Here is a terrific holiday gift for the coffee lover in your life that also needs a little bit of pampering.  This simple Coffee Sugar Scrub puts to use your favorite ground coffee grounds with a few other simple items on hand in your home to create a luscious scrub.  Coffee grounds are a great way to exfoliate and the “wake up” smell is perfect to get your day started on a bright note.  Although the recipe below doesn’t specify specific coffee I highly recommend using one of your favorite flavored coffees for a little extra kick.  A rich vanilla or hazelnut coffee ground will add just enough extra warmth of scent to this scrub that will be pleasing to everyone.

COFFEE SUGAR SCRUB

INGREDIENTS

• 1/2 cup Ground Coffee
• 1/2 cup Used Ground Coffee
• 1 cup Granulated Sugar
• 1/2 cup Coconut Oil
• 1 tsp Cinnamon

DIRECTIONS

• Pour sugar and coffee grounds into medium sized bowl.
• Mix in coconut oil (add more if you like a wet consistency).
• Add cinnamon and mix well.
• Place mixture in the jar.
• Add this Cute Coffee Sugar Scrub Label if desired

We love this variation on a simple sugar scrub that can be easily customized for your coffee loving friend for a perfect holiday gift.  With simple inexpensive decorative clear plastic jars or containers and a few small ribbon embellishments you can easily customize this scrub into a unique and personalized gift for anyone on your list.  Create a coffee lovers gift basket complete with this great scrub, a small bag of specialty roast coffee, a new custom holiday mug, perhaps a few packets of creamer, sweetener and a beautiful spoon to stir.  Great coffee sugar scrub like this proves that you don’t have to spend a lot of money to create a gift everyone would love to have this holiday season.

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If you are looking for an inexpensive yet fun gift to give to someone like your child’s teacher, a neighbor, friend from church, friend from your MOPS group or a hostess gift for one of the many holiday parties you will be attending here is a great and simple item!  DIY Holiday Gift: We Whisk You A Merry KISSmas is a super easy and inexpensive gift that looks adorable and makes everyone smile!

DIY HOLIDAY GIFT: WE WHISK YOU A MERRY KISSMAS

Needed:

• Wire Whisks
• Hershey’s Kisses
• Cellophane Bags {Large enough to hold whisk}
• Ribbon
• Printed We Whisk You A Merry Kissmas Card

Assembly:

• Slip Hershey’s Kisses in between wire of whisk
• Drop whisk into clear or holiday printed cellophane bag
• Tie with ribbon
• Attach printed We Whisk You A Merry KISSmas Card to Ribbon on bag

Go HERE to print your We WHISK you a Merry KISSmas Cards or simply click the image below!

This DIY Holiday Gift is a great one for low budgets.  Most Dollar Tree or $1 Shops carry wire or plastic whisks for only $1 each.  A bag of Hershey’s Kisses can be picked up for under $2 after coupons this time of year with great sales.  Cellophane bags are easy to find at any retail store for $1-$2 for a bag of 12-15 bags.  A roll of ribbon is $1.  You can spend $10 to make 5 great teachers gifts for your children to give out at their holiday parties this year!

To create an extra special gift you can pick up inexpensive baskets or casserole dishes on sale and fill them with this, a boxed cake mix or brownie mix, a bag of chocolate chips or mint chips, a pot holder and a kitchen towel and spend just a few dollars to give someone a great, fun and useful gift that they can enjoy with their family!

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Swing on over to Publix and get this great deal on Barilla Pasta Sauce! With Barilla Sauce B1G1 this month at Publix you’re sure to get your moneys worth! Here’s the deal:

Barilla Pasta Sauce 24oz – $2.59
B1G1 $1.29 a piece
$0.75/1 Barilla Pasta Sauce Coupon
Final Price: $0.54

Thanks, Southern Savers!

Craving a fresh summer salad? Head on over to Dollar Tree and grab your Birds Eye Chopped Spinach for only $0.50. Heres the deal:

Birds Eye Chopped Spinach 10oz  $1.00
$1.00/2 – Birds Eye or Birds Eye Steamfresh Item
Final Price: $0.50

Thanks, Krazy Coupon Lady!

UPDATE from Coupons & Freebies Mom: We shared a guest post from a reader yesterday about DIY Baby Food Pouches. We are removing the content from the DIY Organic Baby Food Pouches guest post based on a comment we received from a reader. Please feel free to research this issue further. Here is a portion of the comment we received:

I run a commercial kitchen where we manufacture baby food. I am all for homemade baby food but this is a very dangerous recommendation. The pouches are NOT meant for reuse! In fact, I have spoken many times with the people who manufacture the pouches. Even they with their high levels of sanitation and pasteurization techniques they have trouble keeping salmonella and other food borne bacterium out of their pouches. There have been recalls from most of the pouch companies. You can google Plum organics recall. This is a dangerous practice and should not be done at home. If a baby gets food poisoning it is deadly. They do not get sick like we do. They end up in the hospital. Please do not recommend this unsafe practice to other parents. It is a deadly accident waiting to happen and I’m really not overstating the direness of this situation.

I realize the pouches are expensive. Buy some ice cube trays and freeze your baby food. It isn’t as convenient as pouches. but it will ensure that babies don’t get very sick.