This is a Guest Post by the Super Amazing One Hundred Dollars a Month reader Mel {she’s the one who made those AWESOME gift bags and shared her recipe for DIY Lemonade Concentrate}. We love you Mel!! 🙂 Freezing Four Months of Meals There are tons of freezer cooking posts on the internet, but I’ve Read More >>
Cooking From Your Pantry | Menu Plan Ideas, Freezer Meals and Simple Recipes Week 2 of 52
This past week I made a homemade chili, refried beans, pasta sauce and blueberry bars using ingredients from our pantry as well as a few items at the store. To be totally honest, I stink at meal planning, so for me, it’s really important to have a bunch of tried and true recipes on hand Read More >>
Weekly Meal Plan – Menu Plan Ideas Week 1 of 52
Every once in awhile someone will ask “Hey Mavis can you post a weekly menu plan? The thing is, I don’t make a weekly menu plan for my household. Which is weird because I have total OCD and you would think anyone with OCD would have a menu plan, right? Maybe I don’t like commitment, Read More >>
What Does Feeding Your Family For $100 a Month Look Like?
Two weeks ago, someone {anonymously} left me a comment on the post I wrote about how I had scored several boxes of reclaimed food. “Gee, are things really that tight after coming back from France?” I didn’t notice it until yesterday when I checked my spam folder. Somehow the comment had been marked as spam Read More >>
Hey Mavis… What Did You Eat This Week…
I’m here to tell you… spending one hundred dollars a month on groceries to feed a family of four in America is totally doable. This past week we were able to enjoy chicken, ribs, steak, stir fry, crepes, you name it… No one went hungry… no one complained there wasn’t anything “good” to eat… It Read More >>