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365 Day Meal Plan:: Week Ten Menu

Reminder: You can create your own rotating menu plan by downloading my menu plan templates which includes a handy grocery list template. Pin It Week Nine Meal Recap Monday: Hamburgers and hot dogs, frugal fries, and salad Easy, yummy, and we came up with an even better version of homemade fries (I’ll share the recipe shortly). Tuesday: Split chicken breasts, [...]

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365 Day Meal Plan: Week Nine

We’re officially on the third month of my 365 Day Meal Plan, and despite hiccups and my forgetful nature when it comes to scheduling we’re not only managing to cook at home every meal (aside from planned outings), but we’re also seeing the savings in our bottom line. After two months we’ve shaved about 25% [...]

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365 Day Meal Plan:: Week Eight Menu Plan

This week’s update on the yearly meal plan may look like a failure, but I still consider it a success since we didn’t eat out unintentionally. I still managed to serve the kids healthy meals (and so many fruits and veggies), and didn’t overspend on my groceries. Pin It Here’s how last week’s meal plan [...]

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#HealthyHabits: Creating a dental care routine

Creating healthy habits is an important part of my job as mom. I spend a lot of time researching, reading, talking to other moms, and figuring out new ways to make lasting healthy habits for our family. One of the things I’m borderline obsessive about is the kids’ dental care routine. My oldest son had [...]

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365 Day Meal Plan: Week Seven Menu Plan

Last week’s menu was a little ambitious. With a 4 day weekend (and early dismissal and one kiddo home sick on Thursday) I didn’t have quite as much time to work or catch up on housework last week. So while we had some family time I also mixed in some work and housekeeping this past [...]

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365 Day Meal Plan: Week Six & Rosemary Roast Recipe

Now on week 6 of our rotating year long meal plan I can say this has definitely made my nights easier, and allowed me to get more creative in the kitchen. Not having the stress about what to cook at 5pm saves me time and energy, as well as lots of frustration. You can create [...]

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365 Day Meal Plan: Week Five

We’re back to ‘Week One’ with our 365 day meal plan this week. Since we’re rotating 4 weeks of menus now we start over at the beginning. The first four weeks have been fairly simple in terms of shopping and cooking meals, though we have had to make some accomadations over those weeks as well. [...]

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365 Day Meal Plan: Week 4 Menu

Apologies for the delay in Monday’s meal plan, due to downtime and malware infecting my site I was unable to get this up in time. Without further ado an update on meal planning. We’re in week four of my 365 meal plan, and so far even with crazy busy schedules, and a never-ending cold that [...]

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Built-In Desk Inspires Organizing & $100 Lowe’s Giveaway

I didn’t realize when I started organizing that it was going to make me feel so revitalized. Several days into it I started to feel so free and rejuvenated. I started to organize to finally begin my built-in desk project. I don’t have a junk drawer. I have had a junk room, otherwise known as [...]

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New Year, New Budget, New Attitude

Starting 2012 on the right financial foot is a resolution many people share. We’re only a few weeks into the new year and you may already feel defeated, but it’s not too late to get organized, and turn 2012 into the year you become a money ninja. One of my resolutions was to spend more [...]