Sharing My Love of Foraging
Purslane- one of my favorite foraged veggies I’ve been foraging for years now. Since I was a little kid, I was foraging a few things here and there (mainly jewel weed, wood sorrel, and mullberries), but I’ve probably been intensively foraging for the past 4 and a half years, and blogging about it here and […]
Frugal Accomplishments This Past Week and Accountability For My Struggles
This past week was a relatively good week frugality-wise. Not perfect, but pretty decent. In terms of the three things I’m trying to work on and be better with: So first I’ll start with the best- zero food thrown out! Ok, that doesn’t mean no food was wasted… it just means that I didn’t clean […]
How to Make a Homemade Firetruck Birthday Cake- Without All That Processed Food Junk
A great birthday cake can truly transform a birthday party from fun to fantastic. If, like myself, you try to stay away from processed foods, especially margarine/shortening and food coloring, you might feel bad, thinking your kids will be suffering, since they can’t have those “super cool” cakes that others have at their birthday parties. […]
ThredUP’s 99 Cent Sale!
I am very lucky in that I live in an area with great thrift stores selling a variety of clothes at super low costs, and we also have clothing swaps where I am able to pass on old clothes and get new ones easily. Many people aren’t as lucky as I am, and either don’t […]
The Tricks and Gimmicks of the “Store Without Gimmicks”
There’s a chain of grocery stores in my area that has been getting a lot of press lately. While one chain (lets call it R Grocery) (the chain I usually shop at) is known for their great prices (overall the cost of a grocery cart there have been proven to be significantly less than at […]
How to Get Self Published For Free! A Guest Post
Photo Credit- Bill Longshaw- Freedigitalphotos.net I was 9 years old the first time I got published. For an aspiring writer, nothing is more intoxicating than seeing your name in print, especially for the first time. I’ve been a writer as long as I can remember, with many ideas of books I wanted to publish. But […]
Frugal Accomplishments This Past Week and Accountability
This week has been challenging in more ways than one, but the main challenge being that 2 days this week we had no water, so it made it hard to be productive… We also had lots of rainy weather, which made laundry more difficult to do… Here’s my accountability for some specific struggles I’ve been […]
My Latest Grocery Shopping Trip- and Challenge For Myself
Yesterday I went to the grocery store, since there were a few items I needed to stock up on- I’d completely emptied out my stores. But the thing is, I’ve been back at tracking my grocery shopping to the cent this past month, and yesterday was the last day of the month I was tracking, […]
Reader Shares: Very Frugal Turkey Breast and Ham
Image credit- Gualberto107; freedigitalphotos.com I got this email from a reader today, and I really loved what she did, so I asked her if she’d mind if I’d post it on my blog so you can benefit from it as well. She was happy for me to share. Hope you enjoy it! Hi there, My […]
Decadent Chocolate Cake Recipe- With Gluten Free, Vegan, and Refined Sugar Free Options
I recently bought coconut sugar in bulk cheaply (or as cheap as I can get it anyhow), so I finally have enough available to be able to be using it as my staple sweetener. While I do try to use jaggery syrup and date paste (my cheapest non refined sweeteners available to me) in as […]
