From the category archives:

Balancing Meal Time Mountain

Grocery Shopping on a Budget

March 11, 2010

As we begin dissecting our personal finances, we’ve thought about our needs vs. wants, realized that tracking grocery expenses are the best way to understand where all the food money is disappearing, and now for what you’ve all asked – I get to share a typical grocery shopping trip. This was a normal week. It [...]

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Lower Your Grocery Budget by Tracking your Food Expenses

March 9, 2010

If there’s one way to begin decreasing your grocery budget, as well as being accountable to some kind of meal plan, it’s by agreeing to blog about your kitchen activity nearly every day for an entire month. (See below for the description of 3 Moms, 3 Kitchens, 31 Days.)

Honestly, I get many requests for help [...]

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Eating from the Pantry, Freezer and Fridge

March 6, 2010

Many of you joined me in January as I ate from our pantry, freezer and fridge for the Pantry Challenge. We successfully ate for $150 by using what we had on hand. Well, it wasn’t my intent, but the same thing had happened this week, and so far, I haven’t gone grocery shopping but used [...]

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Easy Buttermilk Pancakes

March 5, 2010

Easy Buttermilk Pancakes

2/3 cup white flour
2/3 cup whole wheat flour
1 TB baking powder
1/2 tsp soda
1/4 cup honey
2 cups buttermilk (or soured milk)
2 eggs

Combine all the ingredients into a large bowl and mix until mixture is smooth. Optimally, let it sit for 30 minutes before putting on the griddle. Drop about 3 TBS of batter onto [...]

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Breakfast in Bed, Birthday and Burgers

March 4, 2010

What’s 3 Moms, 3 Kitchens, 31 Days? Click below if you’re new to the series.

Alert – Break in our normal programming…
I admit, this is not a good time to have a birthday – smack dab at the beginning of my 31 day kitchen experiment, but it has happened. Frankly, as much as I would like [...]

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Make Ahead Mashed Potatoes – Freezer Mashed Potatoes

March 3, 2010

If you follow me on Twitter, you know that I recently peeled and mashed ten pounds of potatoes. I wish I could say that is an extraordinary amount and that we ate some but then froze most of them, but that would simply be a lie.
You see, potatoes are my favorite food…french fries, then mashed. [...]

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Easy Oatmeal with Diced Apples

March 1, 2010

When trying to get away from eating all fifteen boxes of our stockpiled $0.50 cereal in one week, I realize that hot breakfasts need to be served 4-5 times a week to preserve.
Since we were at basketball tournaments all weekend, my intended freezer breakfast meals didn’t get made, so I’m going to have to get [...]

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3 Moms, 3 Kitchens, 31 Days

March 1, 2010

Welcome to the Kick off of 3 Moms, 3 Kitchens, 31 Days.
My sweet friends, Toni from the Happy Housewife, Kate from Cooking During Stolen Moments, and I are about to embark on a month long journey of opening our kitchens to you.
As I mentioned on Friday, “I invite you to follow along everyday as I [...]

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One Month of Reality Cooking – real time, real budgets, real life

February 26, 2010

You read it correctly. Welcome to Reality Blogging – in the kitchen, that is.
Beginning March 1st, I invite you to follow along everyday as I share real time, real life, and the real budget of how I feed our family and friends well on a budget. Yes, this will be the nitty gritty, in’s and [...]

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What Was Your Dinner Conversation Tonight?

February 23, 2010

It’s no secret that connecting around the table for regular family dinners is something I highly value.
But no worries, I am going to save my “soap box” speech for another time.
Instead, I’m going to point out my “Family Dinner Conversation” jar in which my sweet daughter has her hand.
It’s filled with a variety [...]