This Week’s Grocery Trip: Not So Good
Blech. I didn’t do quite so well this week with my grocery shopping trip. I have excuses, of course. I really had a hard time coming up with a menu plan this...
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Erika
Southwest Chicken Stew: Better Than Expected
This was one of those recipes that I’ve looked at over and over and wondered if it was any good. One of the crockpot cookbooks I have on my shelf is the...
Menu Change
In the interest of keeping it real here during my month of menu planning and budgeting, I figured I better log on and fess up. I had an unexpected outing today, so...
Homemade Salad Dressing
There was a day last week, between the holidays, where I wasn’t prepared at all for an evening meal at home. I’m thinking it was Tuesday, because it was the first day...
The Menu Plan
As I mentioned before, I really struggled with getting back into the menu plan groove this week. I have a few days every week that get a little tricky. We have one...
Here We Go: The First Shopping Trip
I’m astoundingly pleased with myself today. 🙂 I spent a lot of time the last three days just trying to come up with a basic menu plan for the week. My brain...
A Grocery Challenge For The New Year
I’ve been thinking about doing this for years. Pretty much ever since I started blogging, I’ve wanted to really focus and do a month long grocery challenge. I’d been thinking about doing...
A Celebration Cake
For Christmas this year I had the all-important task of bringing dessert along. It was a given that I was going to be bringing Coconut Creme Pie, but I needed something that...
Luscious Lemon Bars
I had a surplus of lemons just hanging around from Thanksgiving, and in the back of my mind for the last few weeks was the idea to use them for lemon bars. ...
The Cookie List Grows
If you’d asked me a few weeks ago what Christmas cookies we were making this year, I would have laughed at you and said something like, probably none. When you have limited...
Gift Idea: Homemade Oatmeal
I swear that I’ve shared this before! In fact, I can hear the blog post in my head, yet a quick perusal through the archives, and I can’t find it. Which means...