One Hundred Dollars a Month - Page 1736 of 2143 - I am your typical housewife living in high maintenance suburbia. I have a handsome husband, 2 kids and a flock of pet chickens. I try and feed my family with $100 a month. With the help of coupons, gardening and bartering I am able to squeeze the most out of our grocery budget and still manage to have a little fun along the way.

Easy Kids Crafts – DIY Bird Feeders Ideas

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By Mavis Butterfield on January 6, 2013 · 8 Comments

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Have you ever made a homemade bird feeder? Did it work? Did your feeder attract a lot of birds? Above you’ll find a few cool ideas and links. Simply click the link to go visit the original source and find out how to make these.

I love the Star Feeder, but I think I am going to stick with the basics, and attempt the toilet paper roll one instead.

~Mavis

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Baked Potato Casserole Recipe

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By Mavis Butterfield on January 6, 2013 · 31 Comments

I made this baked potato casserole last night for dinner and it was so stinkin’ awesome, I’m making it again as soon as I get my hands on another head of broccoli.

The Handsome Husband had 3 servings and couldn’t stop talking about how good this dish was. Simple food baby, that’s what I’m talking about!

Ingredients

1 1/2 pounds russet potatoes, peeled and chopped
1 head broccoli, chopped into small florets
3 sweet sausages, sliced { I used Aidells chicken apple sausage}
3 cloves garlic, minced
1 tablespoon olive oil
1 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon freshly ground pepper
1/2 teaspoon red pepper flakes
1/2 teaspoon smoked paprika
2 cups cheddar cheese, shredded
1 cup Monterrey jack cheese, shredded {thanks Francisco!}

Directions

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

Butter a 9×13 casserole dish and set aside.

In a medium saucepan, bring 1 cup of water to a boil. Toss in potatoes and boil/steam for 5-7 minutes or until softened. Add broccoli and boil/steam together for 1 minute. Drain water and place potatoes and broccoli on a large cookie sheet.

Saute sweet sausage in olive oil until browned. Place sausage on cookie sheet with potatoes and broccoli. Sprinkle spices and garlic over the potato/broccoli/sausage mixture and toss together.

Place mixture in a buttered 9×13 casserole dish and cover with shredded cheese.

Cover casserole dish with aluminum foil and bake in the oven for 30 minutes. Remove foil and serve.

Looking for a few more awesome possum casserole recipes? Check out the book The Best Casserole Cookbook Ever. Amazon currently has it in stock, and ready to ship.

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Mavis Butterfield | Backyard Garden Plot Pictures – Week 2 of 52

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By Mavis Butterfield on January 6, 2013 · 4 Comments

This past week I worked on cleaning up the garden beds, pulling weeds, laying landscape fabric down near the chicken coop, and cleaning out the greenhouse.

Because there was a burn ban this past week, I wasn’t able to get the stumps burned in the backyard like I had hoped, but I was able to get start some seeds for the 2013 garden.

Believe it or not, this is my favorite time of year in the garden. There are so many possibilities, and the glimmer of hope that comes with every packet of seeds and their ability to grow into something amazing just warms my soul on these cold January days.

Week 2 of 52 – Mavis’ Backyard Garden Plot

This years garden is being sponsored by the awesome folks at Botanical Interests Seed Company. You can check out their website HERE, order their new 2013 Garden Seed Catalog HERE, or visit my boyfriend Ryan’s blog HERE.

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Mavis Garden Blog – Garden Clean Up

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By Mavis Butterfield on January 6, 2013 · 5 Comments

10 months from now if I ask you if I should spread straw all over my whole freakin’ garden, please tell me no. Because yesterday I spent half the day cleaning up our 16 raised garden beds. Of course there wouldn’t have been so much work to do had I not spread straw all over the garden beds last fall, but I’m a sucker for punishment.

I had intended on growing vegetables in the raised garden beds over the winter, but after I reached my goal of 2,000 pounds, I decided to needed a break, and stayed inside and got caught up on House reruns instead. So unless I’m going to fully commit to growing vegetables in the backyard all winter long, I think laying down straw is just plain silly {and a HUGE waste of time}.

While I was raking up all that straw, I also found a few worms for Black Fatty. When I’m out working in the garden and the chickens are “free ranging,” Black Fatty will often come over to where I am and just stare at me until I dig her up a few worms. It’s cute, for the first few minutes or so, but when she plants herself there for a half an hour it gets a little old. But a few worms, hey, no problem.

And holy crack people. Beets. Winter beets! The chickens had devoured all the tops so they were hard to detect under all that straw, but man oh man, guess what’s for dinner tonight. Just don’t tell the Handsome Husband though, if he finds out I’m feeding him something that was previously gnawed on by chickens he probably wont eat them.

And last but not least, I also dug up 4 the large clumps of Rainbow Swiss Chard. I was going to toss them so I could start from scratch, but decided to transplant them to another area in the garden instead. I may not be a fan of Swiss chard, but the chickens sure do love it. And hey, anything that gets me closer to my goal of growing 4,000 pounds of food this fall, works for me.

How was your Saturday? Did you do anything exciting?

~Mavis

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