Here is a neat idea fo the yonger ones, roll out your bread thin (with a rolling pin), spread with cream chees and jam, then roll up like a jelly Roll, kids love it, and teachers think it's neat to! Can use other fillings but just make them a thin layer! BD

Goals for august is to stay away from shopping malls, only for kiddo's back to school clothes! Welcome and enjoy, many good posts to help with all sorts of money issues. I like how you say one step at a time, a wise person once said, nothing good ever got done in a hurry! so keep plucking away at it, you will get far! Prayers to all ...

not as bad for august as July,I just tallied july's expenses and I was at $2186.67 that is even higher than June, almost $650 more, but the truck needed work and that cost 657.00 so that is why we are so high..thank god for August, can't wait!. CC's 105.00 Back taxes 150.00 Back to school clothing budget $150.00 ( ...

Leek and potato soup, uses up your left over mashed potato's, we are cream soup people, but sometimes i will make a beef and barley from left-over roast beef or chicken noodle from left over chicken or turkey. I use recipes for the net, or from when i was growing up!. prayers to all BD 

Having Leek and potato soup for dinner tonight, made mashed pots last night and will recycle them for the soup tonight. Cost is $1 a bowl. frugal eats tonight!

About $500 for food for the month, if there is a sale at the meat shop, iwill go and fill my frezzer up with box lots. this month about $450 prayers to all BD

Having a hard time eating much this week. I have a friend who is in the Hospital after almost dying a couple of weeks ago. So having more prayers for her. Last nights dinner was spaggetti and meat sauce, but was barely hungry enough to eat anything. Tonight we had pancakes, I had 1. still not hungry! lots to deal with..passport business, ...

I have since gone to passport canada and was rejected due to the fact that my DD biological father lives in Ont and i have to have him sign it!So anyways i called ontario and got his Mother on the phone, she is not accepting of my DD and this causes problems, She always runs interference on his behalf, and this is a major problem i've always ...

Sure you could clip them for me but then they would have to be sent to alberta!. LOL anyways i was upset yesturday, i went to go grocery shopping and i have book with all my coupons in it and it was gone! So i went coupon free! but did manage to get a coupon for the ziploc no-names i was needing! so i saved $.50 whooohooo! BD

In alberta on wednsday we had tornado touch down, and man did it ever hail! we we in edmonton and were afraid it would break our windsheild on the truck! having a non-stretchy weekend, needed to buy a b-day present and spent way more on groceries than i wanted..$230 and only wanted to spend $150 oh well what is agirl to do, less next week i ...