Fierce Discussions » Shopping Deals http://www.fiercediscussions.com Discussions of actual provocative subjects. Tue, 01 Dec 2009 23:45:34 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 The best shopping deals can often be found just after Christmas day. http://www.fiercediscussions.com/2007/12/24/the-best-shopping-deals-can-often-be-found-just-after-christmas-day/ http://www.fiercediscussions.com/2007/12/24/the-best-shopping-deals-can-often-be-found-just-after-christmas-day/#comments Mon, 24 Dec 2007 17:48:19 +0000 Patrick http://www.fiercediscussions.com/2007/12/24/the-best-shopping-deals-can-often-be-found-just-after-christmas-day/ Everybody loves a good shopping deal and the best shopping deals can often be found just after Christmas day. Retailers have to clean out the racks for the new season.

The problem that a lot of people have is how to find the best deals easily.

Well, I have the solution for you. In my opinion, the best way to keep track of deals is by using an RSS reader. FeedDemon and Google Reader are examples of good readers. I use FeedDemon and have setup custom watches. FeedDemon’s watches provide a way to look for keywords in news items as they’re downloaded.

For example: I have setup a watch with the keywords: LCD Samsung.
When a new feed item comes in that contains the words: LCD and Samsung, I get a sound notification.

RSS readers can check for new items on certain time intervals that you can setup in the preference menu.

Below you will find a list of websites and the RSS feeds that can help you find these good deals. Just click on the rss icons next to the site name and your reader should open automatically
Top 10 Shopping Deal RSS feeds:

1 Bargainist Rss Feed Bargainist
2 Cheap Stingy Bargains Rss Feed Cheap Stingy Bargains
3 Dealcatcher Rss Feed DealCatcher
4 Dealigg Rss Feed Dealigg.com
5 Dealnews Rss Feed Dealnews.com
6 DealsPlus Rss Feed DealsPlus
7 Fatwallet
8 GottaDeal.com Rss Feed GottaDeal.com
9 Resellersratings.com Rss Feed Resellersratings.com
10 SlickDeals.net Rss Feed SlickDeals.net
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]]> http://www.fiercediscussions.com/2007/12/24/the-best-shopping-deals-can-often-be-found-just-after-christmas-day/feed/ 0 My favorite recipes and recipe sites. Get ready for the New Years party. http://www.fiercediscussions.com/2007/12/24/my-favorite-recipes-and-recipe-sites-get-ready-for-the-new-years-party/ http://www.fiercediscussions.com/2007/12/24/my-favorite-recipes-and-recipe-sites-get-ready-for-the-new-years-party/#comments Mon, 24 Dec 2007 13:44:28 +0000 Patrick http://www.fiercediscussions.com/2007/12/24/my-favorite-recipes-and-recipe-sites-get-ready-for-the-new-years-party/ It is almost New Years eve which means bring a pot luck dish to our New Years party. Maybe this year, we will bring several dishes. People always ask for my smokies wrapped in bacon. The flavor from the bacon, brown sugar and smokies is a flavor combination that not many people can resist. You have to try this. It is so easy to make and you will be the talk of the party.

A recipe doesn’t have to be complex. The same applies to blog writing, I believe. But I wonder if adding different flavors and I mean different article subjects will have the same positive affect on my blog traffic. This blog is less than a week old so I don’t expect to receive answers but feel free to give me your opinion.

Of all my favorite recipe sites, I prefer Allrecipes.com. This site shows the number of ratings of each recipe. If over 200 reviewers provide 4 stars for a recipe than the recipe has to be good and often those 4 star recipes are easy to make. I have tried many recipes and all most all of them are a success. Although I am a mess maker in the kitchen, I love to put delicious bites together. All good cooks are mess makers I have heard ;-)

Making good dishes and meals requires good kitchen equipment. My 2 best pieces of equipment is the KitchenAid 5-Quart Mixer and the Matfer Exopat Nonstick Baking Sheet. I believe there is no better mixer that has excellent power and the non stick baking sheet works awesome and is very cheap. The mat gives you better results and even the carmalized sugar in my bacon wrapped smokies recipe is easily to remove. Currently, you can get this mat for less than 10 bucks.

My top 5 favorite recipe sites are:

  1. Allrecipes
  2. Foodnetwork
  3. Epicurios
  4. Taste Of Home
  5. Recipezaar

My favorite recipes that I have tested:

  1. Bacon Wrapped Smokies
 Bacon Wrapped Smokies
  1. Greek Baklava
 Greek_Baklava
  1. Mexican Baked Fish
 Mexican Baked Fish
  1. Clam Chowder
 Clam Chowder
  1. Caramel Pecan Pie
 Caramel Pecan Pie

Get my favorite kitchen equipment pieces at Amazon.com:

Kitchenaid Professional 5 Plus KV25GOXGR 5-Quart Bowl Lift Stand Mixer Kitchenaid Professional 5 Plus KV25GOXGR 5-Quart Bowl Lift Stand Mixer Taylor Commercial Waterproof Digital Thermometer Taylor Commercial Waterproof Digital Thermometer Zojirushi BBCCX20 Home Bakery Supreme Bread Machine Zojirushi BBCCX20 Home Bakery Supreme Bread Machine
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