Simplify your menu during the holiday season with types of meals that require little planning and preparation.
More Frugal and Easy Homemade Christmas Gifts
During the holiday season we’re bombarded with pressure to buy the latest and greatest gadget for everyone on our list.
Review of Bebe Au Lait Nursing Cover and Burp Cloth Set
Weary of fumbling around trying to keep yourself covered as your hungry infant cries? The Bebe Au Lait Nursing Cover is a perfect solution.
Review of StarKids Products Snack and Play Travel Tray
For quite some time, I’d been looking for a travel tray for my children. After years of dropped toys and books and having to hand back snacks and drinks at inopportune times, I was glad to try out the Snack and Play Travel Tray by StarKids.
Tasty and Nutritious Fall and Winter Produce for Your Table
It’s that time of year again! The temperature drops, the leaves turn beautiful colors and the smell of autumn is in the air. Hopefully some of those pleasant smells are coming from your kitchen as you cook and bake with the colorful foods of the season.
Homemade Spaghetti Sauce for the Freezer
Looking for a quick and easy homemade spaghetti sauce recipe that freezes well and tastes great? This is my modified version of a recipe I found in a freezer cookbook. I use it often when I’m freezer cooking for my family.
Planning Your Freezer Cooking Menu
Freezer cooking is a method of preparing meals or other foods and storing them in your freezer for future use. We’ve talked a little about the advantages of freezer cooking and using your meals to bless your family and others in need. Let’s talk about actually planning your freezer cooking menu. This is especially good […]
Using Your Frugality to Bless Others
Recently, after finishing up an article on the advantages of freezer cooking, I got to thinking that I forgot to mention one of the most important advantages: blessing others with your freezer meals. In fact, we can use all our frugal methods to help others when we see a need in our family or community. […]
Five Advantages of Freezer Cooking
Freezer cooking is a popular topic on a number of blogs lately, and to the beginner, it can seem a bit overwhelming and maybe even a bit of overkill. Freezer cooking is a great way to stock up your freezer with pre-made meals so you can grab something out on the fly. I’ve come to […]
The Expanding Egg Recall, Salmonella and Your Eggs
Early this week, lab tests confirmed a strain of salmonella enteritidis in eggs sold by Wright County Egg in Iowa. As of Friday, a total of a half-billion eggs had been recalled in a nationwide campaign to rid food service companies and grocery stores of the tainted food. The most recent farm involved is Iowa […]
Fun Ways to Get Your Child to Eat Vegetables
Does the bowl of cooked vegetables you put on the table for supper elicit groans from your children? If given a choice, would they rather eat a serving of spinach or a pail of candy? (I think you know the answer.) If that’s the case, you’re not alone. While we know vegetables are packed with […]
Review of Farm Rich Cheese Sticks
Who doesn’t like mozzarella sticks? Crunchy on the outside, hot and cheesy on the inside, they’re my favorite appetizer. But I can’t always make it to an Applebee’s when I need my fix. That’s why I was excited to try Farm Rich Cheese Sticks. And I have to say I was impressed! Here’s my review […]
