Frugal Living

Last week I shared my latest frugal flop, the carrot and cream cheese lava cake. Now, in the meantime, my little chickies were growing fast and are ready to go outside into the big bad world of foxes, runaway doggies, snakes, hawks and possums.
Out of the 14 chicks we had in the last batch, only 3 are surviving. The rest have been ...

Following my latest lava cake debauchery, I read a post by a fairly new member requesting carrot and cream cheese lava cake. Having never actually tasted one of these, but yearning too since I read the post, I decided to attempt making one.

I simply prepared my favorite carrot cake recipe & set the batter aside. Next I combined 4 ...

I was reading through some older posts in the dinners under $2.50 section of the forums and when I created that forum, I didn't mean that the dinners were under $2.50 per Serving, I meant that the entire meal (for the entire family!) was under $2.50 !
It's fairly easy to make a decent dinner for $10 ($2.50 per Serving), but sometimes ...

Wow, Although it's not truly summer yet, it sure feels as though summer is in full swing! We've had 2 more chicks hatch today and it appears as though another is trying

Its been incredibly hot here the last week or so, reaching 100+ F. Although we've received tons of warnings on the weather radio for severe thunderstorms, etc, ...

Over the years one subject always seems to be revisited by our members at the start of the Summer . . . "Just how am I supposed to feed these Teenagers?!" It wasn't until last summer that I realized just how daunting this task can be! Perhaps the most difficult part of keeping them filled up is realizing that at some point, you're not only going to ...