One of the less realized impacts of Chris' crazy schedule back in Wyoming was that we had moved away from cooking and eating big breakfasts together as a family. Since we never had dinner together on Nantucket, we had developed a giant[...]
I'm catching up with my end of the year work and realized I never wrote a final post for our Food Stamps Challenge. It also just so happens that today we were in the newspaper; the Gillette News Record ran a story about our chall[...]
The first week of our SNAP Challenge went well. We only spent $87.89 at the grocery store and actually have quite a few things leftover so I am going to try to delay shopping until Friday. You can see what we bought and what the price breakd[...]
We are, understandably, budgeting a little tighter this month and one of the first things we decided to reign in is our grocery bill. To be honest, we haven't been doing much food budgeting since we moved here at the end of February (desp[...]
Today is Chris' birthday. When I asked him what kind of cake he wanted, he said he wanted a salad. So this is what we made him... Salad cake! Happy birthday to my wonderful, kind, and loving husband who puts up with my[...]
I am in love with our new kitchen. It's light and bright. It's big and spacious. It's the first kitchen we have ever had that actually fits every one of our appliances, kitchen tools and cooking utensils, with room to spare.[...]