Somehow I spent $82 at Goodwill today! Yikes! I originally went over to look for clothes for High School Outgrowing-Everything-At-Once-Guy, since Monday is half price green tags day. Well, only a couple of things I picked up had green tags... but I also ended up with all this other stuff. Behold: Jeans for MashupDad. A fall …

Welcome to the August 28, 2016 edition of Sunday Scratchups: Your weekly recipe from scratch around the sales and seasons. This week, red potatoes are on sale and I still have parsley growing like crazy in the garden... which clearly calls for a batch of easy Instant Pot Red Mashed Potatoes. So many recipe possibilities as we approach fall and …

It's still August, but it always starts to feel like fall to me when the kids go back to school. Maybe it's because we never went back until after Labor Day when I was a kid? The end of August is also when we start to see apples on sale at the produce stores, so …

I've been doing a lot of clean-up on Mashup Mom over the past week, including deleting a lot of old deal posts in order to pare things down and speed things up. Doing this in the Jewel category brought back a lot of memories (Fall 2009, anyone? 😉 ), but also leaves a basic timeline of changes …

Welcome to the August 21, 2016 edition of Sunday Scratchups: Your weekly recipe from scratch around grocery sales and affordable ingredients. This week, a rare London Broil sale -- always worth waiting for! We haven't seen it this low in a while, so I picked up two packs and used one to scratch up this savory Chimichurri …