It’s kind of a financially depressing time…

30Sep08

It seems like the last few days have been filled with nothing but terrible financial and economic news.  And honestly, I don’t understand all of it.  I’ve read the articles, but I just don’t have a real grasp of the details of how this happened and why, and I don’t even really think that the [...]

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Easy, frugal homemade brownies

05Aug08

NOTE: I have moved my blog to my own server. I’m now blogging at www.thefrugalgirl.com. All the old posts have been moved there, and so the brownice recipe is there too.

I always am hesitant to make a chocolate recipe that calls for bars of unsweetened chocolate(and many brownie recipes do). [...]

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Something to do with your homemade yogurt

01Aug08

or with your store-bought yogurt, for that matter!
Yogurt smoothies are by far the most common thing we do with our yogurt. A strawberry-banana one is pictured above. To make these, I put about half a quart of yogurt in my blender. I then top it with frozen fruit(most often frozen bananas and [...]

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