A Grandma Mama diet for me
I pray everyone is surviving all the bad weather we’ve been having around the world. Fires, tornadoes, flooding, extreme heat, and everything else. In my area we had storms but … Continue reading
March food truck day
I usually post a video on youtube about the food I receive from the outdoor foodbank trucks each month. The food given is short dated or slightly outdated items from … Continue reading
Spectrum update
Would the people who have been praying for snow and rain please stop. I think we’ve had enough for awhile. Mother Nature has said its time for spring. On Saturday … Continue reading
Hay box cooking
Grandma Mama had no electricity and cooked with a wood stove. During the really hot summer days she would sometimes use a small outside fire and a hay box to … Continue reading
Water saving tip
When I was a child we didn’t have running water in the house. We had a well and barrels to catch water off the roof during rain. Every bit of … Continue reading
Growing old is hell
Today, memorial day, I remember my sons who have passed. I remember relatives too but its my grandmother that dominates my thoughts today. Grandma Mama. My mother was mentally ill and … Continue reading
Holiday greetings!
Whichever holiday you celebrate I wish you to have a good one! We celebrate Christmas here. An online friend gifted me with a used lap-top that I absolutely love. I’m … Continue reading
$20 a month grocery budget – two
I had been thinking about all the cleaning products people buy. Laundry soaps and fabric softeners. Dish detergents. Floor and window cleaners. Shampoos and rinses. Heck there is even a … Continue reading
Energy saving ideas again
Even the tiniest amount of energy savings are important when funds are limited. Using the energy saving items and ways that I’ve already done; I was able to decrease my … Continue reading
Baking marathon
I’m feeling a little better. Illness always affects me much more than others. A one day virus often has me off my feet for a week or more. Over the … Continue reading
That god called money
My mother was a mental patient all her life starting from age 16. She was in and out of state run facilities many times when I was young. That’s why … Continue reading
Frugal diabetic – five
Before I started my WW2 diet plan I had been testing my sugar levels once or twice a day at different times throughout the day. First thing in the … Continue reading
Life with a tiny fridge
My grandparents, where I spent a great deal of my childhood, didn’t have electricity. That meant no refrigerator. They had a spring house for keeping foods. A spring house is … Continue reading
Cold weather prepping
My Grandma Mama had a house with walls made from cardboard and newspaper. Similar to the walls in this photo from the library of congress. Or like this photo also … Continue reading
Female role model
Sometimes things just simply bug me. Here is a quote from an email I got yesterday. I get emails like this all the time. Is it legitimate or is it … Continue reading
Wearing patches
Grandma Mama had a saying about wearing clothes with patches on them. “There is no disgrace in wearing a patch but there is a big disgrace in wearing a hole.” … Continue reading
T-shirt make over
This is the other shirt I found at the free clothes closet. I didn’t really care that it had a logo on the front. I cut up the sides like … Continue reading
T-shirt make over
I’ve been posting a lot about food lately but there other things I do to survive with little income. One of the things my Grandma Mama did when I was … Continue reading
Menu planning
First I’ll explain why I don’t pre-plan meals and then I’ll explain what I do instead. However you do your meal planning is what works for YOU. This is the … Continue reading
Happy Mother’s Day
I want to wish my readers a very happy mother’s day. That includes the male readers who are a mother too. My day was quiet and full of thoughts about … Continue reading
Fake ham spread
This is a very old recipe from WW2. You make it with bologna or hot dogs instead of actual ham. Many households back then used spam to make this spread. … Continue reading
Imaginations
When I was a child our playground equipment was trees. Trees to climb on or to swing from or to hide behind in hide and seek games. Sometimes we were … Continue reading
Make do and mend shoes
When I was a child my shoes were always hand me downs from older cousins. Boy or girl we wore the same shoes. Most of the time our shoes were … Continue reading
Saute express DIY
You ever use those saute express things? Do you know what they are made from? It’s butter, oil, and spices. All of it put into neat little expensive packages for … Continue reading
Wild food foraging
When I was young my Grandma Mama would go on long walks looking for wild edible foods. She would take me with her and she would teach me what was … Continue reading
Na Na pinches her pennies 