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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.


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Halloween Party Food Ideas For Kids

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Here Kitty, Kitty… How about some black bean dip and veggies for a fun Halloween snack?

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An apple a day keeps the doctor away… But what about vampires?

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Creepy Crawly fun!

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Little kids would love to make these spider we pretzels while they’re waiting to go out trick or treating!

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 You can never go wrong serving kids carrots and Ranch dressing.

Do YOU serve your kids anything special on Halloween to offset all the sweet, delicious, yummy, here let me take that from you candy so mommy can eat the candy instead?

Ahhhh Halloween!  I can’t wait!

~Mavis

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How to Get Free Food Week # 26 – Reclaimed Food Show and Tell

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The last two weeks the quantity of the “good” chicken scraps has been decreasing. Which is a good thing for the stores, because they are tossing out less produce.  But on the other hand, it’s kind of a bummer for my family as well. We are not seeing boxes and boxes filled with boatloads of castoff goods anymore.

So what does this mean?

Is the store buying less produce and throwing less of it away?  Do stores sell more fruits and vegetables in the summer months? Is that why there was such an abundance of free fruit and vegetables this summer, but not this fall?

Well one things for sure, the chickens are still getting their fill of fresh fruits and vegetables.

And they don’t seem to care if it’s in season or not.

So what do you think?  Do the stores waste less in the fall and winter because the demand for fresh {real} food is less?  Or am I just imagining it?

~Mavis

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Mama Mia, this magazine is molto buona!

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Moving the Perennial Herb Garden – Part 2

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A big thank you to everyone who chimed in about my herb dilemma yesterday.  After reading all your comments I decided to definitely NOT move the mint next to the greenhouse.

Instead I went ahead and turned our old half oak barrel over {it had a few potato plants growing in it} and emptying some of the dirt out.  At first I was thinking about removing all of the dirt and lining the barrel with landscape fabric.

But in the end I figured I’ll probably just be moving the mint in a few years again, and decided to take my chances and not worry about lining the barrel.

After all, how much can one little mint plant grow in a year anyway.  Right?

~Mavis

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