Green Meatballs in Creamed Greens Recipe- Frugal, Paleo, Egg Free, Dairy Free and Delicious
When people hear meatballs, typically what comes to mind is beef meatballs in tomato sauce, over pasta. If you’re from other parts of the world, Swedish meatballs in a cream sauce may be their first association. But as a forager and frugalista, not to mention someone who likes to change things up a lot in […]
Homemade Chocolate Peanut Butter Chews Recipe- Vegan, Refined Sugar Free, Paleo Option
I love my chocolate. A lot. But I am trying to stay away from white sugar and eat healthier in general. So when I saw someone in a healthy eating group share this recipe for homemade chocolates using date syrup as its sweetener, I knew I had to try it out. But using jaggery syrup, […]
My Completely Free Grocery “Shopping” Trip- Foraging and Salvaging
I just had a conversation with my publisher about my cover photography for my book, and what we want on it, as well as the photography for within the book, and then I realized that I don’t have the ingredients needed to make all these foraged items, and to get them, I’d have to go […]
Making Homemade Miso- Recipe and Cost Breakdown
My new homemade lentil miso Growing up, my mother did much of the day to day cooking in our home, introducing me to various dishes and cuisines from around the world, but it was my dad that did the funky stuff. The earliest memory I have of him doing interesting kitchen stuff was making port wine, […]
Surviving or Thriving on a Budget… What Is The Difference?
My super frugal grocery shops- for me a pleasure, for others, just barely surviving Today I got into a discussion with someone who is familiar with my blog, and I was mentioning to her about how the focus of my blog is about living as well as one can within their means, however small, and not just […]
Miso Glazed Chicken Wings Recipe- Gluten Free, Refined Sugar Free and Delicious
I love chicken wings! They are my favorite kind of chicken for a variety of reasons. I love crispy chicken skin, and wings are the highest ratio of skin to chicken as far as I can tell, but even better is their very low cost. Not only are they cheap per pound- locally I can […]
Tips to Drastically Lower Your Family’s Grocery Bill
In a local group I’m in someone today asked if it is possible to spend $575 a month for a family of six. Of course everyone pointed them to me because I do that exact thing. Only I do so for $375-575 a month and that’s with eating gluten free and mostly processed food free, […]
Five Tips for Making Your Home More Energy Efficient
Our energy efficient LED lights During peak seasons, the middle of the winter and middle of the summer, most of our utilities bills skyrocket, especially because of our extra energy use to get our home comfortable enough. Here are some tips, a collaboration between myself and reader Nancy Evans, on how you can hopefully make […]
Indian Style Tomato Soup Recipe- Vegan, Paleo, and Easy
I don’t know what it’s like where you live right now, but over here in my neck of the woods it is currently freezing, making it perfect soup weather! I am making an Indian themed meal and was looking for the perfect soup to complement the meal, but didn’t want something curry like since I […]
Homemade Dehydrated Sweet Potato Chips Recipe- Paleo, Vegan, Gluten Free, and Grain Free
The other day I was at my friend, M’s house, and she gave us some really yummy sweet potato chips to taste. I asked her how she did it, and it was so easy and simple that I knew I had to try it, since grain free healthy snacks are one of the hardest things […]
