Juicy rewards not so juicy

Anyone notice the "Juicy Rewards" thing that Tropicana has got going on with their Orange Juice cartons? I am all about doing coupons and rewards programs and anything I can do to save money on groceries, so once I saw Tropicana was doing this juicy rewards thing I embraced it. I dutifully entered my codes for a couple months and kept checking for something worthwhile to come up for my rewards. I am up to 44 points now and have not seen anything I want to click on. To give some examples, the rewards are as such:

Free Iced Latte with the purchase of one Iced Latte at Dunkin Donuts. Eh - I get these coupons already in the paper and don't use them. Save on Addidas gear and free shipping, I wasn't going to order anything from Addidas. Deals at 1-800 flowers, I don't really use them. Deals on Coleman camping stuff, not really things I need. See, not entirely bad rewards, but also not really jumping out at me like "Wow that's a great deal! Gotta have it". So after a while I lost interest and stopped doing it. Is anyone else doing this and having luck with it?


Take my code - you can have it. My gift to you. I'm not going to use it.

You really can make your own brown sugar

I have seen this around a few times - how to make your own brown sugar, you know for in the event that you run out of brown sugar. I thought it seemed kind of silly - in what dire instance will I have no brown sugar in the house? Isn't brown sugar one of those pantry staples? I always have a box of light and a box of dark on hand, being the super prepared and organized domestic homekeeper that I am. Until it happened to me. I did so much baking that I really did run out, I had maybe 1/4 of a cup of dark brown sugar left, and also it was a brick, so I guess I was not properly storing it to boot.

A quick search online turned up this easy formula:

1 cup granulated cane sugar

1 Tablespoon unsulfured molasses

Mix together well, making sure it is totally combined, no molasses blobs or clumps.

Great! Super easy. All you have to do is make sure that the super organized domestic you does not also run out of regular white sugar at the same time. ;)
If you want darker brown sugar, then add another teaspoon of molasses for a total of 2 teaspoons.

Store in an airtight container.