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Oct 26
New Posts can be found on New Blog Link
The new blog address for this blog is found at: http://www.frugalgravy.wordpress.com/ (read full article)
Recent Posts
Oct 24
Blog Transferring to WordPress
I'm gonna transfer the blog to Word Press since its free. I'll be doing the same thing with the A Single Mom's Adventure into Urban Homesteading, which I'm excited that as soon as we get into this new home I'll be back to because I want to start gard (read full article)
Oct 23
OMG, I found the Perfect Home!!!
And it is a house, not an apartment, praise be!! I went and looked at a house with Lea and her friend Sarah. It was nice from the outside but the yard was tiny, with no separation from your neighbors, I remember having a similiar problem with a neigh (read full article)
Oct 22
Busy Day Today
Yesterday I decided I couldn't take it anymore living for the past 3 months in this very noisy apartment with my stomping, fighting, neighbors above me and the manager who won't do anything about it, so I gave notice to move. The problem is that its (read full article)
Oct 21
Are you thinking about Xmas yet?
I am! By now my mother would've been done with shopping, I'm never done that early, but October does cause me to start thinking about the upcoming holidays. For years although I was frugal the whole year round, I would splurge and buy all kinds of st (read full article)
Oct 20
Country Fried Squash
I found this recipe and had to share it! This wouldn't be good for my new diet class I'm trying out at my church but I definately want to try this. But I want to try this with yellow squash or zucchini instead of the butternut squash. When I lived in (read full article)
Oct 18
How to make Flour Tortillas
I found this video recipe by Blanca Diaz by http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LEz0puaKNTk&feature=relatedI've yet to make good tortillas so this is a tutorial of how to make it. It reminds me of the Navajo tortillas the way the dough is r (read full article)
Oct 18
Mini Meatloafs in a Muffin Tin
Lea isn't home today and won't be home until tomorrow, so I'm making up some Mini Meatloaf's cooked in a muffin tin so its easy for us to have something ready when we get home, if we're hungry tomorrow because its gonna be a busy day t (read full article)
Oct 16
Thursday/Friday: Volunteering and Internal Help Classes
I have been busy the last two days so busy I didn't even update the blog. Yesterday was day 2 and doctor no. 3 for Lea. We went to a different orthopedic and they just splinted her finger again but they bent it and splinted it which hurt her dearly b (read full article)
Oct 14
What a day!!! A Gas Wasting day!
We got a call yesterday saying Lea's hand was broken-(she injured it in September while playing her first soccer game and wore a finger splint/hand brace, and then she broke it thursday at another soccer game) so we had to go pick up a form (read full article)
Oct 13
Soup Beans and Cornbread, my childhood memories
When I was growing up we ate every type of bean you ever saw but it was always a side dish. When Lea and I moved to this area, the Appalachian region in Tennessee the first time when she was 3, I was introduced to Soup Beans and Cornbread a (read full article)
Oct 13
PotLuck Baking and Early Morning Doctor Visits
Yesterday I got up at 6 a.m. to bake something for a dinner at a church Lea goes to with her friend, it took me forever to try to figure out what to bake, which my friends/family thought was strange because I bake alot, not daily but alot. My friend (read full article)
Oct 11
Beware of the Sales Paper Markup
I just got a great deal at the grocery store because I waited...they had 3 (5 lb) bags of sugar for $5, the same with flour and the same with Cornmeal. Of course I went and bought this deal, I mean that equates to $1.67 per 5 lb sack with my sales ca (read full article)
Oct 10
Batter Bread Recipe
If you'd like to bake bread but don't have the time, the equipment, but esp. the time to sit there and wait for it to rise etc. you could make Batter Bread. I've made this before and its a good bread in a pinch. This would not be a good sandwich brea (read full article)
Oct 08
Chili and Rice
I remember as a kid my mom made this for us. She would make Chili from scratch at least once a winter but we ate chili from the can most of the time and she made chili served over rice. I loved it and make for my little family. This is a quick (read full article)
Oct 08
Casseroles, my downfall
I admit it, I am not very good with casseroles. I have made a few good ones in the past, and made much more that were worst, so I usually avoid them. But being frugal I know that I can stretch my dollars more if I learn to use them. If I get a few go (read full article)
Oct 06
The Many Uses of a Bag of Halloween Candy
Well it October and we all know what that means...candy is everywhere. I've already eaten my share of candy in the past 3 days-ha! Well, this is some tips to help you figure out what to do with either leftover candy or those great after-Halloween sal (read full article)
Oct 06
Make Your Own Oatmeal Packets
Man could this have come in handy years ago when Lea would eat oatmeal, now she won't but this would've saved me a ton of money. Instant Oatmeal ala-Home found at http://www.stretcher.com/stories/00/001009e.cfmby Kaylin Cherry•3 cups Quick-Coo (read full article)
Oct 04
Biscuit Cutters
I've been making biscuits since Lea was 5/6 yrs old. I remember an older woman teaching me how to make a biscuit cutter. She made biscuits differently than I did, she cut hers using a vegetable can. She taught me to take a regular can, like a clean m (read full article)
Oct 03
Volunteering for the Soul, it's Free!!!
In Michigan, I didn't get too many chances to volunteer but moving back to the Volunteer state-(Ha!)-I have found the oppurtunity at a church I attend. I am going to 2 churches and this one I go too has a Food Pantry. I went to this church with the i (read full article)
