I have to be completely honest and tell you that this recipe was a complete accident. This is also the exact comment Mr. Crumbs made when he ate this: Oh my goodness, this is the best thing you've ever made. So, if you've ever looked for a rosemary sea salt flatbread recipe, you can stop looking. This is it. ... Continue Reading
Archives for July 2017
13 Cheap Dinner Ideas for Hosting Company
Cheap dinner ideas that helped us host dinner 40 times in the past 90 days on a super low budget. Some vegetarian, some chicken, all healthy and frugal! In the past 90 days, we’ve hosted 9 different sets of families in our home. NINE. That equates to 40 meals shopped, prepped and cooked for up to 9 people at one time. All within our $330/month grocery budget. How did we do it? We started every visit ... Continue Reading
Slow Cooker Salsa Chicken
My family loves anything that remotely resembles Mexican food. Slow cooker carnitas? The best thing since sliced bread (which is saying a lot, since they’ll devour a loaf of No-knead Artisan Bread in one sitting!). Homemade blender salsa? I’ve never bought salsa since I first made this recipe years ago. Slow cooker salsa chicken? My go-to Mexican-like dish when the pantry is looking sparse and the grocery budget ... Continue Reading
My Struggle to Lose Weight and the Slow Carb Diet
Earlier this summer, while the kids were visiting their grandparents, Mr. Crumbs and I ditched our phones and computers and fled the country on a big boat. A few months before that, I started running regularly again and started following the slow carb diet in hopes of feeling a little better about how I looked in my swim suit. I want to share some of the pros and cons to the slow carb diet, and what I’m doing ... Continue Reading
How to Make the Best Scrambled Eggs
How to make fluffy scrambled eggs that are truly the best! Make them with cheese or veggies, but skip the milk and the microwave. They're easy to make in a skillet, in just 5 minutes! (updated 7/2/2019) Call me crazy, but I firmly believe there is a RIGHT way, and a WRONG way, to make scrambled eggs. Make them the wrong way and you end up with either dry and rubbery eggs, OR wet and goopy eggs. Make them the ... Continue Reading
25 Insider Cruise Tips to Save Money
My husband and I have a "thing" with cruises. We took one early on in our marriage, and for various reasons - like paying off debt, having kids, moving across the country and saving to buy a house in cash - we didn't take one for 10 years. Then we celebrated our 10th wedding anniversary with another cruise. Not only was it an amazing way to celebrate, but it confirmed how much we love the food, the sound of the ... Continue Reading
Roasted Red Pepper Tomato Soup
Sometimes the best recipes are born on accident. Mexi-lentil macaroni was created because I needed dinner and didn’t have much in the pantry. 90 minute man bread was born because we needed bread, we were short on time and my husband didn’t want to follow a recipe. Roasted red pepper tomato soup can be attributed to finding a wrinkly red pepper that was originally intended for another meal, but wasn’t used. Instead ... Continue Reading
My First Summer Vegetable Garden in Georgia
I’ve always wanted to be a successful gardener, but I’ve never been good at gardening. When we lived in California, my step-mom gave me big pots and gardening tools for Christmas one year so I could grow tomatoes in our tiny, sand-filled townhouse backyard. Believe it or not, those tomatoes were the only successful thing I had ever grown out West. No matter how “easy” everyone said it was to grow zucchini or ... Continue Reading
