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Archives for January 2013

Chocolate Cheesecake with Blueberry Topping

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January 28, By Kristia 6 Comments

Chocolate Cheesecake with Blueberry Topping

  If you need a dessert to WOW your family and friends, then this Chocolate Cheesecake with Blueberry Topping is your answer. It is decadent and delicious and the blueberry topping is a must. Although, raspberries or strawberries would make great substitutes. I found this recipe in a magazine ad for Kraft Philadelphia cream cheese. This cheesecake tastes like […]

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1st Meeting of the Christmas Savings Club REDIRECTED

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January 25, By Kristia 4 Comments

On the 25th of every month from January to November, I’m holding a viral meeting for the Christmas Savings Club, a monthly accountability to help us save for a cash Christmas. Today is the first meeting! As outlined in the first post, your goal this past month was to create a budget for your Christmas spending. […]

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Roasted Garlic & Herb Pork Tenderloin

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January 21, By Kristia 4 Comments

Roasted Garlic & Herb Pork Tenderloin

Roasted pork tenderloin is a delicious cook once, eat twice dinner. I never bought pork tenderloin, because I always thought it was expensive. However, I took advantage of a buy one, get one free sale and now I’m in love with that cut of pork. Now I always stock up when I find that sale […]

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My Road to Half Marathons

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January 16, By Kristia 5 Comments

My Road to Half Marathons

I wasn’t always a runner. I didn’t run track or cross country in high school. In fact, running didn’t come naturally to me. In my early 20’s, I had a friend that liked to run and I tagged along one day. As I was hyper-ventilating within the first mile, he explained to me that it was in fact possible to […]

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Chicken Vegetable Soup

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January 14, By Kristia 3 Comments

Chicken Vegetable Soup

I found this recipe for Chicken & Vegetable Soup in a recent copy of Cooking Light magazine. I made a few changes based on what was in my kitchen. It is a super simple recipe and I used frozen green beans and carrots from our summer garden. On this cold January day, I long for summer! Chicken Vegetable Soup Ingredients […]

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35 Money-Saving Grocery Tips | Kitchen Economics

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January 10, By Kristia Leave a Comment

One of my goals for Family Balance Sheet for 2013, is to get back to posting more money saving tips to help my readers (and myself) reduce our grocery bills. A couple of years ago, I coined the term, Kitchen Economics, after I read a dictionary definition of the word “economics”: “the science that deals […]

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One Pot Roasted Chicken & Vegetable Dinner

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January 7, By Kristia 4 Comments

One Pot Roasted Chicken & Vegetable Dinner is comfort food at its best…and only having to clean one pot at the end of dinner is a plus! One Pot Chicken & Vegetable Dinner Ingredients: 2-3 pounds potatoes, cut into chunks (I love Yukon Gold.) 3 large carrots, cut into bite sized pieces or 1 bag […]

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Christmas Spending Budget for 2013 {FREE Excel Spreadsheet Offer}

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January 3, By Kristia 1 Comment

Yesterday, I announced my new year long series, Christmas Savings Club. To kick off the series and get everyone started on the first step, I created a Christmas Gift & Spending Budget excel spreadsheet that I am offering FREE to readers. Details on how to obtain your FREE copy will be at the bottom of […]

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Introducing the 2013 Christmas Savings Club REDIRECTED

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January 2, By Kristia 4 Comments

Another Christmas has passed by and while the memory of the Christmas shopping and spending is still lingering in my head, I’ve come up with a plan for all of us to start saving for 2013. According to a recent survey, Americans were planning to spend on average $854 on Christmas gifts in 2012. Unless it’s […]

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