Join Mavis Butterfield for vegetable gardening and canning tips, easy recipes, and saving money strategies (Rug hooking, too!). Simple living at its best!
It was a busy {and tiring} week filled with one too many trips to the Home Depot and while we didn’t go anywhere exciting or go on any adventures, we did stop for lunch once to use up the rest of a Panera gift card. The Green Goddess salad. You just can’t beat it. Also, Read More >>
Hungry Hollow Country Store $47.39 I’m pretty sure that if I was stranded on a desert island and only allowed one food to eat for all eternity, it would be fruit pie. I kid you not. I just cannot pass us up well made pie. I don’t recall the individual prices for the apple-blueberry pie, Read More >>
Local Bakery Trip #1 Free thanks to a gift card that now has a zero balance. 🙁 Their potato rosemary bread makes THE BEST grilled cheese sandwiches. I use butter for the outsides of my bread, but I’ve heard of some people using mayonnaise. I haven’t tried it yet. Have YOU? Local Bakery Trip #2 Read More >>
Market Basket $33.69 We don’t normally buy margarine, but a cake recipe I was making {that also includes 4 cups of sugar and a 1/2 a cup of shortening!!!} called for it . So you know, we didn’t want to mess it up. Those old fashioned recipes…. man they sure knew how to eat back Read More >>
Market Basket $108.40 As I mentioned in my big list of goals for this year, one of the things I won’t be doing is cooking meals so I can concentrate more on my rug hooking. Which sounds kind of weird, I know, but since my Etsy shop has gone from a hobby to more of Read More >>
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