The Liebster Blog Award

Pam, over at Feral Homemaking has nominated me for the Liebster Blog Award.  Thank you so much, Pam! That was so sweet of you!  If you don't read Pam's blog, you should take a look.  She loves homemaking, cooking, canning, and saving money. She even talks about Amy Dacyczyn and her Tightwad Gazette on her blog, so you can see why I like reading Pam's blog so much. :)  

The Liebster Blog Award is a great way to get traffic to blogs you like but that aren't widely known.  The rules are simple:

• Thank the person who nominated you and link back to them.
• List your top five picks (who have less than 200 followers) and link to them, telling a bit about each one.  Leave a comment on their blogs to let them know you've nominated them.
• Copy and paste the award on your blog.
• Have faith that your followers will do the same to other bloggers.
• Have fun!

 Here are my five picks for the Leibster Blog award:

Carol from CT on a Budget. I love reading Carol's blog and I met her on the AOL saving money message boards years ago. Her menu plans and grocery lists have always been interesting to me to read. She can stretch a penny like nobody's business and so I wanted to award her this special honor.

Barbara from Fun and Frugal Living. I also love reading Barbara's blog because she goes into great detail in every post. Barbara and I became first became friends on the old AOL message boards about saving money.  She knows what it means to stretch a dollar and is very serious about saving money in her household. 

I would also like to nominate Digging Out of Debt for this blog award.

I would also like to nominate TeacHer Finance for this blog award.

And finally, I would like to nominate We May be Poor, but we are Happy for this award.


Belinda
© Belinda Richardson and Frugal Workshop, 2011.
“Use it up, wear it out, make it do, do without”

Subway $2.00 sandwiches in December

Subway is going to be offering $2.00 subs in December. The Cold Cut Combo and the Meatball Marinara. That would make a footlong only $4.00. Here are the details:

Subway $2.00 Subs

And a story:

Meal-deal trend: Catch a (6-inch) Subway for only $2

Belinda
© Belinda Richardson and Frugal Workshop, 2011.
“Use it up, wear it out, make it do, do without”

WFD Wednesday

Dinner tonight involved using up the last of the Thanksgiving day leftovers.

I used the last of the mashed potatoes and made potato pancakes, which are pretty easy to make. I placed the leftover potatoes in a bowl with an egg, diced onion, salt and pepper and a little flour and mixed that up. I then spooned them into a skillet making patties out of them and pan fried them in vegetable oil until crisp.

I also used up the last of the bacon we had and made BLTs, and I also served the last of the broccoli.

After washing the dinner dishes, I put the rest of the dressing, whipped topping, and two pies in the freezer to be eaten at a later date.

There were three potato pancakes left over after dinner, which will be served with breakfast tomorrow morning. 

Nice to know that we made at least five nights worth of dinners out of our Thanksgiving day leftovers saving a lot of money in the process. :) 

Belinda 

© Belinda Richardson and Frugal Workshop, 2011. 

“Use it up, wear it out, make it do, do without” 

WFD Monday

Worked at school today while it was pouring down rain outside. School is on a two hour delay tomorrow due to possible flooding, so there is a chance I won't be working. Time will tell. Dinner today was leftovers from the previous week. I fried some ham slices in a skillet on the stove, warmed up some leftover mashed potatoes with sour cream and cheddar cheese, and heated up some leftover broccoli and corn as side dishes. Plenty of pie leftover for anyone who wants pie. I love having enough leftovers in the refrigerator to not have to cook dinner. Makes cleanup easy as well. What's for dinner at your house tonight?

Belinda
© Belinda Richardson and Frugal Workshop, 2011.
“Use it up, wear it out, make it do, do without”

Thanksgiving is done...

Our Thanksgiving meal is all finished up now. We had family in from Illinois to share our meal with us. We served Ham instead of turkey, homemade dressing, mashed potatoes, soup beans, broccoli, and crescent rolls. Desserts were store bought pecan pie, cherry, and pumpkin pies.  I usually make homemade cranberry salad, but Mom can't eat it this year due to a certain medicine she is taking, and I didn't want to go to the effort for just myself, so I didn't make it this year.  I had worked every school day for the last twenty-four or so days leading up to our Thanksgiving break and I tried to keep our dinner as simple as possible and not stress out about it, and I think I did a good job of that. 

After dinner, all the dishes were washed, and all the food was put away. I stripped the ham bone of all the meat, saved the very rich pan drippings in several canning jars, and saved the ham bones as well. All of that will be utilized at a later day and not wasted. Family has been here since Monday and we ate every meal at home and cleaned up afterwards. Haven't spent any money this week on restaurant food or even gas as we've spent the whole week at home. It has been a wonderful time. :)
 
Belinda
© Belinda Richardson and Frugal Workshop, 2011.
“Use it up, wear it out, make it do, do without”