Now launching his grand comeback tour: The Artist Formerly Known as Dairy Free Junior High Guy -- now just: Junior High Guy! About four weeks ago we re-tested Junior High Guy for food allergies, and lo and behold: He surprisingly tested negative for both wheat and dairy. We started easing him back into these foods …
Welcome to the July 5th edition of Sunday Scratchups, your weekly recipe from scratch around sales and affordable ingredients. Our next mystery sale ingredient is: Cauliflower, since we've seen a lot of great prices on this lately! And because, it's so good when you grill or roast or otherwise bring out its inherent nutty sweetness. …
How's your holiday weekend shaping up so far? MashupDad has the day off today, so we're all spending a rare family weekday together. We're just back from the Willowbrook Wildlife Center in Glen Ellyn (beautiful day for it, but watch out for the mosquitoes!) and are now watching Jurassic Park on DVD from the library …
Welcome back to Midweek Meal Planning for the week of 7/3/15! It’s more traditional to meal plan on the weekend, but since our Chicago grocery deals mostly flip midweek, and since Wednesday hump day is when many of us start running out of steam, we buck the trend here and go with Wednesdays. Or somewhat …
This week's Frugal Homemade feature is an easy and affordable DIY chair makeover that you can do all by yourself in a single afternoon! After finding a cute-but-boring chair at a garage sale for just $5.00, I knew it was coming home with me. I'd been on the lookout for a nice little chair I …
This giveaway has been sponsored by Medieval Times. Medieval Times provided tickets for purposes of review; however, all opinions here are my own. Can you believe that all these years I've lived in Illinois, I'd never been to Medieval Times before last week? Now: I know what we've been missing while driving on by that …