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.
If you could be standing inside one of these photographs of fall leaves, which one would it be?
Picture #2 has my vote.
~Mavis
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So yesterday after, finding all those onions hiding in the raspberry patch, I started to wonder what else I may have missed. And that’s when it hit me.
Potatoes. I need to go back and see if I missed any potatoes. After all, the day I harvested the fall potatoes it was raining, and I was hurried. So I went back through the dirt with a small hand tool this time {instead of a shovel}, and after 30 minutes of searching, guess what I found?
4 pounds 12 ounces of gleaned goodness baby! Wahooooo!
Keep your fingers crossed, because I seriously want to rip up all that kale as soon as possible!
~Mavis
If you don’t mind French subtitles, you should get your hands on a copy of the Documentary The Gleaners and I.*
Traditionally, as in the archetypal Millet painting, gleaners were women who gathered the remains of the harvest; their modern counterparts are mostly scavengers, searching in dumpsters and other likely places.
The French, of course, give the practice a wonderfully perverse twist-many gleaners do so by choice, disdainful of wastefulness and rampant consumerism. Varda’s photographic eye is much in evidence, and her narration is both shrewd and whimsical. ~ Amazon.com
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I headed out to Albertsons pretty early this morning so I could stock up on yogurt and cereal. While I was unloading the groceries The Girl blurted out, “Finally, you bought cereal.” It was hilarious.
I think there a quite a few deals this time around, but a lot of them are for crappy processed stuff and I’m trying to be good, so I decided to pass. I still have $20 in Albertson’s Store coupons to use before closing on Wednesday, so I know I’ll go back, I’m just not sure for what though. We’ll see.
Here is what I picked up on my Albertsons Double Coupon Shopping Trip:
Yoplait Yogurt $0.50
Bananas $ .58
Used {2} $0.40/6 Yoplait Yogurt Printable Coupons
Used $5/1 Albertsons Store Coupon
Final Price: $.02 after double coupons and store coupon
Chapstick – $1.00
Used $1/2 Chapstick Coupon {10/7 RP}
Final Price: $ FREE after double coupons
General Mills Cereal – $1.88 WYB5
Bananas – $ .61
Used {2} $1/2 Chex, Fiber One, Total, Wheaties, or Oatmeal Crisps Printable Coupon
Used {1} $.50/1 Cheerios Printable Coupon
Used $5/1 Albertsons Store Coupon
Final Price: $ .01 after double coupons and store coupon
Starbucks Refreshers Beverage – $1.50
Use $1/1 Starbucks Refreshers Beverage Printable Coupon
Final price: FREE after double coupons
Did you make it to Albertsons this morning? What did you stock up on this time around? Do you think I should use those $20 in Albertsons store coupons with doublers.. or hold out until we get the add on Tuesday for the next sale cycle and hope there is a great deal on a turkey?
~Mavis
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Last night I whipped up a batch of Baked French Toast, only this time I added in a cup of blueberries to shake things up a bit. And oh my was it good this morning when we dug into it. Yum! If you have not tried this recipe for baked french toast yet, you are seriously missing out.
French Toast Ingredients
8 slices french or Italian bread {I used Italian bread}
4 eggs
1 cup milk {I used 2%}
1 cup blueberries {I used frozen}
1/4 cup whipping cream
1/3 + 2 tablespoons sugar
1 tablespoon vanilla extract
Cinnamon Sugar Topping
1/4 cup all-purpose flour
1/4 cup brown sugar
1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
1/8 teaspoon salt
1/2 stick cold butter, cut into small cubes
Directions
Generously butter an 8×8 baking dish. Cut bread into 2″ cubes and toss into the buttered dish. In a small bowl, combined the eggs, milk, whipping cream, , blueberries, and vanilla. Pour egg mixture over bread. Cover with saran wrap and place in the refrigerator overnight.
For the topping, combined the flour, sugar, cinnamon, salt and butter together in a bowl. Use the tips of your fingers {or a pastry blender*} and mix until everything is combined and you have nice, fat, spiced butter crumbles. Place the topping in a zip baggie and place in the refrigerator.
The next morning, preheat the oven to 350. Sprinkle cinnamon sugar topping over french toast mixture and bake for 50 minutes.
Serve with maple syrup and powered sugar.
Wondering where I got the red baking dish? I picked it up from One Kings Lane a few weeks ago, and I absolutely LOVE it! Have you signed up for One Kings Lane yet? Right now you can get a $15 credit on any $30 or more purchase.
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