Welcome to week one of our no grocery shopping challenge! I shared in my January’s No Grocery Shopping Experiment post about why I decided to do this with my family. Aside from it being a great lesson and experience, I also noticed how much we were spending on groceries, which made me want to try…
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January’s No Grocery Shopping Experiment
Happy January! And Happy 2024! I decided to switch things up in the kitchen for January and involve my daughters more (they are teens after all) in meal planning and cooking using ingredients we have on hand in the pantry, fridge and freezer. We started by writing down pantry items (like dried beans, broth, canned…

Bread from the Great Depression
This simple bread recipe from the Great Depression takes only a handful of ingredients, is easy to prepare and quite delicious! This is my go-to bread! Let’s get started! We are using one pound of flour which I weigh on a kitchen scale. Depending upon the type of flour, the humidity in the kitchen, the…