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How To Make A Hamburger Cake
The Cub Scout pack had a cake contest a couple of weeks ago. Michael quickly decided he wanted a hamburger cake. I really had no idea where to even begin! But isn’t the internet great? I found tons of...
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How To Make a Castle Cake
Well, it was time for the annual Cubscout father/son cake night. So you know what that means right? I spend a lot of money and work really hard myself and Kevin does nothing towards it. Unfortunately...
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Star Wars Light Saber Cake
It is cake time at Life as MOM and if you like to make your own cakes, the recipe swap is filled with ideas. I made this Star Wars lightsaber cake in October for Luke’s 7th birthday. In the end it...
View ArticleWhat Do You Do When Your Budget & Your Ideals Collide?
My ideal would be to feed my kids all organic stuff. With no artificial colorings or preservatives, completely natural. And while I’m dreaming, we will just make Emma not allergic to anything either....
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Poor Man’s Chicken Cordon Bleu
I made one of our favorite (yet rarely made) dinners last night – Chicken Cordon Bleu. This is one of our fanciest meals. It is also time consuming and requires a lot of ingredients. Over the years...
View ArticleIt Doesn’t Have To Be Organic To Be Good Enough
While I would love to feed my family nothing but organic foods, that just isn’t possible. First I don’t even think they make everything we eat in organic form and second, we could never afford that! So...
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Preserving the Local Harvest
We talked about canning the local harvest here. Another way to preserve the local harvest is to dehydrate or dry foods. We picked 14 pounds of blueberries this morning and I have 4 pans in the freezer...
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Saving Money at the Produce Auction
Above is a picture of what I won at the produce auction. I won 3 lots of tomatoes – for a total of 7 pecks. 5 of the pecks were $6 each and 2 were $8 each. They have a table where you can buy smaller...
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Ice Cream Cone Cupcakes
In the Rachel Ray magazine I saw these super cute Ice Cream Cone Cupcakes and knew I had to try them for Claire’s birthday party. Making them worked out very well, eating them was a bit harder. I gave...
View ArticleHomemade Frappe’s To The Rescue
Luke had to have a tooth pulled today. I promised him ice cream afterwards. We don’t have ice cream at home or I would eat it. So off to McDonald’s we went for $0.50 cones. Except on the way I realized...
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Finding Local Food Sources
I love finding food that was either grown or raised very close to me. It is so much better for the environment (it doesn’t have to travel thousands of miles to get to us), it tastes better (it was...
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Sneaking In Veggies with Pumpkin Cubes
Does that remind you of baby food? Well, I am not making baby food – but I am trying to find ways to sneak more veggie goodness into our regular diet. Over the past 6 months or so I have often wanted...
View ArticleYou Can Cook Almost Anything From Scratch
One of the ways I have been able to stay out of the stores and buy less when I am there is to cook things from scratch. In fact, that might be the only thing that saved me this month. It might take...
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How To Make a Pirate Ship Cake
Luke made a pirate ship cake for the Father/Son cake walk for Cub Scouts. We started by making a cake in 2 round pans. We cut each circle in half placing them on top of each other with frosting...
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Cooking From Scratch | Raspberry Vinaigrette Salad Dressing
One of the things I wanted to do this year was learn to cook more from scratch. On my list was homemade salad dressing. Emma loves raspberry vinaigrette dressing. Of course the stuff from the store...
View ArticleWeekly Menu Plan
Having a plan will hopefully help me avoid another situation where I need to get take out to maintain my sanity. I don’t have the time or energy to figure out what to make for dinner during the crazy,...
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Easy Pasta with Italian Sausage & Veggies
I made this delicious pasta dish for dinner last week. It was so easy! I browned a pound of Italian sausage and then drained it. I cooked diced zucchini in the grease with salt, pepper and garlic....
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Getting More Vegetables & Fruits In Your Children
One of my missions as a mom is to get as many fruits & veggies into my kids as I possibly can. I will be the first to admit that I sneak veggies into other foods. My kids know this, although...
View ArticleFrugal Kitchen Tools
If you want to be frugal in the kitchen you need some basic tools to help you save money. Here are 5 of my favorite: Peeler – I never buy baby carrots, or presliced anything. I always buy whole...
View ArticleCreamy Dairy Free Fudge-sicles
My in-laws gave me a huge carton of plain soymilk that I wanted to use up and I got the idea to make fudge-sicles that Emma could eat. I was loosely basing my fudge-sicles on 100 Days of Real Food’s...
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