Homemade Carob Powder and Carob Syrup from Foraged Carobs
Once upon a time I thought cocoa was bad for you. I know many still think that, but I’m not in that camp anymore. However, when I thought cocoa was bad for you, I learned that carob powder works to make a decent replacement for cocoa powder. Well, when I say replacement, I don’t mean […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Easy Vegan Cheese Sauce Recipe- Gluten Free, Grain Free
I think other than various bread recipes, vegan cheese sauce is probably the food I have the most recipe variations for on my blog. This is number five. See, the thing is- when you just are buying cheese, you have a variety of cheeses to choose from, and you can pick the one you like […]
How We’re Saving Money on Heating This Winter
Add caption I have been challenged by the Money Advice Service to write a post on my January’s “survival guide”. For me, the biggest challenge in January has got to be keeping warm, as that month usually is the coldest month of the year. Right now I hear there has been a blizzard (or pseudo-blizzard) […]
An Awesome Get Together With a Like-Minded Family
You know how sometimes you have one of those days that are just so perfect, everything going so well, but they just are so full that they leave you exhausted afterwards? Today was one of those days. I have a friend, Holly, who is just really awesome and we’re so similar in so many ways. […]
