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Camping Tips…Gleaned (Painfully?) From Experience

Seven new tips learned from our second camping experience We're new campers. Our first camping trip as a family was only a month ago, and it was also the first time my husband has ever camped in his life. But our family quickly fell in love with camping on that first trip, so we planned […]

Filed Under: Home Management

The Breakfast Challenge: Day Five

Our camping experience included a new recipe (make ahead breakfast burritos) for our day five breakfast challenge was a huge success. Since we were camping this morning (details on this more-challenging-than-expected camping trip to come later), I had to be a bit more creative in my menu choice. Couldn't really bake anything, and I didn't […]

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The Breakfast Challenge: Day Three and Day Four FAIL!

I've combined Day Three and Four of our breakfast challende into this one post because…well…I screwed up. You see, I stayed up really late last night — until 2 a.m. — helping a friend set up her blog. I hadn't looked at what was on the menu for Thursday's breakfast yet, thinking that I'd just […]

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The Breakfast Challenge: Day Two

Breakfast challenge on day two was more of a challenge for me. This morning I made an oven omelet, a recipe I've never made before. The ingredients were few (just eggs, milk, and cheese…and deli ham for me), the prep was quick and easy, and I especially love that I didn't have to stand over […]

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The Breakfast Challenge: Day One

For my day one of our breakfast challenge I started easy. Since this was my first day in months a while that I've made breakfast on a school day, I decided to start with something that was quick and easy: corn cakes. I've used Jiffy cornbread mixes for years (although I did switch to using […]

Filed Under: Home Management · Menu Plan Mondays

Menu Plan Monday: The Breakfast Challenge

Meeting friends over the internet, lets us open ourselves to improvement and this menu plan will be focused on a breakfast challenge. Whoever says you can't form real friendships over the internet is completely wrong. Toni, Kate, and I started our friendships through reading each other's blogs in February of 2008, and our friendships grew […]

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