This one will have to be short, but I did want to mention it.  I came from a family that ate cold cereals for breakfast.  We were never al...

This one seems the most obvious, right?  Yet for the tighter budgets, bulk and quantity purchases have to be planned for carefully. Quanti...

Ha, funny post title for a family that eats no pork?     ;-) Here's something I'm still learning, but that cooks like my grandmoth...

Thank you for sharing your grocery budget ideas and challenges!   We all have similar needs that overlap, despite differences in our situati...

Happy New Year to all!!! This can be our best year ever...yes, a lot of us in this country and elsewhere are having to be creative about ...

We eat a lot of soup around here, and no complaints :) I've found that especially after a long work week, though I love special dishes f...

Quickie update on the status of the backyard bucket garden since The Three Freezes. 1. All citrus --- seem A-O.K. There was some blossom l...

Please excuse the naked poultry...there were no fig leaves available. This is one of the fat young birds we purchased loads of when they wen...

Homemade seed packets are easy to assemble and are a lot of fun to make! For more, I wrote about it today at Women Not Dabbling in Normal ....

Mystery solved! And you're realllllyyyyy going to love this :) Last year I followed a blog link to another blog where the author had wri...

Don't you love those 5-ingredients-or-less foods that can be put together in a jiffy and turn out great? Here's an easy recipe I tri...

Don't you love how those cooking onions shed their flaky, papery bits here and there? I seem to always find them lurking wherever I sto...

I can't quit baking...I have some OCD thing going on with it just now. Maybe it's the tightening our belts thing, dunno, but I tried...

You DO want to try this, but not till it's strained. Those little guys are sharp! We were out walking yesterday, and there was a 3 foot...

Whew, had to get creative with what we had in the pantry this past two weeks...took a hit at the bank, unexpectedly. Here are a few things w...

Hot spiced pumpkin bread, just out of the oven, dabbed with real butter and drizzled with a couple swirls of honey...oh yes! I love making ...

These will continue to be researched and added to, started or gathered together in order to start...some personal, some family 1. Begin atte...