May Happiness Challenge | Read a chapter every day
In 2019, I’m trying one new habit per month that A) promise to increase my happiness levels and B) costs little to nothing. I allllways …
Five Frugal Things | Pumpkin oats, 50 cent Frosties, and more
1. I’m using up pumpkin in my oatmeal. I made a batch of pumpkin muffins on Monday and annoyingly enough, they did not use the …
Tuesday Tip | How to avoid overspray with nonstick spray
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Homemade Chewy Snickerdoodles
Recently, I was out with Mr. FG for dinner and I saw a big snickerdoodle cookie at the cash register. I hadn’t had a snickerdoodle …
It doesn’t have to be perfect to bless other people.
(This is a post I wrote 9 years ago, and I thought it needed to see the light of day again.) Ahh, perfectionism. It almost …
What I Spent, What We Ate | It was my birthday week.
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Five Frugal Things | Including $200 for watching TV!
1. I took advantage of Sixth Continent’s 30% back deal. On Monday, Sixth Continent had a several-hour offer that gave 30% credit back on any …
April 2019 Photo-A-Day roundup
For the last two months, I’ve been taking a photo a day, using lists of prompts from the internet. Why? I enjoy taking photos, and …
Tuesday Tip | A quick Frywall review
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Why I love Dinner Illustrated
If you’ve been following my menu plans this year, you’ve noticed a whole lot of our meals are coming from one cookbook: Dinner Illustrated. Dinner …
How to Make Popovers (in a muffin tin)
2020 edit: I tried this recipe in a nonstick muffin tin, and my popovers did not rise properly at all. I’m thinking maybe this works …
What I Spent, What We Ate | Did I keep it at $75?
What I Spent Remember how last week, I mentioned that I only had $75 left to spend in April? This week I spent $79 at …
Five Unrelated Things
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Tuesday Tip | Expect to be rather terrible at first.
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English Muffin Bread (aka a very, very easy bread recipe)
Kneading is probably the number one thing that discourages people from making bread. I did write a “How to knead” post, but in case you …