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One Month Grocery Shopping Strike: Day 3
Jan31

One Month Grocery Shopping Strike: Day 3

This is Day  Three of our One Month Grocery Shopping Strike! This morning, we had scrambled eggs and turkey breakfast sausage we had in the freezer. For lunch, 2 people in the household had tuna sandwiches on my homemade bread, and I had an open-faced tuna melt with cilantro & lime, which I will share the recipe for following this post. For dinner, I am making coconut crusted baked salmon with brown rice & green...

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Cooking in a Fixer-Upper Investment Property

Real Estate Investors: When you’re in a fixer-upper investment property and staying at the home, it can be difficult to get a good, tasty meal prepared there – amongst all the mess and dealing with issues like the electricity waiting to be upgraded. This can often feel like cooking when you’re camping. So, if you don’t want to eat out at a restaurant or order fast food for every single meal and gain extra...

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Healthy School Lunches – Be Ready for Back to School

Instead of sending your child through the cafeteria line with a $10 bill each day for school, get into the trend of packing them a healthy lunch. Healthy is in right now, as is budgeting. So, your child will not be the only one brown bagging or bento box-ing lunch this year! Keeping your kids healthy should be of paramount importance to you and here’s how you can improve their lunches…the easy way! Think of food in 6...

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You’ve Never Had a Bagel?

The other day, I was actually asked what you put on a bagel, because they had never eaten one before… WOW! Are you kidding? If you’ve never had a bagel before, you’re missing out…They’re fabulous! Think…a savory donut, less cakey, and boiled, not fried, then baked… They are usually quite healthy…It’s what you put on them that usually isn’t! LOL Cut it in half to make 2...

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Jackson-Triggs Proprietors’ Reserve Sparkling Wine for New Year’s
Dec30

Jackson-Triggs Proprietors’ Reserve Sparkling Wine for New Year’s

My husband was such a sweetheart yesterday morning. Before I had even woken up, he had made his trip to the grocery store and purchased all of his necessities for making my mother and me a spectacular brunch meal. He made us smoked salmon and chive omelets, but snazzed it up a few more notches with sparkling wine… He brought home a really delicious sparkling wine, not champagne – as only sparkling wine from Champagne,...

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Are You Food Allergy-Sensitive? Tips, Tricks & Recipe Ideas

A food allergy is a type of immunologic reaction from the intake of certain food protein. Recent studies show that there are about 12 million Americans, who suffer from food allergies. Shellfish, eggs, tree nuts, fish and peanuts are considered familiar causes of food allergies, especially for older people. Children usually suffer from food allergies to peanuts, milk and eggs. Currently, the only cure for people who are...

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Enjoy The Sunset of Summer With A Healthy Barbecue Or Picnic

Summer is coming to a close…It is truly the Sunset of Summer…Don’t you want to enjoy the last bit of summer barbecuing out on your deck or picnicking in the park with family and friends? Well, I certainly do, and I intend to. If you’re anything like me, you are trying to soak up every last ray of sunshine of the summer. I am even working outside, instead of at our kitchen table. I am not a huge fan of winter,...

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