Subway’s Random Acts of Fitness is back! Teachers + Homeschools can request a free fitness kit to help engage the kids in healthy activities for body and mind. Head over to Subway Kids to request your kit.

These 4th of July printables by Tweedled Designs is a collection of 8 files including party invitations, punchables (useful for stickers, cupcake toppers, favor tags, etc), party banner, straw flags, labels, mini notecards, treat bag toppers and plastic water bottle labels.

Posh Pixel Design Studio was generous enough to revamp their Memorial Day printable set just for the Fourth of July. The circle stickers and the mini party flags would be a great addition to the set above.

Skip to My Lou has the Patriotic Pinwheels printable and an Uncle Sam Hat Party Favor tutorial.

Family Fun has this cute Star Spangled Welcome Banner tutorial as well as many other great 4th of July crafts, recipes & game ideas.

ENJOY THE PRINTABLES! HAVE A FUN + SAFE FOURTH OF JULY!

Three readers that entered the What’s For Dinner? Giveaway were selected using the Random.org true number service.  And the winners are…

1. #3 – Leslie Cole “All I can say about this is WOW!!!!! I have 3 young boys at home and I am constantly struggling for something healthy and nutritious, yet also delicious, that all 5 of us will eat. This would really help me stress less and spend more time loving on my family.”

2. #24 – Katie Lou “LOVE your blog! With kids with multipile food allergies out mealtime for sure takes some major planning!”

3. #1 – Mollie “Hey Gypsy! I don’t think that I’ve been to your blog before today, and I definitely didn’t know that we have so many common interests…

I would use this resource so much. My mom and I combine forces to plan and make the meals for 8 people, and we eat at home nearly every meal. We’re already doing pretty good, but the routine gets stale and this would be such nice way to get us going again!”

I will be contacting the winners shortly by email to discuss your prize.  Congratulations to all the winners and thank you to those who participated!

If you are interested in more about receiving a copy of your very own “200 Weeknight Dinners” eBook or the online meal planning system head on over to Menu In A Box.

PS: I know there was/is an issue with the correct time & date stamp on comments.  As of 9pm when I checked comments last night, most all comments were posted and were showing as 5/26 AM times.  I plan to fix this issue before the next giveaway so there are no questions/mishaps.

How many times a week do you ask yourself, What’s For Dinner? How much time a week are you planning out your family’s dinner meals, shopping lists and grocery shopping?

A lot! I know that I was spending more time than I wanted to in planning for our meals – probably just as much time or more as I did in cooking & eating them! Then a few months ago, I came across Menu In A Box. I won a free one year membership to the site by simply entering a giveaway on the blog. I was thrilled at the thought of it and trust me, it’s came in handy!

My favorite part of the membership was actually the free gift that came along with it, an e-book. Menu In a Box 200 Weeknight Dinners Budget & Family Friendly includes 40 weeks of meals along with shopping lists. All organized and ready to print for shopping and preparing your meals! You could add one night of leftovers and one night as a take-out or go out to eat and print a page from this ebook and you have an entire week planned in seconds!

Example of How to use 200 Weeknight Meals

If your family is easy to please in the meal department, you could print the lists off and use them in the order that they are. Everything, and I do mean everything, sounds great! I, however, have one child that eats everything in sight and one that is allergic to eggs as well as has some sensory issues (picky about way certain foods feel and/or look in his hands and/or mouth). While he seems to be doing a bit better lately with those sensory issues, I do usually have to make sure I have something else on hand that is most likely microwavable or quick to throw together like a sandwich. As there are 40 weeks to choose from, I have been known to skip through a few of them and print out ones in which everyone in the household is more likely to eat all or close to all the meals from that week. And others I have used a blank printable meal planner of my own and created the shopping list for a few of the meals from the e-book and a few of my own recipes. Since my children are toddler/preschool age, I’m sure they will out grow the picky stage and I’ll have more opportunity to use each and every one of the recipes!

Advantages of 200 Weeknight Dinners

Now here’s your chance to get a copy!

3 of my lucky readers will win a copy of 200 Weeknight Dinners!

Contest starts today May 20 and ends May 25 at 11PM EST

Winners will be announced on May 26th

You may visit Easy, Quick Dinners where you can find more information about this e-book.  

To enter this giveaway, Leave a comment below and tell us how this could help your household’s weeknight meal planning. For an extra entry (must have done the above first), Follow myself @LifeAsMama and Ruthie of Menu In A Box at @MenuInABox .  Tweet out the following, then comment below that you did so.

Win a Free E-Book, @MenuInABox’s 200 Weeknight Dinners | Enter: http://bit.ly/7JYiOT | via @LifeAsMama #MealPlanner #Giveaway

It’s that simple!

Along the lines with my previous post of free printables to create a household notebook, I have decided to make a list of printables for the holidays. Now, I do hope most everyone has already got everything ready to go for the holidays, but if not, these free downloads are great for keeping things frugal this season and for those waiting until the last minute!

I also got this idea from Lisa over at Moxie Blog which has a 3 sets of holiday printables up for download. This is a beautiful matching set that I came across a few weeks ago and plan to use myself. Lisa has a set of holiday cards & gift tags, pillow box and a pyramid box! You can find each of these linked in the sidebar of the blog at The Moxie Pear.

Probably my favorite free printables of this season has got to be the Holiday Recipe Card Collection from my favorite scrapbooking resource, Shabby Princess. This set includes 14 recipe cards, cover pages, printable card box, and extra word art. This would be an awesome gift or stocking stuffer for the bakers/cooks in your life!

Living Locurto has quite a mix of holiday printables ranging from Sandwich Bag Toppers and Christmas CD Cover (for those Christmas “Mixtape” Gifts) to gift tags and thank you cards for all those gifts received this year.

Another great tag set here, from Babalisme are these Reindeer tags. Then there is a set of Photo Holiday Cards from Creature Comforts Blog. These From Santa’s Orchards, Printable Stickers, from Giver’s Log, are a great way to label “produce from the North Pole” for those stocking stuffers.

Last but not least, another thank you card and set of tags from Hannah over at Sherbet Blossom.

I hope that this list will help you in your quest for finishing those holiday tasks without emptying your pockets!

Updated: I was notified of a few more links that I wanted to share with everyone as I want to make sure there is something for everyone’s needs/wants on this list.

Free Printable Wintry Holiday Tags – Domestifluff
Holiday Gingerbread Man Garland – Angry Chicken
Holiday Mailing Labels – Make, Do & Send
Cookie Labels – Tangarang
Gift Tags & More Gift Tags – Fresh Picked Whimsy
Pink & Green Tags & Red & Green Tags – Tricia Rennea
Christmas Gift Tags – Mushy