Our Menu, 8/31

Um… where did August go?!?
We’ve had an awesome “foodie” weekend!  Friday night we served homemade ice cream and desserts to 60+ guests in our backyard after the football scrimmage.  (I made Butterfinger and vanilla ice cream.)  We attended Lance’s 20 year high school reunion picnic in the park Saturday night, and my annual family reunion cookout today.  (Sixty-eight people, [...]

It’s Not a Bargain if You Don’t Need It

I love a good bargain. When I enter a store, any store, I delight in discovering all things CLEARANCE.
Before we moved to Tiny Town, I was a bargain shopper extraordinaire. I’d hit all the sales. Frequently. I did lots of shopping, but spent very little money (on each individual item). [...]

Major Tragedy — Please Pray!

As I was blog surfing this morning, I came across this information about Marsha’s family. I don’t know this family at all, but they just lost their 3 year old son. I have a precious 3 year old son of my own and I just can’t stop crying. Can’t imagine what they [...]

Veggie Ice Pack

During the making supper before a tiny-people riot breaks out rush this afternoon, I was assaulted with the wailing and gnashing of teeth of a sweet little someone who had been in his room carefully putting away all of his toys and making his bed jumping off of his dresser onto his unmade bed. He [...]

A Well-Stocked Freezer (Part 1)

With the start of the school year and the unseasonably cool weather we’ve had (70s and 80s in August… in Kansas… never!) my culinary thoughts are turning to comfort food. We’ve thoroughly enjoyed our light, fresh produce-filled summer meals, but I’m ready to get back to baking and stocking my freezers with casseroles, meatballs, [...]

Generous Family and Friends

… and their food. That’s what I’m thankful for today.
For this… (and so much more just like it)

and this…

and all the peaches that I forgot to take pictures of…
and all the fresh farm eggs that my mother-in-law brings when they visit…
and just today as I was standing outside school waiting to pick up my [...]

Menu Plan Monday – 8/24

Is it menu planning time again already?!?  My brother-in-law brought yet another grocery sack of squash, zucchini and cucumbers, and told us the sad news that his garden is for some reason dying… so we will enjoy fresh garden produce one more week!
Sunday, 8/24

sausage/egg/cheese scramble, zucchini bread (I went 1/2 wheat, 1/2 white flour and made [...]

My $8.34 Cell Phone

In our quest to live below our means and be Happy With What We Have, we have given up several things that society says we need. You don’t have that? How do you get along with out that? Doesn’t everyone have that?!?
And in our frugal journey, one thing that we easily and [...]

Blessing Others With Food

Blessing families with food is one easy way for me to practice Christian Stewardship. I love to cook and bake, and I love to share food with others. (Just please don’t ask me to clean your house… I’m having a hard enough time keeping up with my own!)
Over at Life as MOM, Fishmama [...]

Red-Taped Bananas

At my grocery store, they are called red-taped bananas. Bunches and bunches of perfectly fine bananas (sometimes even organic!) with red tape around them… signaling to me that they are only 39 cents a pound! For the past several months, these are the only bananas I have purchased, saving us a bundle since we [...]