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You’ll Hanker For This Easy Grilled Pork Chop Marinade Recipe

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Looking for an easy grilled pork chop marinade that’s both sweet and savory? This is the perfect recipe, and it’s done in no time!

Pork chops are one of those things that can be tricky to cook just right.

Sometimes they’re cut thick, sometimes thin.

They tend to dry out too easily.

It took me forever to find a sure fire way to serve them that everyone loves. But this marinade? This is the one.

It’s the best way to grill up juicy, delicious pork chops that everyone in my family of eight absolutely devours.

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Living A Simple Life With Little Money

Learn how living a simple life with little money can change your life in the best possible way.

Admit it: watching the price of even the most basic foods at the grocery store rise every single week has made you consider becoming Amish.

Yeah, me, too.

Ok, so maybe that’s a little drastic. But there has to be a way to simplify things at least a little bit.

Because the cost of everything isn’t going down any time soon, the time to change some of your spendy habits is definitely now.

This doesn’t have to be painful! In fact, I’ve found that simplifying many parts of life has made me feel less anxious and more fulfilled (while saving our family budget).

Here are some things I definitely think you’ll want to try.

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Finance For Teens: Money Things You Should Probably Talk About

Get a list of things you should cover when you talk finance for teens, plus how to start the conversation and resources to try.

It would be nice if we could just sit down with our kids one time, have a chat about money, and call it good enough.

Unfortunately, just like the rest of parenting, you have to talk about finance for teens over and over again.

A week or two ago, I had a talk with a couple of my teens about budgeting. (We have four teenagers in case you’re wondering why I would say “a couple of teens”.)

It was amazing! Just kidding. I talked, and they made jokes about memes and video games the entire time.

But whenever I said something like, “Do you even know what I said?”, they could answer me.

I know from experience that when I try to talk with my teens about something serious, there just isn’t going to be a lot of back and forth conversation.

So these days, I look for opportunities to plant seeds of ideas in their brain.

And now I know that later they might ask questions (maaaybe), or they will at least start to put some of those ideas into practice on their own.

So there’s the how to have the conversation. But what should you talk about?

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The Best Cheap Garden Ideas For Starting Your Vegetables

These cheap garden ideas will help your vegetable garden be the money saver it was meant to be in the first place.

You start out to create a little veggie garden just to save yourself some money on groceries.

But it doesn’t take long to discover that gardening can cost you a lot more money than just buying the dang vegetables at the store in the first place!

So when you’re just starting out, it’s super important to use cheap garden ideas as much as possible to keep your costs down.

Well, these ideas are easy, cheap, and totally do-able, even for the beginning gardener. So give them a try!

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10 Cheap Ways To Update Your Home: Affordable Tips To Transform Your Space

These cheap ways to update your home are easy, so start your dream home file now.

Remember the day you bought your home?

All the excitement of starting somewhere fresh and new made it seem like…well maybe not the perfect home, but close!

Over the years, though, that home started to feel boring.

It’s getting to the point that you just don’t want to be there anymore.

But with the cost of housing (not to mention the work and effort of moving), swapping house is just out of the question.

Well, that’s ok. Because once you put these cheap ideas in place, your home will feel new all over again.

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The Best Cheap Gift Ideas For Mom On A Budget

She will love any of these cheap gift ideas for Mom on a budget. (Ideas gathered by a Mom of 6!)

I’ll go ahead and speak for your Mom when I say it is so sweet of you to think of her with a great gift idea!

Honestly, she’d be thrilled to just be allowed to take an uninterrupted nap.

But if you want to hand her something she’ll actually love this time (even though you don’t have much money to spend), fear not!

I’ve compiled a list of the best gifts on a budget for Mom that she’s sure to love.

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31 Budget Meals For Large Families (Cheap, Easy, Delicious!)

This tried and true list of budget meals for large families is a winner! Cheap, easy dinner recipes for your next family dinner.

The cost of groceries is insane right now, especially when you’re feeding a family of eight. That makes having a good list of budget meals for large families on a shoestring grocery budget.

Not only are these meals filled with simple, affordable ingredients, but they are also easy to double, triple, or whatever -le your family needs!

For a year, I had my family try out new recipes.

These are only the winners. The recipes they loved and asked to have again.

So save these recipes to use in your Large Family Home over and over.

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Simple Homemade Granola With Honey Recipe: A Hearty Breakfast You’ll Crave

Simple Homemade Granola With Honey Recipe: A Hearty Breakfast You’ll Crave

This simple granola recipe with honey will make your mouth water and keep you full for hours. It’s the perfect homemade breakfast granola recipe!

My Mom always said the closer to rocks and sticks her breakfast looked, the better.

And I agree.

You won’t believe how effortless this simple granola recipe is, and with a touch of honey, it is the perfect breakfast food.

Not only that, but it will keep you feeling full far longer than any box you get from the store.

(I don’t know about you, but I hate it when I eat a bowl of cereal only to be starving again a half hour later.)

The easy granola recipe is all yours.

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