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Crash Hot Potatoes with Smoked Sausage & Crispy Kale

Look at this -- it's a Scratchups Mashup in this September 17 edition of Sunday Scratchups: Crash Hot Potatoes with Smoked Sausage & Crispy Kale! For this week's recipe from scratch around grocery sales and affordable ingredients, I was looking at some smoked sausage I had in my fridge, a bag of these wonderful special …

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Caturday with the Notorious BKL & Friends -- What Cats Hate Edition

Welcome back to Caturday with the Notorious BKL and Friends! Everyone here has been squirrelly this week, but is it technically correct to say that about cats? Do squirrels get catty? ANYway, although we have had rare moments of peace and harmony where Mr. 10 is blissfully surrounded by his cats, at other moments he's …

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Free ALDI Meal Plan week of 9/17/17 - 9/23/17

Here’s your easy weekly ALDI meal plan for the week of 9/17/17: Pick up everything on the shopping list below, then start cooking on Sunday. *** Subscribe to the weekly ALDI meal plans here *** Did you catch this series? Check out this year's posts outlining how I've (so far) lost 18 pounds and improved my …

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Sheet Pan Chili-Lime Chicken Drumsticks with Baby Potatoes and Crispy Kale

Welcome back to another edition of: Recipes with kale and peppers from Rachel's garden! My thumbs are not particularly green, but these two garden veggies are among the easiest to grow -- and I'm having so much fun this season exploring different ways to enjoy them. Hence, this week's recipe-a-day binge, as I've been in …

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Easy Steak Fajitas Recipe -- with Onions, Peppers, and Mushrooms

Feed a family using only one pound of of steak, when you turn yours into Easy Steak Fajitas with all the fixings! Sooo good, and so easy to throw together. So what's a girl to do when she finds a little piece of half price clearance steak at ALDI? What else but make Steak Fajitas …

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Refined Sugar and Me Week 36: Full-Fat Dairy, FTW!

Welcome to week 36 of our ongoing (yet intermittent) series about refined sugar & me in 2017. This week we're finally settled into back to school, and I'm finally back on track: Down another 2 pounds from our last report three weeks ago, and 18 pounds less than from when I first started avoiding most added sugars …

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