Sam, Coffee, Money, & Thyme

         You all knew this was going to happen with DH deciding to shop with me. Yes, the goal to cut our budget in half in February for hou...

      The weather has been insanely weird. We get nice fall days, but not day after day of 70's approaching 80's in October. I don...

            I bought 10 pounds of hamburger, but ended up making 8 pounds into Sloppy Joe's. I didn't get the remaining two pounds f...

       Photo-thenonconsumeradvocate.com      I know many of you were readers or at least familiar with The Tightwad Gazette, either the orig...

      This is what is left from Sunday.      After  a footloose and free spending month on food in August, I'm really going to try and p...

      Between now and Sunday morning, I'll be jotting down a few simple recipes or throw together  options that are both time and budget...

      I haven't done a My Wednesday  Pantry in quite a while-mostly because my blogging had taken a sporadic turn, and also I didn'...

      It's been slim in the new recipe department this week. Chicken lo mein was new to us, but it really was chicken cooked in the Gene...

     Do others find themselves asking the questions, how much is enough, more often than you used to? I find I am examining the answer to th...

 Not including coffee, tea (both must haves) and assorted baking ingredients, I have a few pantry staples that I rarely let my cupboard...

Oh forget the literal interpretation of my title. In menu planning there are no rules. I'm following the rule of not driving for at leas...

Today is my jump start to meticulously careful spending, the tenner week. I won't technically be doing a tenner week, since that is...

  Yesterday I shared some things I've learned to help  get more lushness out of simple and ordinary food.  Building on that theme, he...