For those who like to support handmade, especially during the holidays, I thought I’d let you know that we are having a 20% off sale in all of our etsy shops. And just for my readers, if you use the code CHOCOLATE10 during checkout in any of the shops you’ll get an additional 10% off. […]
Christmas is coming!
Interrupting my scheduled personal history posts…. My kids were flipping through their scrapbooks the other day comparing what they all looked like as babies. We came upon some of our old Christmas cards. Boy have my kids grown! It’s really easy to see when comparing cards from year to year. I love sending and receiving […]
Homemade Baby Food
We all know home cooked meals made from scratch are the best, right? They are healthier, cheaper, and taste better. Same holds true for your little munchkins – no, especially for little ones! Homemade baby food is not hard to make and it is definitely much, much cheaper. On the left is $7.50 worth of […]
Kids and Cash
ZookeeperYou mentioned that your kids earn half the money to pay for their American Girl Dolls. How do your kids earn money? Do you believe in allowances? I know the allowance issue is one that every family has to decide for themselves what they will do. There are pros and cons to each side, for […]
Cloth Diapering
In the last two weeks I’ve received several requests for more information on what types of cloth diapers I use. I figured I might as well write a post about it. ☺ The following is just my experience with the brands I’ve used, what’s held up, what hasn’t, what I’ve liked and haven’t. And, I’m […]
Teaching Kids to Cook Part III
Teaching Your Kids to Cook Part ITeaching Your Kids to Cook Part II Grocery Lists We’ve made a menu for the coming week but it won’t be successful if we don’t have all the ingredients necessary to make everything on our plan. Creating a grocery list and sticking to it when we are shopping is […]
Teaching Kids to Cook Part II
This is the second in a series of posts about cooking with children. Read the first post here. Meal Planning We all want our families to eat healthy. This can be hard when we have picky eaters that only like noodles, bread, and shredded wheat cereal. Not very well rounded, right? Teaching my children to […]
Bugaloo Shoe Sale!
Just thought I’d pass the word along that Bugaloo is having a sale on their super cute leather baby shoes. Only $14 a pair! That’s an unbelievable price for leather baby shoes. Stock up now for cute baby gifts throughout the year. © 2007-2013 Chocolate on my Cranium, LLC all rights reserved
“No Poo” and Laundry too
I didn’t intend to write a post about my “no poo” experiment but I received a few questions when I mentioned it in my Au Naturale post a couple of days ago. My skin type is really oily – so is my hair. I would try skipping a day washing my hair but it just […]
Au naturale
Have you ever stopped to read what is really in some of the food you eat? How about all the stuff in your shampoo, laundry detergent, or even your toothpaste? Or do you even want to know? 🙂 Growing up we drank a lot of pop (soda for those in different parts of the country). […]
30 Days of Nothing
So what would happen at your house if you decided to only buy the very essentials for 30 days? Could you make it without giving in to that urge to buy a Wendy’s shake or a the cute new skirt? How much would you save? Mary over at OwlHaven is spearheading a little project called […]
How I Meal Plan
Living out here on the farm far from town has really required me to fine tune my skills at meal planning. No quick runs to the store to get something for dinner! It’s a good thing I was already trying to limit my grocery shopping to once a week before moving out here. There are […]
Homemade Chapstick
The winter weather can be harsh. Particularly here in the desert where the blowing winds and dry air deliver a double whammy to our skin and lips. To keep our chapped lips at bay our family goes through chapstick like, well, almost as fast as I go through a can of Stephen’s Belgian Dark Chocolate […]
A Well Stocked Pantry
I wasn’t kidding when I said I have a well stocked pantry. This is by far the biggest reason why our grocery budget is so low. We have a year’s supply of canned goods, wheat, beans, dry milk, oatmeal, and the ever important chocolate chips. It took several years to accumulate all the goods and […]
Grocery Shopping Tips – Meat, Fruits & Veggies
Disclaimer: I certainly don’t know everything about saving money or being frugal. I just like to do it as a mind game. I love logic puzzles, Scrabble, Sudoku, you get the idea. This is just plain fun. When I first started trying to be more frugal I kept track of the prices of food in […]