From the monthly archives:

February 2009

Biscuit Mix Substitute

February 27, 2009

After posting the Blueberry Streusel recipe, there were a lot of people inquisitive about the homemade biscuit mix. You may fall out of your chair by how easy and frugal it is. Homemade Biscuit Mix 1 cup flour 1 1/2 tsp. baking powder 1/2 tsp salt 1 Tbsp shortening Mix all of your dry ingredients [...]

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Finding Freedom Friday

February 27, 2009

When we first started our journey, we were spending an outlandish amount of money on groceries a month. Literally, the size of a house payment. I’m a analyzer, but somehow never analyzed my grocery budget like I was getting ready to. Amazingly enough, I realized that $650/month for 5 people was way too much. We [...]

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Blueberry Streusel

February 26, 2009

I’m really trying to feed my family a hot breakfast every morning before they leave the house. It just seems to start the day off right. I’m not a big breakfast eater, so this makes things challenging. I really wish that I would have participated in The Happy Housewife’s Hot Breakfast Challenge–but I didn’t. I [...]

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Tackling My To Do List

February 26, 2009

Coming into this week, I knew that it was going to be busy and hectic. I was ready to embrace it, and get cracking. But, Monday came, and I hit just about every snag I possibly could. And I wasn’t happy about it. Thankfully, though, I didn’t let it get me down. I wrote out [...]

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Baby Tomato Plants

February 25, 2009

If you follow me on Twitter, you know that my tomato seeds are now baby tomato plants! I’m so excited! I planted an entire flat of them, which is 48 plants, as well as 48 sweet pepper plants. I know this sounds like a ton, and in all honesty, I didn’t realize just how many [...]

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Finding Freedom

February 25, 2009

For the next couple of weeks–I will be putting the Finding Freedom posts on hold. There will still be Finding Freedom Fridays, complete with Mr. Linky’s for you all to link up. Since I didn’t do the linky from the get go, I’m going to play catch up now. Thank you so very much to [...]

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Quick Tip: Making a Cream Sauce

February 24, 2009

Have you ever went to make a quick gravy, cream sauce, or need a can of cream of mushroom, or cream of chicken soup and not have the right ingredients? Have no fear–you can make it, for less than half what you can buy it for. The secret is in the base. Here’s how: For [...]

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Finding Freedom Friday

February 20, 2009

With the economy being all wonky the past few months, I’m incredibly thankful that we decided this debt free journey when we did! Cutting costs is now second nature to me, and I hope that with Finding Freedom Friday, we can gather and share a wealth of knowledge with each other so that we can [...]

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Taking it For Granted

February 20, 2009

I love my job. I really, really do. There are days that I just feel overwhelmed by all my housewife-ly mommy duties–but honestly I wouldn’t change it for a second. I say this, because I have been taking it for granted, and I didn’t realize it. I’ve come accustomed to always having my kiddos around. [...]