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April
@thislittlepennyearns (68246)
• Defuniak Springs, Florida
18 Aug
Tonight’s dinner was brought to you by: poor planning and fridge roulette.
I completely forgot to take any meat out, so I went full Iron Chef: Desperation Edition.
Here’s what ended up on the table:
Blueberry pancakes (made...
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April
@thislittlepennyearns (68246)
• Defuniak Springs, Florida
2 Aug
Tonight’s gourmet feast consisted of applewood smoked bacon pork loin, mac and cheese, and Hawaiian rolls. Please, hold your applause. The real miracle here is that I actually ate what I cooked instead of defaulting to my usual...
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April
@thislittlepennyearns (68246)
• Defuniak Springs, Florida
17 Jul
I don't think I have done one of these in a couple days but to be fair the last few nights I have eaten salads of some sort. So lets get back in the groove.
Tonight I made chicken alfredo and garlic bread. I cheated a little bit...
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April
@thislittlepennyearns (68246)
• Defuniak Springs, Florida
13 May 25
Chris and I had to go into town this evening, we made sure nobody else wanted anything before we left and they didn't. So since we had to go into town anyway, we decided to stop at Wendys. Last week when we went, we spend around...
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April
@thislittlepennyearns (68246)
• Defuniak Springs, Florida
30 Apr 25
Last night we had sloppy joes, green beans and cheddar broccoli rice. Nothing fancy, but it’s what she child wanted. So thats what we had. He child was at a friends house so it was just four of us tonight.
I figured I would do a...
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April
@thislittlepennyearns (68246)
• Defuniak Springs, Florida
30 Nov 24
I picked up hamburger meat and garlic cheesey bread from Winn Dixie with the plans of making hamburger helper. I figured I would let he child pick which "flavor" hamburger helper. He's the pickier of the two- so if it's something...
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April
@thislittlepennyearns (68246)
• Defuniak Springs, Florida
25 Oct 24
I mentioned the other day that I took a ham out of the deep freeze so I could make it today.
The stars aligned, or whatever and I actually got to follow through with my plan for dinner tonight.
I made a honey baked ham,...
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April
@thislittlepennyearns (68246)
• Defuniak Springs, Florida
25 Oct 24
We had a meeting this morning at ten am that took about an hour and a half. When we got home I organized some stuff in the kitchen and bathrooms and we watched George and Mandy's First Marriage. (It's a good show. Especially if...
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April
@thislittlepennyearns (68246)
• Defuniak Springs, Florida
1 Oct 24
Another super easy dinner tonight.
We each had a Hormel Compeat, some sort of roast beef and gravy with potatoes. I added cheese, salt and pepper to mine.
I also promptly burnt the crap out of my right hand when I spilled the...
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April
@thislittlepennyearns (68246)
• Defuniak Springs, Florida
29 Sep 24
He child has had two buddies over all weekend. They decided about an hour ago they wanted pizza, so I scrounged together the cash we had on hand, and ordered three pepperoni pizzas from the gas station a couple miles away.
When...
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April
@thislittlepennyearns (68246)
• Defuniak Springs, Florida
28 Sep 24
Dinner tonight is fried or bbq chicken, and homemade french fries.
We had thought about doing a hot dog bar and fries. But the kids decided they wanted chicken, and he child has two friends over. So that would of been a lot of...
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April
@thislittlepennyearns (68246)
• Defuniak Springs, Florida
15 Sep 24
We went and picked up he child from his cousins house and since they hadn't eaten I stopped at Dollar General and picked up a frozen pizza. Very strict on budget right now, but the kids needed to eat, and I knew they wouldn't eat...
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April
@thislittlepennyearns (68246)
• Defuniak Springs, Florida
14 Sep 24
So we ran into town earlier. MIL wanted ribs, and said she'd pay for the things we needed to make them if we went and got the ingredients and I cooked.
Hard to pass that offer up, so we loaded up and went into town. We went into...
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April
@thislittlepennyearns (68246)
• Defuniak Springs, Florida
11 Sep 24
Where is @MarieCoyle ? She'll be so proud of me for having dinner before seven pm. LOL
Easy, stick to your ribs, home cooked, good ole' country food tonight.
I made meatloaf, mashed potatoes and biscuits. YES. No veggies. And...
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April
@thislittlepennyearns (68246)
• Defuniak Springs, Florida
10 Sep 24
This has to be kind of quick because apparently my laptop only has six percent left. So that's not cool. Anyway.
I made beef stroganoff and biscuits for dinner. It was easy and quick and neither kid complained. So that's a win....
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April
@thislittlepennyearns (68246)
• Defuniak Springs, Florida
21 Aug 24
It's been weeks (or what feels like it since I have done one of these posts), so I figured even though I don't have pictures of our meal and will have to use a generic picture- I would go ahead and share what was for dinner.
We...
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April
@thislittlepennyearns (68246)
• Defuniak Springs, Florida
12 Jun 24
So today we got treated to a meal by friends who own a diner. I wrote a little bit about that earlier in a post.
I wanted to share what we had for lunch and dinner.
I will say that this was a comped meal, so it was very very...
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April
@thislittlepennyearns (68246)
• Defuniak Springs, Florida
5 Jun 24
Like I said in the post before this, it was late when we got done for the day and got back to the house so yet again I made dinner pretty late.
But better late than never.
I got paid for an article I wrote for one of my...
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April
@thislittlepennyearns (68246)
• Defuniak Springs, Florida
11 May 24
I know this is WAY late, but I didn't have time or think about it until just a little bit ago.
We had to be in Fort Walton for some stuff earlier today, like I mentioned earlier. Since we had a few dollars a coupon we decided to...
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April
@thislittlepennyearns (68246)
• Defuniak Springs, Florida
16 Apr 24
Well, this is the frugalist of all dinners. We are staying at one of the houses on Chris' families property while we wait to be able to repair our house etc. Since we are spending so much time/money etc on medical stuff right now,...
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