Welcome back to Sunday Scratchups, your weekly recipe from scratch around grocery sales and affordable ingredients. This week I picked up a beautiful piece of Ahi tuna at my local Fresh Thyme for $4.97/lb on their grand opening double ad Wednesday, and they also had bunches of parsley for just $.50 each. Well, doesn't that …
Make your own DIY Nail Polish Flower Bouquet -- a great "Easter Basket" for older girls and teens! This week's Frugal Homemade features an easy DIY Nail Polish Flower Bouquet. Here, I made two: One small nail polish bouquet for a gift, and a larger nail polish bouquet for a fundraiser gift basket raffle. I've …
Welcome back to Midweek Meal Planning for the week of 5/14/15! 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 Thursdays... …
Happy Mother's Day to all the Moms out there! Hope you're having a lovely day with family. 🙂
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This week's Frugal Homemade feature is: DIY Garden Markers. Choose from two different types -- both are easy, inexpensive, and get the job done! Since so many of us do our planting over Mother's Day weekend, I thought this would be a quick, fun project that you could do with the kids (or even have …