Words of the Week Wednesday 11/12

It is Wednesday again and time to provide my readers with links to sites that I found interesting in the last week.

1. $5 Dinner Mom. Erin Chase has one of the best blogs out there. She shows you how to feed a family of 4 dinner for $5 or less! The meals are really simple and taste wonderful. She also has a new cookbook out, so check that out while you are at her site.
   
2. Makeusof.com. This site is more for the techy person. The reason I love it is because there are so many links to free programs, free graphics and more. It is a great site if you are interested in anything from computers to phones to graphics and more.
   
3. Wisebread.com has a HUGE list of the top 100 personal financial blogs listed on its site. If you are interested in finding some new blogs to read check that out.
   
   
   
   
   

Words of the Week Wednesday 7/29

It is Wednesday again and time to provide my readers with links to sites that I found interesting in the last week. Since I have been concentrating on eating healthier and making more meals from scratch I thought I would share some recipe blogs and sites this week. Also, cooking delicious foods at home instead of eating out saves you money.



Project: Domestic Bliss



This is an awesome blog for those who like to cook. Nikki makes wonderful food and not only shares photos of them, but also the recipe. So, you can also make these yummy foods. Recently she has made such foods as homemade tortillas for burritos, steakhouse steak, Barbecue chicken pizza, and more! Nikki is a fellow participant in the All You Grocery Challenge, so go check out her blog and start cooking!



Gourmet Finds



This site is awesome for any self-proclaimed foodie. It has awesome recipes listed and some really great pictures of food.

Tammy's Recipes



Just looking at this site makes my mouth water. The food looks so delicious. Lately her recipes have been centering around what is coming out of the garden. Since this is the first year we have had a garden, I am finding this site very useful. I was thinking about what we would do with SO many beans, but her garlic green beans sound tasty.

Words of the Week Wednesday 7/15

It is Wednesday again and time to provide my readers with links to sites that I found interesting in the last week. Today I thought it would be a wonderful opportunity to share the blogs of other participants in the All You Grocery Challenge. So here is a list, in no particular order:

All You Grocery Challenge blog. Here you can find TONS of tips on how to reduce your grocery costs and eat better.

• All You Grocery Challenge by Katie
• The World's Cheapest Mom
• Spiffy Spotlight
• Daisy B Deals
• Savin ItUp
  
  
• The Working Home Keeper
• All You Challenge by Likeavision
  
• Cacoupondiva
• The Freebie Mom
• Life as Mom
  
  
• The Penny Pinchin Kitchen
• Dolly Domestic
• Adventures of the Qpon QT
• Feeding us on a Budget
• I Think I Can, I Think I Can
  
  
• Bits of Whitt
• All You Grocery Challenge by tenthingsfarm
• Super Coupon Girl
• Project Domestic Bliss
• Fun with Finances 101
  
  
• Kari and James' Grocery Challenge
  
• Chronicles of a Southern Scrapper
• Frugality in Florida
• Be Home Happy
• A Welcoming Heart
  
  
• Crazy Acres
  
• Home Economics
• Grocery Challenge 09
• Growing Small
• Frugality at its Finest
  
  
• ThriftLivingMama's Blog
  
• Use it Up, Wear it Out
• Frugally Blonde
• The Frugal Country Mom
• Life From My Laptop
  
  
• Bargains 4 WAHM
  
• Coping with Frugality
• The Joys of Couponing
  

I tried to add all of the blogs/sites to my All You favorites folder, but there are quite a few comments on the blog so if I missed anyone please leave me a comment and I will add you to the list.

Words of the Week Wednesday 7/1

It is Wednesday again and time to provide my readers with links to sites that I found interesting in the last week.

Many times I have trouble coming up with meals and recipes for dinners. The following sites are very helpful to me each week as I try to save money by planning my meals.

• My favorite recipe site is AllRecipes.com. I think I am on this site at least three or four times a week. The other day I was trying to find recipes for strawberries (my hubby's grandma gave us about four pounds!) and found an awesome recipe for Strawnana bread. This recipe produced an awesome banana and strawberry bread that just tastes awesome! I will have to make some more now that I have some more bananas. YUMMY!!! They also have a feature where you can enter your ingredients that you want to use and it will find recipes that have these. You can also tell it to exclude certain ingredients. It really is one of the best sites I have found for recipes.
  
• $5 Dinners is an awesome blog where Erin shares with her readers recipes for families that are healthy but do not cost a fortune. She shares her monthly meal plan at the beginning of the month (I used to do monthly, but lately have been having trouble just getting my weekly meal plan done) and proves that you can make dinner for a family of four for less than $5 a day.
• If you would like to start meal planning there are various ways to organize your meals. You can use a spreadsheet, a calendar made using word processing software (if you don't have any on your computer you can download Open Office for free), or even just a pen and paper. I also found a lot of free meal planning information at Meals Matter including shopping list, daily meal planner, and more.
  

Words of the Week Wednesday 6/17

It is Wednesday again and time to provide my readers with links to sites that I found interesting in the last week.

• TweetDeck. I really didn't know how to use Twitter much, so I really didn't like it. Since finding out about TweetDeck, I have been tweeting more because it is so easy. Plus I don't have to keep checking the site all the time. The program is open and when someone twitters a little window pops up letting me know. So, if you would like to do some more twittering, you should really go check it out. It's free and you can download it here.
• As mentioned on Sunday, I was in the local paper again. I just wanted to mention that Jenn from Greene NY was also mentioned in the additional section of the paper. She has a blog called Frugal Upstate. I found this blog sometime last year and have visited it often. She just had her blog redesigned and it looks awesome. Go visit her blog and let her know that Lisette sent ya.
  
• Are you looking for all the best sales and coupon matchups each week? Well, BeCentsAble is the site to go to. Individual bloggers post their matchups weekly for both national and local stores. I am the only blogger on there providing the matchups for Tops, but there are also matchups for Weis, Price Chopper, and Giant, along with national stores like Walmart, Walgreens, Target and more. This is a great way to learn how to shop with coupons.

Words of the Week Wednesday (Earth Day Edition)

I have been wanting to try to make homemade laundry detergent for some time now. I was able to find borax at Walmart and Target, but could not find washing soda. I told my mother I was looking for it and she found some at Price Chopper for $2.99. So, if you have trouble finding it, try there.

I figure it will cost me about 2 cents per load! So this will be a big savings for us. Especially with a family of five, we go through a lot of laundry detergent. It is also environmentally special. I plan on making the powdered detergent. You can find several recipes here. I will let you know how it works out. Let me know if you have ever tried making your own detergent and what the result was.

In celebration of Earth Day, the Simple Mom has a list of 40 ways to go greener at home. Many of the things on the list we already do, but there are a few that I am looking at trying.

Another great blog about family and green living is Nature Mom's Blog. She talks about what her family and herself does to live a more Eco-friendly life. So, go check out her blog.