Blueberry Lemon Pancakes – $5 Dinner Challenge

by Erin, The $5 Dinner Mom on August 16, 2010

Breakfast for dinner…a smart way to reduce your grocery budget…simply incorporate 1 of these meals into your weekly meal plan and be on your way to spending less! Making pancakes from scratch has been something I have done for many years!  I had lots of fun coming up with (and tasting) a bunch of different [...]

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Batch Cooking Plan – Getting Ahead

by Erin, The $5 Dinner Mom on August 16, 2010

Now that I’ve caught up…it’s time to get ahead! Not sure exactly when each of these things will get done, but if I have them all done by the end of the week…I’ll be in great shape for the rest of the month!!! Here’s the Batch Cooking Plan for this week: Bake Bread Bake Muffins [...]

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CLOSED! Bake Me a Wish Cakes – Giveaway

by Erin, The $5 Dinner Mom on August 16, 2010

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Menu Plan Monday – August 16

by Erin, The $5 Dinner Mom on August 15, 2010

Another Monday…another meal plan! Check out what we’ll be having this week!!!

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Stuffed Tomatoes – Grow. Eat. $ave.

by Erin, The $5 Dinner Mom on August 14, 2010

Looking for a recipe that uses a vegetable that’s growing in your garden? Perhaps Grow. Eat. $ave. can help!

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The amount of produce that is wasted in America each year is staggering, which means that millions of dollars in food is wasted each year, both by manufacturers who have surplus crops and homeowners who purchase food that goes bad. But if you’ve got a few brown bananas lying around, bringing them to the local [...]

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Want a sneak peak at what coupons are in this Sunday’s paper? There is scheduled to be 1 Smart Source and 1 Red Plum in this weekend’s paper. $.55/1 Mini Babybel Cheese, any size/variety $.75/1 Uncle Ben’s Whole Grain Rice Products $1/3 Del Monte Fruit Naturals Cups $2/2 Covergirl Lip or Face Product Check out [...]

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Farmer’s Market Trip – August 12

by Erin, The $5 Dinner Mom on August 13, 2010

Wicked hot. That is all I have to say about this week’s farmer’s market trip.  We stopped by the “traveling market,” that comes to our little suburb every Thursday.  By the time we left, we were all dripping…and you can see that from the little that we bought, we weren’t there long!  A quote from [...]

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So I really can’t believe that I’ve been at this for 2 years now!  I pinch myself everyday and am so grateful for the many opportunities and experiences that have come my way because of the website!!! This year, we’re having a birthday bash!  Last year I had an anniversary, but as I thought about [...]

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