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  • How many times have you thrown food away because it spoiled before you ate it?
  • We changed our approach to food and have stretched our savings and food stores by using these few tricks.
  • Buying nuts in bulk is cheaper, but you don't want them to go back.  Separate them into air tight containers until you're ready to use them.
  • We freeze our own beans!  We soak them and divide them into meal size servings and lay them flat to freeze.
  • We portion our meats and freeze them.
  • Just make sure to label the freezer bag with the date and remove as much air as possible.
  • We do this for all our meats - chicken, ground beef, ground turkey, pork loin steaks. 3
  • TIP! Save all your chicken scraps, skin and bones, as well as any vegetable scraps.  I store them in a freezer bag and once the bag is full, I slow cook the scraps into a broth.  I let the broth cool and skim the fat, then store it!
  • For portion control, freeze your cookie dough. We fly through a batch of cookies in a few days.  Roll the dough into small balls and freeze them.
  • Transfer them to a freezer bag with the baking instructions on the outside.  Only take out the number of cookies you want to eat.
  • We make our own granola.  It's so easy, just find your favorite recipe and make. Much cheaper than store bought without all the preservatives. 1
  • One of our biggest money savers is making our own pizza.  We buy frozen dough in bulk.  We've made our own pizza sauce, too.  Each pizza comes to about $2.75! 1
  • Making your own bread may be daunting, but it's really quite easy.  One recipe we use makes two loaves.
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Stretching Your Grocery Budget

I share tips and tricks to stop wasting the food you buy.
Noting Grace
Noting Grace Henderson, NV
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  • Anne B
    Commented on Apr 24, 2013
    Another thing would be to make your own pizza dough it doesn't take that long just like cookie ...»
    dough

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Mystery flower

does anyone know what this flower is?
BeckySue G
BeckySue G Siletz, OR
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  • Anne B
    Commented on Jun 20, 2012
    Looks like something that grows wild
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  • Kitchen redone, sink area, baking table and doors beyond hide the washer aand dryer. 18
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I am proud of my kitchen

Patty S
Patty S Sturgeon Bay, WI
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    Commented on Jun 20, 2012
    Cute
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  • Dining area and built-in desk and china cabinet. 9
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I am proud of my kitchen

Patty S
Patty S Sturgeon Bay, WI
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  • Anne B
    Commented on Jun 20, 2012
    Looks Great
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  • The sink is the original one from the kitchen in the house, salvaged from the cellar. 18
  • The shelf is a $3 thrift store find. 6
  • The door knob plates from the old door. 1
  • The other plate. 1
  • A couple of clearanced hooks from Hobby Lobby. 1
  • I installed wire mesh into the window space and added this cross section so I would have a place to mount an old rake head for a tool rack. 2
  • The bench is in heavy use already. 12
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Potting Bench

When we replaced the old front door on our 100 year old home, I couldn't bring myself to throw the old one away. This is how we transformed it into a potting bench with repurposed lumber ...»
and few new bits and pieces.

#Bestof2012

Lori J
Lori J Broken Bow, NE
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  • Anne B
    Commented on Jun 18, 2012
    Great idea, looks good and environmentally responsible too.
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  • Kyle G's Gardening
  • If you cut A Rose right above it's first sprout of 5 leaves, you will promote more rose Blooms. Black eyed Zinnia's are perennials and multiply each year. And can also be split in early spring. For a Longer Bloomed show, simply dead head the Black eyed Susan flowers as they fade.
  • Giant Zinnia.....Grows upt to 4-5 ft.  Grow along fences, sheds, walls, etc. They love Sun!
  • Zinnia (The more you deadhead the faded flowers, the more branches that sprout and flowers bloom.)  Take the faded flowers and stick elsewhere in the dirt and it will reseed itself and most likely bloom in the same season. I still have flowers growing up from last year. Despite being Annuals, reseeding can turn them into perennias.
  • HollyHock!  Show Stoppers!!! Up to 6-8 ft. Staking Def. Recquired But Most Complimented!
  • Butterfly Bushes Really do Attract Butterflies 1
  • Dahlia
  • Rose
  • Petunia's....the cheapest of the flowers in Nurserys and actually I find to be the most difficult to grow by seed. But the end results are worth it. Flowers last to fall. Just pinch off faded flowers every couple of days and will promote more growth.
  • White Sunflower Tree's......Deadhead faded flowers to promote more bloom and will last to Fall/Frost!
  • White/Yellow Sunflower Tree Mixture....Easily & Quickly Grown By seed! Will last to late fall to Frost.
  • Red Sunflower Tree Mixture
  • Red Sunflower Tree, Almost Christmas Tree shaped 4' - 5' ft. Same as other, dehead faded flowers to promote more growth
  • Zinnia's, the more you cut the faded flowers, the longer they promote flowers and will last til Late Fall.
  • The Key with Zinnia's....as in most flowers but especially Zinnia's, is to always water the soil, never the leaves or fowers. If too much water and rain promotes rusty leaves, no need to worry, they are not infected, just cut off rusted leaves for healthier shoots.
  • Lily's. Grown By Bulbs. But to be honest, I found the one's you find in local grocery stores such as Shoprite, etc....seem to multiply the following year much more than single bulbs.
  • Trust me, If I can Grow These, So Could you! Only a 3rd Yr Gardnerer....Start with the basics, care free flowers and You'll be surprised what your garden could look like!
  • A Little Touch Of Love! Hope You Enjoyed The Pics
  • Dahlia, easiy grown by tubers. They multiply each year and bloom til late fall to frost.
  • Lantana's.....Beautifully Multicolored and gives off such a Grea Scent. 1
  • Cactus Zinnia...... Zinnia's are one of the easiet and quickest flowers to grow by seed!
  • 10-13 Sunflowers....Mid Summer to Fall Bloom. Extremely easy to grow by seed. Once Flower has Died, You can cut down, break apart the flowers and either harvest the seeds for next year and/or clean, bake & eat edible sunflower seeds.
  • Roses & Black Eyed Susans
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Practically Care Free Flowers, as well as Beautiful & Show Stoppers!

Zinnia's - (All Hybrids....Cut & Grow, Giants, Cactus, Pinwheels) - Sunflowers & Sunflower Tree's (Multi-colored), Gladious, Butterfly Bush, Hollyhocks, Lantansa, Dahlia's, Roses, Petunia ...»
& Black Eyed Susan's, Lilys....Just some of my Favorites!

Liz C
Liz C Garnerville, NY
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  • Anne B
    Commented on Jun 15, 2012
    My Dad always had a beautiful garden with a lot of dahlias and Chrysanthemums, they have great ...»
    large headed flowers.

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Vegetable garden

Julee S
Julee S Bangor, MI
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  • Anne B
    Commented on Jun 13, 2012
    Great idea for a small area.
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  • Kitchen floor after!! Went with renewable cork flooring!! 5
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Kitchen floor upgrade.

Jan P
Jan P Windsor, CT
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  • Anne B
    Commented on Jun 12, 2012
    Beautiful.
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  • Pond & flagstone patio finished. The pond is 9x16 and we needed an excavation machine to dig it out. So he dug and graded it for me and I did the building. 6
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flagstone patio with stonedust

Jane A
Jane A Spotsylvania, VA
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  • Anne B
    Commented on Jun 12, 2012
    Lovely work, I would go with matt to as a natural look for sealing
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Gardening: Ok, me again. Any idea what the heck this plant is? The berries almost look like jalepenos...

This is in my friend's yard in Indiana. Any help is greatly appreciated!!
Jane P
Jane P Fishers, IN
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  • Anne B
    Commented on Jun 11, 2012
    To bad the nightshade is deadly it is a pretty flower.
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