The Tasty Cheapskate

Hello friends! This post was supposed to be written in January. I'm a wee bit behind. I've been crazy busy with writing and ...

Yeah. You see those quotation marks around the word "planning." There's a reason for that. It's called "lazine...

If you don't use Ebates, you should (if you shop online). It's free money and I like free money. For more details, have a look...

Walmart, ah, Walmart. When I first heard about Walmart's Free Grocery Pickup --where you can order your groceries online and th...

There are ways in this world to actually make buttermilk (originally it referred to the thin milk left after making butter, but that...

My kids are picky. One weird thing about some picky kids is that they might like all the parts of a meal, but then when you put it toget...

For many years I've sent apple sauce in my kids' lunches. I haven't even done it easy style (those little containers of apple...

(And, and P.S., these are enormous. They were for Mark's birthday party and he didn't want him any tiny Mommy-style cookies.)  ...

You know those articles Yahoo occasionally posts about changes you can make to save you money (you could save thousands every month if yo...

Pies have a bad reputation for being hard. It kind of makes sense. There's a long baking time and a longer cooling time. Ther...

You know those ideas you wish you'd had a few years earlier because then you'd be rich (and also brilliant, forward thinking, etc.)?...

Ever since the money suck known as December, I've been trying to shop less . I don't actually even enjoy shopping, but I'd gotte...

(No, no, my plants don't look like this yet. This picture is from a couple years ago. Isn't it cheerful?) You don't have to sta...

Ready for some rocket science? Hmm, well, you might have to look elsewhere then because this is way easy. I use oat flour in several of m...

Cheap Eat Challenge, Part 2: Watch as our family of 6 eats on less than $10/day. We've been doing a lot of work, cleaning, project f...

Cheap Eat Challenge, Part 2 : Watch as our family of 6 eats on less than $10/day. This time of year, I like to bake a lot of cookies. I...

Cheap Eat Challenge, Part 2 : Watch as our family of 6 eats on less than $10/day. (This is a not a picture of the cookies gone wrong. It...

Cheap Eat Challenge, Part 2 : Watch as our family of 6 eats on less than $10/day. For years I sort of gawked at the colored sugars of Chr...