Sign up for my newsletter and get a copy of my "28 Ways to Slash Your Grocery Budget"

One Hundred Dollars a Month

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.


Instagram did not return a 200.

Sunday Brunch Recipe – Broccoli, Bacon and Cheddar Quiche

The links in the post below may be affiliate links. Read the full disclosure
By on · 4 Comments

This recipe for Broccoli, Bacon and Cheddar Quiche is my favorite kind of breakfast to make when broccoli is in season or on sale. Not only are quiches perfect for Sunday brunch, but you can make them ahead of time and they are hearty enough to pack in your hubby’s lunch the next day.  Well, that is if there is anything left over.

This is one of our favorites, I hope you like it.

Ingredients

6 slices bacon, cooked and chopped
1 cup broccoli, chopped
1 small red onion, sliced thin
1 pie crust
5 eggs
1 cup milk {I used 2%}
1 cup cheddar cheese
salt and pepper, to taste

Directions

Preheat oven to 375ºF.
Place bacon, scallions and broccoli in the bottom of the pie crust.
In a large bowl, mix together the eggs, milk, cheese, salt and pepper.
Pour egg mixture over bacon, broccoli and onions
Bake for 40-50 minutes until a knife inserted near the center comes out clean. Cool slightly, and serve.

This post may contain affiliate links. These affiliate links help support this site. For more information, please see my disclosure policy. Thank you for supporting One Hundred Dollars a Month.

Friday Night at the Movies – A Grain of Sand

The links in the post below may be affiliate links. Read the full disclosure
By on · 1 Comment

Tonight The Girl and I will be watching A Grain of Sand. I caught a few minutes of the documentary this morning and cannot wait to watch this tonight.

This is the story of one man and an island. Brendon Grimshaw purchased the island in 1962 and set about making the island habitable. He did this with the help of one other man, Rene Antoine Lafortune.

Brendon Grimshaw, a British national, was editor to some of the most important newspapers in Africa. But in 1972, he gave it all up to go and live on Moyenne Island, which he purchased for ten thousand pounds.

In the thirty-six-years that he has lived on the island, Brendon and his friend, Rene Lafortune, planted sixteen-thousand trees, built 4,8 kilometers of nature paths, and brought and bred 109 giant land tortoises, creating an island of incredible beauty now worth 34 million Euros.

Let me know what you think if you decide to watch it–or if you have already seen it.  Did you love it? Hate it? Can’t wait to watch it over and over?

Looking for more movies?

Check out the full list of my Friday Night at the Movies Selections or click on over & look at all the movies on Amazon Instant Video. There are a ton of videos to choose from that will cost you absolutely nothing {nada, zilch, free-o} with Amazon Prime; like thousands of regular movies & TV shows & hundreds of documentaries {Wahoo!}. Get all the details HERE!

Peace out Girl Scouts & have yourself a great weekend,

~Mavis

This post may contain affiliate links. These affiliate links help support this site. For more information, please see my disclosure policy. Thank you for supporting One Hundred Dollars a Month.

25 Day of Christmas Cookies – Quaker Oatmeal Cookies

The links in the post below may be affiliate links. Read the full disclosure
By on · 2 Comments

Why mess with a good thing right?  I’ve been making these Quaker Oats Vanishing Oatmeal cookies for about 10 years now.  And like all good things, they never seem to stay in the cookie jar too long before the HH or the kids snatch them up.

Sometimes I’ll add in chocolate chips, shredded coconut, raisins, dried cherries or chopped nuts to the batter,  it just depends on what I have on hand.

This time around I made naked oatmeal cookies {no extras} and I’m sure by this time tomorrow they’ll all be gone.  If you don’t already have this yummalicious recipe in your files, simply use the “print” button at the bottom of this post.

Quaker Oats Vanishing Oatmeal Cookies By Quaker Oats {Recipe Credit}

Ingredients

1/2 cup {1 stick} plus 6 tablespoons butter, softened
3/4 cup firmly packed brown sugar
1/2 cup granulated sugar
2 eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla
1-1/2 cups all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking soda {15 Cool Uses for Baking Soda}
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon salt {optional}
3 cups quick or old-fashioned, uncooked}

Directions

Heat oven to 350°F. In large bowl, beat butter and sugars on medium speed of electric mixer until creamy. Add eggs and vanilla; beat well. Add combined flour, baking soda, cinnamon and salt; mix well. Add oats and raisins; mix well.

Drop dough by 2 tablespoon cookie scoops onto ungreased cookie sheets {I use silpats}.

Bake 8 to 10 minutes or until light golden brown. Cool 1 minute on cookie sheets; remove to wire rack. Cool completely. Store tightly covered.

Mavis’ Cookie Essentials

Amazon – Cookie Scoops
Amazon – Silpat Non-Stick Baking Mats

This post may contain affiliate links. These affiliate links help support this site. For more information, please see my disclosure policy. Thank you for supporting One Hundred Dollars a Month.

Mavis Garden Blog – Free Range Chickens Will Eat Your Garden Vegetables

The links in the post below may be affiliate links. Read the full disclosure
By on · 12 Comments

Yesterday afternoon I put on my new {to me} red boots and headed out to the garden.

When I’m in the backyard I usually let the girls {and Pablo} out to play because I can keep an eye on them. I simply love watching them run around because it makes them so happy to be free. If they start to misbehave I simply heard them back to the chicken run and shake my finger at them disapprovingly.

But soon after letting them out I got a phone call and had to go back into the house to look something up online super quick.

Fast forward about 2 hours, and by the time I had gone back out to the garden, those pesky chickens of mine had scratched the holy goodness out of my garlic bed. Not only did they munch on some of the garlic sprouts, but it appears they also ran off with a few of the cloves as well. What kind of weirdo chickens eat garlic anyway?

Do you know of a place that currently has certified garlic bulbs in stock?  Can I even plant garlic this late in the year?  What a bunch of naughty chickens I have.  I’m totally calling Santa so he’ll put a halt on the 5 pound bag of chicken scratch the hens had requested.

Grrrr.

Mavis

 

This post may contain affiliate links. These affiliate links help support this site. For more information, please see my disclosure policy. Thank you for supporting One Hundred Dollars a Month.

Mavis Butterfield Etsy