Ground Beef Taco Meat
I’ve learned that some of my best ideas come from extreme circumstances. For example:
In order to get out of debt, we learned how to create a grocery budget. That let me to create this blog, my course Grocery Budget Bootcamp, and it allowed us to pay cash for our house.
More recently, we embarked on the Whole30 (an elimination diet that prohibits soy, gluten, grains, sugar, dairy and legumes) and we were eating crazy amounts of meat. In order to stay in budget, I found ways to stretch ground beef and came up with what is now our favorite ground beef taco meat recipe!
Homemade Taco Seasoning Recipe
We are a taco family. Whether they’re in corn tortillas, flour tortillas or over a bed of Instant Pot brown rice or coconut rice or on a bed of cilantro lime coleslaw – we.love.tacos.
What we don’t love, is store-bought taco seasoning.
So I use this homemade taco seasoning recipe instead and it hits tacos out of the ballpark, every single time!
7 Harmful Household Cleaners to Avoid
Earlier this year I hosted a chemical-free living challenge, showing you how to replace dangerous chemicals in your house with natural cleaning options that were just as effective. We worked through one area at a time, focusing on the rooms and spaces that would affect us the most: kitchen, bathroom, laundry and personal care. IClick to Continue »
How much does the Whole30 cost?
I’m sure you’ve heard somewhere along the line that the GAPS diet or the Whole30 or Paleo style of eating is expensive, right? Let me set the record straight – it is!! At least it’s more expensive than what we’re used to. My family and I did the Whole30 earlier this year and it was oneClick to Continue »
How to Make Homemade Chicken Stock Using Kitchen Scraps
I teach students in my Grocery Budget Bootcamp class to always have an old yogurt container in the freezer for chicken stock. I usually get a couple strange comments and looks, so I explain that the container is for kitchen scraps – anything and everything that could possibly be added to chicken stock to enhanceClick to Continue »
My Favorite Easy Dinner Salad Recipe
For the first week of our Whole30, I meal planned like a crazy woman. I knew who was eating what, and when. Which is important when you have four people who eat two of the three meals in different places. About two-thirds through the Whole30, I got really, really tired of cooking. So tired, IClick to Continue »
No-bake Coconut Blueberry Pie Recipe (Whole30)
When you’re on the Whole30, desserts and snacks are off limits. Removing certain food groups (sugar, gluten, grains, dairy, alcohol and legumes) is just as important as re-training the way your brain and stomach communicate so that everything is working the best way possible. No sugar wasn’t too bad since we’ve been in the processClick to Continue »
50+ Ways to Use Essential Oils (besides diffusing them)
As a frugal person who is allergic to too much clutter under sink cabinets, I’m all about buying things with multiple purposes. That’s one reason why I use coconut oil to cook AND to moisturize my face. It’s also why I use a bar of soap to wash my hair and why I use aClick to Continue »
DIY Homemade Poultry Seasoning
My husband said to me the other day, “What’s for dinner? And please don’t tell me chicken and sweet potatoes.” As a family, we’ve been on the Whole30 for 9 weeks. He cut out dairy and gluten two weeks before we started and two weeks into the first official month, he cut out nightshades asClick to Continue »
One Week Vegetarian Meal Plan
I’ve written a lot of meal plans over the years… there’s the Whole30 meal plan, the $50 ALDI meal plan, the original $50 one week meal plan, the second $50 one week meal plan… not to mention the THREE YEARS worth of MONTHLY meal plans too. As you can imagine, I get a lot ofClick to Continue »