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If you’ve been reading this blog for a while, you know by now that I’m a big proponent of using coupons, especially when you can combine them with a sale. But coupon shopping is far from the only frugal strategy we use. If you’re looking for new ways to frugalize your family, here is a [...]
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I had been talking about menu planning on Wednesday and promised to share with you the ins and outs of my monthly meal planning madness method. If you had told me a year ago that I’d be planning a month at a time, I would have thought you were nuts. I remember hounding my friend [...]
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I have sung the praises of menu planning before on this blog, and earlier this week, I shared with you my likely menu plan for October. (“Likely” because sometimes life happens and potato and kale gratin turns into potato bourekas from the freezer!) In the comments section on that October menu plan post, my friend [...]
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With all the chagim and crazy cooking schedules of last month, October is going to be about getting back to basics. Would you believe we have no chag or Shabbat leftovers? We had a pot-luck left-overs meal on Shabbat afternoon and cleaned out our fridge. While not having any leftover meals is a bit of [...]
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How was your Rosh Hashana?! For us, it was lovely to be with family and friends, and the food I cooked (mostly) turned out really well, but I will say that I dearly miss one-day yom tov in Israel! Did you know that four out of the next five years are going to be three-day [...]
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Okay, first of all, let me be real with you all. I had really good intentions of being super efficient and getting all this food made ahead of time. Well, guess what? Bad habits won out again. Rosh Hashana starts in 2 days, and I’m playing catch up. Sheesh, and that’s with the accountability of [...]
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After spending hours planning, shopping for and preparing frugal Shabbat meals, one of the most wasteful things we can do is throw away our left-overs. The easiest way to avoid this is obviously just to re-serve them a day or two later. But what if your family can’t stand warmed up salmon? (Honey, I’m looking [...]
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Since Rosh Hashana is less than a week away, I thought I’d share one of my favorite all time Yom Tov recipes with you: Greek Rodanchos, aka Pumpkin Strudel. I like to serve this for Rosh Hashana since pumpkin is a gourd, which is one of the simanim. The word for gourd in Hebrew is [...]
