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Menu Plan Monday: Week of 10/19

by Mindi Cherry on October 19, 2009

I am really really trying to get back to menu planning.  Combined with my love of my crockpot, it might be just thing that I really need to streamline my life right now.  So, without further ado, here is our menu for the week:
Monday:  Italian crockpot chicken, rice, steamed broccoli
Tuesday:  Spaghetti with hot italian sausage, [...]

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Menu Plan Monday – The Use It Up Edition

by Mindi Cherry on March 22, 2009

I’m on a mission to clear out some room in my freezer in order to start doing some Once A Month Cooking (more on that later).  I also still have a healthy stockpile and did a quick inventory of my freezer and was shocked when I realized how many things that I forgot were in [...]

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Bargain Meal of the Week

by Mindi Cherry on February 19, 2009

If you have been reading this site for a while, you know that I am a big fan of $5 Dollar Dinners.  Erin has a nice collection of meals there and since she has children with food allergies, she provides many gluten-free meal ideas as well.  I don’t have children with allergies, but I have [...]

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Menu Plan Monday: Month of No Spending Edition

by Mindi Cherry on February 9, 2009

The only way that I am going to get through my Month of No Spending is by planning out our menus.  I’m a big fan of menu planning in general, but when you have decided that you will be buying only eggs, dairy, bread and produce for the month and eating from the pantry and freezer, [...]

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Menu Plan Monday: Frugal Fat Fighters Edition

by Mindi Cherry on October 27, 2008

Here’s a peek at what we are eating this week.  I know it isn’t very exciting, but we are eating from the pantry & freezer this week (although I haven’t told Brad that yet!).  Produce will be mainly salad (with the Fresh Express $1 coupons), apples, bananas & squash (all of which is super-cheap right [...]

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Eating from the Pantry + $25

by Mindi Cherry on July 7, 2008

This is my first post with Menu Plan Monday and considering the great deals (with very little OOP) that I got the past few weeks, my Goal for the next 2 weeks is to spend no more than $25 on milk & produce each week and create meals from what I have on hand!  Thank [...]

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