These posts will help you save money at the grocery store, organize your recipes, and meal plan both for your daily schedule and for special occasions.
Learn how to eat a plant-based diet with a few of my recommended plant-based diet books, recipes, and documentaries. These are the resources that helped us switch to a plant-based…
Simplify your time in the kitchen by collecting a repertoire of no-fail, go-to dishes. You’ll pull these recipes out MANY times in your homemaking career for hosting, hospitality, or just…
With takeout options galore and grocery store convenience food, it seems that our culture is fast losing the art of cooking from scratch. Here’s how (and why) homemakers can recover…
Has your meal planning routine gotten off track? Mine did. Here are three things we’ve done to fix our meal planning routine so we could stop overspending our grocery budget….
Savor autumn flavors with this hearty, seasonal fall meal plan! You’ll find ideas for easy fall breakfasts, lunches, and suppers–all cooked from scratch with clean ingredients! The weather is changing,…
When you want to save a little time in the kitchen, try out this ready-made meal plan. It’s frugal, simple, and made with real food ingredients! (And it’s super tasty!)…
Last year, my recipe collection was a mess! I had dozens of magazine clippings or recipes scrawled on scraps of paper, tucked away inside cookbooks or crammed into the pockets…
For us, eating real food and being frugal go hand-in-hand. They have to! Health food stores like Whole Foods and The Fresh Market, while wonderful places, make it seem like…
Eating more produce is #5 on my list of things to improve and nail down. Bringing more produce to the table fits one of my other goals, too–living, and eating,…
I like to organise or simplify at least one area of my home every week. Last week I organised by taking a freezer inventory. I tend to lose things in…
Buying in bulk and clipping coupons can be great strategies for saving money on groceries, but sometimes their effectiveness depends on other factors–like how many people live in your house,…
Are you in a busy season of life and simply don’t have time to meal plan? Here is a new, simple strategy for menu planning when you’re short on time!…
 This post is the fifth in a series on hospitality. Begin the series here. Sometimes schedule constraints or budget concerns hold people back from practicing hospitality. But they don’t need…
I got the camping bug when I was little. I gotten bitten bad. I think it was somewhere along the old Oregon Trail, or perhaps near northern waters where the…
This post is the fourth in a series on hospitality. Begin the series here. You don’t have to be Martha Stewart to know how to host guests for a meal….
I mentioned yesterday that I’m going to start posting our twice-monthly grocery shopping list for all to see. I have two reasons for this. Primarily, I want to give readers a…
Remember how I said that I enjoy grocery shopping? That’s thanks, in part, to the handy shopping list I make which streamlines everything. But I have an even bigger secret that…
I’m willing to accept the fact that I might be a total wierdo for actually enjoying grocery shopping. But I do enjoy it. I have a routine and I stick…
Somehow, it’s just rather satisfying to bring food into your home that was not purchased at Wal-Mart (or even, dare I say it, Meijer). Because if you didn’t get that food from…