Another Recommendation

Wow.

These 100 calorie treat shots are amazingly delicious!

Having fallen out of love for yogurt some time ago, I tend not to even notice that section of the store. But yesterday at Safeway, apparently by chance, my eye caught sight of a product, "Yoplait Delights".

These dairy treats (sorry Vegan friends) come 4 to a pack, and although they usually retail for $3.50 or so, they were on sale for $1.99, and (oddly) one of the flavors was actually 3 for $1.00 (yes, 3 4-packs for $1.00). I decided to buy one pack for the crazy-on-sale price of $.33 (Chocolate Raspberry) and one of the regular sale priced for $1.99 (Lemon Tart).


I just had the Lemon one as a morning snack and OH MY GOSH it was DELICIOUS! It was like eating something between a lemon meringue pie and a lemon square. For $.50, this is DEFINITELY a WINNER. I highly recommend it!

I'll let you know how the Chocolate Raspberry tastes when I have one with my lunch this afternoon.

If you are interested in trying these for yourself, make sure you go to the company's website (www.yoplait.com/delights) and print yourself a $1.00 off coupon, which saves you on the purchase of any one pack... meaning, you can get it for a total of $.99 at Safeway this week (or, in my case, I can get 3 packs of Chocolate Raspberry for free, hehe)!

Good buys and bad buys

Sometimes you just got to let others know what is a good purchase worth your money, and what should be avoided. So, here is some of mine.

Product #1:

In November the temperature dropped quickly and, because I ride the bus to and from work, my skin was exposed immediately to some harsh treatment. As a result, my face began to crack and hurt from the dryness. My regular face lotion a la Clinique was not cutting it, and I was frustrated at how my face looked like crocodile skin. So, I googled "dry skin cream" at Walgreen's.com and what should I find?

This stuff works GREAT! And at roughly $5.99 a jar, you can't ask for a better bargain. Also, I have not-the-greatest pores, and I fully expected two things to happen: (1) I would break out in hives from using a drug store lotion, and (2) I would break out in pimples. But, neither of those two things happened. What did happen was my skin became smooth, my rough and flaky cheeks, forehead and chin became soft, and the results were IMMEDIATE. I am still using the same jar of cream daily, and have more than half of it left, so a little goes a long way.

This is my "Good Buy"!

Product #2:
Now for my bad buy...
When grocery shopping last week, I stopped in the cracker isle and wanted to get some crackers to eat with all the soup I was planning for my lunches that week. When I went to grab a box of Ritz, I noticed that the Safeway brand crackers were on sale for half the price. (Ritz were $2.99, I think, and the Safeway were 2 for $3.00.) So, I bought the Safeway brand... BAD CHOICE. I hate when a generic product burns me, and this one did. They are THE WORST crackers I have ever had, and taste more like the cardboard box it sits in than a cracker.

So, no matter the price, Ritz is always the "Better Buy".

Avoid the generic.

What products have you been surprised with (good or bad) lately?

Poker Night with 'Gar and the Guys

Last night was a donor-only-invite poker game at Maggiano's Restaurant in Bellevue, with proceeds to benefit The Martinez Foundation and their scholarship program(s). At $750 a ticket to attend, Monico was fortunate to be included as the Foundation's "recipient good-will ambassador," the only one of the beneficiaries to be invited to the event. (Nope, not even I got to go.) So, he got to spend the night playing poker and talking with his childhood idols, and like any true sports enthusiast, Monico was star-struck by all the superstars who attended the event...

Edgar Martinez, Monico, Jay Buhner

Omar Vizquel, Monico

Monico & (actor) Tom Skerritt

Manu Tuiasosopo, Monico, Matt Tuiasosopo

Jeff Nelson, Monico

Monico & Dan Wilson

Norm Charlton, Monico, Jeff Nelson & wife, and (??)

Jeff Nelson, Dan Wilson, Edgar Martinez, Norm Charlton, Omar Vizquel, Jay Buhner

In summary, there were several Superbowl and World Series Rings in the room, not to mention true future Hall of Famers, and Monico still can't believe he got to be there with them.