Meals: Hi all my Frugal Foodie Mamas! Hope you’ve had a wonderful, relaxing weekend! This week I’ve got so much writing to do that I didn’t think I’d get around to much recipe development, but Little Foodie begged me to make smoothies with him. Cooking together and photographing everything is becoming a weekend ritual for the two…
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My Epic Journey Out of $30,000 of Debt
No matter how long you’ve been frugal, just about everyone wrestles with large bills and debts at some point in their lives. You’ll be going along fine and something blows you out of the water. Maybe it just wipes out the emergency fund, or maybe it does a whole lot more damage, leaving you in…
Birthday Cookie Pie for Baby Foodie’s Birthday
Meet Baby Foodie. He keeps me hopping around here, along with his older brother, Little Foodie. They love to be in the kitchen with me, which means they’re often into everything as I’m cooking. Little Foodie, my four year old, is my constant shadow, and you’ll see him in a lot of the pictures on…
Meals & Deals: Week of 8/2/2015
Time for the weekly meal plan! If you’re new to Frugal Foodie Moms, here’s the deal: every week, I check my fridge, freezers, pantry and garden, then check the sales and plan my meals around what I have and the great deals for the week. I make my meal plans with Plan To Eat, a…
5 Frugal Books Worth Reading (And Re-Reading!)
Whether you’re new to frugality, or an old hand at it, there are certain books that are classics in this niche. They’re worth reading if you haven’t gotten around to it. They’re also worth re-reading, especially if you’re feeling like you’ve lost your frugal “mojo”. Reading just a few pages a day of any of…
Meals & Deals: Week of 7/26/2015
Hey, my frugal foodies! How’s your month going so far? Mine’s been pretty good. I’ve been cooking a lot this month and posting recipes as fast as I can. It’s fun but a lot of work! And I have a lot more to do! This week, we have three birthdays in our family. Baby Foodie…
In Season: Garlic Scapes
There are many reasons to grow garlic, and garlic scapes are one of them! These are the serpentine-like stems that grow from the tops of hard-neck garlic varieties. Soft neck varieties don’t get them. I had never grown garlic until two years ago, when my Korean mother in law gave me some “Korean garlic”, which…
Meals & Deals: Week of 7/19/2015
Meals: Hey there! How is your week going? Mine always goes better if I plan my meals out so I don’t have to think whenever the inevitable question is asked, “Mom, what’s for dinner???” So I map out my meal plans and document my grocery trips here to keep me on track. I don’t always…
A Month of Frugal Meals: June 2015
June 2015 Sun Mon Tues Wed Thu Fri Sat 1 Burritos, beans, salsa and chips 2 Battered Fish Fillets, Rice, Broccoli 3 Cream of Asparagus Soup, Sandwiches on Homemade Sourdough Bread 4 Leftovers 5 Kim’s Easy Homemade Pizza 6 Roasted Sticky Chicken Legs. Mashed Potatoes, Gravy, Salad 7 Pasta & Sauce 8 Chicken Pot Pie…
Today is Amazon Prime Day
Today is Amazon Prime Day! It’s like Black Friday, except we’re no near the holidays (thank God!) Think of it like Christmas in July. I’ve been an Amazon customer almost since the beginning, and still get a lot of great deals there. In fact, I find myself ordering more online as the local stores’ inventories…