Homemade Bibimbap Recipe and Technique- With Vegetarian, Vegan, Egg Free, Paleo, and GAPS Options
Bibimbap. What a fun name for a food! Whenever I say it, I feel like bursting out in song. It took me a while to realize that bibimbap is a real name of a delicious food, meaning mixed rice. A Korean meal that has quickly made it well onto my list of favorites. What exactly […]
Korean Cucumber Salad Recipe- Oi Sangchae or Oi Muchim- Refined Sugar Free Option
I love cucumbers- they are so versatile as an ingredient! They can be eaten plain, in a greens salad, made into dill pickles, sliced up and mixed with yogurt to make an Indian raita or Greek/Turkish tzatziki, in gazpacho, or even cooked like in this baked herbed cucumber recipe. But I have to admit, my favorite […]
Delicious Curried Peas Recipe- Vegan, Gluten Free, Sugar Free
It’s past my bedtime, but I didn’t want to leave you without a post for today. So, without preamble, here’s a yummy curried pea recipe I invented myself when I decided to make an Indian meal for myself and a friend but didn’t really have much variety by way of veggies with which to work, […]
Awesome Haul of Free Swaps From A Book Swap
I just got home a few minutes ago from a book swap. I love reading. Books are expensive to buy locally. English books are even more expensive. Even second hand books aren’t cheap here, especially at the rate at which I devour books. And the libraries here aren’t free, and don’t have such a large […]
A Whole Lot of Food- A Little Bit of Money
Today I went to the city to do my shopping for groceries. I could have possibly waited a day or two longer to go shopping, but my produce was running low, and since I am trying to cut back on the amount of grains I am eating, I wanted to be able to have a […]
Frugal Accomplishments This Week
I had a great frugal week this week. I am proud of myself for what I did to save money. 😀 I had a bit of a task to try to figure out how to serve more weight loss friendly, less grain heavy meals, healthier eating, etc… without spending a lot. I think I did […]
Homemade Gluten Free Flat Bread Recipe II- Vegan, Yeast Free, Cheap, Versatile
Homemade cream cheese sandwich on yeast free flat bread I posted my gluten free flat bread recipe a few years ago, and I still use that as a base for most of my flat breads, but I’ve since adjusted how I make it, mainly to make it cheaper, but also to make it healthier. In […]
Sauted and Steamed Carrots Recipe- Super Delicious and Easy
My lunch the other day- Creole spiced fish, sauted and steamed carrots, steamed zucchini with tahini sauce, and Asian inspired cucumber salad Carrots are one of those vegetables that I can almost always get cheap year round, and when I can’t get them cheap, I get them super cheap. While carrot sticks are yummy as […]
How to Achieve an Extravagant Family Vacation without Spending a Lot
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Getting Into Shape… Hopefully
My healthy, delicious, “diet” friendly breakfast this morning. My baby is 6.5 weeks old, and I decided I want to start getting into shape. Yes, I know round is a shape. 😀 But I weigh more than I’d like to. A lot more than I’d like to. No, I won’t share the exact number… And […]
