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Free ALDI Meal Plan week of 5/14/17 - 5/20/17

Here’s your easy weekly ALDI meal plan for the week of 5/14/17: Pick up everything on the shopping list below, then start cooking on Sunday. *** Subscribe to the weekly ALDI meal plans here *** Hope you find these free ALDI meal plans useful! Oh and by the way... My ALDI eBook is on sale this …

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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 easy DIY Mother's Day gift this week. (Or hey: …

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Refined Sugar and Me Week 19 -- One Thing or Another

Welcome to week nineteen of our ongoing series about refined sugar & me in 2017! This week I'm holding steady at a total of 13 pounds down from when I first started avoiding most added sugars and processed foods at the end of December 2016. Today I'm actually weighing in heavier than I was earlier this week, …

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Simple Skillet Chicken Drumsticks

Chicken drumsticks are super affordable -- and cooking them up in a cast iron skillet is super easy! Simple Skillet Chicken Drumsticks are wonderfully browned and juicy, a kid pleasing weeknight dinner recipe. How about an easy cast iron skillet recipe for Simple Skillet Chicken Drumsticks in this May 7, 2017 edition of Sunday Scratchups: Your weekly recipe …

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What's Rachel Reading? You Don't look Like Anyone I Know

A couple of weeks ago I was reading a magazine article and ran across a mention of You Don't Look Like Anyone I Know: A True Story of Family, Face Blindness, and Forgiveness by Heather Sellers. It sounded interesting, so I requested a copy via interlibrary loan (and as an aside: Can I just express my deep …

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What a week! Birds, Bees, IMSA, and Dishwashers...

Good morning... and May the Fourth be with you! 😉 I think that Mr. 10's pose here pretty much expresses how this week has unfolded. Is it just me, or does May always seem to get crazy as the end of the school year approaches and everything somehow has to cram into a few short weeks? So: Let me …

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