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:”….
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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:”….
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!
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…
Meals & Deals: Week of 6/28/2015
Meals: Do you have one paycheck a month that is squeaky tight? Or all of them? The one that especially gets us is around the end of the month, when our mortgage comes out. The payment isn’t bad, but when you add in daycare for two kids, gas and groceries, there’s not much left over,…
The Someday Garden Part 2: Baby Steps and Micro Gardening
Ah, baby steps. Do you remember them from the movie “What About Bob”? Bill Murray plays Bob, a dependent mental health patient who stalks his egotistical psychiatrist (Richard Dreyfuss) down on vacation because he couldn’t get through even a couple of days without him. The psychiatrist had written a new book about “baby steps” that…
Meals & Deals: Week of 6/21/2015
Here are the meals I’ve got planned, along with my shopping trip. It’s a less ambitious plan than my last one. I made a lot of the recipes last week, but there were a few that I forgot about. I’ll save them for later, since they’d been rescheduled a couple of times. If they don’t…
Cheap Thrills @ Goodwill Part 2
Houston, we have a problem…. After finding my great deals yesterday, I had to sleep with the fact that there was an amazing array of Fiesta-ware still sitting on the shelf in Goodwill, calling out to me. “Kim, buy us! Take us home!” So I found myself back today. Somehow my car drove there all by…
Cheap Thrills @ Goodwill
I confess. I’m a thrift store junkie. Goodwill has kind of become my Walmart. I can often find things made better and for far cheaper than the Chinese junk Walmart is peddling these days. As a working mom, I don’t always have time to stop for yard sales, especially on the weekends with small kids…