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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 5 (And 7 Ways to Use Those Leftovers)

October 24, 2011

Can you believe we've been consistently meal planning together for over an entire month now?
I don't know about you, but after a summer of inconsistency, in both my planning and in the meals I was serving, it feels good. Really good. We're eating better, saving money, and there are certainly less panicked dinner hours because [...]

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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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3 Tips That Will Truly Help You to Manage Your Grocery Budget Better

October 12, 2011

Once upon a time, there was this girl who was very careful with her budget. So careful that her husband trusted her implicitly, and she carefully maintained her grocery budget with cash each month, so as not to overspend. She was so insistent that this method worked, she even wrote profusely on the topic.
This worked well for [...]

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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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You Asked For It: Plan It- Don’t Panic! {A 6-Week Meal Planning Challenge}

September 9, 2011

All those who know that meal planning is a good idea, but struggle to actually do it, put up their hands! (Is yours raised?)
I definitely relate. I have been meal planning on and off (more on than off) for about 6 years. I know the benefits. I write about them. My budget and our family's [...]

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Preserving the Harvest: Sweet Fruit Chutney

August 12, 2011

by Meg Dickey, Contributing Writer
Summer, and the fruit it brings, has a way of overwhelming many of us. If you've got a pile of peaches, plums, nectarines, apricots or any other kind of fruit sitting in the middle of your table, you need to figure out a way to deal with it! One of the [...]

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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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Planning What to Preserve

July 8, 2011

Written by Kate Tietje, Contributing Writer
Are you new to preserving food -- or maybe just curious about it? Maybe you'd like to give it a shot, but don't really know where to start.
I was in your shoes last year! It was my very first year preserving food for my family. I had no idea what [...]

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