If you’re like me, you want three things. One, to feed your family healthy and delicious meals. Two, to not spend all day slaving over a hot stove accomplishing number one. And three… self-cleaning kitchens. Well, I can’t help you with the third thing. But I CAN recommend my 3 favorite simple healthy cookbooks to […]
What I Eat in a Day on Trim Healthy Mama
I’m writing this “what I eat in a day on Trim Healthy Mama” post because some of you have asked me about it. One of the misconceptions I had about THM was that its devotees ate weird ingredients. That’s simply not true! Personally, I like reading “what I eat in a day” posts. (Especially those […]
7 ways to cook dinner faster and easier
One of the most important things I do to save money is consistently get dinner on the table, 7 nights a week. In this post I share a few tricks I use to cook dinner faster and easier. Eating out with a large family is expensive. We can easily drop a Benjamin any time we […]
I try Amazon Fresh. I may never leave the house again.
What you’re about to see is pure introvert porn. I’m warning you. (Also, this is an Amazon Fresh review for the metro Atlanta area, it’s not available everywhere, sorry!) Amazon Fresh is Amazon’s latest creation, a grocery delivery service. You can get fresh produce, meat and other edible goodies (even dinner from a local restaurant) […]
Frugal kitchen tips – a tour of my kitchen
Frugal kitchen tips – why? For my family, groceries represent the biggest line item on the budget. We spend more on food than housing. Therefore, working to spend less on food is one of the fastest, most effective ways for us to save money. Maybe the same is true for your family. Welcome to my […]
Back to school menu for a month
One of the things on my back-to-homeschool to-do list was “create a month-long back to school menu”. Things like this make the start of the school year, with its transition and busy schedule, much easier. Since I had been procrastinating on this, I sat down with 10-year-old Sadie and a few cookbooks to help […]
How to use that last bit of peanut butter and jelly
This is some serious tightwaddy, folks. Yesterday I threw away a peanut butter jar with likely a teaspoon or two left clinging to the inside of the jar. I wish I had seen this post first! How to use up the last bit of peanut butter in the jar I LOVE the Asian peanut dressing […]
Figuring out which meals really cost less
I appreciated this post by Penniless Parenting: Figuring out which meals really are cheapest for our family “Most people have all these misconceptions about what kinds of meals are cheapest and what kind are not, and I’ve discovered sometimes that what people thought was cheap wasn’t actually that cheap, and what people thought was expensive […]
What we ate last week
Instead of posting meal plans with good intentions, I promised to post what we actually ate last week. Here goes. Sunday we ate at the Flip Burger Boutique, where I ate the leftover bits of burger from my little girls’ plates, and a Cobb salad (greens, bacon, Bleu cheese, tomatoes, hardboiled eggs). Both were amazing. […]
Why I (still) love ALDI
Recently I saw a discussion about ALDI on a social network. The chain seems to elicit two opinions: love and hate. Seriously, I do not understand the haters. ALDI has by far the best prices in this market (metro Atlanta), and their product lineup gets better and better. Last year, the big news for ALDI […]