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Homemaking Made Simple

Meal Plan Monday

September 24, 2012

Monday- Italian- my husband is handling the kids sports for tonight so I can do a big dinner.  I’ll brown 10 lbs of ground beef and turkey and package it up, boil two types of pasta and make up some casseroles. My “Cook Once, Eat a Bunch of Times” plan is this: Brown ground beef/turkey- we are not fans of ground turkey [...]

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Two Cheap & Easy Chicken Dinners

August 29, 2012

Here are two very simple and cheap dinners I have planned for this week: As part of an earlier freezer cook session I cooked 10 lbs of chicken breasts in the oven for an hour, diced them and put in individual bags for use in future recipes.  I usually cook a pot of rice at [...]

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Free Meal Planning Service

July 2, 2012

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Food on the Table

June 27, 2012

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Eating Healthy On A Budget

December 1, 2011

There is a big misconception that you can’t eat healthy with coupons.  True, there are a lot of coupons for prepackaged items but produce and organic coupon do come along and you can save with the same strategies you use for buying other items.  For example- bagged salad is almost always free if you combine coupons with [...]

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Meal Plan Monday-Two Week Freezer Cooking Plan

October 10, 2011

Monday- Kids Eat Free at Chili’s- night off from cooking! Tuesday-Breakfast For Dinner- Eggs, Potatoes, Bacon, Fruit Salad from My Mom (one hour “power cooking” planned- will prep and cut potatoes, cooking bacon & baked potatoes in oven and assembling freezer bags of potato soup, using some of the bacon for the soup) Wednesday-Crock Pot [...]

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Power Cooking- 10 lbs of Ground Beef

September 4, 2011

There isn’t a whole lot of variety for this power cooking session but it sure has been nice to find already cooked meat in the freezer when I need it. Target had these packages of ground beef marked down so I took advantage of the sale to get 10 lbs of lean ground beef for [...]

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Bulk Cooking-Muffins and Pancakes

July 9, 2011

Yum!  Chocolate Chip Pancakes-I used the recipe on the Bisquick package and added chocolate chips and bananas.  I used the canned milk I got free with coupons. and muffins…. Pancakes-flash freezing method.  Start with getting the pan chilled in the freezer while you are mixing and cooking, then place in layers to freeze with wax paper in [...]

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Take 15-Get on the Schedule

March 17, 2011

Today I would like to challenge everyone out there to “Take 15″ and a phone and schedule some appointments.  I’m thinking of all those things we put off or seem to never have time to do.  Like going to the dentist, getting a haircut, seeing your doctor, scheduling a family portrait, planning an oil change, or [...]

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Take 15- The Family Binder

March 10, 2011

Introducing The Family Binder!  I am hopelessly disorganized and found myself stopping what I was doing a hundred times a day to answer questions.  Whats for dinner?  What’s Grandma’s number again?  Does anyone know where the grocery list is?  What chores am I suppossed to be doing- alright, that question has never been asked. So, the [...]

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Take 15 Minutes

February 17, 2011

Take 15 minutes today and get your shop vac out.  I recently started using this little gem and am in love with it!  When I would vacuum the stairs with my regular vacuum, it would always come tumbling down on me from the top step or if I was vacuuming from the bottom of the stairs [...]

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Take 15 Minutes…

February 10, 2011

Today’s “Take 15″ is to tidy up your computer.  I was forced to do this the other day when my virtual memory got too low and slowed eveything down.  With 13,000 emails in my junk folder (I’ve had the address for ten years!) and another 6,000 in my other, it felt great to get rid [...]

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Stop-Don’t Throw That Out….

February 7, 2011

Oh, how my husband used to complain about all the food we used to throw out back when our grocery budget was much larger.  Admittedly, there was so much waste!  Now that we spend about a tenth of what we used to, just about nothing gets thrown out.  Here’s some ideas for you when you are [...]

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Freezer Cooking-What To Do With Chili

February 6, 2011

Like many of you, I made a huge pot of chili in honor of the Superbowl today.  What a nice treat to have simmering all day, making the house smell good while the snow is falling outside. But like everything else, I am chosing to multi-task with this and will stretch it out to get several meals from [...]

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Freezer Cooking- Chicken

February 5, 2011

Wondering what to do with that 20 lbs of chicken you just got such a great deal on?  If you are anything like me, you would just leave it in the fridge until it really starts to stink and then throw it out!  Above is my “Italian Chicken”.  I put the chicken breasts in the [...]

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