Menu Planning

How to save money with meal planning

Meal planning can help save you money because by planning out your meals for the week, you are more likely to just buy the ingredients you need for those meals. There are also ways to make your meal planning simpler and grocery list making easier. These tips will also help you save even more in …

Creative Ways to Make Money

How to have a successful garage sale

I grew up going to garage sales with my mom and we also had an annual garage sale ourselves every year. That tradition has continued into my adulthood. Over the years I have learned a few tricks on how to have a more successful garage sale, both in your prep beforehand and on the day …

dinner

Sausage and Ground Turkey Meatballs

Meatballs are such a comfort food and they are a favorite meal in my family. My husband suffers from gout on occasion and since red meat can cause flare ups, we try to limit it as much as we can. Since he still loves meatballs, I started looking for ways that he could enjoy them …

Recipes

The best iced white mocha

I love getting a special coffee drink from my local coffee shop, but that can start getting a little spendy after awhile. I started making my own coffee drinks at home. Not only can I make them exactly how I like, but I’m also saving money by not going to the coffee shop every day. …

Recipes

Chocolate chip cookies with cream cheese filling

These cookies are simple and easy to make and they are great for any occasion. They always remind me of Christmas. I know they are not your traditional Christmas cookie, but I used to make them for my office Christmas parties and they were a huge hit. They are my husband’s favorite cookie and he …

Menu Planning

Weekly menu planning made easy

Menu planning is a life saver for me. I literally couldn’t cook dinner or grocery shop without doing a menu plan for the week. When I’m cooking dinner, I like having a list of meals to choose from each day of the week and knowing that I have the ingredients in the house to make …

Grocery Shopping Savings

A few ways to save money on groceries

These days it’s hard to control the cost of some monthly bills and expenses. Other than telling my kids, “Shut the front door! We are not paying to heat the outdoors!”, there’s not much I can do to lower the price of the heating bill in the winter. And while there is nothing I can …