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What's for din? August 9th, 2025

April @thislittlepennyearns (68246) • Defuniak Springs, Florida 9 Aug

We’re down two kids tonight—not both of them ours, before anyone calls CPS. We’ve had the child’s girlfriend staying with us for a few days, but she went home today. Then the child himself took off to a friend’s house to soak up...

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What's for din? July 28th, 2025

April @thislittlepennyearns (68246) • Defuniak Springs, Florida 28 Jul

Tonight’s dinner was a bit of a culinary mash-up with some... improvisation. I made InnovAsian Orange Chicken—well, technically InnovAsian did most of the work, I just introduced it to my oven. But I betrayed the sauce packet and...

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What's for din? March 4th, 2025

April @thislittlepennyearns (68246) • Defuniak Springs, Florida 4 Mar 25

As I said in my last post, we ate lunch pretty late and then the kids had McDonald's with grandma so we just decided we should eat something before settling in for the evening. Chris had a peanut butter and jelly sandwich on...

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What's for din? December 27th, 2024

April @thislittlepennyearns (68246) • Defuniak Springs, Florida 27 Dec 24

Gift cards and coupons made dinner possible tonight. I mean I could of cooked- but I didn't want to. So we drove into town and got KFC. Becuase you can never go wrong with fried chicken. We got the 12 piece with three large...

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what did you eat

Heather Echola @GardenGerty (169479) • United States 26 May 23

We had bacon and bell pepper quesadillas. I put lots of sharp cheddar cheese on them. I do not want to spend visiting time grocery shopping, so we are creatively using what I have on hand. I had a pound and a half of good...

may 2023

easy meal

happy and full

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Frugal Food: What's for din? 3.1.23

April @thislittlepennyearns (68246) • Defuniak Springs, Florida 1 Mar 23

Tonight I made creamy Italian baked chicken, four cheese mashed potatoes, and improvised parmesan garlic bread. I used two bags of chicken I picked up from the snack guy a couple of days ago. They were $1.75 each, so that part...

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What's for lunch? January 7th, 2023

April @thislittlepennyearns (68246) • Defuniak Springs, Florida 7 Jan 23

One of my writing payments hit my Venmo account earlier today and I decided with all the stress and BS that we have been dealing with this week, that I was going to treat us to something where I didn't have to cook or deal with...

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What's for din? September 26th, 2022

April @thislittlepennyearns (68246) • Defuniak Springs, Florida 26 Sep 22

Good evening myLot-land. We just got back a little while ago from a trip to see a friend. They don't have a car and we wanted to make sure they knew if they needed anything to get ready for a maybe hurricane they could call us....

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What's for din? 7.11.22

April @thislittlepennyearns (68246) • Defuniak Springs, Florida 11 Jul 22

I don't feel like adding up what I spent on what tonight, so it's just going to be a WFD post and not my usual Frugal Food post. I have been wanting to make pigs in a blanket for days. I finally felt up to it tonight. So I made...

whats for din

pigs in a blanket

easy meal

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There is enough for later

Heather Echola @GardenGerty (169479) • United States 25 Nov 20

It is the day before Thanksgiving. I do not want to cook a whole lot today, because I will be cooking a whole lot tomorrow. After my doctor's appointment I needed to make a quick and filling lunch. I cut one nice sized sweet...

november 2020

good food

easy meal

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An Easy Meal to Prepare

Thelma @thelme55 (79324) • Germany 9 Jan 20

I woke up late again today but still had time to prepare our lunch as my son came to eat lunch with us. I wanted to make chicken but thought, "chicken again"? I searched in the fridge and in our kitchen cupboard what to make. I...

easy meal

lunch

baked spaghetti

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Pesto Sauce and Bow Tie Pasta!!!!

Danna B. @db20747 (43419) • Washington, District Of Columbia 10 Dec 19

Bow tie pasta and pesto is as easy as 1 2 3 !!! Very good meal, affordable, and only requires 2 steps to put together!! Sampled this at Costco and was very impressed!! And am saving some for tomorrow!! A filling meal in exactly...

easy meal

pesto

pasta

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It was green, and it was in my refrigerator

Heather Echola @GardenGerty (169479) • United States 17 Sep 17

It was leftover broccoli. We had it Thursday night. It was only seasoned with a little butter and salt. I froze it fresh this summer. Tonight it became soup. I had a powdered cheese sauce on hand, so...

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tortilla hot dog dinner

Kelli M @spiderdust (14756) • San Jose, California 23 Aug 17

Hello, friends. Long time, no chat, right? Summer sapped a lot of my time and energy. Might as well jump right back in... Tonight's dinner is inspired by a need for groceries, but a real lack of desire to go to the grocery store....

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The Blessings of a Stocked Larder

Heather Echola @GardenGerty (169479) • United States 7 Apr 17

I was trying to decide what we would eat last night. Eating out is out of the question right now, because hubby gets in from his treatment about the time I need to eat. Suddenly I remembered the last turkey I cooked. In my deep...

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One of my easy/lazy meals

Sarcarizmo @_Koko_ (347) • United Kingdom 21 Jan 17

As we all know we get lazy at times and just want to eat something that's good to eat but fast to prepare one of my lazy meals are hotdog especially those on the picture . I also love them because you can buy a lot packs...

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What's for dinner? June 9

NJ Chicaa @NJChicaa (127157) • United States 9 Jun 16

Hey everybody! What's going on the dinner table tonight? I want to know! I'm making an easy meal this evening: spaghetti carbonara. It is pasta cooked in bacon fat with eggs to make a creamy sauce. It has pieces of bacon in it....

whats for dinner

home cooking

easy meal

Eggplant Parmsean

taface412 @taface412 (3175) • United States 10 Aug 09

Tonight I made this for the first time and I have to admit I wished I had learned how to make it sooner. It is soooo easy and sooo good. And I am not a vegan, tree hugging hippy or anything and I love my red meat. But I can...

healthy vegetarian meals

italian dishes

vegetables

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Kitchen Sink Soup

thinkingoutloud @thinkingoutloud (6127) • Canada 8 Apr 09

LOL ok... I'm not cooking a kitchen sink and I'm not making soup in the sink either! BUT! I just filled the crockpot for tonight's dinner and I sort of laugh every time I do this -- I call it "Kitchen Sink Soup"...

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If you had to be away for a few days what would you cook?

ersmommy1 @ersmommy1 (12587) • United States 30 Nov 08

I will be going to the hospital for a 3-4 days at a minimum next week for my c-section. With the birth of my daughter, the c-section was a surprise and I had nothing prepared. Just some dishes that are easy to warm up, what would...

a few meals

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