Cheap treasures

A couple weeks ago I decided to hit up the Sonic that is closer to my house, versus going to the nice Sonic. My happy hour diet cherry vanilla Diet Coke tastes the same at both locations, but I prefer the 'nice Sonic.' Well, that was until I noticed what was in the parking lot of the closer Sonic. This place is awesome. You never know what sort of treasure you will find - all just for 99 cents. I once saw a lady on Oprah that had published a 99 Cent Store cookbook. She talked about all of the gourmet food items the store had, plus her location sold wine. Well, my location does not sell wine (sad) but they do have all sorts of other great things, plus some pretty good produce.

Lean Cuisine. Cheap-o.

Spices galore. Cinnamon to cumin to crazy Mexican spices. They have it all.

Red, yellow and orange bell peppers. Have you seen the price of these suckers at Whole Foods? Sheesh.

Pool toys. When you have a puppy named Jake that likes to chew on anything and everything, you want to find cheap outside toys.

Positive is positive. No need to waste $8 a pop on these suckers. (side note: back when I was using these things, the most expensive one is the only one that said I was not pregnant)

These items made it into my basket today....

Mexican vanilla. Elefantitas Alegres - have any recipes for me?

Disposable place mats. We have a reusable one for when we eat out, but Miss A has started pulling it off the table, making a huge mess. Maybe she will not be able to pull these off. We shall see.

Flower pots and gardening gloves. I am on a major gardening kick this summer.

I have also found Fiber One blueberry muffin mix, Banana Boat sunscreen and lots of good cleaning products. I am addicted!