Looking Forward to the Coupons Don’t Work Series

Marye from Restless Chipotle is starting a new series that is bucking the current Extreme Couponer craze. I had to read her article entitled “Why Coupons Don’t Save Me Money” after watching a few episodes of the controversial show on TLC that features families who routinely save 90 percent or more off their grocery bill [...]

Gardening Tools, Year Round Gardening and Whatnot

I spend more time gardening than writing in the spring, but I did manage to get a bit of writing done. Naturally, it was all about gardening. Since growing your own vegetables can be a very frugal thing to do if you do it right, I thought some of you might be interested in a [...]

Do You Avoid the Dollar Store Because You Want to Buy American?

I went to Dollar Tree the other day in desperate need of poster board. I wasn’t planning to buy anything else, assuming that I’d be seeing poor quality imported goods. Well, I was wrong. For only a dollar, I was able to buy some lovely 2 and 4 quart plastic containers that were made in [...]

What to Do With Old Beans

You can’t begin to imagine how sad I was when I discovered I accidentally bought a 10 pound bag of pinto beans that was about a year and a half old unless you’ve been there yourself. “Big deal,” you’re thinking. “It isn’t like they’ll go stale or something.” Well, they may not go stale, but [...]

Chicken Lentil Casserole Recipe

I am working on incorporating more lentils, split peas, barley and beans into our diets. It can be tough to find recipes that everyone enjoys, but this one was a winner. I spent about an hour flipping through cookbooks and browsing online, but it seemed like all the recipes that used lentils and chicken were [...]

Do You Buy Food Grade Containers?

I got a catalog from one of the emergency preparedness type places the other day and it had several types of food grade containers listed for sale. It made me wonder – do you actually buy new food grade containers? I bought some from Tractor Supply last year for my chicken feed. They were three [...]

Vegetable Seeds on a Budget

I grow a lot of my own veggies so we can eat healthier food around my house. I also save money on groceries when I can pick a lot of them right out of the garden. Of course, if I spent thousands on my garden, the savings would go right down the drain, so I [...]

Baked Whole Wheat Donuts Are a Tasty Treat

We have a weekend donut tradition. It isn’t the healthiest thing around, but they are sure tasty. I like to make things as healthy as possible, though, so I started looking into alternatives. Healthy organic cereal bars? Umm. Nope. Fruit smoothies? Nope. As far as the family is concerned, it isn’t the weekend unless there’s [...]

College Students Get Amazon Prime Two Day Shipping for Free

One of the coolest perks I’ve gotten for going back to school to get my photography degree is free Amazon Prime shipping for an entire year. Do you know how awesome this is? I need a textbook, more DVDRs, a lens filter or what have you and I don’t have to hunt around for extra [...]

Fast and Easy Healthy Pizza Snacks

I saw a recipe somewhere for English Muffin pizzas and promptly lost it. Since it isn’t rocket science, I figured I could find a similar recipe and sort of wing it after I had the cooking time right. This recipe has them done in ten minutes at 375 degrees F, which worked out fine for [...]

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