Efficient and organized is how I like our household to be and with an attitude of, “good for you, good for the environment, and good for the pocketbook,” is my approach to making it happen. If there’s an opportunity to make a new chart, implement a routine change, or save time with a new tactic,… Continue reading Monthly Meal Plan
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How to Make Chicken Broth
Remember when I told you that if you roast a chicken at home you can feed your family 3 times? The first night, you enjoy the homemade oven roasted chicken. The next night, you dine on a simple curry chicken salad. Then, you make homemade chicken broth and use the broth in a soup. Or,… Continue reading How to Make Chicken Broth
Reducing FAITH Expenses: Food
This is the first in a series of money saving strategies for reducing your FAITH expenses. FAITH = food, apparel, insurance, transportation, and housing. We all need to eat every day – several times a day. Reducing the amount of money spent on a food budget begins with a plan. There are really 5 easy… Continue reading Reducing FAITH Expenses: Food
How to Make Meal Planning Work for a Blended Family
While I'm away this week on a home exchange to Victoria, British Columbia, you'll find guest posts from friends. This is a guest post from Rita, who writes the blog, This Sorta Old House, with her living/blogging partner, Cane. They believe that how we do home is how we do life. For the first year… Continue reading How to Make Meal Planning Work for a Blended Family
Weekly Meal Plan
The trick with having beans on the weekly meal plan so often is to make them taste good and be good for us without adding lots of salt. Honestly, I’m trying to make them taste great and not just good! What I do is vary the flavor of the bean centered meals and cook them… Continue reading Weekly Meal Plan
Weekly Meal Plan
Remember when we had to get rid of one of our backyard chickens last year? It was hard and I don’t want to have to do it again but one of our hens hasn’t laid an egg in months. At the top of the pecking order, she’s quite mean to the other hens who are… Continue reading Weekly Meal Plan
Weekly Meal Plan
This week’s meal plan includes “Super Bowl Sunday” and with the football game shown on network TV and not just on paid television, we were in business. I don’t really care about watching the actual football game but I do care about what we’re eating and I do most of the cooking because it’s generally… Continue reading Weekly Meal Plan
Weekly Meal Plan
“What do you NOT feel like cooking this week?” is what I try and ask my teenagers every week before I make our weekly meal plan. While I gave up ages ago trying to get them to look at a cookbook, choose a recipe, and make a list of ingredients, I do like to get… Continue reading Weekly Meal Plan
Weekly Meal Plan
After I make our meal plan for the week and post it on the refrigerator, I always announce to my kids, "You can sign up for what night you want to make dinner this week," meaning put your initials next to the day that works for your schedule. I have them write it down so… Continue reading Weekly Meal Plan
Weekly Meal Plan
Whole Foods Market contacted me recently to ask if I’d like to participate in their 28-day healthy meal plan challenge and share my progress on Go Gingham. I had to decline. Honestly, I’m afraid readers are tired of reading about what we’re eating for dinner. Because we stopped eating out as a money saving tactic… Continue reading Weekly Meal Plan
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