Some of you who follow the weekly ALDI meal plans have been asking which pantry staples are best to stock up on, so here's my first stab at a list. Your family's cupboards of course might differ from mine due to anything from food allergies to View Post
DIY Beeswax Lip Balm
Here's another tutorial from MashupDad, who's been busy lately making his own DIY beeswax lip balm. It's actually taken quite a while to collect and render enough pure beeswax from his beehives to use in crafts and cosmetics, but he'll tell you a View Post
Homemade Sunflower Butter (Make It or Buy It?)
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
