Last week, my husband was out of town, so I ended up cooking for myself for a few days. On Wednesday, when I picked up our CSA share, I decided to make myself a quick vegetarian dinner since I had an abundance of veggies from both the CSA and garden that I didn’t want to [...]
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Tag Archive: $100 Challenge
Penny Pinching Pantry Ponderings
It’s official… The Penny Pinching Pantry Raid is over! It’s hard to believe it has been four weeks already. When I started the challenge, I wasn’t sure if I would make it for four weeks, but now that it’s over, I’m wondering where the time went.
Before I get into my ponderings and reflections on the challenge, [...]
Apple Maple Chicken Sausage Frittata
Earlier in the week, my husband went out of town for a few days. I had to drop him off at the airport in the afternoon, so I decided to make a good hearty lunch for him so that he would have at least one good meal before the trip. I guess that’s my mother [...]
Slow Cooked Chicken Sloppy Joes
Let me just say that I don’t really have a green thumb. I can’t really say that it’s brown, either. In fact, I think I would have to call it a red thumb. Why? Because the one thing that I seem to have a lot of success with is growing hot peppers. In the last [...]
Three weeks down, one to go…
It’s hard to believe that three weeks of the Penny Pinching Pantry Raid are behind me already! While I have had to make a few exceptions along the way for some family events and our camping trip (as I had planned from the beginning), I have managed to stick to the program for the majority of [...]
Penny Pinching Pantry Raid Week 2 Update
The second week of the Penny Pinching Pantry Raid is just about over. After two weeks, I am starting to get settled in with the challenge, and I think it is getting a bit easier. I really think that I must attribute my success with the challenge to my CSA, though. Without it, I would [...]
Penny Pinching Pantry Raid Week 1 Update
After a week of penny pinching and raiding my pantry, I am happy to say that I am on track and haven’t blown my budget (yet). Because I started with a fairly well-stocked pantry, I have had a lot of options each night when it comes to making dinner. It’s definitely been a shift in [...]
Friday Favorites – Episode 15
It’s Friday again, which means it’s time for the 15th episode of my Friday Favorites! Even after 15 weeks, I still enjoy picking my favorite blog posts each week. Hopefully all of you enjoy reading about my picks each week and aren’t too sick of reading about them!
This week the weather has felt unmistakably like summer. It’s [...]
