On the very first "What's Rachel Reading" post a couple of weeks ago, Susan recommended reading The Circle by Dave Eggers -- which will also be hitting theaters at the end of April as a major motion picture starring Tom Hanks and Emma Watson. (This, I'll be watching, but not until it's out on DVD.) Someone …

Here’s your easy weekly ALDI meal plan for the week of 1/15/17: 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: I try not to repeat the same recipe here more often than once a month, but …

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 …

Welcome back to Make It or Buy It! Up today: Homemade whipped cream vs. store-bought. Because I'm doing this no sugar thing, store bought whipped cream is right out. But beyond sugar, let's check out the ingredient listings of two of the most common brands. I snapped these ingredient list photos of Cool Whip and …

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 …

Took a trip down to Big R in Homer Glen with MashupDad today -- it's a great place to pick up feed for your backyard chickens, among other things! A couple of you had asked about how we care for the girls in the winter months, and here's MashupDad showing off the newer cleaner model of …