I know that every week should be planned around what's on sale, but I've been falling off the smart-shopper-wagon lately. Since coupon-ing isn't really fitting into my schedule this year, the cupboards are not as well stocked as I like them to be.  And . . . . when our local newspaper subscription ran out, we didn't renew it since I'm not going … [Read more...]

I'm so glad that I made a menu plan last week.  Even though I didn't want to. Having a menu plan meant that my trip to the store on Monday morning wasn't a Random Act of Shopping.  I got what I needed for the things I was going to make. Except for the ground beef.  That was supposed to wait until Wednesday so I could catch it on sale, but … [Read more...]

Have you seen my new Recipes page at the top of the page?  I'm thankful for the motivation from Laura over at Orgjunkie to make one.  She now has an ongoing link-up where bloggers can share their recipe pages.  Such a fabulous resource of real-life recipes! I'm calling this the Uninspired Edition because I'm feeling . . . uninspired.  As I began … [Read more...]

Time to get creative and clean out the freezer. Even though "creative" sometimes scares me (and my husband) a little. Saturday night, I felt inspired to make a Greek lemon rice soup that I've had before and loved.  The recipe I ended up going with called for the "juice of three lemons" but I only had bottled lemon juice which didn't give a … [Read more...]

I'm having a hard time believing it, but hubby says it's supposed to be extremely cold all next week.  As a person who dresses for yesterday's weather because it never occurs to me to check the forecast, I have to take his word for it. And since I'm going to try to head to the store before it gets crazy cold, I might as well make my menu … [Read more...]

It's officially 2011. Ummmm, how exactly did that happen? I've been in-my-head-blogging all day about starting off the year right, the adjustments I'll be making to my routine, etc.  But I can't forget the important building block for all of that . . . a menu plan. So before I get into philosophy and deep thoughts and renewed … [Read more...]

I'm so relaxed right now. My house is a wreck, with Christmas candy and boxes still strewn all over the floor since we left the house at noon on Christmas day and arrived back home late last night. And I'm just not the type who has to have things picked up before I can think about going to bed. Wish I was . . . Anyway, I thought I'd … [Read more...]