This whole blog started with a challenge. Almost exactly 3 years ago I took on the Food Stamp Challenge and fed myself and my unwilling husband on $60 for a week. I learned a TON. …
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What I’ve Been Reading (about food)
Great articles come across my twitter feed, facebook feed, and email, and I often want to share them, but I don’t just want to repeat what they say so well! So here I will just …
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Simple Baked Summer Squash
Farmers’ markets are the best. Don’t you agree? I can’t think of anywhere I’d rather be at 10am on a Saturday. Ok, maybe being served breakfast in bed, but I’d be pretty cranky if I …
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Faux Fettuccine on Meatless Monday
Sometimes I have cravings. Ok, lots of times I have cravings. Like 30 minutes ago when I wanted ice cream so I stopped at Dairy Queen for a twist cone. Mmmm… Most of the time …
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4 Ways I Fund My Love of Food
By the plethora of hits you get when you Google “how to make money blogging” it’s pretty safe to say that most of us are not making our salary by writing online. Some do, yes. …
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Meatless Monday: Caramelized Onion, Mushroom and Spinach Pizza
It’s summer, which means it’s farmers’ market season! For a food lover, there’s nothing better than a farmers’ market for finding fresh and delicious ingredients. Farmers’ markets are fun, too! It’s the best way to …
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Meatless Monday: Eating “Good and Cheap”
I went to a small school in Ohio where our foreign language options were German or Spanish. I had the best German teacher ever. She was simply known as Frau, which is the German word …
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Meatless Monday: Easy Vegetable Fried Rice
Once upon a time I tried to make fried rice. It should be easy enough, right? Veggies, rice, a scrambled egg… Turns out the order of operations is kinda important. If you add the beaten …
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4 Reasons I’m Glad to Breastfeed in 2015
For the smallest member of my family, I don’t need a recipe to prepare his food with love. It’s 4am and I’m feeding my 3 month old son, flipping through facebook on my phone while he eats, …
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Meatless Monday: Power Salad
While I was pregnant everyone and their mother gave me (and the husband) advice about everything baby-related. “It’s okay to drink some wine. It won’t hurt the baby” “Are you drinking coffee? You know that …