It’s Monday and I had grand plans for getting my house in order on Monday morning to start the week off right. Pregnancy does strange things and in my case, it makes me completely intolerant of chaos. I guess it is that nesting instinct going into hyper-drive. However, all my good intentions of getting the house [...]
Preserving Food For Your Pantry and Freezer
It’s summer time and that means it’s time for preserving food for my pantry and freezer with all the good, garden produce available. I love going to the local produce Amish auction. It’s an amazing place to find bulk food for great prices in my area!
The Plow Boy Auction is open from May to October [...]
Building Your Pantry Using Ruth Stout’s Gardening Method
I ran across Ruth Stout last year when a friend of mine (Thanks, Sherry) apologizing gave me a video about Ruth Stout. I say apologizing because Ruth Stout was a bit quirky and odd in some of her thinking and practices. Despite that fact, there is a wealth of gardening knowledge that one can gain [...]
Ebook: Fill Your Pantry – Cut Your Grocery Bill!
Introducing a brand new book, by Bethany Vaughn; The Penny Pantry Guide to Strategic Grocery Shopping. In this new Ebook you will find the secrets my incredible wife has been using for years to manage our money wisely and stretch our food budget to extremes I never thought possible. Not only has she saved us money [...]
Investing in the Home Pantry With a Pantry Tithe
You may be wondering, “What exactly is a pantry tithe?”. Well, a pantry tithe is another great way to build your home pantry strategically. You could call it “pantry investing”. A pantry tithe is where you take a portion of your weekly budget and allot to purchasing a group of items just for your pantry. [...]
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Meal Planning
Excess Corn and Extensive Meal Planning
I’ve been working my way through all the corn I bought at the produce auction last week. I ended up giving several grocery sacks of corn and zucchini away to several different friends. I froze more off the cob corn and I gave the pigs a treat by giving them almost the entire last bag to grow [...]
Recipes
Using Up Excess Squash and Zucchini
With summer time here, squash and zucchini are abundant. We’ve been eating a lot of squash and zucchini lately! In addition to canning and freezing squash, here are some ways I have been using it up:
Steamed: Squash and zucchini are great vegetables to steam. I add some crushed garlic and sliced onions and steam it [...]
Canning
Canning for the Home Pantry
This week has been a long week of focused food preserving around my house. I still have lots more food to can and freeze, however, I ended the week with lots of frozen corn, lots of shredded zucchini, some peaches and was able to get a good start on my canning for the season.
I put my [...]
Canning
Canning Peach Jam
I don’t know about you, but I hate buying jelly or jam from the grocery store. Almost all of the grocery store jelly has high fructose corn syrup.
Our solution is that we make our own jams and jellies for much cheaper and with an incredibly impressive taste.
Today, we started making peach jam with some of the [...]
Canning
Canning Squash, Zucchini and Tomatoes
Perfectly imperfect, organic, round zucchini!
My food preserving week continues….There is nothing quite like preserving your food at home. I love canning! Today, I have been working on canning up yellow squash, zucchini and tomatoes together. I’ll use these jars for making squash casserole later in the fall and winter.
I started with washing and cutting these [...]
Canning
Preserving Food For the Pantry: Canning Peaches
We also started tackling the peaches on day two of our food preserving week here. There is nothing quite like sweet summer peaches! We’ve eaten a whole lot of fresh peaches over the last month! I just picked up two more 3/4 bushel boxes of peaches and they are scrumptious!
These bulk peaches cost me $14 [...]
bulk foods
Preserving Food: Shredded Zucchini and Freezing Corn
It was Day 2 of my food preserving week around here at my house! Here’s the post from day one in case you missed it. I’ve been putting up a ton of food in my freezer and pantry from the incredible deals I was able to get at the local Amish produce auction.
Today it was Zucchini, Corn [...]
bulk foods
Preserving Food: Freezing Corn
Well, I’m finished with my first 50 pound bag of corn from the produce auction! I have 4 more bags to go! I was able to get 5 bags of corn (off the cob), 10 bags of cob corn with each bag containing 9 to 12 servings and we ate 12 ears of fresh corn for supper and lunch. I was [...]
bulk foods
Buying Local Bulk Produce: Plow Boy Auction
Despite being very pregnant, I took my 8 children to the Plow Boy Produce auction, a local amish produce auction, to see if we couldn’t find a deal on some bushels of green beans. Last year, I was able to can a lot of our own home grown green beans but, unfortunately, this year the few green bean [...]
Baby Deals
Build a Baby Diaper Stockpile
Disposable baby diapers can be a huge expense for new parents, especially if you are paying full price for disposable diapers.
I’ve run the gamut of buying diapers full price, cloth diapering, buying diapers from Costco and buying diapers at grocery stores, discount stores and pharmacy stores with sales, coupons and rebates. I’ve found that I save [...]
freebies
Tips for Signing Up For Samples
Most samples come with higher value coupons than normal. I’ve received “Try Me Free” coupons or high value coupons from anything from dog food to shampoo. If you want to start receiving samples, here are a few starter tips.
Tips:
Never use your primary email address when signing up for samples. Sign up for a yahoo, hotmail [...]
freebies
Purex Complete 3-in-1 Sample
You can go here and request a sample for a free free 2-pack sample of Purex 3-in-1.
(Thanks, Pirates of the Supermarket)
Meal Planning
Easy Summer Food that Paper Plates Can Handle
Sometimes I feel like I run a school cafeteria. The amount of food we go through is amazing. Often times I can get overwhelmed and bogged down wishing that the meals I make would go farther. With two teenage boys in the house and 7 more to follow, the amount of food my family requires isn’t [...]
Gardening
Garden Produce Saves Money
I’ve decided that I don’t make a good gardener being 7 months pregnant in the heat of summer. I haven’t been able to work in the garden very much this year which is quite discouraging to me. However, I’m become more ok with that fact. After all, I am growing a baby this year!
My children [...]
Couponing Deals
Rite Aid Deals 7/4 – 7/10
Over the last week, I’ve been receiving samples and coupons that I requested from different companies. I also received last month’s Rite Aid rebate check and the Rite Aid diaper voucher! I was so excited about the diaper voucher. I’ll use it this week when I go to Rite Aid for a few of the [...]
Couponing Deals
Publix Deals 7/7 – 7/13
Here are a few exciting Publix deals this week:
Musselman’s Apple Sauce, Chunky or Natural, 23 or 24 oz jar, BOGO $1.89
-$0.75/1 Musselman’s Publix Smart Savings Booklet (exp 8/31/2010)
Final Cost: 20¢ per jar!
Propel Water Beverage Mix, or Powder Packets, or Gatorade Thirst Quencher or G2 Gatorade Powder Packs, 8 or 10 ct box, BOGO $2.99
-$1/1 Propel [...]
Coupon Links
Printable Coupons Reset
The printable coupons have reset on coupons.com. You can go print more of many of the same coupons from last month. The $3 off Huggies diaper coupons, the $2.50 of Huggies Pure and Natural, the $1.50 off Little Swimmers, Aveeno, Greenworks and Clorox coupons are included along with many other great coupons. Most times you can [...]
Baby Deals
How To Find Inexpensive Baby Diapers?
You can find great deals on baby diapers pretty frequently at Rite Aid, CVS and Walgreens as long as you wait for a sale, rewards, rebates and use coupons.
I’ve been trying to stockpile baby diapers before I have my baby. I’m also trying to get my little toddler out of diapers before the baby is [...]
