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How One $5 Bag of Chicken Turned Into Days of Meals
David and I’ve always watched for sales on anything we purchase including groceries. This week at Kroger’s I picked up a frozen bag of Leg Quarters which I hadn’t bought in a while because the 5-pound bag was marked down from %8 to $5 and I know we could get multiple meals out of one bag. thing I have learned over the years is that sometimes the best grocery purchases are not the expensive ones. Sometimes it is the markdown finds that end up feeding everybody for days. As a mom and ex-grocery store employee I know prices and when things are a good price or not. a recent trip…
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The $10 Stretch Meal That Saved My Whole Week
The other was one of those “there is absolutely nothing in this house” kind of dinners. At least that’s what everybody kept saying. Then David created I wanted to share ???? The $10 Stretch Meal That Saved My Whole Week. When Gerlad and I actually started digging through the fridge and pantry, I found enough to make something work for dinner when David got home that evening. Becaused we alll know David is the cook in the family. We used a half a box of rotini pasta, one pound of ground beef I had thawed earlier in the week, a jar with just enough prego pasta sauce left in the…
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Cook Once, Eat Twice: Our Sunday Steak Dinner + Apartment‑Friendly Grill Review + $5 Monday Lunch
I know I’ve said this is a thousand times but Sundays in our home doesn’t look like the picture-perfect reels or the “slow living” posts. They look like real life — boys wandering in and out, David working, Gerald waiting on my sister, dogs pacing, and me upstairs trying to work while life happens around me. But one thing we DO try to hold onto is Sunday dinner — not lunch, because we do Church at home over the computer with Mikalya, and not everyone is awake, home, or in the same mood at the same time. Dinner is our anchor. Dinner is where we reset. Dinner is where we…
Living a simple lifestyle from the front porch
