Before this go-around, I last updated it my Winco Bulk Foods Price List 7 years ago. I have revamped my list and added a whole bunch more bulk foods to the list. It is interesting to see in that time how much of the food prices have actually stayed pretty static and how much has…
Slow Cooker Quinoa
I’m a sucker for my slow cookers. And yes, I have multiples:). I still haven’t given in to the ways of the pressure cooker. After cooking rice repeatedly in the crock-pot, I wanted to try quinoa in the slow cooker as well. So for about the last decade I’ve been cooking quinoa in the slow…
Teaching Kids About Money Part 1 Fabricating Poverty
Teaching Kids About Money I think everyone should be poor for a little while (especially if I knew they wouldn’t stay that way) and would have to work to get out of it. It lends perspective. It changes the way we handle money. When I was growing up, we would have been considered poor in…
Crock–pot Chicken Paprikash
Crock-pot Chicken Paprikash A handful of years ago I tried my first chicken paprikash. A friend served it as part of a delightful dinner. I was instantly a big fan, so I thought I would try to make a crockpot version of it since that’s how I roll. It was so easy to make, and…
Frugal Baby Food Ideas
Thrifty Thinking As soon as our first child starting eating solids, this newbie mom went and bought about 10 jars of baby food. Four kids and sixteen years later, I haven’t bought anymore baby food (this isn’t to shame anyone for buying baby food by the way~it’s just to help think about ways to save…
