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This post brought to you by Summer of Groupon. All opinions are 100% mine. What better way to relax, than to have someone else cook and clean up the kitchen? Thanks to great deals I found in Groupon‘s Summer Shop, I’ve been enjoying delicious local food at places I never even knew about (in my […]
I need to pay attention to the Groupons in our area. I love to go out to eat and what a great way to save money!
Yes, Groupon has been a lifesaver! love them.
This sounds like such a great way to save money and try something new all at the same time. Family outings are always a great blessing.
That is such a great idea! Trying to keep the kiddos entertained can get costly!
I love Groupon and use them regularly. I’ve gotten all kinds of great deals from them.
I love exploring restaurants in our area, especially since it supports our local economy and small business owners. Groupon can definitely help score you some deals.
We are getting ready for a fun July 4th, and I wanted our sons to join in the fun, so we made some fun ice cream milk drinks in glasses rimmed with festive red, white and blue sprinkles. It’s really easy to do and make a delicious ice cream beverage even more enjoyable for kids. […]
during the summer, i make many peach cobblers and the baking dish is always a challenge to clean.
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We make cherry pies with ice cream on top and it is alot to clean up
Finish Power & Free can help you with messy muffins, we bake a lot for summer parties, and it is always painful to clean those pans.
We make ice cream cakes… super messy but tasty!
We harvest a lot of eggplant from the garden. It leaves purple stains on the white cutting board. There is a job for Finish!
My messiest summer treat has to be ice cream! It melts all over the place in hot weather!
watermelon!!
I make a lot of salads with mayonnaise in the summer – potato salad, cole slaw, macaroni salad, etc. and those dishes are a little messy to clean. But the worst is the beet salad. Purple stains are NOT cool!
ice cream parfaits mad with Vanilla bean ice cream, alternate with raspberries, and blueberries, top with whipped cream, simple and fun for the 4th
Home made ice cream. It usually ends up everywhere. Counters, pans, kids, husband, hands, feet, so messy but so fun.
Making string baskets for Easter was truly a messy but fun craft.
ice cream melting
I love summer berries of all kinds and make lots of different desserts,jams etc. which makes for some real stains that need something strong enough to clean the mess up
I never would have thought of that………………
watermelon
In the summer we love to make warm dirt pudding and rice krispie treat! So good but so messy! 🙂
watermelon
Blueberry Pie, stains your fingers!
Make Chocolate Smores, messier inside than outside!
That would be banana splits at our family BBQ. This is lots of fun buy very messy.
make apple slices in the summer the pan is always hard to clean but the final product is delicious
Summertime means lots of fresh fruit to make desserts with… baking tends to be rough to clean up, but it’s worth the sweet treats!
Well, first off I’m a 24 year old male. And, to be honest I really really suck at cooking! As far as messiest thing that I have cooked, was probably when I heated up some soup in the microwave and it exploded! lol
I had sticky buns in the oven and went to the computer in the other room to read e-mail. They burned and it was a tough clean up!
I love to do hot wings and I use my convection microwave. Cooking the wings on a rack makes them delicious but leaves the rack with baked on grease. Very hard to clean and I’m going to try using Finish.
making candy lollipops can get very sticky
The extra cheese on a grilled cheese sandwich was baked onto a pan and was very hard to remove.
Love the tutorial on how to make it.
I love making fruit crisps but cleaning the pans is almost impossible.
The messiest thing I have made lately was an upside down apple pie where the caramel got a little out of control.
one of my messiest snacks would be making cheesecake. I always over mix and make a mess. Use tons of dishes to make this since everything is homemade, even the topping.
I can make all kinds of sticky messes throughout the year! The absolute worst is lasagna, though!
making homemade caramel apples using a fondue pot
I make the most mess when frosting cupcakes. My hands, the counter and the bowl are all a mess.
One of the messiest things I cook is sweet potato casserole. It’s got a lot of butter and sugar and it always bubbles out the top and makes that caramelized crust that’s hard to get off around the edges.
home made cake icing, the intense coloring and shortening are difficult to remove
I made a berry pie once and overfilled the pie plate. It, of course, boiled over. It took forever to clean my oven let alone get the burnt smell out of my kitchen.
Microwave s’mores. Always a mess!
We just got our first batch of peaches off our new peach tree, so I decided to make two batches of peach cobbler.
What a mess! It turns out sugary and gooey and overflowed in the oven! But it sure did taste good with vanilla ice cream on it! Then, once all the treats are gone, I let the dogs lick the pan before I put it in the dishwasher of course. The floor became a sticky and gooey too and I had to steam the floors today!
smores
We always make those roll-in-the-sprinkles ice cream cones. There is melted ice cream goo and multicolored sprinkles from one end of the kitchen to the other!
By far the messiest thing I make is bbq spareribs. No matter whether I use foil on the bottom of the pan or not, it’s still a bloody mess. I have the let the pan soak in the sink all night and hope for the best. It can be a real challenge to clean that bad boy. Of course, that would never stop me from making my world-famous spareribs 🙂 but I have a feeling the Finish Power & Free could do a really great job of getting that pan sparkling clean. I might even eat a few ribs while the pan is getting cleaned 🙂 Ok, no might about it!
I put some lamb ribs and they released a lot of lard and it went all over the oven and it burnt on .
homemade baked beans and mac and cheese are 2 of my messiest…with our 5 grandkids here daily we are doing some kind of homemade snake about every other!!!!!
We love to make fried potatoes for sides and they always get burned,lol, hate to clean those pans.
fruit salads
I would love to win this. Thanks for the chance.
When making pie crust, the dough gets everywhere. I need Finish to clean up the mess
Ice Cream Sundaes are our messiest summer treat.
Our messiest summer treat is ribs. They’re delicious, but the clean up afterwards is a challenge.
Homemade frozen pops. They are messy to mix and when the kids let them melt, they end up everywhere. There is nothing better though, worth the mess.
My favorite messiest summer treats are Rice Krispies Treats!
trying to open a package of ketchup I squeezed it too hard it went all over my face cloths I ran to the bathroom of shame!!
Ice cream.
I let the kids go at a cardboard house with paints unsupervised. poor decision!
Bread is always messy to make with the flour and the kneading making a sticky mess on the countertop
Burnt bean dip on stoneware. ewwww
white glue decoupage mixed in a pie plate
I’ve kept night crawlers in a container in the refrigerator for fishing. Mom is so proud.
I made burgers on the grill and decided to cook the bacon on there too. Had a nice little grease fire going.
Love the edible sprinkles
I’m not the best cook so almost everything I make is messy. I burn things a lot so I am always left soaking and scrubbing.
Our messiest is making biscuits from scratch
Posicles on one of those hot days when you can’t eat it fast enough to stop it from melting.
Awesome–much needed prize
Our messiest craft is finger painting! The kids have loved it for years – and I have to admit that I love it as well and I am an adult. 😀 It is a mess, but definitely makes for summer fun.
smoothies!
I love making no bake preacher cookies and rice krispie treats. They both leave a big mess on my dishes that I could use Finish Power & Free to clean!
My messiest summer craft activity is making scrapbooks! I always have a mess in my living room and kitchen when I’m working on my scrapbooks to save memories.
letting my children decorate sugar cookies…our messiest craft. Sprinkles and frosting totally covers our dining room
Burnt bean dip on stoneware.
Making my bbq spareribs is THE biggest mess and cleanup but SOOO worth it!
Homemade chocolate finger paints. WE use food coloring. This is my daughters favorite thing to do, such a mess, but fun and completely edible.
Our messiest summer treat is home made ice cream.
Hungarian Chicken Paprikash is probably the messiest thing I make. And when I forget to rinse out the skillet after pouring the sauce over the chicken in the serving bowl and foolishly leave the skillet on the still-hot (but turned off) burner, there’s a really cooked on mess.
while eating bbq chicken trying to be such a lady at a dinner party I thought I did pretty good for myself walking around talking then I glance in the mirror I had a big spot of bbq sauce on my face like why no one said anything I as my husband he said I don’t see anything I said put your glasses on……..what can I say..but lol about it
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The beverage glasses are so pretty
BBQ Ribs! I love to eat them, but I hate cleaning up the mess.
Bar b que
There is not much messier than the bowls and pots I use when making caramel candy.
making photo albums
The coffee pot blew up!
Donuts, they are a mess, but soooo worth it.
I would say Popsicles is the messiest thing for us, because I have little kids and it takes them awhile to eat it and it gets all over the place.
Finish Power and Free could help me with our messy summer treats of ice cream and popsicles! IT would be great for that!
These are so easy to make
Smores
the grill basket that you use for burgers or fish – dishwasher cleans it great.
Making blueberry pie from the blueberries we pick in the woods can be messy. That blueberry juice stains nearly everything.
Homemade ice cream and a topping bar, what a delicious mess!
Peach pie
Ribs – oh, so messy and oh, so good.
Thank you very much!
baked beans
Thanks!! Looks awesome!
The messiest summer treat we’ve had (so far) is Smores.
My ice cream cake fell on the floor 🙁
Homemade ice cream sandwiches — sprinkles and ice cream everywhere!
Canning vegetables especially cream corn.
We do a homemade frozen custard pops made out of fresh pureed fruits (usually berries during the summer) and yogurt, or we do a raw egg chocolate custard and freeze it. Gosh the mess when my darlings eat it, and the clean up of the dishes/utensils when we are done making them is a hot mess!
My messiest summer treat is vegetarian lasagna….with all the gooey cheese, it’s hard to clean!
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Our blackberry cobbler ALWAYS makes such a huge mess! Any time we work with berries, we know we’re going to have some heavy staining.
Burnt bean dip
baked fish
My messiest summer treat is watermelon balls
Turkey pot pie pans
Bacon wrapped shrimp
The messiest summer treat is dripping ice cream. We couldn’t live without it though. The next is watermelon..a definite wet, sticky mess.
teenager tried to melt chocolate in a pot
Nothing is messier than making cut-out sugar cookies. We made red, white, and blue cut out stars on July 4th and I’m still cleaning up red, white, and blue sugar!
Overdone baked beans
our messiest summer treat is when we make homemade snow cones..the syrup dyes anything it drops on
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dried Chinese food found in my sons room
Homemade bean dip
The blueberry pie!
refrigerator bins
Baked on cream corn
peanut butter in a doggy toy!
This is going to sound silly, but my boy likes to make movies with his friends and so we had a big dish mess with karo syrub and food coloring to make fake blood and sugar water to make fake glass. Really could have used that Finish!
Burned on mac and cheese
Blueberry pie. thanks hubby 🙂
For some reason, messiest meal is pancakes. I’ve been making a lot of delicious fruit filled pancakes and the bowls are surprisingly hard to clean! Have a great summer!
Baked/Burnt on Rib sauce… The HORRROR THE HOOOORRRRRROOOORRRRRR
pecan pie filling that bubbled out and burned on the pan
I’d have to say cheesy potatoes! They’re always on our summer menu, and the pan is ridiculous to clean after! I actually started buying throw away pans just so I didn’t have to clean them. I’d love to give Finish a try and see if I can start using my real pans again!
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I cant think of anything that I do that is messy.
I plan on having a Mad Science Day with my kids, ending with a Mentos Explosion. I am sure I will need Finish to help me with that clean up!
spaghetti sauce on carpet
The messiest summer treat that Finish Power & Free can help me with is making fudge brownies.
My scrambled eggs are always a mess to clean up.
Ah I made cake balls a few weeks ago it was a very very big mess
Sugar cookies are always a huge mess because we have the kids help decorate and then frosting gets EVERYWHERE.
Campfire smores are by far the messiest summer treat!
Fruit pies! Cherry pie, blueberry pie, strawberry pie, they all stain!
Anything with blueberries!!!
Blueberry pancake batter
My messiest Summer treat is baked ziti.
omg.. mango delight smoothies… the only problem with mangos is that they stain clothes , but they taste soo good that it’s almost worth the hassle…lol
Burnt on BBQ’s ribs sauce…so hard to clean that mess up..
Baked cherry pie!!
Sugar cookies are always a huge mess because we have the kids help decorate and then frosting gets EVERYWHERE
My messiest summer treat is the smores I make in the microwave. Always wind up melting more than I bargained for. But my real mess is putting peeps in the microwave and watching them dance for my kids. Great mess but what fun.
Pineapple upside down cake because of the coconut.
We made a quesadilla with goat cheese and figs (and a few other things), and the insides just went everywhere! Crazy messy!
making coleslaw from scratch, that- to date, is still the messiest thing I prepare
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I’d have to say ice cream is our messiest Summertime treat!
Messiest is smores!!!
we love making fudge but its a terrible clean up! this would help a bunch!
stuffed peppers with too much cheese
Watermelon is our messiest summertime treat. No matter what, the kids get the juice everywhere!
I would have to say making velvetta chili dip in the microwave and the clean up when it cools and sticks to the dish and if it over flows in the microwave. My husband and the kids make a mess making this all the time .
My hand mixer always needs special attention.
Brownies! 🙂
Finish Power & Free can help me clean up when I make Chicken Enchiladas.
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Messiest summer treat? Probably homemade Popsicles. The cutting and squishing fruit gets messy.
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I have never made chili with pumpkin but know many who have and have loved it. I’ll try this in the fall.
Once again I would never have thought to use pumpkin in chili. I’m loving these pumpkin recipes!
Looks amazing. You always come up with some of the brightest and most unique recipes.
I would have never thought to put pumpkin in chili. It sounds really good. I’ll have to try it sometime.
I really appreciate that the 100% pure pumpkin is truly nothing but pure pumpkin. I also like seeing how versatile of an ingredient it is thanks to all of your savory pumpkin recipes.
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How fun! Looks like you all are already having a great time thanks to Groupon. It is amazing the deals you can find on there.
Yes, I’m always looking for deals on Groupon for me and the boychild.
It’s been a while since we’ve used or even checked Groupon. Seems like you’ll have a full summer of fun!
I only just joined, I had no idea what it was about…I can’t believe how much they offer, with continuously new deals (no wonder my sister is addicted, lol)
I think I have used Groupon like once…..But I loved how much I saved when I did, so I need to keep checking it.
Those pics of your boys are just precious!! Looks like that had an absolute blast 🙂
I think I found a groupon that is a must buy for me and hubby==Coldstone Creamery, Yum Yum. Your sons are so cute!
Oh my gosh, that is DEFINITELY a good one 🙂 And thanks Karen!
We have used Groupon quite a few times to get good deals. The most recent was a Sam’s Club membership, which also got us a $20 gift card to use in the store!
I love Groupon! I’ve gotten great deals from restaurants to spa services to meat packages from a local butcher. Oh, and an Ybor City ghost tour as well.
I just went to the chiropractor TODAY on a local groupon – I feel amazing. I am hooked!
I’m not a part of Groupon though I should join, thanks for the info!
Looks like a blast! I am a major Groupon fan!
I haven’t been keeping an eye on Groupon for a while. That trampoline place looks fun!
I use Groupon from time to time and really love the deals I find- I didn’t know they had a Summer Shop!
This looks like so much fun! I always forget to check Groupon but I should check those summer deals.
I LOVE Groupon!!!! I use it all the time from getting deals on food to different activities to do. One of my favorite things.
Love Groupon. I use it all the time.
I love using Groupon to check out new activities around town! I didn’t even know they had a summer section specifically.
Awesome! One of my other friends is part of this legendary groupon summer fun event!! I look forward to following your SUMMER OF FUN activities. 🙂
I’ve gotten a couple good deals on Groupon. I need to check out what is available for local kid friendly activities.
Ok, I love that you’ll be choosing to do things that are new and exciting. I need to see if Groupon has anything interesting here.
What a fun contest! I see so many great Groupon deals, and we have taken advantage of a few of them
I haven’t checked out Groupon in a long time and I think I’ve only used it once and that was 18 months ago for an intro photography class for my daughter and I.
Looks like your boys had a blast!
I only recently became familiar with it and I love it so far…there are getaways at beautiful villas for less than $500 over a three day holiday weekend..that was pretty good!
It’s been WAY too long since I checked out Groupon- I bet I could find some great deals for things to do with my boys too! Thanks for the idea!
My sister is a huge Groupon fan and is always keeping me up to date on great local deals. They really do have some fabulous offers!
I have something similar from a different brand. I need to get back to using mine!
I wonder if this would work for me. Thanks for the info. I’ll check it out.