Last night I made a hot fruit compote to put on the puffed pancakes for dinner.  I used up a bag of assorted fruit, and a bag of blueberries.  So that made a little dent in our freezer.

Cheryl, I've been doing the same thing regarding vegetables.  I bought some big club house type vegetables of broccoli, carrots, salad mix, shredded cabbage mix, mushrooms, sugar snap peas and onions.  I've been adding different vegetables to our "main" dish in addition to the vegetable/salad that has been filling ...

Pamelaw: Congratulations on your 4 month victory!  I am so proud of you!

Here's to another week.  Tuesday is our school fundraiser Turkey Bingo so we'll be doing that and eating the pizza there.  Other than that I'm hoping for a boring week.

Tonight I'll finish processing the pumpkin for the freezer.  I also have 10#'s of hamburger to get ready for meals.  I'll be using some for porcupine meatballs and a couple of meatloaves. In addition, I have another pineapple to cut up.

Saturday we had monkey bread with bacon and fruit smoothies.  I used up three cans of biscuits, and a couple of sandwich sized bags of fruit.  Before the fruit goes bad, I take fruit and freeze it for smoothies. Lunch I had a cup of soup, everyone else had spaghettios with bananas.  DH and I had leftover spinach salad. Dinner was ...

I was going to suggest either having your DM and her DH over for a meal on the weekend or taking over a meal once a week.  If you know of a consumable grocery item that they enjoy then maybe you could include that.  If she's too proud to take money, then just tell that you wanted her to be able to do something besides study all ...

I agree with the others of limiting activities to just a couple per child or maybe even just their favorite.  In regards to adult children, I would cut out the payments starting now.  It may be a goal of her DH's to live a debt free lifestyle.  It does not seem that it is a goal of that childs. In addition if money is needed, ...

Yesterday was a no spend day.  Today is too.  I really wanted to spend some items for dinner, but there isn't a "need" to, so I won't.  Tomorrow I can pick up the extra ingredients for the dinner that I wanted today.

Yesterday I had two meetings to attend in the early afternoon and evening.  So I spent $13.13 for dinner for five.  (I was very impressed with my shopping abilities.)  My family was able to eat dinner between the two meetings.  The afternoon didn't turn out as planned, but that's okay too!