One of the things I like to do to save money and control what goes into my body is to make my own oatmeal packets. This is actually very easy to do and only take me roughly twenty minutes to do. MYO Oatmeal Packets What you need to get started: Old-Fashioned Oats or Quick-Cooking Oats Salt ( I use sea salt) This time I was making twelve packets so I put 2.5 cups of oats into the food processor. I…
Steak Skillet is a meal I could eat happily 3-4 nights a week. It is that good and has all the things I love in this meal: some form of red meat, one dish, simplicity, and the yummy factor. This is also a very simple dish that can be added to or subtracted from without much trouble. I love how this tastes using my cast iron skillet. I love my cast iron skillet! The only problem? I wish I would…
This morning I was reading through the blogs I have earmarked on the right side of this page and came across Rural Revolution: Frugal Tips. Mrs. Lewis then challenged other blog writers to post their own list of frugal tips and ideas! I am incredibly excited to read what others have posted!Here is what we do and what we plan to do:1. I wash out and reuse plastic storage bags and containers. Most people treat them as disposable, but I…
Since my mind has been going in many different directions again lately and is losing focus rapidly, I will attempt to refocus here and torture you all with it too. #1 Kids and injuries go together. Right? No? We have a 50% injury rate among kids right now with a pulled groin muscle and a broken arm. The other 50% knows they should not get injured right now. Mama may end up doing something crazy like order huge rolls of…
Last night, after a majority of my kids went to bed, I tried to watch the debates. I couldn’t watch much of it because I thought it was a joke. I do apologize if you thought differently and it’s okay if you do think differently. I just wanted a straight answer out of both candidates, not have the moderator think they were a reporter, and honestly have a debate. I thought one was doing better than the other, but the…
This year I have been learning to can tomatoes. Truthfully they intimidated me. All the work and the questions surrounding how to can tomatoes would be enough for me to avoid it! With my newish attitude to produce some of own food, not waste food, and preserve it has caused me to view tomatoes a bit differently. Because…. We eat a LOT of tomato-based products. Pasta sauce, anyone? Lately, I have had a lot of people ask me how I…