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Eating Well on a Limited Budget

Ed Note: The below comment was originally posted to my blog by Jill Ferris. There is a great deal of wisdom here. Read on.

Many years ago when I was worrying about how to eat healthily on a very very limited budget I met a young mother who was raised [...]

Save money by Cooking at Home

Sometimes tremendous savings in the food budget can be made by cooking from scratch, compared to using pre-packaged, pre-processed convenience foods. In some cases, though, you may need to invest in suitable equipment such as bread baking equipment, quality stainless steel cookware and bakeware, water purification product, etc.

Duromatic pressure pans by Kuhn Rikon are [...]

Easy Economical Vegetarian Main Dishes

Last week I printed the testimonial about a “poor” woman raised in a large family of 12 children who were fed beans, cornbread, and greens two meals a day most of the year. In her adult life, the doctors, and particularly the dentist, pronounced her extremely healthy.

I’ll admit it; at times I hesitate to [...]

The Homemaker’s Mentor

I just found out two of my favorite and most talented authors, Martha Green and Rebekah Wilson, authors of The Treasury of Homekeeping Skills and The Hope Chest and Grandmother’s Hope Chest books respectively, have a vision to train woman in many useful homemaking skills that you probably weren’t taught by your mother growing [...]

Life is fragile, Please Pray

A delightful, beautiful, talented 13 year old homeschooled girl died in our town on Easter Sunday. You see, she was at her voice lesson last week and was fine.

By Wednesday she came down with some sniffles and cold symptoms most likely caught from her brothers.

By Saturday, her mom took her to the ER, [...]

Compare Top Drinking Water Contaminants

Last week I talked about the best way to address emerging contaminants, such as pharmaceuticals, in drinking water.

Many people wrote to me asking me to clarify what the benefit of an R/O (Reverse Osmosis) Drinking Water System is, and how they can know which type of system is best for their family.

Today, I want to [...]

Living on a Dime

If you listen or read news headlines in the last few weeks, you have been hearing  all  about higher food prices, sharply higher gas prices, mortgage banking crises, wheat shortages, economic woes and so forth.

Many of you are familiar with Living On A Dime and with Tawra and Jill’s money saving, get-out-of-debt, frugal living and [...]

Dr Denmark Said It – Common sense advise for home health

Who in the world knows what’s best for my baby?’ You do!” says Dr. Leila Denmark. Dr. Denmark is a well-known pediatrician, who is considered the longest practicing pediatrician, who cared for thousands of children for 75 years! That is right she retired in her 90’s, and just celebrated for 110 birthday [...]

Hot Cross Buns

Remember the children’s nursery rhyme that goes as follows?

Hot cross buns! Hot cross buns!
One a penny two a penny – Hot cross buns
If you have no daughters, give them to your sons
One a penny two a penny – Hot cross buns

Hot cross buns were sold in the street to the cry of “Hot cross buns!” [...]

Resources and Recipes to Celebrate St Patrick’s Day

My family and I traditionally observe  St. Patrick’s Day with traditional Irish food.

Having read biographies of St Patrick with my children when they were younger, I wish there was more known about the man.  We know that he was  the son of a Roman nobleman, and he was born in Scotland. He was kidnapped from [...]