My sister-in-law, who has just started making bread, recently asked me how I stored my loaves of bread. In the beginning I would purchase bread bags from Bread Beckers. I thought that was a bit expensive to do on a regular basis so I started using two ziploc bags or saran wrap. Neither of these [...]

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I think we are going out of town this weekend, so it will be another short week!
Monday
Breakfast-Waffles
Lunch- Sandwiches / Fruit
Dinner- Chicken Tetrazinni (recipe below)
Tuesday
Breakfast- Pancakes
Lunch-Smoothies, Cheese, Crackers
Dinner- Tacos
Wednesday (first day of school)

Breakfast- Oatmeal/ Bagels
Lunch- Sandwiches/ Fruit
Dinner- Out to dinner (celebrate 1st day)
Thursday
Breakfast- French Toast
Lunch- Muffins / Fruit Smoothies, Cheese, Crackers
Dinner- Out of town

Chicken Tetrazzini
Ingredients

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The other day my son and I ran to the store to pick up the items needed to make his birthday cake. Since he is twelve we separated in order to find our items quicker. I asked him to get the Oreos. (A bit of background here, we buy Oreos about once a year, and [...]

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Stir fry is an easy way to use up all those leftover vegetables you have sitting in the bottom drawer of your fridge. Usually the night before shopping I have a hodge podge of vegetables that alone would not serve our family, but mixed together make a great frugal and nutritious dish.
The recipe is below, [...]

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Recently we enjoyed a visit from my sister-in-law. We shared many ideas about cooking, homemaking, childrearing, blogging, etc. After tasting some of my homemade bread she was inspired to purchase a Zojirushi and try it herself. Here is a photo of her first loaf of bread.
Delish! Hopefully she will rise to the challenge with [...]

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Our last week before school begins! This week I am focusing on eating from the pantry since I would like to organize it a little more before next week.
Monday
Breakfast-Waffles
Lunch- Sandwiches / Fruit
Dinner- Stir Fry (recipe below)
Tuesday
Breakfast- Cereal/ Oatmeal
Lunch-Smoothies, Cheese, Crackers
Dinner- Lasagna, Cesar Salad, Texas Toast
Wednesday
Breakfast- Pancakes
Lunch- Sandwiches/ Fruit
Dinner- Bee Rocks ( I will post this [...]

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Recently I have had many emails and comments regarding our grocery budget. Here are the fast facts about our grocery budget.

Usually I budget about $600 per month for a family of eight.
My kids’ ages are 14, 12, 8, 6, 4, and 2.
The 14, 12, 8 and 4 year old eat as much as an adult [...]

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Today is my son’s 12th birthday. In our family, you are allowed to request your birthday dessert (within reason), and I usually try and make these desserts from scratch since it is cheaper and healthier. This year he requested an ice cream cake. My husband offered to pick one up from the store, since I [...]

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This weekend I noticed a ten dollar rebate from Kelloggs in the paper. I headed to the store today to pick up my ten items needed to qualify for the rebate.
I was pretty excited to see that cereal qualified for the rebate because we haven’t had cereal in the house for about a month. My [...]

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Don’t throw away your expired coupons…. military families stationed overseas can use coupons for up to six months after the expiration date. Are you stationed overseas and would like to receive expired coupons? Shoppers around the web want to support our troops by sending you their expired coupons. Email me at coupons4troops@comcast.net for all the [...]

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