Real Food Cooking
Healthy, traditional cooking: real food recipes, monthly and weekly meal plans, alternative cooking methods, and much more.
Curry Lo Mein Style Dinner
You ever have a night when nothing sounds good? Maybe the menu plan you so diligently made just doesn't quite work for that night? Or maybe you just...
Design a Meatloaf Burger
I love being able to stretch a pound of grass-fed ground beef to feed our family! Gyros, Navajo Tacos, casseroles, soups/stews, chili—all are...
Quick and Easy Gyros
Here is a very yummy quick dinner idea and also an excellent way to stretch a pound of hamburger. I've been having requests from the family for...
Recap from Last Week and Menu Plan Week of 11-7
>Last week went well food-wise. I'd love to tell you what all we ate but I lost my menu plan and do not have the best memory apparently. I know...
Venison Curry over Cauliflower ‘Rice’
I have been wanting Indian food since a new Indian restaurant has opened in town and everyone is talking about it. But our budget is tight right now...
The End of October
This has been a loooong month. I worked a full time temporary job starting on October 4 so for four straight weeks I've worked 40 hours a week. But...
Working and Cooking, Cooking and Working
Whew. Another week of full time temporary work (same place as the previous weeks) has gone pretty well. I very much enjoy the work and the days go...
Real Food Made Fast
I worked this past week at the same temp job as last week. It is going good but I'm starting to feel the stress of working a full time job, a part...
Working Mama Meal Plan for Week of October 3
The last few weeks I've been trying to get by without a menu plan. More than anything as an experiment to see if not having a firm plan might work a...
Last Weeks Meals and This Weeks Plan
I'm finally getting around to post what we actually ate last week. My internet was down for the entire weekend (not fun at all when I usually work...
A Week Without a Menu Plan
I thought I'd do something a bit different this week. Instead of posting my Menu Plan, I'll tell you what we've eaten after the fact. Why you ask?...
Menu Week of September 12
Almost halfway through September already. Where does the time go? I remember reading once that time seems to go faster as we age. Soon I'm sure my...
September Food Spending- Take 2
My food budget for September is $490 (my budget for September actually runs from August 23 to September 22 to coincide with my husband's once...
Menu Week of September 5
Last week was one of those weeks when I'm not sure why I took the time to make a menu plan. The only night we actually ate what was planned was...
Budgeting Tips and Tricks
If you have read here much, you may have noticed that most of my posts over the summer have been our menus and our monthly budget. (I do hope to...
Menu Week of August 29
Hard to believe that it is the last week of August. We are adjusting our new schedules. Our day looks something like this. Kiki is up at 5AM to get...
September Food Spending- Take 1
My budget for the month of September is $490 divided between Cow share ($54), Beef CSA ($50), Azure Standard ($135.23), Dining Out ($50) and Grocery...
August Budget Wrap-Up and September Budget Plan
If you've been following along, my food budget for August was $550 (our budget coincides with my husband's once a month pay day and runs from the...
Nectarines, Nectarines and More Nectarines
I ordered 40 pounds of nectarines from Azure Standard this month. When I ordered them, it didn't sound like very much (I actually thought about...
Menu Week of August 22
Our new schedule went pretty good last week. Our mornings sure do start early. Kiki and Joe have both agreed to take packed lunches with them this...
Menu Week of August 15
School will be starting for Joe (he works for the school district) and Kiki this week. Lulu is doing online school from home this year. So starting...