Frugal In Florida

When I do my meal prep, I always, always, ALWAYS chop up an onion and stash it in a canning jar in the fridge. Just one of those things that WILL save you time during the week, I promise! So, do you want to know HOW I chop these bad boys so dang quick? The Vidalia Chop Wizard . Uh huh. The best $15 I ever spent about 10 years ago! Honestly! Now, a LOT of people I know have issues with this the first few times they use it and say that cleaning it is awful. I dare say, that's just NOT true! Once you understand how it works then I think it will make things a little simpler! 1.  Cut food up in to larger chunks. 2.  Always place fleshy/meaty side away from blade and grID i.e. to the side. 3.  Slap that lid down, don't gently push. 4.  Clean grid when you see it getting full. Check out my cheesy video that I made ... I really need to do some video editing online research ;-) Looking forward to sharing with some of these  GREAT Parties...

I love peppers ... red peppers especially ... what I hate though is the seeds and membranes and cleaning them up to eat :-) I wish you could just bite into them like an apple or something! So, when I came across this tip on Instagram a while ago, I was amazed at how much easier it is to do it this way and have been doing it like this every since! Let's Deconstruct a Pepper! 1. Wash pepper 2. Push in stem 3.  Pull stem out 4.  Tear pepper in half 5.  Trim side membrane off with a knife 6.  Trim off top and bottom 7.  Slice away Go ahead and give it a try! Looking forward to sharing with some of these   GREAT Parties   ... go check them out! *This post may contain affiliate links ...   click here to read my disclosure   :-)

Hi hi ... it's that time again, ALREADY! Sunday Funday and time to get ready for the week ahead! Can you believe it, the 2nd week of August. Those of you with school age children have got to be sad that, already, summer is coming to an end way quicker than years past, it seems.  The tax free shopping week is here and that means I need to stay away from the stores, more so than usual, as I don't want to get in the middle of those who NEED to be buying supplies and those who WANT to buy supplies ... hmmm ... it's that Want vs Need thing again ... Hubby's traveling again this week from Tuesday to late Thursday. We've got friends coming in for a week on Tuesday so Friday and Saturday should be fun entertaining nights, hopefully. I need to get seriously get focused on my eating, drinking, living habits. Exercise? Yeah, that too. Doing 50 crunches, 50 squats and 50 walking lunges is nice and all, but not if it's only 1 day a month, you know? The weight is creepi...

Ugh. Can you believe it's AUGUST?? I mean, seriously, where has the time gone?? The week ahead should be an easy week ... Hubby travels on Tuesday and comes back Friday night. I'm dealing with allergies which is new to me but now I realize it's not the onset of a vicious cold, just a serious allergy to something ... I've no clue what but seems that whenever we get a sprinkle of rain, the flood gates for the sinuses open up. Must be pollen related, I'm sure. Food prep was a slight miss this weekend ... I boiled 10 eggs. Cleaned a head of butter lettuce. That's it. Whoops. Blame the sinuses. I'd like to stay out of the store this week after breaking the Pantry / Freezer Challenge with a stop at Costco ... and, quite honestly, I should be able to feed whoever is around this week with what we have on hand (mental note to self: cook green beans!) Here's what I'm looking at: Sunday - Flat Bread Pizzas on the grill ... the boy and Hubby found ...

It's that time of the week again, MENU PLANNING & MEAL PREP! Wheeee! Ok, it's not all that exciting but you know, sometimes you have to make something a little more dramatic than it really is to motivate yourself ... because, honestly, some days I do dread meal planning... I'm looking at doing a Pantry/Freezer Challenge for July ... the budget seems a little tight lately and my savings account is just not where I need it to be right now ... not to mention, I need to get 100% focused on getting some debt paid off ... and well, my grocery budget can fluctuate from $80 a week to $250 a week ... easily and without much thought. One stop at Whole Foods will kill the budget but I don't generally feel "too" bad about it because I know that food will not become a food waste issue ... odd, isn't it? Of course, with that said, Princess and I will hit up Costco on Monday afternoon after her brain scan. That's a whole 'nother story but the short stor...