Whether or not you're a fan, chances are when you think of casseroles, you might picture tater tot casserole. This has always been a favorite in our house, and we've made many versions of it, starting with the canned-vegetables-and-cream-of-something-soup version, and moving on to a more real food version, and then a gluten free version, and now a frugal large family version that I want to share with you today. Just like taco night, I found that tater tot casserole night was starting to … [Read more...]
Grocery Breakdown: December 2018
December was a busy month, and I was really starting to feel the rut of meal planning the same breakfasts and a bunch of the same dinners repeated. But since it was so busy, we just stuck with it, knowing that we would get some meals out toward the end of the month, and we would have more variety with new recipes coming in January. Here's what we bought and what we planned for meals. Monday, December 3: Aldi $130.18 Beginning of the month groceries. Not quite as big of a shopping … [Read more...]
Recipe: Ground Turkey Lentil Tacos
I don't know about your family, but my family loooooooves tacos. Those and pizza we could eat pretty much every week and be okay with it. Repeating other dinners? Not so much. But these two are standbys. And as our family has grown, we've needed to make more taco meat to fill everyone up. But meat is expensive, and I didn't want to spend a ton more to have taco night. So I started using ground turkey instead of ground beef, and I also started adding cooked lentils to my meat. Boom. More … [Read more...]
Getting Food On The Table When It’s Hard
What's for dinner? Or lunch? What's for snack? What's for breakfast? I don't know about you, but I hear these questions constantly at my house. And while I've been able to cut down on them slightly by having our menu board on the fridge for those who can read, I still always have people asking me what food we're having next. And even once I've taken the step to plan out meals and snacks for seven people (which is a big ordeal), and I've done the shopping (which is an even bigger ordeal), … [Read more...]
Books and Things: October-December 2018
Even though I haven't been updating here, I did manage to fit in several books over the past few months. Here's what I've been reading lately. Crazy Rich Asians by Kevin Kwan. I got this one from the library because of my current books-to-movies/tv obsession, and it's been super popular lately. And I started it, got about a third of the way in, and just...didn't pick it up again for awhile. I don't know if it was the characters, or the footnotes (appreciated for their … [Read more...]
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