Breakfast:  Belgium Waffles – Good bye 1/2 a box of waffle mix that has been sitting in my cupboard forever!  Annika also had a banana – she was soooo excited to see them on the banana tree this morning.  That was the first thing she did when we got in the kitchen, was make the [...]

I did buy some more groceries today. Bananas $1.00 Bread $1.19 Milk $ $2.38 TOTAL:  $4.57 Grand Total This Month:  $5.12 + $4.57 = $9.69 Breakfast:  Hard Boiled Eggs (our kids LOVE these), Apple juice, Breakfast Sandwiches, Yogurt , Cherrios (Obviously not everyone ate all these things – but this is collectively what our family [...]

I have had a few comments and emails lately about “I don’t have enough stored up to do this”, or “I can’t go that long with out produce”, or “I don’t think I can come up with anything to make”…  Here’s what I say… Just give it a try!  Maybe you can only go for [...]

WOW!  I just looked at my blog traffic stats  – welcome to all our new readers!  I didn’t realize that this challenge would be so popular!  So far this month, I have had almost double the traffic (in 7 days) than I have had on average for ENTIRE months the past year.  FUN! Alright, here [...]

  Breakfast – Pumpkin Pancakes (used up some mix we bought from Trader Joe’s – which is a special treat, because the closest Trader Joe’s is 2 hours away!)  YUM!  We had grapefruit to go along with it. Lunch – I ate leftover pancakes – I just had grapefruit for breakfast. Ryan had hot lunch [...]

  Breakfast:  I had a few things I just wanted to get rid of this morning.  So… everyone had something different.  Ryan had two Blueberry Poptarts.  Christian had 2 Eggo Waffles.  Dane had 1 Strawberry Toaster Strudel.  Annika had Maple Gerber Graduates and diced dried peaches.  Matt had a breakfast Hot Pocket.  We ALL had [...]

Sorry I didn’t get this up last night… Here was day four. Breakfast:  Scrambled Eggs “N’ “leftover” ham & Smoothies.  Smoothies were made from Frozen Peaches, Frozen Strawberries & Apple Cider blended up in the Vita-Mix.  I totally meant to take a pictures and then remembered after it was pretty much devoured.  If you need [...]