Category: Sarah
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Groceries on a Budget
This week, I wanted to share how I have been striving to reduce my grocery expenses this month. We all have those times when it seems like all the major expenses happen at once. Car repairs. Doctors’ bills. Household expenses. Major semiannual bills due. Renewal fees or other work-related expenses. Whatever the cause, I am…
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Meal Prep: If You Can Call It That
This week, I’m not sure if you can even call my meal prep a meal prep. Isn’t “meal prepping,” by definition, the act of preparing all or most of your ingredients or meals at one time? That didn’t really happen this week. But I did capitalize on small chunks of time to help my family eat (pretty)…
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Garden Updates: End of May
This week, we made several big advances on our gardening efforts! 1. The first basil harvest I was able to make 4 containers of pesto for the freezer and share the jar of basil cuttings pictured with Joy and Robyn. Plus, I added a few leaves to my homemade zuppa toscana the evening that I…
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Meal Prep: Maximizing Leftovers
This week, the first half of my meal prep was made much simpler because of leftovers from the weekend. We had a small birthday party Saturday morning for my youngest son and his friends, and then we gathered with A.’s parents Saturday evening for a family birthday dinner. The morning spread was a ton of…
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Meal Prep: Double the Meals, Double the Fun
This week, I expanded my meal prep. My partner, A., is on a healthier eating journey, and to help accommodate his goal, I wanted to have more ready-to-heat meals available in the fridge for him. Given our house renovation and garden projects, A. is usually very busy in the mornings and early afternoons before he heads off to…
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Garden Update
This week, I wanted to provide an update on the gardening work we started early this season. We have definitely been busy! We purchased an inexpensive greenhouse to move some of our larger plants (mostly tomatoes) outside that were outgrowing our grow light set-up. Then, we finally reached the point in our season when we could transplant…
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Meal Prep: Using what you’ve got
This week, I meal prepped using almost exclusively pantry items and ingredients already in my refrigerator. I was looking to save some money this week, and one of the easiest ways to do that, in my opinion, is to shop your own shelves. I’ve talked about shelf cooking before, and it really is an adventure for me.…
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Another Weekly Meal Prep
This week, I figured I’d share another meal prep. If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it, right? I’ve been rolling along with meal prep and finding a rhythm to the practice. This week, I did a small grocery run and rather than packing the fridge with the groceries, I left a large portion of items…
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Meal Prepping Momentum
(This post is not affiliated). Last week, I shared a bit about my meal prep madness and some of my tips for successful meal planning. This week, I kept the momentum going with another batch of meal prepping. I’ve been embracing the quotation from Kendra Adachi’s book, The Lazy Genius Way, and trying to do…
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Meal Prepping Madness!
This week, I crushed meal prep! OK, I crushed the beginning of meal prep. Realistically, this is only 3-4 days worth of meals for A. and me. But I love the sense of accomplishment that comes when you stack the containers in the fridge and know you don’t have to think about making dinner after…