Entries Tagged as ‘Being Cheap’

July 12, 2009

GF Recipes… Oatmeal Bars and NotLaraBars

We like “energy” or snack bars around here… and they are NOT cheap, so we are making them now.  The recipes are posted at Eat.Drink.Better.
The kids particulary love the oat bar and the NotLaraBars are a fun, healthy, RAW food treat.
We add all kinds of fun things to the oat bars in order to provide [...]

June 14, 2009

Poor Man’s Slightly More Nutritious Chocolate Mini Muffins (and other Mini things)

Tonight found me thrashing through the cupboards trying to come up with something to make for the 10 children who will be in my house tomorrow. In case you didn’t already know, kids want to eat CONSTANTLY. I do run a tight ship around here, but I still have to feed breakfast at [...]

April 14, 2009

Suggestions NEEDED!

I am in the midst of planning:
A schoolwide/community SOCK HOP (this is mostly handled by last years plans and a great staff member)
A schoolwide JOGATHON
VBS (Vacation Bible School)
The Jogathon is the most pressing at the moment… I need ideas for prizes.  Who’s got ideas for me?
Any fabulous ideas for planning the VBS?  I’m new at [...]

April 4, 2009

Jumping on the Coupon Band Wagon…

I’m on a mission to save our family some money (and who isn’t?).  Previously, I’ve given a half-hearted go at the coupon clipping/sale shopping thing… it has always just been easier to rely on our bi-weekly Costco run, a Whole Foods run once a month and in between runs to Fred Meyer (natural foods has [...]