Planning To Save Money on Your Grocery Bill? Buy Food or Grow in Bulk and Freeze It!
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Planning To Save Money on Your Grocery Bill? Buy Food or Grow in Bulk and Freeze It!

BySamantha

With the way food prices are skyrocketing right now, I know we are looking at ways to keep the food budget at a reasonable level and one of the best ways to do this is to either buy or grow food in bulk and freeze the excess. With a few teenagers in our house right…

Spicy and Sweet Slow Cooker Chili
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Spicy and Sweet Slow Cooker Chili

BySamantha

This slow cooker chili gets a nice boost of flavour by using a combination of spicy and sweet pork sausage, rather than plain ground beef. To turn up the heat even more, use all spicy sausage instead.  There are few meals within our family of five agree on and one of those is chili. Whether…

Slow Cooker Mexican Shredded Chicken ~ Recipe
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Slow Cooker Mexican Shredded Chicken ~ Recipe

BySamantha

This delicious, healthy slow cooker recipe is as easy as it is versatile. This flavor-packed chicken is perfect for burrito bowls, lettuce wraps, or over a bed of flavourful cilantro-lime rice.  We like it on weekends after a long day of shovelling snow or hitting the slopes. It is so easy to pull together if…

Cilantro Lime Sauce with Homemade Fajita Seasoning
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Cilantro Lime Sauce with Homemade Fajita Seasoning

BySamantha

These two recipes pair best with the slow cooker Mexican shredded chicken and the Cilantro Lime Rice but feel free to get creative and use these however you like. I’d love to hear of any variations you may come up with 😊👍.  Creamy Cilantro-Lime Sauce For best results, prepare the cilantro-lime sauce the night before…

Cilantro Lime Rice ~ Recipe
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Cilantro Lime Rice ~ Recipe

BySamantha

Transform boring, basic rice into something extraordinary with the addition of a few fresh ingredients. In this recipe, we paired lime and cilantro to create a classic flavour combination that brings added depth and freshness to your dishes.  This cilantro lime rice is yummy paired with most any type of meat but it is especially…

How To Enjoy Peace and Comfort in your home and homestead with Hygge
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How To Enjoy Peace and Comfort in your home and homestead with Hygge

BySamantha

Hygge is a wonderful practice that can be done any time of the year, though people often focus on it in the fall and winter months when the weather is cooler, it is darker outside, and the need for comfort and coziness becomes a priority (and the bulk of the homesteading activities calm down in…

5 Ways to Relax and De-Stress After the Holidays
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5 Ways to Relax and De-Stress After the Holidays

BySamantha

After the holiday season, if you live in the north like I do, you still have several months of winter left to cope with, so you must find ways to de-stress and relax. You were probably super busy throughout the holidays, giving you little time for reducing the stress of making gifts, shopping and going to parties or visiting…

Easy Pan-Fried Breakfast Parmesan Potatoes – Recipe
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Easy Pan-Fried Breakfast Parmesan Potatoes – Recipe

BySamantha

 If you are looking for a simple yet deliciously easy pan-fried potato recipe then you have come to the right place! These potatoes are perfect with bacon and eggs or sausage and eggs or if you are really ambitious eggs Benedict. As a busy family of five, during the week we stick to quick or grab and…

3 Healthy Ways to Use Thanksgiving Leftovers
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3 Healthy Ways to Use Thanksgiving Leftovers

BySamantha

Now that you’ve visited with lots of the family and finished cleaning up that massive mess left bychildren and fun-loving pets, you peer into your refrigerator and what do you see? Tubs,and tubs of Thanksgiving leftovers. Every year, many people simply have no idea what to do with large amounts of food leftover from holiday…

Thrifty Thursday Nov 2021
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Thrifty Thursday Nov 2021

BySamantha

It has been awhile since we’ve done a thrifty Thursday post! If you haven’t seen one here before, Thrifty Thursdays are where I shared my most recent scores from thrift stores, second-hand stores and antique shops. I have been really working on adding an “Old World” feel to our home with carefully curated home decor…