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Plan It- Don’t Panic Meal Planning Challenge (and Simplifying Menu Planning for Busy Times)

October 31, 2011

Snow is lovely. Except when it delays my flight home from Pennsylvania by 24 hours, keeping me from my family.
These things just happen, though, and so here I sit in the Harrisburg Sheraton hotel, attempting to come up with a suitable meal plan filled with simple meals for a week of transitioning back to regular [...]

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Plan It- Don’t Panic Meal Planning Challenge Week 4 (And What to Do If You Mess Up Your Meal Plan)

October 17, 2011

The other night, I went to make dinner after a very busy afternoon out, and realized that most dreaded of mistakes. The meal plan on the fridge said "Roast beef".
The large roast was sitting downstairs. In the freezer. Frozen solid. Did I mention it was 5pm?
Despite my best intentions (like planning for meal prep and [...]

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Plan It- Don’t Panic Meal Planning Challenge (And Recipe for Okonomiyaki)

October 10, 2011

Welcome to the 3rd week of the Plan It- Don't Panic Meal Planning Challenge!
How are your meal plans coming along? Is it getting easier to put them together? Do you find that you are saving money? Time? Dinnertime sanity? I'd love to hear how the challenge is going for you!
Our Favorite Japanese Recipe: Okonomiyaki [...]

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Plan It- Don’t Panic Meal Planning Challenge (Plus Grocery Budget Tips)

October 3, 2011

Welcome to the 2nd week of the Plan It- Don't Panic Meal Planning Challenge!
I was so excited to see so many of you participating actively in the challenge, whether by sharing a link to your own meal plan or simply posting your meal plan up on the Facebook page. I personally love the accountability of [...]

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Affording Cloth Diapers on a Low Income

August 4, 2011

Guest Post Written by Erin Odom
After Keeper of the Home’s recent series on cloth diapers, you may finally be thinking: Hey, I CAN do this! She makes cloth diapering seem so EASY!
But have the upfront costs of modern cloth diapers frustrated you?
I’ve been there.
And I found a solution.

Image by chahad

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How to Swish a Diaper in the Toilet and Your Other Cloth Diapering Questions Answered

July 25, 2011

This post marks the end of our short, but hopefully helpful, series on dispelling some myths about why cloth diapering is actually easier than you think.
I asked you for your cloth diapering questions, and you really let me have it! I couldn't answer every single question, but I tried my best to make sure that [...]

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Dispelling the Myths: Why Cloth Diapering is Truly Easier Than it Seems

July 11, 2011

I've been cloth diapering for over 6 years, but I still sometimes find myself surprised by the strange looks and the mistaken opinions that most people have when the topic arises.
I want to dispel some myths in what will be a short but hopefully clarifying series on cloth diapering.
In my experience I have found that [...]

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Waste Not, Want Not: Lessons in Frugality for Children

May 13, 2011

Written by Meg Dickey, Contributing Writer
As we seek to train our children well, one of our family's major learning points is to teach our children the art of frugality. Frugality is making good choices with the resources God has given you - this includes your brain, as I am apt to remind my children. :-)
I [...]

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Saving Big Money On Your Little Ones

May 3, 2011

By Emily McClements, Contributing Writer
Most people believe that welcoming a little bundle of joy into their life means parting with a big bundle of cash to get everything that little baby will need. From diapers and wipes, to clothes, car seats, bedding and feeding supplies, it is true that there's a lot [...]

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Using Four Frugal Foods from the Produce Section Creatively

December 3, 2010

Written by Cara, Contributing Writer
As we have been focusing on eating grain free meals to help with some health issues, I've had to learn how to shop for other foods besides grains that are filling, healthy, and easy on the budget! Since we aren't using bread or rice as a 'filler' for meals, we've [...]

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