Have you ever been to a steak house that offered beer bread with your meals? I'm thinking of one specifically that offered large mini loaves with your own cutting knife and whipped cinnamon butter... Mmmm... I'm not sure of the name of the place though, maybe Saltgrass? Outback? My memory has failed me, yet again! Ever since Mr. Crumbs and I had to cut back our budget (and I mean REALLY cut back), we stopped going ... Continue Reading
Archives for July 2012
Clean Eating Dinner Ideas for August
What is clean eating, you ask? Simply put, it's cutting out pre-made processed foods and eating real whole foods. Cutting out sugar and changing the way your family eats can be challenging. I suggest taking baby steps. Start by looking for these top 5 ingredients to avoid in food. Then, take steps to clean out the kitchen and transform the way you eat. ... Continue Reading
{Counting Crumbs} Whew! It’s Over!
My grocery budget is $300 each month for a family of four - two adults and two kids. This real food budget includes food, toiletries, household items as well as health & beauty products. I'm currently in the red by $15.72 and that kinda stinks. Want to see how I spent the entire $300 (and then some) of my budget? Catch up with week one, week two and week three. Well folks, since I started this week already ... Continue Reading
Guest Post: Healthy Chicken Salad, aka “Seed Salad”
Remember when I shared how I sneak flax into the foods we already eat? Well I showed you guys a picture of the common way we eat flax - a little dish we call "seed salad." It has all kinds of goodness inside... sunflower seeds, apples, pepitas, coconut oil, flax seed, dried cranberries and almonds - YUM! I'm over at Kitchen Stewardship, sharing how this delicious, healthy and REAL food salad came to exist. I ... Continue Reading
Remove Labels from Jars: A Simple DIY with One Ingredient
Look at the jars below - do you have any of those your house? You know, the jars ones that you've emptied and washed, secretly hoping the dishwasher would get rid of the label for you, but it didn't, so you reuse it anyway and hope the dishwasher will remove the label the next time it's washed? ... Continue Reading
July Meal Plan, Week 4
It's the last week of the month and the end of a week of rest. There have been a few changes since I originally wrote the meal plan for the month of July, so what I have below is slightly different than what I posted before. My sister and her fiancée will be here Monday and are staying through Saturday so you'll see a few family meals planned. My teaching schedule has switched from Tuesday/Thursdays to ... Continue Reading
{Counting Crumbs}: A Sunken Ship and 50+lbs of Produce
My grocery budget is $300 each month for a family of four - two adults and two kids. This real food budget includes food, toiletries, household items as well as health & beauty products. I started this week with $19.91 left in my grocery budget. You can see how I spent the other $280.09 in the first week here and second week here. I think I've said this before, but it warrants repeating: there's no easier ... Continue Reading
Homemade BBQ Sauce: Easy & Delicious Recipe
Wow, ya'll must think I'm crazy with all this homemade stuff this week. You may be wondering if I do nothing all day but experiment in my kitchen with marinades, homemade buns and sauces and butter... I don't, but I sure would like to! I make time for the things that are important to me. Making our own bread is important to me. Cooking good food (both in taste and nutrition) is important to me. Having homemade ... Continue Reading
Homemade Hamburger Buns: Easy & Tasty Recipe
Please, please, please don't cheat and buy buns at the store for this sandwich, or any other meat that requires a bun. Please. I'm begging you. Buns from the store are made en masse by people (or more likely machines) who don't add a very important ingredient - love. Without the love from homemade buns, your sandwiches will look just like every other sandwich. Don't you want to make other sandwiches ... Continue Reading
Garlic Butter: Easy and Tasty DIY Recipe
The deliciousness continues! You could call this portion of the sandwich the "secret," because most people don't even notice it's there... until it's not there. Garlic butter gives the sandwich such a distinct flavor and nearly MAKES the sandwich as awesome as it is. Leave it out and your sammy becomes plain and ordinary.What sandwich am I talking about? Only the best bbq tri-tip sandwich ever! Catch-up with the ... Continue Reading
