We've been doing a lot of board games! I guess it's not necessarily winter specific fun, but we're enjoying it. :)

I'd do it! :D

We had hamburger soup and lemon poppyseed muffins (I found a mix in the cabinet).

Ok, let me give it a try... *cracks knuckles* [quote user="BargainBinge"]Time to put your creative frugal thinking caps ON my friends...I've got a challeng for you and hope you have some nifty ideas to return. I was browsing romantic & Valentine's Day make at home dinner meal menus online. The suggestions sounded ...

[quote user="sissy"] No I have looked threw the locator california is out but you guys have a store there called ralphs which is in olyimpia here and they got great fruit there at that store I have been threw califonia I have not seen any aldis cindy said its mid western but also cindy goes threw california every year she know that ...

[quote user="hjdeth"] Typically in a weekend we will start with making 60-80lbs of master hamburger mix (browned with onions & garlic) and cooking/deboning 20 whole chickens.  The electric roasters (4) & crockpots (3) start Friday night with 10 of the chickens plus onions, diced carrots, celery & basic seasonings.  ...

I've seen Aldi's in the midwest, the east, the south... just not in the west coastal states, and no idea if it's in NV either. I don't know why it's so hard to get anything that saves our grocery budgets in California, especially northern California.

I forget, have you posted your sweet potato chili recipe on here?

Cold and rainy today. I had planned to make split pea soup with the ham bone that's in the freezer, but I had fewer split peas than I realized. Fortunately I had plenty of lentils since there was no time left to soak any other beans. I used up some old, discolored dried carrots (as well as some good carrots) in making it, plus some dried ...

I so wish we had an Aldi's. :( I can't even find out if there's any in my state, or if I could go to one when I'm out of town visiting anyone.