Frugal Accomplishments This Week and Accountability For My Struggles
Welcome to the weekly post in which I reveal all… my deep dark secrets… haha… So, I had a pretty busy week, and I must say, there were things that I did that weren’t so frugal. But people have been telling me not to feel bad about that, to instead focus on the positive- what […]
Raw Chocolate Sprouted Buckwheat Granola Recipe- Nut Free, Refined Sugar Free, Vegan Option, Gluten Free, Oat Free
I’ve written before about my issue with breakfast- I don’t necessarily have energy to be cooking in the morning (sometimes I do, sometimes I don’t), so often I just end up relying on bought cereal- generally rice crispies- and milk or non dairy milk for our breakfast. The thing is- bought cereal isn’t so cheap, […]
Monthly Grocery Breakdown and Analysis for December and January
So I stopped tracking our monthly grocery expenses like I had been doing, because it wasn’t working well- it ended up feeling like I was micromanaging my husband’s spending, and that wasn’t the best idea for our relationship. So I decided to start tracking our monthly grocery expenses, but leaving out my husband’s spending. He […]
Top Ways to Get the Most out of Technology as a Parent on a Budget
My kids are of the new millennium, and as such, have such an awareness of technology and how it can be used. They don’t even understand the concept that when Mommy was a little kid, we didn’t even have a computer at home, and then when we did, at first it was without internet, and then later […]
Can Urban Foraging Actually Feed Poor People? A Response
Mallow, one of the most time/energy efficient plants to forage My friend Kelly sent me a link to an article, talking about whether or not urban foraging can actually be used to help working poor not starve; she thought I might have a good answer to that. I certainly do. I not only enjoy foraging […]
A Fun and Frugal Food Decorating Event
It gets really amusing sometimes when you have a blog like this one, and many of your friends read your blog. Take last night, for example. We had an event that I organized and ran, and when the event was finished, my friend, Debbie, a regular reader, who attended, asked “So, Penny, will you write […]
Super Simple Bread- Gluten Free and Wheat Flour Recipes- Vegan and Sugar Free
I had another one of those long days today. Great, but long. I was out of the house and on my feet from early this morning, and only came back after dark. I almost left you without a post for today, but then decided to maybe just post something simple. And what better than this […]
Chili Cornbread Skillet Recipe- Gluten Free, Vegan, and Refined Sugar Free Options
Sometimes my husband looks at the mess in the kitchen, and he says “Where’d all these dishes come from? You just made a one pot meal!” Well, sometimes those one pot meals can use a lot of dishes, even if in the end you have just one dish to serve on the table… This is […]
Frugal Accomplishments This Week and Accountability For My Struggles
Thank you for joining me once again where I have my little accountability session- tell you what I have been struggling with this week in a frugal sense, and share what accomplishments I’m proud of. So, I’ll admit, I really wasn’t good with laundry and cloth diapering this week…. I had a lot of things […]
