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  • Frozen Foods and Kids’ Sports

    A confession. Tonight I “warmed” (hard to say cooked!) frozen ravioli and breaded fish filets for dinner! I did make an easy mock alfredo sauce for the cheese ravioli but the rest of dinner was high on convenience and suitable for our sports’ night dinner. My girls swim from 5:15 to 6:45. It’s just down…

  • Cranberry Pot Roast, Potatoes Romanoff, Cooked Carrots

    Cranberry Pot Roast, Potatoes Romanoff, Cooked Carrots

    Dinner tonight is all leftovers, so here are the links. The Cranberry Pot Roast was excellent the first night. I froze the leftovers and am reheating them for tonight. Mashed potatoes are always a hit. But we’re in fall swim team mode now, which means practice is until 6:45. I need to walk down and…

  • Better Times Cookbook and Almanac of Useful Information for Poor People

    Better Times Cookbook and Almanac of Useful Information for Poor People Here’s an interesting site that goes along with the CheapCooking ideas. Recipes, shopping lists, emergency preparedness ideas, and more.

  • Summer Menu

    Sometimes I actually plan my menus out for the week. Since school started last week, I sat down on Sunday and made up my plan, a mix of old favorites and some new recipes. I had bought a big bag of broccoli at Costco so experimented with several new broccoli recipes. The kids favorite? Plain…

  • Recipe Conversion

    Just found a cool site that will convert between the different measuring systems for US and British. Here’s another one. And another one that includes imperial to metric, including Canadian and Australian, US, and more. Please share any others you have in the comments and I’ll put up a reference page.