$50 budget week grocery week #4

Monday
Breakfast: cereal
Lunch: mashed potatoes and steamed beets
Dinner: leftover sloppy joes (I didn't blog last week since we were out of town most of the week. I however cooked Sunday night sloppy joes and Friday I made the biscuits, mashed potatoes and gravy with steamed veggies Saturday we ate at a birthday we went to and the rest of the week I was at my mom's house)

Tuesday
Breakfast: yogurt and fruit
Lunch: more potatoes (I crave them!)
Dinner: tacos

Wendsday
Breakfast: blueberry french toast eggs for the little one
Lunch: sandwiches with herbed foccacia  bread
Dinner: chicken breast veggies and cheesy potatoes




Thursday
Breakfast: scones fruit and yogurt
Lunch: flour tortilla pizzas
Dinner: enchiladas







Friday
Breakfast: apple sauce pancakes eggs and fruit
Lunch:  black bean quesadillas 
Dinner: chicken pot pie... and one not so chicken pot pie

Saturday
Breakfast:english muffins eggs orange juice and maybe sausage for the hubby.
Lunch: parsley pesto noodles
Dinner: veggie burgers

Sunday
Breakfast: apple flax muffins fruit
Lunch: herbed naan hummus possible wraps of some sort or just dip the naan in hummus
Dinner: cauliflower soup



Snacks
crackers
celery carrots and dip
fruit
leftovers

Using just over$34 dollars due to gifts from other people's garden and fresh peaches from my tree! Lots of savings!

$50/week grocery budget week #3

Monday burritos black beans rice corn peppers onions





Tuesday Potato Cheese Soup since it sounds magical to my pregnant belly and we didn't get to it last week and my mom's secret yummy rolls.

Wednesday we are eating the Vegetarian Southwest One-Pot Dinner with changes in recipe. We didnt get to it last week either...

Thursday Hawaiian Haystacks ours were a bit different I used cream of celery soup, celery, pineapple, tomatoes, olives, chow mein noodles,  green onion cheese and red pepper served over rice






Friday the biscuit and gravy mashed potato chicken and salad meal we didnt get to last week. We didn' get to it yet again this week since we were super busy and we ate a $5 pizza from Little Caesers.

Saturday we are having our open house to our sealing so we will be eating there.

Sunday Navajo tacos

Snacks

veggies

fruit

crasins

crackers



Lunch

hot dogs

leftovers

sandwiches



Breakfast

oatmeal

cereal

french toast

eggs and toast


I am so excited! Partly because I only had to buy sour cream in the dairy portion we came up with savings this week! $38.56! Could that be right? YES! Oh I am so excited! WaHoooo!

Cure an earache naturally

My husband has had this earache so we thought we would give this a try and it works! Garlic is amazing! You can just peel the garlic and put it outside your ear like a hearing aid. My ear was hurting as well so i cut the clove in half and put one in each ear. It may sting a little. That is the juices getting to the infected areas. Keep the garlic in as long as you can I have heard people using it over night and others just a few minutes. You may need to reapply every couple hours if you don't leave it in long enough or have a severe earache.

If you do not like the idea of putting the actual garlic in your ear try garlic oil. This works great especially for kids and even babies. We used garlic oil on our daughter when she was just little and it worked like a dream.  Garlic oil can be bought at most health food stores or you can make it easy at home. I would buy it first, then make it, and store in the original cleaned out container. This is how you can make it here about 5 minutes into the video.

Garlic has many healing properties and is a natural antibiotic. Here are several sites that can give you more information about this super food!

http://quanta-gaia.org/reviews/books/powerOfGarlic.html
http://www.naturalnews.com/034118_garlic_antibiotics.html
http://www.herballegacy.com/Motteshard_Medicinal.html
http://www.thespringoflife.net/garlic.html

All-Purpose Cleaner Eco and Cheap

My go-to cleaner! All you need is a 50-50 solution of water and vinegar. Most jobs you can dilute and add essential oils if you want a nice smell or spray some home made room spray after use of vinegar. I use this vinegar solution on my mirrors and just take a dry rag to dry the mirror off. It is fantastic on anything! Cheap to! When I mop i dilute a little bit but other then that I spray on and scrub off!  It is safe, non-toxic, and edible. Vinegar is a natural odor neutralizer, is a mild acetic acid that forms through the fermentation of sugars or starches making it work just as good as any cleaner out there. I would say better since it is non toxic cheap and environmental friendly.

Check this out for more information on using vinegar as

Check out why I love vinegar here

Cheap Idea Snacks in the ride!

Snacking in the car. Yep, pretty easy right? Lately, I have been busy with wedding preparations and we have been in the car a lot! At first, we would get so hungry I was buying things I wouldn't at the store to snack on.  Then there is the killer... you go to drive up... and it costs 12 dollars for you and your kid! That is a lot of money now that I am feeding our family healthy and yummy on $50/week.

So, I came up with a quick easy life saver in the car. I have treats hanging out in the car. We have water yes, it gets hot but, it is better then nothing! If you know you will be out and about during a meal... pack it!

My little 2 year old thinks it is so fun when we picnic in the car! You could also find a park and give them time to get the wiggles out. It is a little more enjoyable experience shopping when they feel fed, happy, and got that energy out. Bring a sandwich, carrot sticks, pretzels and some water your next shopping extravaganza!