Today, I did my Gram proud!

I had a package of blueberries laying around in the fridge just itching to go bad and get thrown out, so I dug out my Gram’s ole recipe for Blueberry Boy Bait! It has very simple ingredients and if you can pick up a cheap pint of blueberries at the market, this will make you one killer dessert (or breakfast) on the cheap!

You’ll need:

2 cups flour

2 eggs

1 heaping cup of blueberries

1 1/2 cups sugar

1/2 cup milk (I used 1%, but sort of wished I had at least 2%. If not, no biggie, it’ll still come out good.)

2 teaspoons of baking powder.

2/3 cup butter (softened.)

Mix flour, sugar, and butter together. Once mixed, take out 3/4 cup of the mixture from the bowl and put it to the side. Add all other ingredients to the bowl and blend. Grease a non stick 9×13 pan and add batter. Top batter with blueberries. Spread the remaining ingredients (that you put to the side) on top and bake at 350 for 40-45 minutes. Enjoy!

What was in your box today? Not much in the way of freebies for me, but I did get my package of Barbara’s cookies. These packages are A LOT bigger than I expected, and much more than we could eat at lunch. They are incredible delicious too(Liam and momma have already tapped into them)!

Barbara’s Snackimals (still live)

Ya’ll might laugh at me for this one, but I’m going to throw it out there anyway. I don’t think I am being cheap here, but I’ll let you decide. This new series is called “Stretch Your Dollar”, how far can you make an item for $1 go? Here’s how I get a $.99 bottle of Dawn with Olay Hand Renewel dish soap into 3 bottles of foaming hand soap.

First you’ll need a good hand soap foam dispenser pump ( the best one I have found so far is Dial Complete foaming hand soap). Once you have blown through that soap, pick up a small bottle of Dawn with Olay Hand Renewel. These smaller bottles sell for .99 on sale at CVS and Walgreens. Every now and then you can find a coupon for them too!

Visually divide that bottle into thirds and squeeze out 1/3 of the Dawn into your foaming hand pump. Slowly fill the rest of the container with water. Gently shake it and swish it around. It’ll take a few pumps to get it going and get a nice foamy consistency to come out but once it does you will love it! This stuff leaves my hands so soft, and at .33 a bottle, it is well worth it!

What do you think? Am I cheap or am I just stretching my buck? Or both?

How much would you save if you brown bagged your lunch everyday? $20 a week? $50? More? Of course it’s always fun to eat out or grab something quick when you are hungry, but with a few extra minutes of planning both at the grocery store and at home, you could save a ton! I calculated my savings on this nifty “Brown Bag Calculator” and by eating out at lunch only 1 time per week instead of 5, I can save $1,456 per year – enough for a nice vacation somewhere! Food from home never tasted so good! How much could you save?

Ya’ll might laugh at me for this one, but I’m going to throw it out there anyway. I don’t think I am being cheap here, but I’ll let you decide. This new series is called “Stretch Your Dollar”, how far can you make an item for $1 go? Here’s how I get a $.99 bottle of Dawn with Olay Hand Renewel dish soap into 3 bottles of foaming hand soap.

First you’ll need a good hand soap foam dispenser pump ( the best one I have found so far is Dial Complete foaming hand soap). Once you have blown through that soap, pick up a small bottle of Dawn with Olay Hand Renewel. These smaller bottles sell for .99 on sale at CVS and Walgreens. Every now and then you can find a coupon for them too!

Visually divide that bottle into thirds and squeeze out 1/3 of the Dawn into your foaming hand pump. Slowly fill the rest of the container with water. Carefully tilt up and down to mix it up-do not shake! It’ll take a few pumps to get it going and get a nice foamy consistency to come out but once it does you will love it! This stuff leaves my hands so soft, and at .33 a bottle, it is well worth it!

What do you think? Am I cheap or am I just stretching my buck? Or both?