Best Kids Consignment Sale EVER!

Just Between Friends Children's & Maternity Consignment Sale is this weekend!

Don’t miss your opportunity to find incredible deals on everything you need for babies, kids, and pregnancy!

There are almost 600 consignors registered to sell their nearly-new clothes (sizes from preemie to pre-teen), cribs, strollers, toys, books, baby carriers, shoes, and so much more! If you like saving money, this Event is just too big to miss.

Open to the Public:

• Friday, April 24th: 6 PM - 8 PM
• Saturday, April 25: 9 AM - 8 PM
• Sunday, April 26th 10 AM - 3 PM (Many items half price on Sunday!)

Portland Expo Center
2060 N. Marine Drive
Portland, OR 97217
(Save gas & money, take the MAX straight to the Sale!)

Cash, Visa, Mastercard, Discover, and debit cards are accepted. ATM on site.

Free Ben & Jerry's Cone April 21

As a way to thank customers for support and to celebrate 31 years of scooping the chunkiest, funkiest ice cream, frozen yogurt and sorbet, Ben & Jerry’s scoop shops are happily giving it away!

Around the world, Scoop Shops are opening their doors from noon to 8:00 pm, to serve up a free scoop of your favorite flavor. Check with your local Scoop Shop for more info!

free breakfast at Ikea this weekend

Free eggs, potatoes & bacon/sausage breakfast at Ikea this weekend. Get there as soon as they open and it's not a bad wait at all. (I've gone twice to this event, waited 15 minutes total to get food and found a table almost immediately.) Good deals on kitchen things too!

Late Night Snacker

I am a self-professed late night snacker. I love to eat once it's dark out - I don't know if it's just the fact that I don't have to share any of what I choose with my toddler, or if it truly is the 'boredom=eating'. Either way I'm pretty sure that more than a handful of my unwanted pounds can be attributed to this unhealthy habit. Late night snacks tend to be the most unhealthiest of the day - I'm tired, may feel like I've 'earned' it, and my 'eating sensors' are usually turned off. Late night seems to be a 'free for all' zone.
This past week I limited my self to eating late only one night (admittedly I indulged on two nights) and the trick that worked for me to avoid late night bejinges was brushing my teath right after I put my daughter to bed. I made sure to eat a real dinner with her, then brushed with her or as soon as I left her room after putting her to bed. Almost every night I thought as I held the toothbrush up to my teeth, "Am I sure I want to do this? What if I want something more to eat?" Then I thought, "Well, that's the point of brushing - so I don't eat any more!" And I brushed. I must say, after just a week, it seems a little bit easier (knock on wood) to brush sooner and not have a late night craving. It's also helped me go to bed earlier. Imagine that!
If you too are a cronic late night snacker, I challenge you to a week of brushing your teeth when your child goes to bed (or 2 hours before you want to go to bed). If you can make it a month, I bet by just changing this one habit you can loose a pound or two.

$5.99 pizza from Papa Murphy's

You can get a $5.99 large cheese pizza from Papa Murphy's today and tomorrow in honor of tax day. I think the limit is 3. Easy and cheap dinner idea.

Coming Soon...

• 15 minute dinners made in foil pockets (the gateway to my cooking adventures)
• Green (zucchini) muffins
• More things around Portland to do (for free)
• Mudeye Puppet Company information
• Organic Cleaning products I love
• 2 more blog authors who are packed with information for you - a 'coupon/discount/deal expert' and a 'home making baby food & other things expert'
  

Aggression (Oatmeal) Cookies

This recipe is one I found online, although I can't remember where and have not been able to locate it again to give credit where it would be due. I have taken the basic recipe and done many things to it, as listed below.

Requested by many in the Baby Boot Camp classes I teach, here is the recipe to the cookies I brought to class:

Aggression Cookies

• 6 cups rolled oats
• 3 cups packed brown sugar
• 3 cups butter
• 3 cups all purpose flour
• 1 tablespoon baking soda

Put all ingredients in bowl. Mash, kneed, squeeze until lumps of butter are gone. Make into small balls and put on cookie sheet. Butter the bottom of a glass, dip in sugar, then flatten each cookie. Dip in sugar between each cookie. Bake at 350 for 10-12 minutes. Makes 15 dozen.

gina's adds: I've made this recipe into bars - just put the batter spread out to the edges in a cookie sheet and bake for a little longer. I've also added dried fruit and coconut to the mix. I use whole wheat flour, smart balance butter (and a little less than the recipe calls for - I also soften it in the microwave first), and used 10 grain or stone ground oatmeal instead of rolled oats. For the cookies I brought to class I used stone ground oatmeal, whole wheat flour and added a little bit of vanilla to the batch.