Grocery Shrink – Page 37 – Shrink your bills and grow your pantry

Using PowerPoint to Plan for Christmas

A couple of things I forgot to mention 1. In PowerPoint you can drag over pictures to help with ideas. 2. You can also copy and paste your budget from Excel and keep everything in one place. More on…

5 Things to Do Right Now to DeStress Christmas

I know Halloween just ended and Thanksgiving isn’t here yet, but it’s time to plan for Christmas. You don’t have to get out the tree yet or starting playing carols (But if you do, I won’t judge.) Do these 5…

How to Motivate Your Kids to Practice

Music is the language of God. The more I study it, the more I’m convinced it’s a fact. As an adult it’s easy for me to spout the benefits of music study….especially when it comes to brain development in the language…

3 Budget Saving Fixes

Oh, Girls! I am in such a good place right now. My adrenals are almost completely recovered. I have energy and life doesn’t feel overwhelming. I know the blog has been quiet, but it’s not because things aren’t well here.…

Hold the Phone!!!

…literally! Our menu service just added smart phone enabled shopping lists with the free Out of Milk app. (No smart phone, no worries. The pdf shopping lists aren’t going anywhere.) This means no more printing shopping lists. It works on both iphone and…

How to Make Homemade Fortified Almond Milk

I turned my nose up at vegan milks for years. Real milk has protein and calcium, it’s affordable, and tastes great. Why mess with a good thing? Then I met up with the symptoms of lactose intolerance. Sometimes I could…

Allergy Free Creamy Wild Rice Chicken Soup

One of my strategies for sticking to my elimination diet is making a big pot of something delicious and eating it for every meal until it’s gone. Then making something new. My family doesn’t touch it (except to taste it’s amazingness),…

New! Looka French Pastries

I was shopping at Wal-mart today grabbing things for Brandon’s birthday cake and saw these in the frozen section. I think I misunderstood something, forehead smack. You can just grab these, at the last minute and everything. Genius. Would you…

Tough Decisions

It was one of those mornings. Brandon was screaming for a half an hour, because he couldn’t find his backpack. No one could find the backpack, and I was asking him to move on, “Make your lunch.” He’s in first…

Frugal Weekend Shopping from Your Sofa

A friend of mine shared a gift card with me to ThredUp. I’ve been hearing about them, but never checked it out before now. I looked around their site and was amazed at the selection of stylish stuff for thrift…