Our Healthy Menu on Vacation, and What Frugal Things We Did

So last week we went on vacation, and we’re still sort of recovering from it, unpacking, catching up on sleep, etc… Sorry this post didn’t get up before now… But I wanted to talk to you about being frugal on vacation. Because other than groceries being more expensive on vacation, and transportation there and back […]

Frugal and Healthy Life Hacks For The Beach

Hey everyone, how are you doing? This week our summer fun finally has started- we’ve been just hanging around the house until now, trying to avoid the extreme heat for most of the summer, but this week we are spending in a coastal city, a few minute’s walk from the beach. We come here yearly, […]

Frugal Accomplishments These Past Two Weeks

I’ve been a little slacking lately on the frugal front, since it’s been so hot that even the thought of moving has often been beyond me, let alone actually doing frugal things… I felt so silly posting my weekly frugal accomplishments last week, because my list was so super short, so I decided to combine […]

Giving My Daughter a Pixie Haircut

Before I became a mom, I had all sorts of ideas of what parenting would be like, and even made a whole long list of things I’d want to do with my daughters, and another list of things I’d want to do with my sons. Fast forward 8 years, and very few things of what […]

Chicken Neck and Watermelon Rind Stew Recipe- Super Frugal, Paleo and GAPS Legal

Sometimes you just get inspired by whatever random things are lying around your house, throwing them together in the hopes that you might make something tasty out of it. And sometimes you’re in luck, because the food doesn’t just come out passable, or even tasty, but absolutely delicious, enough so that you want to repeat […]

Making Homemade Nut Butter, Seed Butter, and Peanut Butter

Today I did something that I never thought I’d be able to do- I made homemade walnut butter! I have read many times that making homemade nut butters isn’t really so hard, you just have to stick it in your food processor and let it run, scraping down the sides. And I tried it. I […]

Frugal Accomplishments This Week

Sorry for not getting around to posting this until now- here’s my family’s frugal accomplishments of this last week. No, we didn’t so so much frugaling- it was super hot and we didn’t really have much energy to do much other than veg out, so anything frugal that we did do, I consider a great […]

Having Fun With My New Spiralizer

I decided a few months ago that I wanted to do this Paleo reset, but also said that I would be more likely to be able to actually get through it if I had a spiralizer, since it would change things up and mean that I didn’t just have to eat all my veggies plain, […]

Frugal Accomplishments This Week

Hey there, how you doin? I hope you had a really awesome week, one in which you kept an eye on your finances and expenses, and had a week in which you were happy with where you spent your money, so that you didn’t feel like you wasted money, and instead felt like you did […]

Important Lessons From Some Soda Cans

I’ve posted before about how important I think it is for kids to have real life experience with money, already from when they’re young, so that way they can learn from their mistakes when they’re still young and their mistakes don’t have as big repercussions, and I shared some ways that I allow my kids […]