It’s back! This offer from earlier in the month is back again – so if you missed out before, now’s your chance!

Download in ebook form The Whole Foods Kosher Kitchen by Levana Kirschenbaum for only $.99, regularly $14.95.

Although this is a Kindle ebook, you can still read it even if you don’t have a Kindle. Just download FREE applications to read Kindle books on your Mac, PC, iPhone, BlackBerry, Windows Phone 7, or Android Phone.

I love Levana – and am really enjoying her new book. What’s your favorite recipe?

Wondering where to get the BEST coupons? The highest value ones?

It’s not a secret, although it is a club – the Coupons.com Savings Club. And right now, you can try out the Savings Club for FREE for one-month.

As a member, you’ll get access to over $40 in savings each month – above and beyond the regular Coupons.com printable coupons.

For example, you know that $3 off coupon for your BBQ propane canister that I shared last week? Well with the Savings Club, the coupon is $3.25 off instead!

And remember that $.75/2 coupon for Milky Way bars? Well, the Savings Club has a Buy 2, Get 1 FREE coupon, which can stack with the $.75/2 coupon – making THREE free candy bars at CVS this week!

After hearing my friend Susie RAVE about this program for weeks now (she says it’s better than All You for high value coupons), I finally just signed up for a FREE one-month trial to the Savings Club.

Keep in mind that this is a free one-month trial, but the service regularly costs $3 per month after that. If you sign up for the year, you’ll get two months free ($30/year vs $3/month).

Be sure to set a Google reminder to yourself for a few days before your free subscription runs out so you can either cancel – or intentionally allow your membership to roll over to paid.

I’m not entirely sure what happened to the month of May, but according to my calendar, the end is here! And that means it’s time to print all those May coupons before they disappear to make room for the new ones in June.

Some of these may be back, and some may reset, but it’s always a good idea to print out the ones you think may use just in case.

Groceries

$1.25 off (2) Silk Pure Almond Half Gallons

$1.00 off off any ONE (1) Honey Bunches of Oats (HIGH VALUE)

$0.70 off ONE Kellogg’s Crunchy Nut™ Cereal

$0.50 off FRENCH’S Dijon Mustard (Does your store double? You should be able to get this free.)

$0.50 off Newman’s Own Salad Dressing

$1.00 off ONE MorningStar Farms Veggie Foods RESET AGAIN!!!!!!!

Baby & Toddler

$0.75 off ONE Pampers Wipes 60 ct or larger

$1.50 off ONE Pampers Swaddlers Diapers

$1.50 off ONE Pampers Cruisers or Baby Dry Diapers

$2.00 off one package of GOODNITES Underwear

Household Cleaners

$3.00 off Glade Sense & Spray starter kit

$1.00 off 2 Glade Sense & Spray refills

$1.00 off 2 Glade 4 oz. Jar candles

$1.00 off any OFF! Botanicals Insect Repellent

$10.00 off any FoodSaver Appliance

$2.00 off FoodSaver Heat-Seal Bag or Roll

$5.00 off 1 gallon of Benjamin Moore premium paint

$1.00 off 2 Windex Multi-Surface products

$0.75 off 2 Windex Glass cleaning products

Personal & Health Care

$4.00 off Non-Drowsy Claritin-D Allergy

$3.00 off any Children’s Claritin Allergy

$2.00 off any Children’s Claritin Allergy

$5.00 off Non-Drowsy Claritin Allergy Product

$0.75 off one (1) Carmex Lip Balm

$2.00 off one EUCERIN PRODUCT 13.5 oz or larger

$1.00 off one GARNIER Fructis

$1.00 off any (3) Dial Liquid Hand Soap

$1.00 off Coppertone Suncare Product

$2.00 off (2) TWO Dial Body Washes

Looking for a different Father’s Day gift? How about a magazine subscription?

Today only, subscribe to Golf Digest Magazine for just $3.99 per year (73% off)! You can order up to 3 years at this price on new or renewing subscriptions when you enter the coupon code KOSHERBUDGET at checkout. (This offer expires tonight, 5/31, at 11:59 pm EST.)

You can also get a one year subscription to Family Handyman Magazine for only $4.99 per year (75% off). You can order up to 4 years at this price on either new or renewing subscription when you enter the coupon code KOSHERBUDGET at checkout. (This offer expires at Friday 06/01/12 09:59 AM EST.) My husband is really enjoying his subscription so far – and I like dog-earring the projects, too!

Need a new camera to capture all those summer memories?

Here’s a fabulous offer from Target.com’s daily deals. Get the Fujifilm FinePix AX330 14MP Digital Camera Kit with Carrying Case and 2GB Memory Card for only $79.99, with FREE shipping.

This camera set regularly sells for $149 at Target – and is $129 right now at Amazon.

Use your Target Red Card to save an additional 5%, making your total just $75.99 – what a great price! But remember, with daily deals, this is only available thru midnight tonight – or while supplies last.

(I noticed that the picture shows a 10 megapixel camera, but I doubled checked the specs and it clearly states that this deal is for the 14 megapixel camera.)

Today’s reader question comes from Elly.

I am beginning to plan a Disney/Universal vacation for January and am looking for ideas on how to do it cheaply.

My family is still in the “saving for Disney” phase, so I don’t have any been-there-done-that advice for Elly. I can suggest that you check out my friend Sara from Saving for Someday, who has partnered with The Affordable Mouse – as she might have some good money-saving ideas.

I’d also love to hear from those of you that have vacationed in Disney – whether you did it on a tight budget or a more lavish one. Where can you save? Where should you splurge? And let’s talk kosher meal options on a budget, too!

A good knife set is worth its weight in food processors in my kitchen.

Here’s an awesome one from Amazon: Get the Wusthof Gourmet 5-Piece Studio Knife Set for only $38.12 (regularly $188!). This is the lowest price EVER on this set, per the Amazon price tracker.

Wusthof are GOOD knives! The set includes a 6? cooks knife, 4-1/2? utility, 3-1/2? parer, shears and storage block.

Shipping of these knives is free with your Amazon Prime account – or when you spend $25+ with Super Saver Shipping.

Remember, Amazon pricing can change on a dime, so always confirm prices before you check-out.

Thanks, Kansas City Mamas.

Tomorrow is National Doughnut Day (yes, really! A day dedicated to ruining my will power!).

Many doughnut shops are getting in on the celebration, which  means that you should be able to score a free doughnut at a number of different doughnut shops.

Krispy Creme, for example, is giving away one FREE doughnut of any variety per customer. Check the Krispy Kreme Facebook page for more information. And call 1-800-4KRISPY to find out if the Krispy Creme near you is certified kosher.

Wow, I am so excited about this! You can get a 30% off coupon on Danone Actimel Yogurts right now, when you like their page on Facebook and fill out a brief form. The coupon will be (snail) mailed to you.

An Israeli company. Offering manufacturer coupons. On Facebook. Color me very happily surprised!

If you live in Israel, please sign up for the coupon – seriously, even if Actimel isn’t your brand, how awesome is this? Let’s encourage manufacturers in Israel to do more of it!

Thanks, Frugal & Kosher.

My husband and I have been working diligently in our backyard and have made a lot of progress.

Lately we’ve been focusing on the hot spot right off of our deck. We had to figure out what to do with the swampy/weedy/grass-won’t-grow-here-no-matter-what-we-do area. We decided on building a sand box for our daughter’s birthday.

There were only two problems with this plan:

1. I have read that most of the play sand that you can buy commercially contains silica – which, if inhaled (and all that digging and playing is likely to lead to some inhaling) can cause lung cancer. You can special order the non-carcinogenic kind, but when I priced it, shipping was going to be a fortune.

2. Sand tends to be dirty and messy – and track every.where. It’s also a real nightmare to get out of long, tangled hair in the bathtub.

Fortunately, the very talented husband and wife team (aka John and Sherry) from the DIY blog Young House Love had recently encountered the same problem when they built a sand box for their daughter. Rather than reinvent the wheel, I decided that we should just copy their ultimate idea – make a rock box instead!

Now unlike John, my husband is a novice carpenter, and as such, we have none of the tools required for carpentry beyond a hammer. To build a rock box from lumber would require capital-T tools – plus it was going to cost a small fortune to buy the wood.

Improvising again, we decided to employ economies of scale and go with a prefab garden box instead.

Home Depot conveniently had them on sale a few weeks ago (and we had a coupon), so we ended up paying just under $22.50 – about half what the lumber alone would have cost.

Since we didn’t want the sides of the box to sit so far off the ground, my husband dug out a 4×4-foot square about four inches deep. This was no small task, as our soil is very rocky and clay-ey.

Next we built the box (it was VERY simple to build) and then worked on figuring out how we should line it. We started with big garbage bags, but quickly “trashed” the idea since they weren’t sturdy enough.

I headed back to Home Depot to grab a plastic tarp instead. Perfect – and it only cost $5. We laid down the the tarp, then wove it through the lumber on the side (each side is made up of two slats of lumber). We cut the corners at an angle, and tucked all the loose pieces back into the slats to make them snug.

Next we smushed the tarp down around the side and packed them down with the dirt that we had dug up earlier.

That night, unfortunately, we had a giant rainstorm – which, aside from delaying us a day or two, definitely drove home the importance of having a good cover for the box.

After bailing out the box and letting the mud turn back into dirt (which took three days), I mulched around the box. Pretty.

Then we turned our attention to filling it in with rocks. We decided to go with pea pebbles, since they are tiny and smooth with no jagged edges – perfect for digging and playing in. If your kiddo is still in the mouthing phase, though, I can see a diaper full of pebbles in your future – so it’s probably best to skip this filler. At least for another few months.

The only other downside to pea pebbles (priced at $3.30 per bag, of which we bought 9) is that they are DIRTY. Each bag was 90% rocks, 10% dirt. I actually shopped around for a giant sifter, but had no luck. (Any ideas where you might find one?) Instead we decided to sacrifice a plastic kitchen strainer – and resigned ourselves to a laborious process.

As you can see, we have still  have a long way to go. This is three bags worth of pebbles and we’d really like to fill it in with all nine bags eventually. Maybe by the end of the summer?! I figured if I waited to share this post until we were finished, it might never happen!

My daughter was around during the building process, but we had the big (well partially filled “big”) reveal on her birthday this past Sunday. Some friends came over for cake and ice cream in the afternoon and they all seemed to love playing in her rock box. Too bad it was Shavuot and I couldn’t get any pictures.

For right now, we are covering the box with a cinch-able tarp (which we already happened to have), that we “anchor” down with bricks. Eventually, I’d like to make a more permanent solution – I’m leaning toward getting a piece of plywood and covering it with the tarp somehow. In the meantime, this is working! We had more rain last night and the box was bone (rock?) dry this morning.

As for the cost, it wasn’t super cheap, but I’m pleased with our final tally.

Final Cost Breakdown:

Garden Box – $23

Tarp for lining – $5

Pea pebbles – $29.70

Sand rock toys – $4.97 (a gift from her brother – from Target)

Tarp for covering the box – $0 (we already had)

TOTAL COST: $62.67 (plus all of our free labor, of course)

Considering that the prefab sand boxes at Costco or Toys ‘R Us sell for $75 and up – and that we’d still have to fill it with sand (which, incidentally, is very comparable in price to the pea pebbles), I’d say we got quite a bargain.

And of course, this kind of summertime enjoyment truly is PRICELESS.

Have you been DIYing any backyard fun spots? Anyone else find that pea pebbles make a good substitute for sand?

If you have never ordered from Ink Garden before, you can get a FREE 11-oz photo coffee mug or photo mouse pad when you use the coupon code FREEFORDAD at checkout.

See something else you want to order? Use the coupon code ALLFORDAD to save 50% off your order.

Shipping and handling is not included.

Even though this is a Father’s Day promotion, you don’t have to make a father-themed gift – you can choose whatever design and pictures you wish.

Ink Garden has quickly become one of my favorite custom order sites. Their designs and customization options are fabulous – and shipping is always very quick!

Living Social has a great deal today on photobooks from Picaboo.

Get a 20-page 8.5 x 11 Classic Custom hardcover photo book for $10 (regularly $40) or get an 11 x 14 version for $20 (a $60 value).

Tax and shipping is not included.

My favorite photobooks are from Picaboo – I love this company.

If you’re looking for a deal on a carseat, Target.com has a great one today: Get the Britax Roundabout 50 for just $99, regularly $159.99. Shipping is free as this is the Target daily deal.

When you use your Red Card to pay, you will save another 5% – dropping your total to $94.05. We love our daughters Roundabout. This one goes to 50 lbs, rather than 65 pounds, but most kids will outgrow the seat with their height before they hit the weight limit.

Tanga’s got a great deal today on Reader’s Digest Magazine. Get a one-year subscription for just $3.99 when you use the coupon code KOSHER at checkout.

You can buy up to three years at this same price.

Wow, Amazon sure is spoiling us with all their free Kindle ebooks! Here’s another great one:

Download Puzzlebook: 103 Puzzle Quizzes (FREE for limited time!) for FREE, regularly $2.99.

Remember! Even if you don’t have a Kindle, you can download FREE applications to read Kindle books on your Mac, PC, iPhone, BlackBerry, Windows Phone 7, or Android Phone.

This might be a useful one to have on your phone for the next time you’re on a “are we there yet” car ride!

While the price of this e-book is $0 right now, but Amazon can change the price at any time – so always confirm before ordering.