Baby Gift

My cousin had a baby boy recently and I wanted to take her a gift. 

I didn't have much money to spend. I did have some leftover fabric from making my Grandson a few things.

I made a large blanket, a burp cloth and a reversible bib

Here is some pictures of both sides of the bib.

All the items were well received. I think I will be making more in the future when baby gifts are needed :)

Budget? What Budget?

Summer is killing my budget. I think we have over spent in every area of our budget :(

I haven't been home much and with Kid # 5's injury we have just been doing whatever to keep her entertained.

Hopefully once school is started and I am back to work, we can get a grip on this. In the mean time, I am trying to be more mindful of our spending!

How is everyone else doing this summer?

Food Waste

I still have a few pictures to show unfortunately :( 

I had one half of a bagel go bad before it was eaten.

I had to dump out half of this bottle of pineapple juice that we did not end up using up before it went bad.

Those were the only two things this week, but still more the I hoped for. Oh we'll maybe next week :)

5 Things I Did That Were Frugal This Week

1. Took some fresh produce that was offered to us by my Mom and Sister.

2. Went to the "free" children's movie in my home town with Kid # 5.  Remembered our popcorn bucket we had bought the week before so that we got it filled again at a discounted rate.  Shared a soda and spent around $10 for the movie. 

3. Made a baby gift for my cousin who just had a baby boy. I used items I already had.

4. We are having very mild weather for the end of July so off went the air conditioning.  Woohoo for cheap gas and power!

5. Combined my driving so I didn't waste gas

Food Waste Friday

Well I thought I would have no picture to post for Food Waste Friday. Most of our leftovers were eaten this week and what wasn't I moved to the freezer to use at a later time. Then I went to make some toast from the English muffin bread I made last week. Yeah not gonna happen, this is what it looked like....

Big fail on our part eating that up :(. It was really good too, not sure why we didn't finish it.

 

I am linking up at The Frugal Girl

 

5 Things I Did That Were Frugal This Week

1. Bought a few things at Lowe's to do a few projects.  2 are Christmas presents.  Used a $10 off $50 coupon.

2.  Made my Christmas lists, wrote down everything I have already purchased so I would not forget about them. 

3. Took Kid #4 and 5 to the free movie in my home town. We did buy popcorn and drinks but still only spent $15 for the 3 of us.  Still pretty good considering the cost of going to the movies.

4. Kept the air conditioner set 78-79 even though it is hot outside.  It is still cooler in here!

5. I had some leftover zucchini, black bean, rice skillet meal in the refrigerator.  I didn't see us finishing it up so I froze it for use later in a soup.  That is now 4 freezer meals I have in the deep freeze for use during the school year.

Few Recipes This Week July 7-13

I posted a picture on Friday of the English Muffin Bread I made here.   I found the recipe on Pinterest but here is the link to the original blog it was posted on, One Good Thing by Jillee . It was very good and I will for sure be making it again.

There are several Farmers Markets around us.  Yesterday I went to a fairly new one near my house and bought some blueberries.  Today Kid # 5 and I went to the bigger one along the river front here.  I also bought some blueberries there.  When we came home I decided to make a cobbler with some of them.  I used this recipe. 

Here is how it turned out, hubby ate some before I could get a photo :)

 

Last night we had this Tortellini and Pepperoni Pasta Salad.  It was awesome! 

 

Edit* - forgot to mention, I used dried tortellini from Aldi.  I cooked two packages, rinsed in cold water and then went from there.  I also used canned diced tomatoes ( also from Aldi) because that was what I had on hand.  I did use some fresh basil but I didn't have enough so I added some dried basil too. 

 

 

I recently tried this, cocktail drink recipe also.  It was not to bad :)