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Cloned Coffee: Mock Coconut Mocha Frappuccino

Filed under Frugal Living, Kitchen & Cooking by Kimberly on March 24, 2012 at 1:43 pm {4 comments}

Super Simple Homemade Coconut Mocha Frappachino Recipe

Last summer, Starbucks got me addicted to the Coconut Mocha Frappuccino, then stopped selling it. Want to know how to make your own at home? Here’s how! Last summer, a web design client very sweetly gave me a $50 gift card to Starbucks as a thanks. I still had money on my card when the [...]

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Day 31: Just Do It

Filed under Frugal Living, House & Home, Kitchen & Cooking, Organizing by Kimberly on February 9, 2012 at 6:31 am {no comments}

Well, we’ve come to the end of this series on being more Organized with our Menu Planning and Shopping, so as to help us save time, money, and sanity while preserving our family meal time. The most important instruction is this: Just do it. Start. Start small if you need to. Or start big, if [...]

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Day 30: Other Menu Planning Methods

Filed under Frugal Living, House & Home, Kitchen & Cooking, Organizing by Kimberly on February 8, 2012 at 6:16 am {no comments}

As I said at the start of this series, mine is not the “one right way” to plan your menu. You have to do what works for you. Well, in discussing the matter with several friends, it would seem that most people either plan for a month (some even shop for a month and some [...]

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Day 29: FInding Local Sources for Your Favorites

Filed under Frugal Living, House & Home, Kitchen & Cooking, Organizing by Kimberly on February 7, 2012 at 6:41 am {no comments}

One thing that will make the implementation of our menus more organized and frugal is figuring out the best places, locally, to purchase ingredients for those items on our regular menu. Our family lives rurally, so everything for us is a drive in one direction or another. I have to be orderly about how I [...]

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Day 28: The Spice of Life

Filed under Frugal Living, House & Home, Kitchen & Cooking, Organizing by Kimberly on February 6, 2012 at 6:12 am {3 comments}

Would you like a “freebie”? There’s a freebie at the end of this post! That probably got your attention, huh? Today, let’s talk a little bit about how we’re cooking, and how to make homemade frugal foods taste better. After all, there’s no point in planning a menu of homemade tasty goodness if your family [...]

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