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{Counting Crumbs} End of the Pantry Challenge – Success!

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I started this week with $219.53 spent of my $300 monthly budget including food, household items and toiletries.  Each week I crunch the numbers to see where I stand.  Today marks the end of the month.  Here are weeks one, two, and three. Would it be weird to say that [...]

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Pantry Challenge Week 4: Gliding Into Home Base

PB Banana on Cornbread Girl and Boy

Slowly but surely, the pantry is getting cleared out.  It’s kinda neat to look at each shelf and know exactly what’s there without having to shuffle things side to side or remove large containers!  Who knew a pantry could be so calming?! Last weeks’ menu included a few new [...]

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{Counting Crumbs} A Light Week with Normal Hot Dogs

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I started this week with $190.28 spent of my $300 monthly budget including food, household items and toiletries.  Each week I crunch the numbers to see where I stand.  Today marks the end of week three.  Here are weeks one and two. After spending two days camping in weather as [...]

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{Yummy} Recipe: Simple Spanish Rice

Simple Spanish Rice

The third recipe that can be attributed to the current pantry challenge is aptly named Simple Spanish Rice.  So simple, yet so good, and if it weren’t for Mr. Crumbs wanting fajitas last week, it never would have been created! His choice of meal actually fit well with our [...]

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{Yummy} Recipes for Black Bean Mania

Black Bean Brownies

  Who knew that if you cooked one pound of dry black beans, you’d make enough beans to last a family of four for WEEKS?! My package didn’t say that.  When I made these beans during the first week of the pantry challenge, I firmly expected them to be eaten [...]

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Pantry Challenge Week 3: Less Drama, More Camping

Eat from the Pantry Sticky Note

We’re back to reality in this part of the world.  No more Nana to treat us to dinners.  No more blaming the husband for when dinner plans go wrong!  Here’s how the plan played out last week: The kids and I whipped up a batch of banana nutella muffins [...]

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