Give your college student or elderly parent a taste of home cooking by making tiny freezer meals from your leftovers. The concept is simple…when you make spaghetti freeze and label a snack bag size serving of the sauce, when you have tacos put some of the meat in a different snack size baggie, label it, […]
Chicken Dinner Starters
Chicken dinner starters came to me because of the nagging, recurring thought of, “Yikes, it is 5:00 and I don’t know what to make for dinner!” Dinner starters is a method of meal preparation. You prepare and freeze the beginning step of multiple meals. These are great for busy families and also wonderful for college […]
Playground Hop! –A Family Activity
The idea for this activity was initiated when my two youngest kids and I had to drive an hour away to drop off one of my older kids. To make the return trip more fun, we decided to try out the playgrounds in each of the small towns we were passing through. We took mental […]
Creamy Pasta Sauce
This sauce is made from scratch in the amount of time it takes to cook the pasta! It doesn’t come from a jar or a box, and it uses simple ingredients most homes have on hand. Inexpensive and Fast! Creamy Pasta Sauce 2 TBS margarine or butter 2 TBS flour Melt butter in a small […]
Terracotta Pot Heaters
Emergency Preparedness Idea: I was concerned that if we lost power and natural gas, we wouldn’t have a way to heat our house. My sister told me about terracotta pot heaters. I have found them intriguing. They are built with simple items that can be easily stored. Basically a Terracotta Pot Heater is built in […]
Ree Ann’s Homemade Vanilla Yogurt
I had given up on making yogurt. I could never get it to set thick enough, and it was always a pain to flavor.That all changed when I was introduced to Ree Ann’s Homemade Vanilla Yogurt. Since she showed me how to make this, there hasn’t been more than a day or two that we […]
GP’s Peanut Butter Cookies
This recipe is from the kitchen of my beloved grandma! I can’t think of her without smiling. These cookies are a favorite at our house! GP’s Peanut Butter Cookies 1 cup shortening 1 cup white sugar 1 cup brown sugar 1 cup peanut butter 2 eggs ¼ cup milk 3 ½ cup flour 2 tsp […]
Because Real Life Doesn’t Look Like a Magazine
Why do we believe that our house should look like a magazine at every moment of every day? Have you ever considered how ridiculous that is? I have noticed that if I try to always have a perfectly clean house, I don’t get anything else accomplished. I am not promoting a filthy, unhealthy house, but […]
A Frugal Way to Print Pictures
Do you have “millions” of pictures that you’d love to have printed…yet the expense and time involved keep you from accomplishing your wish? Here is an idea for you. You may wish to create 4×6 collage prints of your pictures. It is very inexpensive and quick. I like to put two to five pictures in […]
How to Save Money on Gift Wrap Year-Round
Christmas gift wrap is inexpensive. As you look for the perfect wrapping paper, consider this: Search for another couple rolls of paper that aren’t necessarily Christmas wrap (plain red, silver, or gold, polka-dot, striped, etc). Purchase those rolls along with your Christmas wrap and use them year-round for your wrapping needs. Happy shopping….
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