OK, these are one of my favorite purchases this summer: They’re Prepara Ice Pop Molds and they’re quite exciting because they have a cutout (a freeze-out? They freeze with a hole in the middle). This means, of course, that you can fill the outside with deliciously bad-for-you popsicle recipes and then fill the middle with complimentary bad-for-you […]

I’m trying to use up a bunch of my herbs that grew a little out of control while I was away. My rosemary behaved himself pretty well, but still needed a little trimming: He usually lives inside on my kitchen windowsill but just before we left I thunked him down in the veggie garden to […]

I feel like this should have some sort of pithy name or something. But I got nuthin’ so I’m calling it like it is. It’s ice cream. That you make in a ziploc bag. It’s a fun activity to do when you have a bunch of kids together because everyone can do their own and […]

Welllllll — today’s breakfast was sort of a mini-fail. I kept to one of my criteria and we ate something that was not cereal. But when I sat down and did the math, it actually came out to be slightly more expensive than cereal (especially cereal that’s on sale). It does have more protein and […]

Today’s breakfast is most cost-effective at the end of summer when the six zucchini plants you put in because you couldn’t quite believe some of them wouldn’t die all bear zucchini…and more zucchini…and more zucchini. Or if you simply have me as a neighbor and must deal with me ditching zucchini on your doorstep when […]

Today’s exciting, unique, and original no-cereal breakfast that is guaranteed to rock your world was… pancakes. Yep. That’s it. Just pancakes. But we don’t normally have them during the week and they fit our cheap, no-cereal criteria and so here we are with our pancakes. I’m discovering that this breakfast challenge is requiring me to […]