Meals: This week is all about having fun in the kitchen! I’m not trying as many new recipes as I normally do. I’m creating them instead! And I can’t wait to share them with you! I’ll link to them as soon as they are up! I’ve started marking them on my calendar as “New Recipe:”….
Meals & Deals: Week of 7/12/2015
Meals: This week is all about having fun in the kitchen! I’m not trying as many new recipes as I normally do. I’m creating them instead! And I can’t wait to share them with you! I’ll link to them as soon as they are up! I’ve started marking them on my calendar as “New Recipe:”….
Brownie Batter Smoothies
Let me introduce you to my “favoritest” smoothie in the whole wide world. Anyone who knows me and sees me on a regular basis has seen me toting these around. I love them and would marry them if I could. They helped me break my Dairy Queen addiction, as well as my sugar and coffee…
Frugal Moms Flag Berry Trifle
They say imitation is the best form of flattery. It can also be downright scrumptious. I was planning on making a traditional flag cake for our 4th of July cookout, but when I saw this “Patriotic Berry Trifle” in a Kroger ad, I knew I had to make it!
Apple Noodle Parfaits
I discovered Ali’s wonderful blog, Inspiralized , a few months ago and fell in love with spiralizers. They really make cooking fun and healthy, and the possibilities are endless! My family especially loves apple noodles, because you can make them for breakfast, snacks or dessert in so many wonderful ways.
Meals & Deals: Week of 7/5/2015
This Week’s Meals: Um, yeah. Remember how I said I was shooting for $100/wk this month? That’s going to have to be an average, because somehow I opened my big mouth and, “Let’s have a cookout!” popped out. I couldn’t help it. The 4th of July is one of my favorite holidays. I wanted to…
June 2015 Grocery Budget Review
So now that I have a month of meal plans and shopping trips up, I thought it would be good to see how I did. The numbers are in, and I’m not happy with them. They’re not horrible for a family of 5 + animals, but they could be a lot better. I know a…
Cutting the Fat When Times are Lean
I just cut $1000 a year of “fat” from our budget. And it wasn’t horribly painful. I’ve let a few fun “me” things slip into the budget that I absolutely love and use. But my husband has been unemployed for nearly 2 months now. It’s time to tighten the belt a bit more, because I…
Roasted Sticky Chicken Legs
Sticky chicken. Mmmm. It’s really amazing. This has been a family favorite of ours since I found the recipe online over 17 years ago on Mimi’s Cyber Kitchen. It was also one of the first recipes in my Once a Month Cooking Chicken Plan, which I’m working on revising for the new site. You can…
Pineapple Mint Smoothies
Introducing, the “other” green smoothie. While I love smoothies full of kale, spinach and other greens, there’s nothing like a smoothie made with handfuls of freshly picked mint. It’s easy to grow, and once you have it, you usually have more than you can handle. This is a very good thing if you’re crazy about…