• Great Grocery Deals
    Groceries

    Great Grocery Deals! 11/10/13

    Saturday evening I was working on my monthly order with Azure Standard. If you have a route in your area, and you like to purchase “whole food” or “real food” type items, you really should check them out. I think you have to create an account in order to see their prices, but they really do have great grocery deals. They brought a route to my area of the country early last year, and I’ve been so glad that they did! They’re opening up more routes all the time, so if there isn’t one near you, contact the company and tell them you’re interested. Maybe they’ll bring one your direction…

  • Menu Plan

    Menu Plan 10/7/2013

    Time to start easing into the Fall food! Pumpkins and soups, coming up!  It must be Fall, because around here, a lot of leaves got swept up and moved to the chickens’ area this weekend! The chickens are very happy to have some new playthings, but I think the kiddos are going to be vying for their own leaf pile to jump in on the next leaf-sweeping go-round!  In the meantime, here’s the general game plan for feeding everyone this week: Monday Pumpkin Spiced Oatmeal Black Bean Soup, Chips, Apples and Melons Roast Chicken, Roasted Asparagus and Carrots Tuesday GF Pancakes Pasta and Salads, Grapes and Apples Crock Pot Baked…

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  • Groceries,  Menu Plan

    Shopping for Groceries Online

    I am CONSTANTLY having conversations with friends (or acquaintances) where I mention a grocery item that I purchase online, or I mention how infrequently I go to the grocery store (and mostly for things like bananas and spinach) and my friends are really SHOCKED that I purchase a LOT of groceries from Amazon. Apparently, many people are still not aware of Amazon’s great “Subscribe and Save” program.  Using this program, you can subscribe to certain items (not all items are available for subscription) and get an additional 5% discount on the item, plus free shipping.  If, in any given month, you have 5 or more “Subscribe and Save” items shipping…