It's spring, which means it's Ultimate Homemaking Bundle time! The Ultimate Homemaking Bundle is a complete curated library of 93 eBooks, courses, and printables created by popular bloggers to give you the resources, inspiration and encouragement you need to help you win at managing your home. With this bundle, you’ll find solutions to your homemaking struggles and more. You'll learn: How to create a customized system for time management that suits your unique family. Recipes and tutorials to help you save on food, beauty, cleaning and more, as well as resources to help you really stay on top of your budget. Systems and tips for Keep Reading
Frugal Money Saving Tip: Meal plan to save money (and your sanity)
Frugal Money Saving Tip If there's one frugal money saving tip that I wish I could master, it's this: Make a weekly dinner plan and stick to it. I honestly think developing this discipline would give me the room to reduce my grocery budget by 20%. Here's how a making and executing a meal plan saves you money: You're incorporating food you already have in your house into meals, which shrinks your shopping list. You're not purchasing food that doesn't have a specific job to do, thereby reducing or eliminating food waste. I've read that the average American household throws 25% of their food away. Ouch. You're avoiding the last-minute Keep Reading
Get a CRAZY deal on Mrs. Meyer’s products this week only!
As we've added more people (and chaos) into our home, I've come to rely on subscription services more and more to make sure my home is stocked with our essentials. Not only does it save me time (I don't have to run out to the store for last minute purchases), but I actually end up saving money (I'm not making any impulse purchases while I'm at Target). I've tried out and love Amazon Prime and Stitch Fix and have recently added Grove Collaborative (formerly ePantry) to the mix. Grove Collaborative helps you figure out what natural cleaning products you use and then makes sure they show up at your house when you need them. Grove Collaborative Keep Reading
Plain yogurt vs. flavored yogurt: Decoding labels & ingredients
Plain yogurt vs. flavored yogurt In college, I spent a summer teaching in China. My students would grill me for hours about American culture, while I was just as fascinated to learn about theirs. I'll never forget one conversation talking about the different sights and smells in China: the meat and smoke and oil and noodles. Everything, including the people, carried these smells. I asked the kids what Americans smelled like to them. The answer? SOUR MILK. Ha! At this point in the conversation, I had the opportunity to teach my students the new phrase: conversation killer. I guess it shouldn't really surprise us. You are what you eat, and Americans Keep Reading
Yogurt and Fruit Parfait Snacks #BeSnacksational
As we plow through the end of winter and enter the home stretch of the school year, I'm starting to run out of after-school snack ideas. Luckily, General Mills has a bunch of great products that help make after-school snacking easy. I hit up my local Safeway to grab ingredients for a filling snack for the kids that can be easily customized to fit their individual tastes (without a bunch of work from me!). I found the perfect recipe -- Yogurt and Fruit Parfaits! And I thought it would be fun to have the kids to make their own parfaits by offering a number of ingredients in a buffet. Here's what I included in the Yogurt and Fruit Keep Reading
What is a Postpartum Doula?
Postpartum Doulas Way back in 2012, I wrote a series of posts that explained why I chose to give birth at home with all five of my kids. We thought it would be interesting to build on those posts by sharing additional, and often unknown, ways of doing the whole baby thing. Today we asked Kimberly Bepler of ABC Doula to help us understand the purpose and function of a postpartum doula. Labor doulas are very popular for supporting pregnancy and birth, however postpartum doulas seem to still need quite a bit of explanation, as illustrated by the many people who ask what it is that actually I do. Having now been a postpartum doula for 15 years, I Keep Reading
5 easy meals to make with your kids (menu plan)
This is a re-post from a previous year. My "big" kids (3, 4, 5) are suddenly big into helping me in the kitchen. All together. All the time. Three stools in the kitchen. Three voices begging, "What can I do next, Mom?!" Three times the time and mess and dirty dishes. Be jealous. I mean, cherish every moment, Emily. Sheesh. Well, I am determined to make this work. I know they won't be begging to set the table when they are thirteen. And I really do want my kids to have confident kitchen skills (As in, I want them making dinner for us by the time they are eight). I have recently realized that's only going to happen if I actually make a point to Keep Reading
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