A month’s Worth of Meal Planning

Since I’m no longer working for money (raising one’s own kin doesn’t pay well…but the benefits are unbeatable!) Matt’s monthly paycheck is the only in-coming money we’ve got. He gets one lump sum a month, and it has to stretch. Far.
Since we don’t have a car (see above about my not working…) we have little [...]

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Survivor: Kitchen Edition

The posts on cleaning, baking and dog treats (and the Survivor version of my pantry…) will be here soon. I’m just busy cleaning, baking and running elimination rounds of the edibles.
Tribe Freezer has been hit hard, down to two full birds, one bag of chicken quarters, two half-eaten containers of icecream, one tray of ice [...]

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Back to the kitchen…

A snapshot of this week’s upcoming adventures:
I attempt to make it the next 8 days without buying any groceries! We’re already out of ground beef, jam (preserves) and nonfat milk…what’s next? It’s like Survivor, but for a pantry, freezer and fridge.
I attempt lemon bars for the first time! As long as making them doesn’t require [...]

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RECIPE: Easy, addictive banana bread

I don’t remember when I created this recipe; all I remember is that it changed my life.
I know it must seem like I say that a lot; it must seem like I didn’t have much of a life if a recipe for Banana Bread changed it. Maybe I didn’t have much of a life. Maybe [...]

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Awesome Alternative Use: Old Milk Carton; plastic milk jug

Like most almost-5-year-old boys, my son likes to beat things. With sticks.
Normally this isn’t encouraged; we scold him at the playground for doing it, we ask him not to hurt the table with his silverware, we remind him that the back of the front passenger carseat is not a drum for banging. Still, the instinct [...]

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What a lovely surprise!

I woke up this morning to discover this little gem.
Thedailygreen.com mentioned and plugged my blog in a fantastic article about unusual ketchup uses. The article mentions my own blog about what to do with those empty ketchup bottles and links to it. I am so flattered to get a plug like that!
It was exactly the [...]

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A Day in the Life: Are you breaking up with me?

I think I got dumped yesterday. By my OBGYN. But I’m not sure…I got the message through a pharmacy tech with bad English. The whole thing reminds me of the time in 9th grade when Jeremy Gunderson broke up with me by having his friend call me on the phone…while I was still on the [...]

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