Weekly Meal Plan
Since this week’s meal plan began with fish and ended with shellfish, I had to break up the seafood with some pork and beans in the middle. Not pork and beans mixed together, although I do love that meal. The beans we ate this week were not one but two nights. Tuesday’s garbanzo beans sautéed {Read more about Weekly Meal Plan}
Preparing Your Home for an Exchange
When getting your home ready for a home exchange, there are good and bad components. The good thing is it makes you clean out your pantry, organize your closets a bit, and straighten out your dresser drawers. The bad thing about a home exchange is that you have to clean out your pantry, organize your {Read more about Preparing Your Home for an Exchange}
Weekly Meal Plan
This meal plan is our vacation meal plan from the week we spent in San Francisco, California for our home exchange. The house we stayed in had a great kitchen that was well stocked and we gave the kitchen a workout! I brought some staple food items with us and the rest of our food {Read more about Weekly Meal Plan}
Weekly Meal Plan
Another week, another week of meal planning and making dinners. The freshest meal this week was Monday’s dinner. The eggs were from our backyard chickens who are finally back into their routine of laying and the mustard greens were fresh from the garden. The greens had grown all winter (meaning they hadn’t died over the {Read more about Weekly Meal Plan}
Frugal Grocery Shopping: Buying From Bulk Bins
Everyone always wants to know my method for frugal grocery shopping when they learn that I don’t make a practice of using coupons. The truth is there simply aren’t coupons for vegetables, fruit, and food purchased from bulk bins. Frugal grocery shopping can be achieved by purchasing items in bulk from the bins. These items {Read more about Frugal Grocery Shopping: Buying From Bulk Bins}
How to Mend Pillow Cases
It’s a mystery to me why I’m not sleeping very well these days. I’m too hot at night so we left our down comforter in its storage bag this winter and didn’t even put it on our bed. Our upstairs, where all of our bedrooms are located, is already very cold because we don’t heat {Read more about How to Mend Pillow Cases}
Weekly Meal Plan
Several readers have asked me to post our meal plan each week. I’ve decided to try to do this on Saturdays. The recipes from these meals will eventually find their way to Go Gingham. My cooking is free form style and I just make things up as I go along.
Weekly Meal Plan
What’s for dinner at your house? I ask this question regularly. Isn’t everyone on a quest to regularly come up with healthy meals that taste good and your family will enjoy? Since I like to plan for leftovers, this weekly meal plan was particularly exciting in the no-waste food department. One simple roasted chicken fed {Read more about Weekly Meal Plan}
Meals to Plan, Food to Cook
Meals to plan and food to cook is non-stop, isn’t it? It’s kind of like dirty laundry, always there, never really going away. As soon as you’re done with one meal, there’s another one coming. Clipping coupons is all the rage when it comes to saving money in a food budget. You can use coupons, {Read more about Meals to Plan, Food to Cook}
Preparing for Winter
It feels a bit like “Little House on the Prairie” at our house right now. We seem to do lots of scurrying around this time of year preparing for the winter (not that the winters here in Portland, Oregon are that harsh). Chopping wood, harvesting vegetables, freezing sauces, putting away summer furniture, fixing gutters, and {Read more about Preparing for Winter}
National Match-Up Day
Welcome to “National Match-Up Day” where drawers and cupboards that hold all of our plastic and glass food storage containers get cleaned out and organized. This (soon to be…) nationally recognized holiday will take place the first Monday of October, henceforth. Why October? This is typically the time when my food storage container drawer is {Read more about National Match-Up Day}
Shower Curtains
Ask Sara question: This question comes from a very stylishly, frugal friend. Bridget asks, “What do you suggest for a shower curtain that lasts? Do you use a cloth one so it can be washed? I despise the plastic ones that you have to throw away after a while!” For shower curtains, I use both {Read more about Shower Curtains}
Frugal Grocery Shopping
To clip or not to clip; that is the question. It is often assumed that people who are frugal use coupons, coupons and more coupons. It is possible to be frugal and not use coupons for your grocery shopping needs. Unless it is the exact item you want, using coupons means you must spend money {Read more about Frugal Grocery Shopping}
Meal Planning Made Simple
Meal planning is the biggest saver in the kitchen. You can save money, time, and resources by meal planning. Money is saved by purchasing only what you need. Time is saved by not running to the grocery store everyday. Resources are saved because you know what you need for the week so food won’t be {Read more about Meal Planning Made Simple}
Bed Bug Question
Question: Are you worried about bed bugs when purchasing used items? Answer: No, but I do inspect items very carefully before bringing them into my home. With furniture that has cushions or stuffing, I take the cushions apart to make sure no little creatures are living inside it first. Bug infestations, especially spiders for some {Read more about Bed Bug Question}
