Cinco de Mayo

YUMMMM!!! love this!!

I mixed up some smart balance or you can use earth balance buttery spread. Mixed in some salt, rosemary and garlic.

I smeared it on the corn and covered it back up with the husks. Ready to Bbq.





Cinco De Mayo would not be complete without some good cuban MOJITO"S
No, it's not a mexican drink,but we're not mexican or cuban ....so who cares. It's in the spanish family.lol

We were going to make some Horchata but maybe we can do that some other day and maybe i'll even post a recipe. We'll see.
stay tuned.

Mojito's are made with

Lime

sugar

Mint leaves

ice

light bacardi

and seltzer water, club soda , carbonated water. whatever you want to call it.
I don't really measure . I just use half a lime , teaspoon of sugar some mint leaves (depending on how much you like the taste of mint. I usually use ...ummm i don't know about 6-8 depeding how big they are . I beat it to death add ice and add the liquor.
I usually do my own thing though. I use brown sugar and i like using coconut rum. UHH soo good!!!!

Sky's the limit!!


These are called "duritos" or "churritos" they are made of flour and they come in different shapes, you eat them with

(tapatio sauce) or chile and lime. "WARNING" these are very addicting. You can't eat just one.

The kids love them as well. You can get these in any spanish market. My mother in-law usually brings them when she comes to

visit. I'm not sure if you can order them online. This is definetly a delicious way to start a party. Only bad thing is ,you have to fry

them. I fry them with either safflower oil or canola oil.

Suprisingly Organic

Aren't these shoes cute? Well, Guess what? What you say....These are from

Payless shoes!! YES! you heard correctly. PAYLESS SHOES! I like to brouse payless for their BOGO deal and came

across these and some other cute zac and zoe echo friendly footwear.

Payless also carries vegan leather. But be careful cause i think they've been coming out with some real leather shoes too.

This was my first time seeing organic shoes at payless.

GO PAYLESS!!

Soy

Love this soy protein. I bought it at GNC and it only cost $6. We love it in our smoothies in the morning.

I always let the kids put it in the blender and they know exactly what it's for.

buying in bulk

I wish i could buy in bulk more often, being that it's a lot cheaper. The nearest whole food is about 2hrs from where i live.:(

OH well, I'll have to settle for the herbs they sell in walmart in the Ethnic aisle.

These are great! If i were to buy a bottle of seasame seeds, it would prob cost me almost $2

Each bag cost me 74 cents, isn't that great! it's like getting 2 for the price of 1 or less.

Untill i get my herb garden going. These bags will have to do.

Vegan mistake

I would never be able to live without my PEANUT BUTTER CAPT CRUNCH!!!


When i first started into my vegan adventure ,there were A LOT of things i didn't want to give up. Peanut Butter Cap't Crunch was


one of them. Mistakenly ,i was on the peta website and checked out their " i can't believe it's not vegan" list. Thank You Lord!!!

Latin Coupon Queen

AAHH living by the coupon.

Now days ,you can get coupons everywhere ,not just the sunday paper.

Although we don't eat half the stuff they give out in the sunday paper. I just get online and search for coupons on the

food we do eat. Please if you're out there and your thinking of getting started on coupons. Please, Please don't join any

sites to where you have to pay. I think thats ridiculous. It takes a lil bit of time to learn the ropes but it's gets easier and more fun.

Cash-strapped consumers are increasingly turning to coupons to help them afford everyday items -- and retailers are meeting that demand by issuing more of them and making them easier to access through the web or on a cell phone.

But the coupons that some retailers are issuing these days aren't your average Sunday morning newspaper variety. Using a special barcode technology, these coupons can gather a shocking amount of intelligence on you -- from where you shop to how you browse the web.

The New York Times reports that these digital coupons can tell retailers:
The search terms you used to find the coupon
Your Facebook page information
The website you printed the coupon from
And other information that can be used to identify you
When it comes to finding information on Facebook, retailers can connect your FaceBook ID to a printable coupon's barcode that will allow the retailer to learn quite a bit about you. For example, if you join a FaceBook group in order to get a coupon your unique Facebook ID can be embedded into that coupon and later used by the retailer to, "easily see your sex, your location and what you're interested in," Jonathan Treiber, co founder of coupon analytics firm RevTrax, told the New York Times.

Luke Knowles, the founder of CouponSherpa, a website that provides Web, printable and mobile coupons, says the practices are "fairly common" and "nothing very new." Knowles explains that similar tracking has long occurred online with cookies, a small file placed on a computer when you visit a website, that is used to deliver relevant ads to web surfers. This type of tracking is a compromise that consumers make with retailers in exchange for savings, he explains.

The only difference is that consumers can turn off cookies; they can't stop the coupon from tracking them.

While to some consumers, this may seem like a violation of privacy the technology can also be used in their favor. This type of tracking provides companies with the ability to see which marketing messages are working and which coupon codes consumers prefer. They then use that information to deliver more relevant coupons to the consumer, thus helping them to save more.

Kelly Whalen, who blogs about personal finance at TheCentsibleLife, says she welcomes this type of coupon tracking. "I'm always irritated at Target b/c I never get relevant coupons," she tweeted. Callan Green of San Diego also tweeted her support, "If you are serving me a coupon to something I'm interested in, what's the problem? I like saving money!" Interestingly enough WalletPop didn't receive any negative responses to our request for reactions.

La Loteria

LA LOTERIA!! (The Lottery)

Had great family time after dinner. We played LA LOTERIA ( a mexican form of bingo)


Something like bingo,except you have to fill your whole page, yell LOTERIA at the end. We use beans to mark our

cards instead of markers or whatever they use in bingo.(you get what i mean)

The cards come with pictures( written in spanish) instead of numbers. My husband flips a card from the deck and you just

mark your play card with a bean if you have it. It's a lot of fun. Although some of the pictures are lil grown-up for the girls.