Menu Planning Monday

We had a great weekend . . . well, Saturday was good, at least.  Sunday should have turned out a lot more relaxing than it did, but it was good for stirring up a need for better communication in my husband’s and my relationship :).  Ranging from me not taking my cell phone with me to [...]

When it’s time to spend

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We have been in a pretty focused saving mode for several months now.  We’re trying to save up a 6 month emergency fund, and hopefully we’ll have that in place by the time the baby arrives in September.  Some say that having too strict of a budget is just a recipe for a spending binge [...]

Menu Planning Monday: Freezer Food

This week we are eating leftovers.  The whole week.  But hopefully it won’t taste as bad as it sounds.  Over the first few weeks of March, I decided to be more intentional and either make a bit more of something, or just freeze the leftovers from certain meals that make more than we could manage [...]

An encouragement if you can’t afford organic

Having lived in the Bay Area for the last several years, and in areas close to the heart of the “organic, local food movement,” it’s been hard at times to not feel guilty when I buy “regular” apples as opposed to organic, and do so on many other food items as well (such as dairy products, [...]

Scaling Back, Growing Forward

There are so many things I love about spring, especially a spring in California.  Sunny, blue skies and green hills greet us from our back bedroom windows, bunches of 10 daffodils go on sale at Trader Joe’s for $1.29, and my husband walks in with a huge carton of fresh strawberries that he’s paid for [...]