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10 Utterly Delicious Things to Make With Oatmeal
So you stocked up on all your pantry essentials, and just for good measure you went ahead and bought the BIG bag of oats — the 20 pounder. (Or maybe you were a little more conservative and just bought four pounds worth.) And you’re proud of yourself for being so prepared. You’re all, “Bring on winter!” (or a quarantine!) because you are prepared! But … you can only eat so many bowls of the usual stuff … oats, milk, maybe a little brown sugar. Sure, you can mix it up a bit and put the brown sugar on before the milk … but still and all, it’s going to get…
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Grocery Shopping for a Quarantine
Is a mandatory quarantine around the corner? It’s looking likely. Here’s how quickly things are changing: When I started this post, I wrote this: “Here in Washington State, our governor just banned gatherings of 250 or more, and required gatherings smaller than that to have a 6-foot buffer available for attendees. He didn’t out-and-out mandate that schools close (he’s leaving that decision to county government for now), but that could change. According to the Washington State Department of Health chart outlining five levels of action (shared by The Seattle Times), we’re in the middle of Level 4, meaning that large public gathering shave been cancelled, but there has not yet…
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10 Utterly Delicious Things to Make With Oatmeal
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Grandma Always Said …
I can’t remember a time when I didn’t love to cook. When small, I used to climb up on a chair and watch my grandmother making Poor Soup or red beans or breaded tomatoes. “How come you put that in there?” I’d ask, wondering at the giant scoop of bacon grease that went into just about every savory dish. “There’s nothing like bacon grease for bringing out flavor,” Grandma would say. I’ve thanked the Lord a hundred times that no one knew anything about cholesterol back then. I can only imagine what I would have missed. Grandma was the one to teach me to cook. As she got older and…
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Simple Prep: Storing Vegetables in Mason Jars
So I’m pretty crazy about my mason jars. I use them for my home apothecary (along with every other empty jar I can get my hands on); I make candles in them, and whipped body scrub; they hold my grandma’s button collection; and my pantry is chock full of mason jars full of all sorts of pantry staples. Well, now I’ve found a new use for them. You know how you’re all excited when you’re at the store selecting beautiful vegetable specimen, but then that excitement dulls back home as you’re trying to shove it all in the fridge, and dissipates entirely two days later when all that loveliness has…
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That Spring Cleaning Bug
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An Embarrassingly easy way to clean silver
As I’ve been in manic decluttering frenzy the past several months, I’m happening upon a whole lot of possessions I didn’t know I possessed. One of those items was a box full of silver spoons (as in real silver). I believe I inherited them from my Grandma Peggy, but I can’t be certain of that. The spoons were pretty badly tarnished and I was debating as to whether to give them away to someone or clean them and use them, since Dave and I together seem to go through all of our spoons each and every day. That and mugs. You would think we’d be mature enough to rinse and…
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10 Questions to Help you Conquer Clutter
Catchy title, isn’t it? I have to mention this book by Margareta Magnusson because it happens to encompass all of my thoughts and motivations for decluttering. It describes the practice of elderly Swedish people who, facing their final years, purge their homes of unnecessary items so their children don’t have to do it when they’re gone. Sound familiar? 🙂 So I was browsing a minimalist website last January, and I stumbled on Nourishing Minimalism. Within a few clicks, I found a post about a yearly decluttering challenge. The challenge for last year was to get rid of 2018 things in 2018.
