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How to Get Free Food Week # 34 – Reclaimed Food Show and Tell

By Mavis Butterfield on January 1, 2013 - 9 Comments

Get a look at all those bags of “old” salad mix that were on their way to the dumpster. Lucky for us, Mr. Produce Guy set them aside along with all our other chicken scraps. Let’s just say The Girl was pretty excited with the loot! Remember in the “old days” when products were thrown Read More >>

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Chicken, Recipes, Slow Cooker Recipes

Easy Slow Cooker Recipes – Chicken Noodle Soup

By Mavis Butterfield on December 31, 2012 - 23 Comments

Yesterday I made a batch of homemade chicken noodle soup in the crock pot. Sure I had to beg some carrots and 2 stalks of celery off of Girly Girl to make it, but man was it good. I used to think Crock Pot meals were for busy days when there was no time to Read More >>

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Travel

New Year’s Eve Around The World

By Mavis Butterfield on December 31, 2012 - 8 Comments

New York – Times Square {photo credit} Sydney, Australia {photo credit} Paris, France {photo credit} Acapulco, Mexico {photo credit} Moscow, Russia {photo credit} Las Vegas, Nevada {photo credit} London, United Kingdom {photo credit} Rome, Italy {photo credit} With literally a world of possibilities, where would you choose to ring in the New Year?

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Gardening

Mavis Garden Blog – Planting a Rock Border

By Mavis Butterfield on December 31, 2012 - 14 Comments

The area around the chicken run has finally all been cleared, and yesterday I started on a new project. I’m thinking it should take me a few afternoons to complete. If you read my garden posts this past summer you probably noticed there were not a whole lot of weeds in the mulched areas of Read More >>

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Weekly Shopping Trips

Mondays with Mavis – How to Feed Your Family for $100 a Month – 20

By Mavis Butterfield on December 31, 2012 - 32 Comments

Old Mother Hubbard went to the cupboard… Let me just say this… I will be at Costco bright and early when they open their doors at 10 am on January 2nd. I’m not exactly sure why they are closed on New Year’s Day, but I’ve made it this far… waiting another day to fill my refrigerator with food isn’t Read More >>

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Mornings with Mavis

By Mavis Butterfield on December 30, 2012 - 9 Comments

Have you ever been so tired you can’t sleep? I mean you lay down, close your eyes, and think you’re falling asleep, only to wake up like 15 minutes later. Well, that’s where I’m at right now. Tired. But too tired to sleep. My mind keeps racing because there are so many things I need Read More >>

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Beef, Recipes

Easy Comfort Food Recipes – Beef Pot Pie

By Mavis Butterfield on December 29, 2012 - 3 Comments

If Monkey Boy and The Girl Who Thinks She’s a Bird had it their way, we’d be eating chicken, turkey, or beef pot pie every night for dinner. Pot pie, without a doubt is the most requested dinner around here. Once you get the hang of making a pot pie, it’s super easy and you’ll be able to Read More >>

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Travel

Salt Creek Beach – Dana Point, California

By Mavis Butterfield on December 29, 2012 - 3 Comments

While we were on vacation in So Cal, one morning The Girl Who Thinks She’s a Bird and I took a walk to Salt Creek Beach. She wanted to snap some photographs for her portfolio, and was totally over the moon when she discovered her favorite subject was out in full force. Birds. Birds. And Read More >>

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