Grocery Shrink

After I made my mom’s birthday cake, we had a bit of marshallow fluff and dark choclate frosting leftover.  I had to think for about 3 seconds to figure out what to do with it.  Yum!!!  And no fire required.

Are you as surprised as I was?  Coffman baby #6 is growing in a safe place.  We should get to hold him or her sometime towards the end of April.  My family responded as, “It’s about time.”  My husband’s mother said, “Oh,…

P.S.  Don’t forget to enter the giveaway for the free Grocery Shrink ebook and Slow cooker recipe book set.  Click here and read to the end to learn how to enter. There are 4 birthdays in my family over the…

Because of how difficult it was to post a comment, I’ve extended the giveaway through October 18th, Monday evening at 10:00 PM central time.  And we’ve made commenting easier.  So keep your comments coming! I’m so excited to tell you about…

My parents have an acre in the city with 8 apple trees, 3 cherry trees, 2 pear trees, 1 nectarine tree and 2 pear trees.  They also have rasperries, blueberries, blackberries and Asparagus in addition to a large summer garden. …

I’m really loving the blender batter idea.  This morning I made a second go at it.  I’m using raw sour milk as the base, so added a little honey to help the taste.  Yesterday we made pancakes. Today we made…

I’m off to my mom’s to make apple cider and for lunch we had blender pancakes.  I love that I can start with fresh whole grains, not flour.  And a blender works without a grain mill.  We liked them and…

Easy to make and easy to play!  Grab 2–$1 decks of Go-Fish cards from Dollar General.   Use a sharpee to write on them.  We used phonograms, but I could see this done with state abbreviations or periodic chart element abbreviations.  Although…

I put on weight easily and take it off slowly.  If I’m not careful I can gain 5 lbs in a week, and it’s not water weight.  I’ve learned since I was a child that I need to be careful with…

I’m trying to hold to a 1500 calorie diet.  It’s up from the 1200 calories I’ve been on for the last year, but it’s still hard.  To keep my blood sugar and blood pressure at good levels, I eat every…