by Jamie Jeffers | Mar 6, 2023 | Recipe
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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by Jamie Jeffers | Feb 26, 2023 | Recipe
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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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by Jamie Jeffers | Feb 18, 2023 | Saving Money
Wellll, it was time to call the propane man to come fill up our tank.
When you heat with propane, you can’t really put off a refill. No one wants an exploding tank in their backyard.
But I hated to call them, because this was the first year my propane company ever refused to lock me in on a price.
And I could only imagine how much this was gonna cost.
Sure enough, the price was over $4 per gallon. But I told them to fill it up. Because who knows how much higher it will be the next time I call them?
Finally the bill was totaled. And even though I knew it would be high, it was even worse than I expected. I’d never seen a four figure bill for propane before.
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by Jamie Jeffers | Feb 13, 2023 | Recipe
What if I told you that I have a pizza dough recipe that takes less time than ordering a pizza and waiting for delivery?
Oh, and it takes like 5 minutes of effort, too.
Sound too good to be true?
Well I’m here to tell you that I’ve been making this recipe for 15 years, and it is one of the few things in life that sounds good and actually IS true.
That’s right.
Oh, and it has no weird ingredients. Even in this economy, it’s a great frugal choice.
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by Jamie Jeffers | Feb 8, 2023 | Saving Money
A year ago, I revealed that our family had just added on to our home, only to find out that we had major damage that had to be repaired on the old part of our home.
Because we had just scraped up a bunch of money to pay for as much of our home addition in cash as possible, we didn’t have extra money lying around.
And…well, I think you’ve probably noticed the economy. That money we had been saving from paychecks is now instead funneled into the gas tank, grocery stores, and heat bills.
So we had to come up with a new way to pull together some cash to pay for this repair.
And it’s high time I give you an update!
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by Jamie Jeffers | Jan 16, 2023 | Ways We Saved This Week
Hoo boy, we have had a busy week here!
Between major home repairs, a pregnant goat, and a giant basement clean out, I’ve finally been getting that outside time I’ve been meaning to do.
But that has given us a lot of opportunities to save money, so at least it gave me something to write about this week.
ha!
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by Jamie Jeffers | Jan 10, 2023 | Saving On A Home Addition
Our family of 8 recently put a small home addition (on a budget) on our home.
It was a loooong process.
While we were going through this process, I definitely spent some time online, trying to find real world ideas to help us save money and know the next steps.
But it was really hard to find anything like that, so I decided to write it up myself.
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by Jamie Jeffers | Jan 6, 2023 | Ways We Saved This Week
Happy New Year!
After a lot of chaos over the past couple of years, I’m ready to have a simpler year.
This week I shared my goals for 2023, so check those out and help keep me accountable. 😉
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by Jamie Jeffers | Jan 3, 2023 | Goals
It is totally uncool to create New Years resolutions, but doggonit, I can’t help myself.
There’s something about a fresh start that makes me want to try for something new.
So Happy New Year!
In this post, I’m sharing some before and after pics of our home addition from last year.
And I want your input on this blog! So pretty please read on and leave a comment. 🙂
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by Jamie Jeffers | Nov 30, 2022 | Grocery Tips
Lately, when you grab a grocery cart, your stomach drops.
You already know that the prices in the store will be higher than they were the last time you stood in the same spot.
If you’re like me, that makes you think about ways you can save on groceries.
Like, some new outside the box ideas.
Because you already switched to store brand where you could. And you grab whatever coupons you can find, that’s a no brainer.
(Which is awesome, because you can definitely save by doing those things.)
But guess what? If you really want to save money on food, there are things you ought to be doing before you ever set foot in a grocery store.
Because the truth about saving money on groceries is that savings don’t begin when you’re trying to decide if yogurt is cheaper by the cup or by the tub.
It all starts right in your own kitchen.
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I'm Jamie, and I want to help you afford a beautiful life with your family. 
