Dozens of readers commented on two posts asking how much a recipe for lemon chicken pasta costs for a chance to win a free one-year membership to BJ’s, worth $45. I gave one clue – the answer was less than $12. The reader who came closest without going over is the winner.
And the prize goes to…
Elaine, who guessed BJ’s lemon-chicken pasta costs $7.50. The recipe, which serves 4, costs $1.91 per serving, or $7.64. Congrats, Elaine!
If you missed the recipe, get it here. The membership was donated by BJ’s.
If you lost, stay tuned for another contest starting tomorrow to win $500 worth of groceries!
If you saw heard me on Martha Stewart Living radio on Sirius this morning, welcome to BargainBabe.com! We share tips and strategies to save money on everyday expenses like groceries, gasoline, and household bills – because the little things add up.
If you like what you see, sign up for my daily or weekly email list here. Next week I’m giving away $500 worth of groceries so it’s a good idea to stick around!
If you’d like to learn about more coupon clipping techniques, strategies, and helpful websites, check out my coupon tips.
Looking for an easy way to budget? I must have tried a dozen different budgeting systems before I discovered one that worked for me. It’s simple, practical, and really helps trim your credit card bill. I shaved $2,000 off mine the first month I used it!
A reader asked me how I keep my weekly grocery bill to $27 and I laid out all my grocery tips for her.
Win a $45 membership to BJ’s warehouse club if you guess how much it costs to make their lemon-chicken bowtie pasta recipe. Contest ends Monday night!
Thanks for visiting BargainBabe.com!
Readers are placing their bets for how much the BJ’s recipe below for lemon-chicken bowtie pasta costs. I’ve shared one clue – it’s less than $12.
Whoever comes closest to guessing without going over (like the Price is Right) wins a one-year membership to BJs, a warehouse club with 187 locations in 15 states. Membership to BJ’s costs $45. If multiple readers guess correctly the prize goes to whoever answered first.
So far readers have guessed as low as $2.73 and as high as $9.73. Your guess should be for the cost of the entire recipe, which makes four servings, not the price per serving.
The contest ends Monday at 11:59 p.m. PST and the winner will be announced Tuesday. Leave your answer as a comment on this post, on my Facebook page, or on Twitter. One guess per email, please.
Lemon-Chicken Bowtie Pasta, serves 4 at ??? price
8 oz. Barilla® Farfalle
4 Perdue® Boneless Skinless Chicken Breasts (1¼ lb.)
5 Green Onions, sliced
1 clove Garlic, minced
2 Tbsp. Wesson® Canola Oil
1/ 8 tsp. McCormick® Cayenne Pepper
1½ cups Progresso® Chicken Broth
2 tsp. Grey Poupon® Dijon Mustard
¼ cup fresh Lemon Juice
White Sauce (see below)
1. Cook pasta until al dente. Drain and set aside. 2. Cut chicken into ¾” pieces. Set aside. Heat oil in large skillet over medium high heat. Add green onions and garlic and sauté one minute. 3. Add chicken and sauté, turning chicken occasionally until cooked through, about 12 to 15 minutes. 4. Add pasta, toss and set aside. 5. Adapt Basic White Sauce recipe (see previous page): mix cayenne pepper into flour before adding. Reduce milk by 1½ cups, substituting same amount of chicken broth. Add chicken broth-milk mix to fl our mix per recipe instructions. 6. While sauce is still hot, whisk in mustard and lemon juice, then immediately pour over chicken-pasta mixture; lightly toss to mix. 7. Garnish with sliced lemon and serve immediately.
BASIC WHITE SAUCE Makes 2 cups. Your microwave’s cooking times may vary. Please watch carefully.
4 Tbsp. Land O’Lakes® Sweet Butter
4 Tbsp. Gold Medal® All-Purpose Flour
2 cups Milk
Salt and Black Pepper to taste
1. Melt butter on high in 1-qt., microwave-safe
bowl, about 20 to 30 seconds. 2. Stir in flour, using spoon to break up lumps, until smoothly blended. 3. Add milk, salt and pepper and stir until completely blended. 4. Microwave on high, pausing to stir every 30 seconds or so, until sauce is thick and bubbly, about 1 to 2 minutes. Variation: Add 2 cups of shredded Cracker Barrel® Sharp Cheddar Cheese and toss with cooked elbow macaroni for mac and cheese.
TODAY, Wednesday October 21 is the last day to sign up to win an Xbox 360!!! The second place winner will receive a $50 gift card to Amazon and the third place winner will receive a hot pink Bargain Babe T-shirt.
The fabulous coupon web site Savings.com is sponsoring this reader giveaway and has generously donated an Xbox 360 for your winning pleasure!
If you already receive my emails, you are automatically entered to win. You do not need to sign up again or email me to double check. If I am in your RSS feed, you are not eligible to win, unfortunately. But you can sign up for my email list to be eligible! Three winners will be chosen at random.
Both gift card winners got back to me very quickly yesterday. The existing reader prize went to Debbie, who started reading BargainBabe.com before it officially launched (wow!) on Jan. 26, 2009! Debbie claimed her $25 gift card with great enthusiasm. “Woohoo!” she emailed me. “Trader Joe’s would be awesome!”
Debbie also suggested a Lincoln Lunch for me to check out – super!
The contest was a great success with more than 400 people signing up! That means I will have more contests so you all have chances to win in the future!
In the meantime, thank you so much for your readership. BargainBabe.com is thriving because of your support.
The names have been drawn! The winners have been notified!
Thank you to all the new and existing readers who participated in the $25 gift card giveaway. The winners and their gift card selection (either Target or Trader Joe’s) will be announced soon. Stay tuned!
If you did not sign up in time, no worries. You can still join my free email list and get great deals and tips sent to your Inbox.
~Julia
aka Bargain Babe
My $25 gift card giveaway ends tomorrow, June 9, 2009. To enter, sign up for BargainBabe.com emails and you can win a $25 gift card to Target or Trader Joe’s! Here are the rules for the gift card giveaway.
1. One new reader who signs up between May 26 and June 9 to receive my free daily OR weekly emails will receive a $25 gift card to Trader Joe’s or Target.
2. One existing reader who already receives my weekday OR weekly emails will win a $25 gift card to Trader Joe’s or Target. If you already receive my emails, you are automatically entered to win. You do not need to do anything to be eligible. You do not need to email me to double check.
3. If I am in your RSS feed, you are not eligible to win. You must sign up to receive my emails to be entered in the giveaway.
4. The drive ends June 9, 2009 so sign up now!
5. Winners will be chosen at random on June 10. I will email those readers to make sure the email address is valid. Readers will have 48 hours to respond. If readers do not respond, alternates will be notified.
6. Winners will be announced on the blog June 13. Gift cards will be mailed to the winners.
Any questions? Leave a comment.
If you haven’t already, sign up for BargainBabe.com emails and you can win a $25 gift card to Target or Trader Joe’s! Here are the rules for the gift card giveaway.
1. One new reader who signs up between May 26 and June 9 to receive my free daily OR weekly emails will receive a $25 gift card to Trader Joe’s or Target.
2. One existing reader who already receives my weekday OR weekly emails will win a $25 gift card to Trader Joe’s or Target. If you already receive my emails, you are automatically entered to win. You do not need to do anything to be eligible. You do not need to email me to double check.
3. If I am in your RSS feed, you are not eligible to win. You must sign up to receive my emails to be entered in the giveaway.
4. The drive ends June 9, 2009 so sign up now!
5. Winners will be chosen at random on June 10. I will email those readers to make sure the email address is valid. Readers will have 48 hours to respond. If readers do not respond, alternates will be notified.
6. Winners will be announced on the blog June 13. Gift cards will be mailed to the winners.
Any questions? Leave a comment.
A site I contribute to called Toddler Magazine is giving away a 7-night stay for four people at an all-inclusive Club Med resort on Punta Cana in the Dominican Republic. The prize does not include airfare. Sign up for the contest here.
You can enter everyday if you like. The contest ends August 1, 2009.
This contest certainly dwarfs the $25 gift cards to Trader Joe’s or Target that I am giving away! Luckily, you can sign up for both. Win my contest and you can purchase a new swim suit to wear at Club Med if you win on Toddler!
The BargainBabe.com email subscriber drive has officially launched! It’s free to participate and you can win a $25 gift card to Target or Trader Joe’s (your choice) for joining. Here are the updated rules for the subscriber drive and giveaway.
1. One new reader who signs up between May 26 and June 9 to receive my free daily OR weekly emails will receive a $25 gift card to Trader Joe’s or Target.
2. One existing reader who already receives my weekday OR weekly emails will win a $25 gift card to Trader Joe’s or Target. If you already receive my emails, you are automatically entered to win. You do not need to do anything to be eligible. You do not need to email me to double check.
3. If I am in your RSS feed, you are not eligible to win. You must sign up to receive my emails to be entered in the giveaway.
4. The drive ends June 9, 2009 so sign up now!
5. Winners will be chosen at random on June 10. I will email those readers to make sure the email address is valid. Readers will have 48 hours to respond. If readers do not respond, alternates will be notified.
6. Winners will be announced on the blog June 13. Gift cards will be mailed to the winners.
Any questions? Leave a comment.
More than 300 readers voted in my poll about which gift card they wanted to win in my email subscriber drive. The top choice – Trader Joe’s – squeezed out a win by three votes! Thank you for participating.
UPDATE: Target is now tied for the No. 1 spot. Because both TJ’s and Target were so popular and because some readers may not have a TJ’s near them, the winners will get to chose if they want a gift card to TJ’s or Target. I think this is the fairest way of handling the situation.
Here is how the subscriber drive works:
1. The drive begins today, May 26, 2009 and ends June 9, 2009.
2. One existing reader who already receives my weekday OR weekly emails will win a $25 gift card to Trader Joe’s. If you already receive my emails, you are automatically entered to win. You do not need to do anything to be eligible. You do not need to email me to double check.
3. One new reader who signs up between May 26 and June 9 to receive my free emails will receive a $25 gift card to Trader Joe’s.
4. Winners will be chosen at random on June 10. I will email those readers to make sure the email address is valid. Readers will have 48 hours to respond. If readers do not respond, alternates will be notified.
5. Winners will be announced on the blog. Gift cards will be mailed to the winners.
Any questions? Leave a comment.
I’m launching another email subscriber drive next week. Two readers will win $25 gift cards: one will go to an existing reader who already receives my emails, and another will go to a new reader who signs up during the drive.
But I’m putting the power of deciding which gift cards to give away in your hands. Last time Starbucks was tres popular. Whichever option gets the most votes will be the ones I buy!
Loading ...Last night Hubby helped me randomly select two winners in my $25 Starbucks gift card giveaway. (He wrote a computer program for the drawing so it really was random!)
We send this email to the winners and two alternates last night:
Congratulations!!! You are either the winner or one of two alternates
in my $25 Starbucks giveaway! There are two content categories:
readers who signed up before February 23 and readers who signed up
between Feb 24 and March 23 at 9 pm PST.Please reply by Wednesday, March 25 at 9pm PST to claim your spot. If
the winner in each category does not respond, I will go to the runner
up, etc.If you are the winner, I will use your first name on the blog in my
announcement post!Thank you for reading BargainBabe.com and telling your friends about it.
Your cheapskate,
Julia
So check your email!
