Why I Love My Envelope Budget System

April 23, 2013
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The following post is from Kate of Modern Alternative Mama: The food budget is one area that I manage alone.  The rest, my husband and I share (and frankly he does the day-to-day stuff because as long as we agree on the big stuff, I don’t care about the details!).  The budget can quickly get [...]

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Ten-Minute Taco Pizza

April 18, 2013
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The following post is from Shaina of Food for My Family and Olmanson Photography: I do not have it all together, especially when it comes to managing life. I think this is common for families, especially working families or families with several children. (Four is several, right?) We often feel in control, the schedules align, [...]

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Letting Go of Food Guilt & Shame {Eat Well, Spend Less}

April 17, 2013
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This month is the two-year anniversary of the Eat Well, Spend Less series, and I’m over at Easy Homemade, confessing that we’ve been living on processed foods and take out for the last 6 weeks or so: In April of 2011, Jessica from Life as Mom brought together a group of bloggers to share our [...]

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Giveaway: Good Cook Touch Treasure Hunt (More Than $1000 in Prizes!)

April 16, 2013
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I mentioned the Good Cook Touch Treasure Hunt a few weeks ago, and today I’m excited to help kick it off! Over the next 5 weeks, you’ll have the opportunity to find and collect up to 115 Good Cook Touch codes, like the one above. Enter each code you find at GoodCook.com, and the participants [...]

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Super-Moist (and oh-so-easy) Gluten-Free Orange Cake

April 15, 2013
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The following post is from Amy of Simply Sugar & Gluten-Free: When you get into the nitty-gritty of gluten-free baking, there are a lot of choices. So many choices, in fact, that it can be completely overwhelming. After a while you realize that if you can grind it, you can bake with it. Today you [...]

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Easy Escalloped Apples & a GoodCook Nonstick Cutlery Giveaway

April 11, 2013
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This giveaway is now closed! The winner is Alison (3blondesandthelaw@…)! I love these apples. In fact, I love them so much that I have forgotten to take a picture of the finished dish multiple times in the last couple of weeks! In the midst of morning sickness and strong food aversions, this is one that’s [...]

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Smart Sweets by Katie Kimball On Sale for $0.99!

April 9, 2013
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Katie from Kitchen Stewardship is one of my favorite green / real food bloggers. Not only does she readily admit her mistakes and cheats, but she also shares her in-depth research into, well, pretty much everything, so that her readers can evaluate that information and make decisions themselves. Her ebooks are packed full of not [...]

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Farmer’s Market Season: 5 Tips for Shopping the Market

April 8, 2013
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The following post is from Kate of Modern Alternative Mama: Very soon, it will be farmer’s market season.  May opens the market in my area! For awhile, people have touted farmer’s markets as “the” place to shop for local foods and get a great deal too.  But farmer’s markets have become trendy and also more [...]

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