Our Thanksgiving

We scrimped and saved for this meal to share with our friends and it was worth it! Here are some photos below. It was an American Thanksgiving with a few splashes of Spain added.
15 of our best-est Spanish & Brazilian buddies came to the house.



If I only had $10, for groceries what would I buy?

Suppose harder times hit us. Would we be prepared? Could we eat nutritionally if we only had $10 a week (or 10€)?  Just to make this easy, lets pretend that the USD and the EURO are at parity. I’ll be using $ in this exercise.  I’d love to hear how YOU would do it [...]



The American Frugal Housewife by Lydia M. Child

What an interesting little book this is:

Originally published in 1832, this extraordinary manual for the homemaker of modest means is far more than a mere “cookbook.”
Here is a quote:
“The true economy of housekeeping is simply the art of gathering up all the fragments, so that nothing be lost. I mean fragments of time, as [...]