Frugal Kitchens 101 - Green Appliances

Kitchen appliances have come a long way from those of our parents.  While I am sure they were concerned about energy usage especially if hea...

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Freshly Extracted Orange Juice

I recently wrote about using my new Bella High Power Juice Extractor for the first time.  I really liked the results and quickly saw that I...

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Frugal Kitchens 101 - Small Kitchen Appliances

Like many modern homemakers, I have a plethora of small kitchen appliances.  Unlike some, I tend not to get small kitchen appliances that ar...

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My New Bella High Power Juicer Extractor

There are a multitude of small kitchen appliances on the market.  Some are fluff, single purpose appliances that may or may not save you mon...

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Homemade Verses Store Bought Plain Waffles

There are a multitude of small kitchen appliances available, many of which can save you a substantial amount of money over their lifetime.  ...

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Expanding the Drying Space on My Dehydrator

In August of 2012, I bought a  Nesco® All American Harvest® Dehydrator & Jerky Maker  at Home Hardware since I no longer have my Jenn-Ai...

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Frugal Kitchens 101 - Tips for Saving Money on Kitchen Equipment

We are now into November which means starting to prepare for gift giving and the holiday season. I have a love/hate relationship with this t...

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Prepping Ahead and Slow Cookers

September has notoriously been an extremely busy month ever since we were newlyweds.  Two of our kids were born in September, a year apart. ...

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Nesco Dehydrator

We started camping in tents when our youngest was still in diapers on the Labour Day weekend with good friends of ours.  In October of the s...

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Frugal Kitchens 101 - Buying a Dehydrator

The ability to dehydrate foods is a fundamental component of home food preservation.  Ideally, any food preservation you do should be in the...

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Frugal Kitchens 101 - Buying Small Kitchen Appliances Tips

The modern kitchen is a mecca for small kitchen appliances .  Some of them are not essential but rather nice to have and yet others are ess...

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KitchenAid® Pasta Roller and Fettuccine Cutter

As a newlywed, I made breads and pasta by hand but as I became busier with raising a young family while earning higher education, I moved on...

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Our New Outdoor Charcoal - Gas Combo Grill

Grilling has always been a fundamental way of cooking for us.  I don't recall a time of ever going without one.  One of our first purcha...

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A Sneak Peak at My New Kitchen

We have been essentially living between two houses for the past fourteen days.  Today is the last day of ownership of our old house so basic...

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Kitchen Quick Tips - Dishwasher

Keep your dishwasher operating smoothly by cleaning the filter then run the empty dishwasher on the short cycle with a cup of vinegar or two...

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My Keurig K-cup Purchase

A couple of days before leaving on our spring vacation in May, I spurged on a new Keurig single brew system to replace my rapidly failing Me...

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