I have a good friend who recently told me about a online meal planning program that she uses called Plan to Eat.  I was hesitant at first to add any more “things” to my plate, but after spending over 4 hours working on a meal plan recently, I decided I would look into the meal planning [...]

I’m slowing quite a bit in this last 6 weeks of pregnancy.  I have a few, actually a lot, of household goals this month that I still am wanting to get accomplished before the baby comes as well as getting my pantry stocked a bit more this month.  So I’m taking some time off from blogging over the next month [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Please tell me this doesn’t just happen to me!!!  Have you ever opened your refrigerator and found the container of leftovers shoved in the back….that you forgot about and wish you would have used. 
Last week, I had a container of leftover spiced apples that I had forgotten about.  The container was shoved in the back where I couldn’t [...]

Currently, I am making weekly meal plans.  I hope to move up to monthly meal planning and more freezer planning again starting in the summer, but so far, weekly meal planning works well too. 
This week, I made a large batch of tuna for some of our lunches this week using the bulk sized tuna that [...]

Lunch meal planning differs greatly from family to family.  Some families have peanut butter and jelly sandwiches for lunch, while other families may have a meat and veggie casserole.  We have both kinds of lunches depending on the week and day.  This week we have been especially preoccupied with the great spring weather!  We are [...]

Meal Planning Monday-  Breakfast in Bulk (Yes…posting this a day late
This Meal Planning Monday, I decided to talk a little bit about Breakfast in Bulk.  My 11 year old daughter usually plans the breakfast meals.   She  likes to stick to a consistent plan for breakfast.  We do that because it is [...]

We love meatloaf around here.  I made a very modified version of Martha Stewart’s Meatloaf Recipe. Our large size meatloaf turned out wonderful and was the main feature of our tasty supper for our family of 10 at $1.20 per person!
Meatloaf is one of those meals that you can put together relatively inexpensively but has [...]

I wanted to put together some ideas and thoughts in regards to the importance of the home pantry.  I am continually amazed at farm life.  It has shown me out to be a spoiled softy who doesn’t know near enough about how to survive without a grocery store.  We are so “convenient” and “impatient” as a culture…can [...]