products.)

We do have to pay for shipping on this free product. In order to get more bang for my shipping buck, I added a few additional products to my cart. (The BeeSilk Lotion Bar is what I always have on hand in large supply.)

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Everyone Gets a FREE Au Chocolat Stick from MadeOn!

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Renee from MadeOn is sooooooo great to work with! I emailed her last week to say, “Many of us have the winter blues. Any chance you could offer us something fun like a discount or free gift with purchase to get us through until spring?”

Not only did she say “yes” – she offered more than I expected. This is more than a free gift with purchase. It’s simply a FREE GIFT. And it’s chocolate.

made on chocolate stick

Every one of us can go get a free Au Chocolate Stick (worth $8.05)!!!!

What is this, you ask? It’s only my very favorite lotion, in the form of a stick, and with the scent of chocolate. Because it’s in the form of a stick, it’s easier to apply for “spot application” or to apply lotion on a child’s skin. It’s perfect for elbows and knees. Mmmm, it’s cocoa butter lotion!!!

I’ve loved MadeOn Hard Lotion for years now. It has saved my hands from cracking and bleeding each winter. I love it so much, and I love working with Renee, owner of MadeOn. She cares so much about her customers and about making sure her products are pure and healthy.

So. Go get your free Au Chocolate Stick.  (Renee’s newsletter is always beneficial, providing many DIY recipes for awesome skin related products.)

One last thing:  We do have to pay for shipping on this free product. In order to get more bang for my shipping buck, I plan to add a few additional products to my cart. This isn’t a problem because we love these products so much and all six of us use them! (The BeeSilk Lotion Bar is what I always have on hand in large supply.)

Okeedokee! Enjoy your free gift, and thank you, Renee, for blessing us all with this!

This free offer is good through Wednesday, March 11.

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Hurry! Get the Big Hero 6 DVD for FREE!

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Oh boy! This just came through my inbox – you can get a FREE Big Hero 6 DVD!

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This offer is only valid for new Top Cash Back members. There’s no catch. I’ve been a member at Top Cash Back for over a year and they’ve always refunded me every penny of what they promised. Woohooo – free goodies!

Here’s how to get the Big Hero 6 DVD for free:

  1. Head to TopCashBack and sign up for a new account. (This offer is good for new sign-ups only, and that is my referral link.)
  2. You’ll receive an email immediately after you sign up, and you’ll need to click the link within the email to verify your TopCashBack account. Check your spam folder if the email doesn’t show up right away.
  3. Go to this TopCashBack page where you’ll be introduced to this free DVD offer.
  4.  Click through the orange “Get Cashback” button beside the $16.50 offer. You must shop through that button in order to get your cash back bonus. It looks like this:

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5. You will be re-directed to Walmart.com. Find the Big Hero 6 DVD, which is listed at $14.99. Add this item to your cart.  It must be this exact item.

6. DO NOT add anything else to your cart. You will not receive an $16.50 refund if there is anything in this transaction other than the DVD specified in this offer.

7. Head to check-out. Select “Site to Store” or “Free – Pick Up” so that you’ll get free shipping and so that this offer will be valid.

8. Complete your transaction. With tax, the DVD should cost around $16.50 or less.

9. Wal-mart will email you when your DVD is available for pick-up. When it is, simply go to Walmart and pick it up. FUN!

10. Within 14 days $16.50 will turn payable in your TopCashBack account and can be credited straight to your checking or PayPal account.

You need to hurry!  This offer is only good through Saturday, February 28 or until supplies last. Supplies usually don’t last long on a deal like this one. :)

Let me know if you have questions. Enjoy your free DVD!

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5-Piece Cast Iron Set for Less Than Half Off ~ Plus Really Yummy Pancake Recipes

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Thinking about pancakes cooked on cast iron gives me warm fuzzies. I’m desperate for anything warm and fuzzy right now. Actually, I’m just hungry for pancakes.

I just found this Lodge 5-Piece Cast Iron set. For everything you’re getting with this purchase, it is a really, really good deal!

lodge cast iron set

Isn’t that pretty? Not only is cast iron a great alternative to Teflon – I also think that cast iron makes the best eggs and pancakes ever. :)

Here are links to our family’s favorite pancake recipes. All of them are super easy and cook up great on a cast iron griddle. By the way, I have this griddle, but the large round griddle above looks to be a great option.

Simple Whole Wheat Pancakes

Easy Whole Wheat Pancakes

Quick Mix Pancakes

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Pumpkin Pancakes

Simple Pumpkin Pancakes

Peanut Butter Pancakes

Peanut Butter Pancakes

If looking at those made you hungry, you might also be interested in a good deal I found on organic maple syrup. ;)  
hidden springs maple syrup

 

Now how many of you are suddenly changing your meal plan to make breakfast for dinner tonight?  Pancakes are just so YUM. And might I suggest you also make Mocha???

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Use Coconut Oil For Fantastically Healthy Baked Goods (Free Shipping from Tropical Traditions!)

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If you make no other changes in your diet, at least switch over unhealthy fats for healthy fats. Butter and Coconut Oil are amazing, both in nutritional value and in flavor. Do this.  You will love it. Your body will love it. Your baked goods will love it.

Seriously, my baked goods used to taste so weird and turn out looking so weird when I used margarine. <— naughty word

Butter and coconut oil can’t help but turn out a great baked good.  They are real.  Real food makes real good food. <— someone should embroider that quote and hang it on a wall

Now the best news:  There are some great coconut oil sales going on this weekend. Take advantage of this and be on your way to better health (and really yummy food). First off, my very favorite, top of the line, coconut oil of all coconut oils is on sale this weekend at Tropical Traditions. Get two quart jars of Organic Gold Label Coconut Oil for just $45. This makes them $22.50 each for the highest quality oil I’ve ever seen or used. This variety has a light coconut flavor.

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Next, Tropical Traditions is offering two 16-ounce jars of their Pure Coconut Oil for a total of just $12.50! That is crazy low, and I love it. Stock up!!! Why is this one so much lower than the one I mentioned above? Because it is processed just a little differently. While it’s not as high quality as their Gold Label oil, I still love the Pure Coconut Oil and it is still very nutritious. This one is odorless and flavorless – perfect for those of you who want the health benefit but not the coconut flavor. I use both varieties. :)

tropical traditions pure coconut oil
The best news of all? Tropical Traditions is offering free shipping this weekend!!! With a minimum purchase of $19.00, use the code 15261 and receive free shipping. I only purchase when I can pair their sale prices with free shipping.

One more thing:  New customers with Tropical Traditions automatically receive a free Virgin Coconut Oil Book with your order.

Happy baking!

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Free $10 to Spend on Whole Food Groceries with Free Shipping

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You might remember me sharing about iHerb in the past. If not, allow me to introduce you and give you a free $10. :)

I like iHerb because they carry many of the groceries I like to use, plus they offer free shipping on all orders over $20. Ordering groceries online is just not worth it if I have to pay shipping. But without shipping costs, it’s like saving gas money I’d have to use by driving at least an hour one way to get groceries like this. Can’t beat that!

The picture below shares an example of the groceries I’ve purchased from iHerb…

Free Groceries at iHerb

Here are the specifics of what I purchased that day:

Head to iHerb and take a look around at all their products. You’ll need to use my referral code: BID487 to get your free $10 to use on your first order of $40 or more. This will bring your total down to $30, plus you’ll qualify for free shipping. Super fun!

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