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Frugal Thanksgiving: Make Due or Don’t Make It At All

It’s going to happen.  You know it is.  You’re going to be up to your elbows in cooking dinner tomorrow and realize you forgot that key ingredient to a dish on your menu.  Ut oh!  Time to send someone on  a mad dash to the corner store, Wal-Mart, or whatever is open on Thanksgiving day.  [...]

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Ingredient Substitutions List

Next week, most of us are going to be on an insane cooking spree.  In spite of the best laid plans, I suspect that we’re all going to forget SOMETHING on the grocery list.  We can often avoid the emergency run to the corner store for some random (OVERPRICED) thing we forgot by just knowing [...]

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Life handed me rotten apples!

Lessons learned from a bag of rotting apples: I’m a very goal oriented person.  I LOVE having a list of goals.  I make lists.  LOTS and LOTS of lists.  Lists of  things I’d like to do… places I’d like to go…  even 1, 3, and 5 year plans.  As a matter of fact, I get [...]

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Frozen Assets, Momma Style

You may remember that I mentioned getting the book Frozen Assets last month. I love the concept. I’ve taken the author’s suggestions and modified the style to suit our needs. I don’t take an entire day for cooking for the month, or even the week. But I am slowly working up to a freezer with [...]

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Fast Cheap and Easy Food

Sometimes, food just has to be convenient. Taco Bell has their Family Pack of 10 tacos or bean burritos, in any combination you prefer, for $7.90. Arby’s often runs their 5 for $5.95 deal, which means that each of us could get 1 roast beef sandwich and 1 order of curly fries for $11.90. Still [...]

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