My food waste for this week is semi-homemade hummus. At Whole Foods Market they sell hummus mix in bulk for less than $3.00 a pound. I had been buying small packages (8 oz. container – I think) of premade hummus at Trader Joe’s for $2.99. I thought this was a good opportunity to save moneyRead More

We wasted food again this week. Well, actually my husband wasted food because nobody else would have opened this can of olives to begin with and if they did they would have transferred the contents to a glass bowl with a lid per mom’s food saving guidelines! Unfortunately, my husband is the only one whoRead More

Last year I decided to go paperless in our kitchen and stopped buying paper towels and paper napkins. I pulled out the cloth napkins and put them on the counter. And most importantly, I introduced my family to kitchen towels. I purchased most of my napkins at after-holiday clearance sales. Some I made myself byRead More

Or Spending Money to Save Money The tap water in our area doesn’t taste very good. It is safe to drink, but it has a faint taste of chlorine. For a long time we bought 2 1/2 gallon jugs of water to use in our kitchen and cases of bottled water to take with usRead More

We used to live in an area where our waste collection company gave us 3 cans as part of our standard service: One for yard waste, one for recyclables, and one for garbage. When we moved to our present location the waste company asked if we wanted to go with the same plan as theRead More

The weather in our area varies wildly in the spring and fall. Every time it dips below freezing we have to turn off and drain our sprinklers. It is a time consuming process. It is also painful for me to watch all of the water being wasted as it is draining into the pasture. AfterRead More