Welcome to the January 8, 2017 edition of Sunday Scratchups: Your weekly recipe from scratch around ingredients that are either on sale or generally affordable. Up this week: Easy Cheesy Chicken Chili! For this recipe you'll just need a few pantry staples plus some cooked shredded chicken -- I used leftover chicken I'd cooked up in the …

If you haven't yet tried Amazon subscribe & save, you've been missing out on some pretty nice savings -- both money- and time-wise! (I love subscribe & save over here, and get a shipment from Amazon just about every month...) So here's a little rundown of how to use Amazon subscribe & save, and how to …

If you've been following any of the recipes here on Mashup Mom, you probably already know that easy, simple, and tasty are pretty much the watchwords around here. I've subscribed to the weekly emails from Lisa Leake over at 100 Days of Real Food for years and did enjoy her first cookbook -- but was even …

Here’s your easy weekly ALDI meal plan for the week of 1/8/17: 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 …

Welcome back to Make It or Buy It! Up today: DIY stainless steel refrigerator cleaner vs Endust. Because a stainless steel fridge is beautiful, but it is also a fingerprint magnet extraordinaire... It's not particularly easy to take photos of a reflective surface in a kitchen with poor lighting and a lot of glare, but …

I meant to have a thoughtful post all ready to go in the New Year to talk about how refined sugar fits into some of the ways Mashup Mom is changing focus in 2017, but I lost... well... focus. Blame it on the sugar. 🙂 So here's the off the top of my head version, and we'll …