A Happy Garden Update!
You have no idea how long I’ve waited to write this post! Growing up in Cleveland, my family had a decent sized house with a relatively large yard. While most of it was grassy, wonderful for playing, and we had a grape arbor/swingset and club house we built, we had many different distinct areas for […]
Some Fabulous Deals at the Market and Lots of Free Food
The other day I was in town, heading to the market via public transportation and I met another English speaker. She saw my empty folding shopping cart and asked me if I was heading to the market. I confirmed that, so she commented, “You can get some pretty cool deals there.” Yes, definitely. We were […]
Homemade Carrot Peach Leather Recipe- Paleo, Vegan, Easy
I got a very large amount of carrots recently for free (more about that in a later post), but because they weren’t in the best of conditions, they needed to be used up sooner rather than later, or at least something needed to be done with them to extend their shelf life. With some, I […]
My Frugal Produce Cooking Marathon
Yesterday I had a really great shopping trip, bringing home a bunch of produce for very little money. Much as I love a good deal on produce, bringing home that much at once does mean that I need to figure out what to do with it all so it doesn’t spoil and gets the most […]
My Latest Super Frugal Shopping Trips
I love a good bargain. My husband frequently sees what I buy cheaply and laments that I “brought the entire market home with me”. But yes, I do have a hard time passing up a great bargain, and yesterday’s shopping trips were no exception. Here’s my total shop from yesterday. Guess how much it cost? […]
A Frugal Girls Mini Vacation
I just got back from a great trip with my mom and two sisters, Violet and Lizzy. We moved abroad when my little sister Lizzy was only 6, and Violet and I moved out of the house right around then. We realized that we girls never really did trips together, and Violet had the idea […]
My Latest Super Frugal Shopping Trip
It is no secret how much I enjoy shopping at the open air market. As a family who goes through a lot of produce, I hate paying supermarket prices for produce when I can get it all for a fraction of the price. Because I regularly go to the open air market, I develop a […]
DIY Workbench and Tool Storage
To say that my husband has a lot of tools/building equipment would be an understatement. It is an enjoyable hobby of his, and fortunately it is a cost effective one. Building our own furniture and other things we need in the house, and in general doing our own fixing saves us money, in both the […]
Penniless Foodie in the Wild: Adaptable Recipes for Foragers and Frugalistas is Now Out!!!
Awesome news to share with y’all!!! My new cookbook, Penniless Foodie in the Wild, Adaptable Recipes for Foragers and Frugalistas, is finally out and available on Amazon! This has been a work in progress for months (or years, depending on how you look at it), and I’m really excited by it. It’s not a foraging […]
Chinese Style Corn Soup Recipe- Without Eggs
This past week has been a very busy one in my house, foraging so many different things, shopping a for frugal groceries, doing a lot of cooking from scratch, and even being filmed by a film student for a “day in the life of” documentary for her documentary making class. With this film student, I […]
