Homemade sunflower butter may not be the prettiest recipe in the world to photograph, but it's darn tasty. So: Let's talk a bit today about how to make your own homemade sunflower seed butter, and about whether it's better to make it... or buy it! View Post
DIY Garden Bed Kit — Use fence boards to make one on the cheap!
Today MashupDad has a DIY Garden Bed Kit project for you. So take it away, MashupDad! DIY Garden Bed Kit -- Using Fence Boards A few years ago for Mother's Day, I set up a couple of garden beds for Mashup Mom. These beds are located on the View Post
Who has cheaper grocery prices? Walmart, or ALDI?
A couple of months ago we saw a little flurry of articles about how Walmart is targeting ALDI in its ongoing price wars in stores across several states, including Illinois. In the initial tests reported in these articles, spot checks of various View Post
Perpetual Salad Colander — a fun DIY gift idea!
Last week I was walking through my local produce store and saw that they were selling "snip 'n gro" salad colanders for $15.99. What a cool idea, right?! So, I thought it would be fun to put together a perpetual salad colander as a super useful and View Post
How to Save on Meat? Chop It Up — Yourself!
A few months ago we talked about some of the top ways to save on meat. Well, here's one more idea for you: Buy large cuts of meat when they're on sale, and chop them up -- yourself! (Or if you're me, make MashupDad do it while you hang back and take View Post
A whole foods diet on an ALDI budget: How to save on real foods!
Let's talk today about eating a whole foods diet on an ALDI budget and how to save on real foods! Note, though, that "whole foods" isn't capitalized in the title above: They're very clever to have capitalized (in all senses of the term), but I'm not View Post
