My Frugal Week Last Monday I took the meat off two rotisserie chickens, weighed them out into meal sized portions, and placed them in the freezer for future meals. I also made some fruit salad to go with dinner and used my new to me food chopper to cut up the apples and celery.  I also made a cucumber and tomato salad using my food chopper this week. Linda asked me what brand of food chopper mine is and it's a ..read more

  Welcome to Frugal Friday!  My Frugal Week On Monday I called the electric company and they said our power was off for sixteen hours. The fridge and freezer were not opened, and she said food remains good for up to 24 hours, so we are going to assume all the food is OK except the seafood, which I've already tossed.  I received the best news from my retina specialist. I won't have to go back for eye injections for six weeks instead of the usual four weeks. Woo Hoo! I saw a hummingbird in the grass this week hovering around some wild flowers.  On multiple mornings ..read more

  My Frugal Week Guess what I found while thrifting last week?  A food chopper! The price was $7.00 (New ones are selling for $22.00) at a very expensive thrift store. It was one of the few things we bought there as the prices were outrageous!  They had a pair of pants in my size with the clearance price of $1.00 from Walmart still attached and they were trying to sell them for $15.00.  Crazy prices, but I do have a food chopper again. I used it Saturday night to chop onions and then on Sunday I chopped pineapple and it works like a dream.  Photo of the ..read more

Hello to all my friends!  We've been gone this week to a concert & thrifting trip in Atlanta since Wednesday. The storms came through here Wednesday evening around 6 pm and so I am trying to determine how long our power was off.  According to our electric company's Smart Hub, it was off starting sometime on Wednesday, all day on Thursday, and part of Friday, but I don't know for how long. I'm trying to figure out if I need to throw food away or not. I sent a text to my neighbor who works for the electric company to ask his opinion and I'm waiting to hear back.  Here is a ph ..read more

 Hello to all my friends! This is just a note to say that there won’t be a Frugal Friday post this week. We have a few things going on here this week, but I wanted to let you all know we are safe and sound from the storms, which hit our area pretty hard. I’ll be back soon with an update. ?  Thank you for dropping by my frugal blog, you are always welcome here.  We would love to hear all about your week in the comment section. Belinda Homemaker at Heart Mortgage & Debt Free ~ Living within our Means ~ My Linktree ~ She looketh well to the ways of her household ~ Pro ..read more

                                  My Frugal Week We use parmesan cheese here regularly and I save the lids as they fit very well on a mason jar. I've been making my own spice jars for a while now using a pint size canning jar with parmesan lid and a homemade label. The mason jar will hold two of the Great Value spice jars easily.  Recently I measured the space under my kitchen sink and went to the store to find two containers for each side. It had to be small enough to fit under the drain pipe and ..read more

 Welcome to Frugal Friday!  My Frugal Week It's been a whirlwind of activity this week as I went to the ortho doctor on Tuesday for shots in both knees. My BMI is very close to the range he wants in order to do my double knee replacement, so my next appointment will be with the surgeon in three months to discuss my options.  Afterwards I went to Walmart, Gordon Foods, and Whole Foods. I also went to Trader Joe's after an appointment on Thursday to pick up some orange chicken and tahini.  Twice this past week I cleaned up a bit downstairs and had more rubbish for the ..read more

                                            My Frugal Week On Tuesday I boiled a carton of eighteen eggs to have for the week and also made a gallon of green tea. We continue to use what we have in our pantry and cook from scratch, mostly eating a whole foods diet rather than relying on processed food.  I made a batch of Minestrone soup this week and made individual bowls for the freezer, which will be nice to pull out for lunches in the future. I ended up with seven individual ..read more

  Welcome to Frugal Friday!  My Frugal Week It's springtime in Tennessee and with that brings folklore about the cold weather snaps. This week we experienced Blackberry Winter when the blackberries are in bloom.  There are three main Tennessee springtime winters: Redbud Winter usually arrives in March Dogwood Winter runs from late March through early April Blackberry Winter comes around the first of May  When my birthday arrives in May, we know the cool weather has passed for the season. Same can be said in Autumn, when Bailey's birthday rolls around in late October, we k ..read more

  My Frugal Week Here we are already at the start of another new week. I hope you are doing well and saving money in your frugal kitchen. We definitely saved money in our frugal kitchen this week by cooking from scratch and eating all our meals at home.  Recipe of the Week This week I made my own homemade chicken nuggets and it's really easy to do if you want to make your own. I used what chicken I had on hand, which was two of the five ounce cans. If you have a twelve ounce can you can use that. Or you can use any type chicken you have on hand.  I made these twice, the f ..read more