I know what we're eating all week! A fridge full of clearance meat this weekend turned into a cooking extravaganza, and now I have a fridge full of leftovers and peace of mind. On Saturday, I threw one of my $3.00 Target clearance hams in the Crock Pot with a little brown sugar, so we still …

This awesomely fantastic Homemade Chicken Soup recipe is the ultimate in comfort food! Let it simmer on your stove top all afternoon, and enjoy the big batch of good-for-what-ails-ya all week. Welcome to the April 24, 2016 edition of Sunday Scratchups: Your weekly recipe from scratch around grocery sales and affordable foods! This week I picked …

We checked this cute book out of the library yesterday called Wild Eats and Adorable Treats: 40 Animal-Inspired Meals and Snacks for Kids. It really is adorable, and Mr. 9 has been flipping through to bookmark things he wants to make. This afternoon's project was inspired the "Foxy Fruit Snack," except Mr. 9 wanted his fox to be …

Today in Frugal Homemade: Easy Homemade Taco Seasoning! I looked at multiple | examples of taco | seasoning | recipes | online before scratching this up. They're all very, very similar, so I just tweaked the proportions slightly for our own family's tastes. Here's a basic easy homemade taco seasoning mix, which you can then play with to change up proportions or flavors as …

You know that old expression that there is no rest for the wicked? Lies, all of it. Lies. 🙂

What's for dinner at your house this evening? We're doing the Meatless Monday salad bar thing on this warm almost-summer night, starting right about... NOW. Hard boiled and sliced up some eggs earlier, and have: Free spinach from a long ago organicgirl promo and the sale romaine, grape tomatoes, & sliced peppers from Caputo's, a …