Posts by Andrea Deckard
Eating Real Food on a Food Stamp or SNAP Budget
Learn how to make your SNAP/food stamps last all month with these tips. Eat good food with easy recipes and stretch your benefits to last longer. Eating healthy certainly isn’t cheap, especially if you have several mouths to feed. If you happen to be on the Food Stamp or SNAP budget, which averages out to…
Read MoreMickey Mouse Popsicle Stick Craft
Easy Mickey Mouse craft for kids using popsicle sticks as one of the main supplies. Want a fun craft for the little disney lovers in your family? Look no further! This inexpensive craft is kid-friendly and will make them super excited to have a little piece of Mickey Mouse at home with them! You can…
Read MoreMoon Dough or Cloud Dough
Easy cloud dough recipe to make with the kids! You only need 2 ingredients and most are probably already sitting in your pantry right now! Moon dough or cloud dough? Or maybe it’s moon sand? What do and your kids call this recipe? I’ve heard it called both and I suppose it doesn’t really matter.…
Read MoreSidewalk Chalk Paint
This DIY sidewalk chalk paint only takes 3 ingredients and can be made in less than 5 minutes! With so many people at home now, there are tons of fun pictures being shared of the sidewalk drawings they are passing on daily walks. With the current state of affairs, it’s been a refreshing look at…
Read MoreEmergency Fund Savings: 24 Items to Sell to Fund the Account
An Emergency Fund Savings account is so important! If you’ve ever experienced an unexpected job loss like our family has, you know how crucial an emergency savings account is! I can’t tell you how many times ours has been a blessing as we had unexpected emergencies. How much should you have in savings? That will be…
Read MoreHomemade Goo Gone
Remove sticker residue from almost any surface with this Homemade Goo Gone recipe! I cannot tell you how many times this Homemade Goo Gone is used in our home in a week. All of the stickers that come on merchandise nowadays are like cemented on. And is it just me or are the TJ Maxx…
Read MoreHow to Make Homemade Brown Sugar
I never thought I would be writing a post on how to make brown sugar but here it is! With the current situation and pandemic, having pantry staples on hand is essential for lots of homemade cooking. If you’re making your own pantry items from scratch, definitely add this one to your virtual recipe book.…
Read MoreHomemade Pizza Dough
Homemade pizza dough is unbeatable but some days you just don’t have the time. Take a couple hours out of an afternoon to whip up several batches. Freeze them in freezer safe ziplock bags, and anytime you are in the mood for pizza you can pull one out to thaw it and have a delicious…
Read MoreHomemade Bread Machine Bread Recipe
Way back when I started the site I shared how I was giddy over making bread out of the bread machine we got for a wedding gift. I hadn’t used the bread machine ever (and we had been married around 10 years at that time)! Having made many batches of homemade bread with that bread…
Read MoreHomemade Ketchup Recipe
Homemade ketchup is another easy recipe in our make-at-home pantry staples recipes. A lot of friends have gone to making their own ketchup for diet preferences. While this recipe is not paleo or keto, you could easily substitute the brown sugar for a monkfruit sweetener like this one. I’ve used that golden sweetener in many…
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