End of the Pantry Challenge

Spending for last week: $21.50 for Bountiful Basket and extras that I split with friends (that's what I ended up paying) That means that...

Food Storage Friday: Cranberry Upside-Down Breakfast Cake

I found this recipe in the newspaper a couple weeks ago and made it for my family last weekend (adapted using food storage). It was deliciou...

Pantry Challenge Week 4

I meant to put this up yesterday, but family and friends come before blogging. Grocery spending last week: Whole wheat hamburger buns- $2.4...

Food Storage Friday: Reuben Pinto Burgers

I found this recipe in the newspaper last Sunday. My burgers don't look as pretty, but they were very tasty, and really that's all t...

Pantry Challenge Week 3

Did you have a great holiday with your kids? We did. House cleaning and blogging didn't happen, but we had fun. So Heather had dreams of...

Some Days Are Hard and Some Days Your Kids Actually Listen

 One morning, a couple days ago, when my alarm went off I wished that I could be someone else. Someone without a splitting headache. Someone...

$100 Challenge Week 2 and giveaway winner

So spending $100 or less looks like it is going to be harder than I thought. Partly because I didn't do much grocery shopping for most o...

Food Storage Friday: Baked Apple Pancakes

I based this recipe off one that I found in a food storage cookbook a few years ago. I know I found it in a food storage cookbook, but that ...

Preparedness Wednesday: December in Review

Oops! Took the kids to the pediatrician this morning and had this set to publish automatically before I finished it.  For those of you just ...

$100 Challenge and Menu Week 1

Happy New Year everyone!  So it's a new year and one of my resolutions is to organize (and maintain) my pantry. In order to do this I ne...