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Cheap Dinner Ideas: Potato Bar

Sometimes it is hard to balance quick and easy with cheap when it comes to meals. The kids are really starting to get into their activities, and with all of the driving around (although I know we are probably better than most in that regard), there is little time for doing a lot of cooking from scratch. But home made meals don’t need to be elaborate to be healthy, warm, filling and delicious. Made with lower cost ingredients or even leftovers, you can have some great dinners without a lot of time or cost. Here we come $5 dinners! One … Continue reading →

Cooking With Kids – White Chocolate Pretzels

I’ve been looking for easy things for my kids to help with. Tonight we made some pretzels with white chocolate drizzle. They turned out fine, and they have a nice sweet and salty taste. The kids like them better than I do. I thought it would be an easy, easy thing to make since it didn’t involve an oven. It’s not completely uncomplicated. We melted white baking chips in the microwave. You can also use a double boiler. If I end up making these again, I will use the double boiler. Microwaving chocolate is very tricky. You need to do … Continue reading →

Baked Potato Night – Cooking With Kids

My husband is one of those rare people who don’t like potatoes. He’ll eat just about other vegetable, but except for french fries, he doesn’t eat potatoes. My kids and I love potatoes any way they are made – boiled, baked, twice-baked, mashed, or creamed. So sometimes, when we know my husband won’t be home for dinner, we plan on baked potato night. If it’s been awhile since you really oven baked a potato, not just microwaved it – let me persuade you. Bake the potato. Turn the oven on 400 or so and wait an hour. If you are … Continue reading →

The Frugal Baked Potato (1)

One of my favorite fast, frugal foods to prepare has always been baked potatoes. In fact, I almost continuously have them on hand, sitting in the darkness of our pantry, just waiting for an opportunity to come and be enjoyed at dinner. There are not many foods that are as cheap as a potato. What other hearty food can be purchased in large ten and twenty pound bags for simply a few dollars? And if you are lucky and happen to have a farmer’s market nearby, you can get even better deals. Awhile back I wrote about A Very Frugal … Continue reading →

Three-Course Campfire Meal

I give blogger Valorie credit for heading out to the great outdoors with five young children… and feeding them there. My camping expeditions have been limited to adult-only outings and even then the food was not exactly gourmet. Of course, we were starving college kids at the time so none of our meals (whether in the woods or in our tiny apartments) were exactly five star dining experiences. Then again, when you are “roughing it” you really shouldn’t expect a menu of prime rib and mashed potatoes every night. Rather, you should aim for simple, no mess dishes that are … Continue reading →

No Cook Dinner

I’m almost embarrassed to tell you what I fed my family tonight for dinner. But since they thought it was great fun, I’ll tell you. We had a big, busy day with a trip to the movies, the health food store, the big warehouse store, and exercising at the YMCA. By the time we got home we were all tired, and the house was very hot. We don’t have air conditioning, and most of the time we don’t really need it here in Colorado. Today though, some cooling air would have been nice. The house was too hot to cook … Continue reading →

How to Get More Magnesium in Your Diet

Magnesium is available through a wide variety of foods. It is entirely possible to get enough magnesium solely through food choices and not need a supplement at all! Any green vegetable is a great source of magnesium. Why? Because the chlorophyll molecules that give a plant its green color have magnesium in the center. Good sources of magnesium include: Halibut — a three ounce serving contains 90 milligrams of magnesium. Dry roasted almonds or cashews can contain between 70 and 80 milligrams of magnesium per ounce. Dry roasted peanuts and peanut butter contain 50 milligrams of magnesium per serving. A … Continue reading →

Homemade Root Beer Experiment

Do your kids like root beer? One of my children wanted a homemade root beer kit for Christmas. He didn’t get it. The kit looked complicated and was expensive. To create the root beer involved steeping roots and sterilizing bottles. It didn’t sound like much fun to me. A few days ago at the store we spotted Root Beer Concentrate next to the vanilla and peppermint extracts. One the back was a simple recipe for root beer so we tried it. In a saucepan you bring one and a half cups water to a boil. Stir in ¾ c up … Continue reading →

Teach Your Children How not to be Fat

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Just because many of us are fighting the battle of the bulge, that doesn’t mean that we can’t teach our kids how to eat properly and stay fit. In fact, this is the ideal time for us to break the chain and make sure that our children never have to deal with the kind of weight loss worries we do. Guaranteeing your children a better future isn’t just about global warming and recycling – it is about teaching them the skills they’ll need to live a happy, healthy life. At the top of that list should be teaching them about … Continue reading →

Family Fun Week in Review

Enjoy these last weeks of summer with some fun ideas! Get those kids playing outside, learning something new, and having fun with a twist on the chore chart in The “I’m Bored” Activity Chart. Teach your children about the wonders of nature as they also practice observation and organization skills in Creating a Bird Book. Have fun and easy night of cooking with Baked Potato Night – Cooking With Kids. Make an old toy do new tricks in Wet Sidewalk Chalk. And learn about the ways reading the same book as a family can be fun, educational, and memorable in … Continue reading →