International Can-It-Forward Day 2015
Calling all fellow home preservers. Another International Can-It-Forward Day is almost here and we are looking forward to another day of live webcasts and demos with Jarden Home Brands. Are you with us?
Calling all fellow home preservers. Another International Can-It-Forward Day is almost here and we are looking forward to another day of live webcasts and demos with Jarden Home Brands. Are you with us?
Oh this is the season. It’s the season for all things cherry and I have some cherry recipes for you! From breakfast recipes to dessert recipes, there’s a bit of cherry here for everyone.
Chicken salad can be a simple classic lunch but the addition of blueberries in my summery chicken salad recipe makes it a fresh seasonal sandwich.
Sometimes our households need a reset. It can be easy to get into the habit of buying groceries, making meals, and missing what we accumulate, especially if we are preserving stockpilers. It’s time to take a pantry and freezer inventory.
We’re one week out of our 8 week $29 Grocery Budget Challenge and I am finally getting a chance to share my thoughts. I’m actually glad I waited until now to share since this morning was the first time I have grocery shopped without the limitations of the challenge guidelines.
Today’s $29 grocery budget shop showed me just how important it is to track how much I am spending and how helpful it is to break it down by department.
Welcome to week 5 in our $29 challenge. Who’s still with me? Are you learning anything new?
Welcome to our newest meal planning series, the $29 (per person/per week) meal planning series. Join us for the next 8 weeks of trimming our budget and eating well. I firmly believe you can eat well even on a tight budget. We utilize many ways to make eating on a budget work for our family….
Do you have a favorite homemade mac and cheese recipe? We love mac and cheese made different ways but this homemade mac and cheese with hamburger is one of my favorites because it is a quick and easy meal that makes everyone happy and is just as easy as making it from a “helper” box.
His pale blue eyes stared blankly ahead, his face, studied and still. One might think he wasn’t listening, but the fact that he was so studied and still meant he was listening a great deal more than you or I.
There’s something to be said for Peeps and good chocolate at Easter. Now put those two things on a graham cracker and that is where the magic happens. I’m going Peeps S’more crazy and never looking back. But before you hit the Easter candy leftovers, you need to read on for the super secret step to making…
Oatmeal is a hearty hot breakfast that’s affordable and convenient, but it can get boring quickly. Here are some fun oatmeal flavor combinations to jazz up your breakfast. My kids’ go-to breakfast is oatmeal. If you’re looking for a foolproof (and kid-friendly) way to make stove top oatmeal, this is it. If you’re looking for…
I love having friends over for lunch. Sure, it’s great to meet somewhere for lunch sometimes, but there is something so much more relaxing about sitting in your home, visiting over a meal. The last time I did, I ended up just having soup and salad but it made me stop and really think about…
This coming week we are going really low budget for frugal meal plan 8. We are tackling THE FREEZER and THE CABINETS and THE REFRIGERATOR. I just did a major inventory and clean up of the deep freeze and now that I know what is in there and how old some things had gotten way…
What are your New Year’s Resolutions? No matter what they are, how about you join us in resolving to eat healthy on a budget? We are entering week 7 of our frugal meal planning series and this week I want to to focus on how we can eat healthy, frugally, and on budget. How’s that…
I’m all about planning ahead when it comes to food but on the big holidays it can be easy to focus on the big event or meal and forget about breakfast or brunch. Sure, you could just pop a few bagels in the toaster and call it a day but what if breakfast could be…
Our family loves the opportunity to help others when we are able. So many people have been generous to us in our lives and we love to pay it forward when we can. Many times we like to give silently, but this time we decided to be part of something much bigger than our family…