Here’s your easy weekly ALDI meal plan for the week of 3/26/17: Pick up everything on the shopping list below, then start cooking on Sunday! Hope you find it useful. *** Subscribe to the weekly ALDI meal plans here *** Note: Main dish recipes in these plans don't repeat often, but you will see favorite easy …

Freeze your homemade broth for meal prep, in perfect sized increments for various purposes! Then, just pop your frozen broth-sicles into a freezer bag for easy use later. A while back I told you how I've been making vegetable broth from veggie scraps in my Instant Pot. Sometimes I mix things up by making chicken …

Let’s check in on week twelve of refined sugar & me in 2017! We're now almost three months into this experiment in avoiding refined sugar, and I lost another pound this week to bring the grand total to ten pounds down across these 12 weeks. Maybe I'll post a photo if I get to 20. 😉 My …

Welcome back to Work at Home Saturday, where you share your stories of working at home and ways to bring in income on the side! Let's help each other out by sharing ideas and experiences, and you can always share your own story for possible feature on Mashup Mom here. This week, Stephanie Lynch shares her Legacy Republic …

Why Slow Cooker Corned Beef and Carrots instead of the more traditional red potatoes & cabbage? Because: No one in this house will eat slow cooked cabbage, and lovely large baking potatoes won't reach their fullest potential in the Crock-Pot. Hey, let's do a bonus recipe today for St. Patrick's Day! I meant to make …

I was talking to a friend the other day who mentioned that she always buys pre-cut produce. Even though it costs more, if she buys it whole she never gets around to it and fruits and veggies tend to rot in the drawer uneaten -- which really doesn't save anyone any money, right? 🙂 So I …