One of the ways I save on produce is by picking up most of my fruits and vegetables each week at ALDI and/or a local produce store like Pete's Market or Caputo's. I mainly shop the produce that's on sale each week, but thought it might be interesting to do a snapshot price comparison of …
What products do you wish ALDI carried that you haven't been able to find there on a regular basis? I do love that ALDI has been expanding its variety, cleaning up a lot of its foods, and adding more natural and organic options -- but there are just a few more items I'd like to be able to pick …
It's Monday, so let's check in for week two of the limiting refined sugar challenge of 2017! How's everyone doing so far? Here: I'm down 5 lbs (!) from where I started doing this on December 30, but that has kind of stalled out. This was pretty much what I expected, though, after my last …
I meant to have a thoughtful post all ready to go in the New Year to talk about how refined sugar fits into some of the ways Mashup Mom is changing focus in 2017, but I lost... well... focus. Blame it on the sugar. 🙂 So here's the off the top of my head version, and we'll …
Since our regular meal planning is all higgledy-piggledy this week due to the holidays, I thought it would be fun to talk about what everyone is making this Christmas! It's so unusual that Chanukah is overlapping Christmas this year, but we usually just have a quiet family day at home: Lox & bagels in the …
Don't you love all the sales we've been seeing on avocados lately? There's nothing worse than a wasted avocado though, and it's so sad when you want to save half of a cut avocado for later but find that it's turned brown and unappetizing by the next day. So: Here's how to save half an …