Category Archives: frugal

Hard Cooked (Not Boiled) Eggs

frugal
How do you make hard cooked eggs? Do you, like me, actually call them hard boiled eggs? Am I dating myself using the term boiled eggs? Apparently the proper term is hard cooked eggs. Do you put the eggs into water and boil them for 10-15 minutes? While researching raised beds, of all things, I found this tip on making hard cooked eggs. Let's face it, you're not going to get rich by using 10-15 minutes less gas or electricity,… Read the rest

Garden Gleanings

frugal, gardening
My first garden harvest for this season – Bright Lights Swiss Chard. We steamed the Swiss Chard and had it with butter and salt. Look at the beautiful stems! Red, yellow, pink and white plants came up; the only color that didn't germinate was orange. Beautiful, delicious, and nutritious! Looseleaf lettuce and radishes, and a few leaves of Swiss Chard. If you look closely you can see I also harvested some purslane. The above harvest cleaned and made into a… Read the rest

New Computers At Work

frugal
We got new computers at work this week, thanks to an extremely generous benefactor. We hired a company to make the change; they started last Friday so every day this week I've done nothing but work at getting my computer back to where I need it to be. Changing settings, loading programs, transferring registrations from the old computer to the new one, figuring out how to make our financial program work with the Vista operating system and on and on.… Read the rest

Weed Soup

Carnivals, frugal, gardening
If you are visiting from the Make It From Scratch carnival, welcome to Out of Debt Again! Thank you 11th Heaven's Homemaking Haven for the fantastic effort of hosting this event, (I LOVE that you included photos!) and including my post! A couple of weeks ago I learned that the weeds coming up in my garden were actually edible! How much more frugal can you get than to use free greens growing in your yard or garden, or maybe on… Read the rest