Warning: If you’re tired of reading about meal planning, you might want to move on and read a different post. Maybe you just need a recipe for Mini Molten Lava Sundaes. If you’ve become aware that meal planning is a homemaking skill that yields multiple rewards, and you need a little help, either with the…
How Cindy’s Family Eats Clean And Gluten Free On A Limited Budget
This post is from my series “The Great Grocery Budget Battle: Choose Your Weapon”. Today I’m so pleased to be “chatting” with my friend Cindy, from My Life as a Rinnagade. I love that she not only sticks to a limited food budget, but she does it while feeding her family whole and gluten free foods. Here’s…
How I get My Meal Planning Done In Just 10 Minutes A Month
You know by now that meal planning is my number one way to save money on food. Sometimes I actually enjoy doing it! Other times … not so much. Either way, I don’t have a lot of time to devote to meal planning, and I’m sure you don’t either. That’s why I have developed a…
Seasonal Meal Planning: Spring Menu
It’s so good to be back here with you again. Did you notice I’ve been rather scarce lately? I didn’t plan it that way, really. As you know, we’ve been packing and getting ready to move. I thought I had made it to a point of being able to leave the packing for a while…
15 Minute Meals: Week 3
It’s Monday evening and I had wanted to get this week’s 15 minute meal plan out to you at least by this morning if not yesterday! I just know you’ve been sitting on the edge of your seat waiting for my next meal plan… and my big news. (Okay, really I know you haven’t,…
15 Minute Meals: Week 2
Wow, it’s been a while since I’ve done weekly meal planning. I switched back to monthly meal planning after getting frustrated about how often I was skipping doing it weekly. It’s amazing how quickly a week goes by and it’s time to sit down and make another plan. I’d rather just focus and get it…
March Menu: 15 Minute Meals Week 1
If you’re a busy mom, you know that sometimes life comes at you fast, you get busy, and you have to adjust your plans and do things differently for a while. That time has come for me, and it’s messing with my meal planning system. I’ve got something in the works that is keeping me…
How I Save Money By Cooking When It Works For Me
Meal Planning; most of us either love it or hate it. Some of us may not love doing it, but we love the results. We recognize meal planning to be the best way to save money on food and to reduce late afternoon stress. But meal planning is more than making a list of the…
Sunday Is Served; Free e-Book For Subscribers
I’m so excited that you chose to visit this post! I have a special gift for you. Actually, it’s two gifts. The first one is called “Sunday is Served; Sunday Lunch Simplified with Once a Quarter Cooking.” If you ever get frustrated that you somehow forgot to plan lunch for Sunday afternoon, or that…
February Meal Plan
Don’t ask me how it happened, because I’m still trying to figure it out. January is O-V-E-R. We are 1/12 of the way done with 2015. That also means it’s time for another monthly meal plan. As you know, I do my meal planning on a quarterly basis. I have a meal plan…