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Frugal Tips

Managing our Food Storage: Inventory and Eating Charts

Like the merchant ships of Proverbs 31, I’ve gathered a lot of food for our family, both from our own garden, chicken coop, orchard, and from stores.   Now it’s time to focus on inventorying what’s left, planning what to eat when, and actually eating much of it. The tricky thing about growing our own food is […]

Review: The Money Saving Mom’s Budget Audio Book

One of the first homeschooling talks I listened to pointed out an interesting fact:  most homeschooling moms can manage the actual homeschooling quite well.  What leads to homeschool stress and burn out is not the actual homeschooling itself but all the other things moms deal with, including financial pressure. Thus The Money $aving Mom’s Budget […]

Review: Folks This Ain’t Normal by Joel Salatin

Modern North American life ‘just ain’t normal’ according to farmer and writer Joel Salatin.  Why not?  It feels normal to most of us. Salatin suggests that we are just too out of tune with the way things have been, could be, and should be.  We don’t even know the way things should be for the […]

Cauliflower Soup

This is one of our favorite soups and is so easy to make. Note: it is also extremely frugal.  When I can get cheap cauliflower, a recipe like this costs me under $1.50–and that’s in Canada!  We only make it when I’ve bought several inexpensive cauliflowers and then I usually double or triple the recipe and […]

Ten (Plus Two) Skills to Help You Save Money

As I was thinking about my week, I realized that many of the everyday things I do have saved our family huge amounts of money.  My sisters and some friends do many of them, and I’m teaching them to my children, too.  However, a lot of people don’t seem to know how rewarding these skills can […]