JANUARY Sales/Deals:


Diet foods and products
New Year, New You type promotions
Healthy Choice
South Beach
Lean Cuisine
Yogurt
100 calorie packs
Special K, K20, Right Bites, Smart Start
Diet aids
Winter Health
Cold Medicines
Pain Relief
Health products
Vitamins
Oatmeal (it’s National Oatmeal Month!)
Quaker brand products
Super Bowl party foods
Pepsi
Coke
soda
Chips
Dips
Cheese
sandwich items
crackers
snacks
Special promotions introducing new product lines, especially
Hair color
Make up
Beauty products
Bath products
Clearance items:
Calendars, planners, anything dated items (these go “out of date” quickly after 1/1)
Christmas/Hanukkah/New Years party supplies
Wrapping paper, ribbons, bows
Ornaments
Candles
Winter clothing, coats, gloves, hats, boots, etc.
Computers
Home Gym equipment and gear
Seasonal Sales:
Soup, Chili, “warm you up” type foods
Cleaners/household items (winter cleaning, organization, storage)
White sales/home items
Furniture
Occasions:
January 1 – New Year’s Day
January 1 – 7 is National Lose Weight/Feel Great Week
Martin Luther King Jr. holiday
Super Bowl Sunday
Other Promotions this month:
Bread Machine Baking Month
National Candy Month
National Egg Month
National Hot Tea Month
National Meat Month
National Oatmeal Month
National Slow Cooker Month
National Soup Month
National Wheat Bread Month
Prune Breakfast Month
Produce in Season:
Anjou Pear
Blood Orange
Broccoli
Brussels Sprouts
Carrots
Cauliflower
Celeriac/Celery Root
Celery
Chard
Collards
Grapefruit
Haas Avocado
Kale
Kiwi
Kumquat
Leeks
Lemons
Napa Cabbage
Oranges
Spinach
Tangerines

Goals for 2011

Each year, I try to make and keep New Year's goals. Sometimes I succeed, but mostly I forget about them. This year, I'm making 12 resolutions/goals that I want to work on this year. I'll make a monthly update to try to keep me focused on the prize. Ultimately, these goals are to help me improve my life or to achieve something important to me.

1. Lose all the weight this year. I have been going to weight watcher's for 2 months now. It's the longest I've ever gone. I am achieving some success, but I want to refocus and work harder to get to goal by summer.

2. Include regular exercise in my life. I'm getting older and I want to lose weight. Enough said.

3. Make Christmas stockings for my boys. Nate is five, and I just started his stocking. Can you say procrastinator?

6. Master my serger. I've owned this piece of machinery for over a year, and have never sewn on it. It intimidates me. I've already looked into classes so I can check this one off quickly.

7. Learn to sew lingerie. We're moving to Kansas this summer. Anne at Needle Nook fabrics is a well known teacher. I can't wait to take her class.

8. Learn to make sourdough bread. I have made my own bread for many years, but can't seem to get this type of bread right.

9. Take more computer classes. I took one last summer and really enjoyed it. I'd like to continue my lessons.

10. Find a really good Bible study class. I enjoyed taking them in Houston at Second Baptist. I haven't been so lucky here in Lafayette. I'm praying for a good Church home in Kansas City.

11. Get organized. It's never to late to learn, right?

12. Complete my food storage and help the girls get theirs' put together.