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MaryAnn A

Jacksonville, FL
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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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  • MaryAnn A
    Commented on Apr 24, 2013
    I do freeze in portions. I remember watching my mom suck the air out to "seal" it. I do this ...»
    to. and I think of her every time!

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  • This is the finished bench. The colors remind me of a gypsy wagon. I toiled over the colors for a year and finally was inspired by the color on a plastic tumbler. I took it to the lumber yard and they matched the color. 23
  • This is the bed how I bought it from the thrift store for $35.00.
  • This is the bed with the footboard turned upside down and it fashioned into a bench before the painting started. 3
  • Got it all sanded and primed and still had no idea what color it was going to be. 1
  • First color. Deciding what should be what color was the fun part!
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Garden bench

I made a bench out of an old bed. I'd seen these before, but not in Julee colors! Here are before, during and after photos... ...»

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Julee S
Julee S Bangor, MI
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  • MaryAnn A
    Commented on Jul 25, 2012
    I have a French Provential double headboard and back board that first was my parents. then ...»
    when I got married I "antiqued" it and it was our first bed. My daughter painted it white and took it to colledge. then when she got her first apartment she painted it brown! I so want to do something like this but use it inside so I can "pass it on!"

    I have been seeing a lot of comments about what Julie did with an "ANTIQUE BED".But you know an object has no value to a person except what that person sees.I don't know how much my parents 50+ yr old French Provential bed is worth to someone else but it has a lot of senitmental value to me. I want to pass my bed along but none of my kids have any use for a Double head board and foot board. but as a bench... you bet they would use it. I even plan to have storage made into the bottom !

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Concrete Garden Path

We made this garden walkway with a mold that we purchased at Lowe's. We mixed the Quickcrete up and then poured it into the mold a section at a time. It was almost like making mud pies. It was a bit time consuming but we were very happy with the end result. It has held up very well as it has been down now for about 3 years.
Karen K
Karen K Jacksonville, FL
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  • MaryAnn A
    Commented on Jun 07, 2012
    we have retirement home in an area that has wild turkeys, sand hill crane and other animals. ...»
    My husband and I would stay off the path for the required amt of time... but I don't think the critters would obey my signs??? any suggestions if we wanted to do this?

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