Weekly Meal Plan for February 12th to 18th

I’m home again this week but my parents are coming down Tuesday night which means we will all be spending Valentine’s Day together! We are continuing with the healthier eating. I don’t want to say healthy eating because I don’t know that we are quite there yet but we are making big changes in our [...]

New Use for an Old Dresser : Part 2 : Upcycle

I’m getting farther along on this dresser than I thought I would in the middle of winter and it’s all thanks to this fabulous weather we have been having. Actually, fabulous weather we were having. As I write this snow is covering the back deck that just a few days ago I was painting furniture [...]

Gluten Free Egg Rolls – OAMC

Giving up egg rolls when I went gluten free was one of my least favorite aspects of going gluten free, until I found this recipe! Frugal Tips for Gluten Free Egg Rolls The rice paper I found for this recipe isn’t cheap so I would suggest looking online or in your town for the best [...]

Weekly Meal Plan : February 5th to February 11th

I am so glad to be home this week! I do have to go out of town on Friday but that is to go with my little sister and her husband to the doctor so that we can find out if she is having a boy or a girl and I am very excited about [...]

Cheap and Frugal Super Bowl Sunday Menu and Recipes!

We’re not huge football fans in this house but we do enjoy the Super Bowl. I’ll admit, I love the commercials and the food the most! I’ve changed up the menu a bit from what I had decided on at the beginning of the week because I found wings on sale and you just can’t pass up [...]

Mobile Home Remodeling : Office

When we moved in and began the process of remodeling our mobile home, I wanted to turn one of the extra bedrooms into an office and I chose the one with the wood paneling mostly because I just wanted to cover the paneling as quickly as possible and because it was a bit bigger than [...]

Weekly Meal Plan : Week of January 30th to February 4th

Another crazy week! I will be back in my hometown again helping my parents so the beginning of the week will be a bit hectic. I have also decided that we need to eat even healthier so the meals that you will begin to see in the next few weeks are not all on the [...]

Our Frugal Vacation

I came across this picture when I was creating our 2011 photo book and it brought back all the memories of our vacation last year. We try to make it to this small resort in our state at least once a year to relax and just get away, especially if we couldn’t afford any other [...]

New Use for an Old Dresser

This old dresser is from a set that used to be in my great grandfather’s home (please ignore the mess on my couch and ottoman!). It come with a great cedar full size bed. And by great I mean completely outdated, yet it is a set that is much loved by my family. I used [...]

Vegetarian Enchiladas – Gluten Free and Dairy Free

We eat a lot of meat in this house and my husband doesn’t consider it a meal unless there is some sort of meat on his plate but I like to do without sometimes and like to create recipes that taste just as good as those filled with meat. The meat enchiladas I make are [...]

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