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What's for din? (With frugal cost analysis) August 18, 2025

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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What's for din? August 2nd, 2025 (with Frugal Food Numbers)

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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What's for din? July 17th, 2025

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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Frugal Food: Wendy's for two for $8.08

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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Frugal Food: Dinner for 4 for under $3 a piece.

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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What's for din? Nov 30th, 2024

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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What's for din? October 25th, 2024

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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Frugal Food: Lunch 10/25/2024

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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What's for din? October 1st, 2024

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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What's for din? (Frugal-ish dinner for 7)

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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What's for din? September 28, 2024 (With a steal of chicken breasts)

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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Frugal Food: What's for din? September 15th, 2024

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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What's for din? (Frugal Food Meal for 4) September 14, 2024

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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What's for din? September 11th, 2024

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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Frugal Food: What's for din? Whatever cute food related pun you want to use.... September 10th 2024

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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What's for din? August 21, 2024

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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Frugal Food: Lunch/Din June 12th, 2024

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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What's for din? June 5th, 2024

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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What's for din? May 10th, 2024

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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What's for din? 4.16.2024

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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