big sister who likes to eat watermelon in the back yard = happy little brother who sneaks it while mom isn't looking :) i make my kid...

picture from allrecipes.com we spent Christmas with my in-laws in UT this year. when all of the family (my hubby is one of 7, so this means...

on to the 2nd type of splurging - budgeted splurging ( click here if you missed the first type). eating wouldn't be fun if you couldn...

"to splurge or not to splurge? - that is the question." answer: "splurge, definitely splurge." having posted my things n...

does anyone feel like a boring cook once in a while? i definitely do. i find myself cooking the same kinds of things all the time with very ...

i recently got into couponing. it is great and i save lots of money and get lots of fun free stuff! the reason i bring it up is because the...

my friend kelli has an adorable 1 year old, about 1 1/2 weeks older than mine. she requested a post on feeding our little people healthy foo...

so back when i started this blog i wrote a lengthy diatribe about the benefits of eating hot cereal for breakfast (cheap, healthy, more mon...

whole grains are an important part of a healthy diet and they are usually cheaper than the meat or veggie part of the meal so they are good ...

i got to speak to some girls in my ward tonight about cooking healthy on a budget. they are all low-budget (preferred descriptor to poor!) s...

i'm sure i'm not the only bovine who is getting hungry between meals so let's talk about snacks. there are definitely good and b...

i have a confession to make - i somehow managed to spend all of my food budget by the 17th of the month in october. argh. after a brief stin...

i used to find myself getting discouraged because i'd see fancy meals that looked soooo delicious in magazines, online or even in restau...

i am by no means a vegetarian, but do love to eat meatless, or at least make a dinner with no meat every now and then. as meat is a traditio...

so i used to be one of those people who anxiously awaited canned chicken broth to go on sale for $0.50/can and then buy tons of it. i use it...

if i read my comments more faithfully i would have seen this ahead (see comments under homemade poppyseed dressing ) , but stacey and clare ...

to most people ground turkey sounds foreign, scary and just plain wrong when compared to ground beef. i hope to change your mind about that....

my absolute favorite lunch is a yummy salad. if you do it right you can do it cheap and healthy (stay tuned - next post will have more on th...

so we all know that fruits and veggies are healthy for you, but they are often a challenge for we healthy, budgeted eaters. the "5 a da...