jodie M. posted an article on Eatin' on the Cheap - Oct 11, 2010, 9:35 am
I am a child of the 80's. When I say "child" I mean I was born in the 80's. You would not find me dancing to hair bands in my basement while combing my bangs into a perfect sphere that would reach the door a good 5 minutes before I did. Although I did have a perm ( briefly) and a t-shirt tie...
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jodie M. posted an article on Eatin' on the Cheap - Oct 7, 2010, 9:31 am
Some days... things go wrong. Some days... you get a call from your husband at 5:30 am that goes something like this, " Honey...I think you were right" me: "What?" hubby: " I have a flat tire." me: " Is this the tire I told you to replace yesterday... on your day off?" hubby: "......... yeah" m...
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jodie M. posted an article on Eatin' on the Cheap - Oct 4, 2010, 8:10 pm
Well, I guess you have all figured out by now that I didn't make it to the third round of Project Food Blog. It's okay. I'm not too devastated. I am learning to cope with my devastation. Okay, it's not quite that bad. I did do round 3 just in case I did actually make it. Ro...
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jodie M. posted an article on Eatin' on the Cheap - Oct 2, 2010, 7:05 pm
It's been crazy around here lately. I have a couple new posts coming soon, but I wanted to announce the FoodontheTable.com winner! The lucky winner receives a $25 gift certificate for their favorite grocery store and a free month of premium service to FoodontheTable.com! Random.org has...
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jodie M. posted an article on Eatin' on the Cheap - Sep 25, 2010, 9:29 pm
WooHoo! I made it past the first Foodbuzz Project Food Blog Challenge! You like me! You really like me!! Really, I am honored. So, for the next challenge we had to tackle a classic dish that was outside of our "comfort zone". So, spaghetti and meatballs wasn't an option.  After Italy, t...
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jodie M. posted an article on Eatin' on the Cheap - Sep 22, 2010, 8:56 pm
I know a lot of busy moms. Most of them have twins or triplets plus maybe a spare kid or two on top of that. They go to soccer practice and school functions, doctor's appointments and book club meetings, and many also hold down full or part-time jobs! They can use all the help they can get! Thes...
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jodie M. posted an article on Eatin' on the Cheap - Sep 20, 2010, 10:55 am
but voting for Project Food Blog is open! Please vote for me. Tell your mother to vote for me. Tell your friends to vote for me. Tell your dog too. Cats work as well. You guys are the best. Thank you!
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jodie M. posted an article on Eatin' on the Cheap - Sep 17, 2010, 7:51 am
Project Food Blog is kicking off this week and I'm pretty stoked about it. "What is Project Food Blog?" you ask. Well, it's Foodbuzz's version of Top Chef. They are starting with a few thousand bloggers and whittling them down until only one remains. There can be only one.... Sorry,...
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jodie M. posted an article on Eatin' on the Cheap - Sep 16, 2010, 5:56 pm
I have been going to the new local Farmer's Market pretty regularly this summer. After doing a lot of reading on the subject of food over the past few months, I decided that working local food into the budget would really be a benefit for our family. Although I had planned on increasing the food...
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jodie M. posted an article on Eatin' on the Cheap - Sep 15, 2010, 8:10 am
I would just like to tell everyone that my Mom is awesome. Yep, she's pretty stinking cool. I bet I call her at least twice a day. I'm not sure what I would do without her. Besides her youngest child, she also loves care packages. Every now and then she will send me something in the m...
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jodie M. posted an article on Eatin' on the Cheap - Sep 12, 2010, 8:33 pm
Don't you just love sausages? I mean, when was the last time someone offered you a sausage and you said "no"? I can't think of any time. Ever. The problem with sausages, especially Italian sausages and even more especially, really good Italian sausages, is that they are not exactly budg...
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jodie M. posted an article on Eatin' on the Cheap - Sep 12, 2010, 1:13 pm
Ladies and Gentleman. I have seen the blogging promised land. I have chatted with it's leaders. I have hob-nobbed with it's blogging nobles. I have had my eyes opened and my mind widened to all the wonders that blogging can be. And I got some really awesome swag to boot. Day 2 of A...
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jodie M. posted an article on Eatin' on the Cheap - Sep 11, 2010, 6:52 am
The Friday night meet-and-greet for the Atlanta Food Blog Forum was awesome! First, I would like to say that I could live forever in a Viking Cooking Store. Forever. What a great location to have a party. Maybe I'll have the kids' birthday party there.  At least I would enjoy it. S...
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jodie M. posted an article on Eatin' on the Cheap - Sep 9, 2010, 7:46 am
I'm getting pretty excited about this weekend.  The Food Blog Forum is coming up and I'm excited about meeting all of these other bloggers out there. A little nervous too, but mostly excited now. I've got my camera batteries charging, a full tank of gas, and my friend Dawn's GPS...
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jodie M. posted an article on Eatin' on the Cheap - Sep 7, 2010, 4:00 pm
I'm pretty sure I have told you about everyone in our family. You have met; the kids, my husband, my mother, my Aunt Patsy and you have heard about my grandmothers time and time again. I don't think I have ever told you about our cat, George. George is named after George Costanza ( you know....
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jodie M. posted an article on Eatin' on the Cheap - Sep 5, 2010, 9:02 am
The weather has finally changed. The mornings are cool, almost cold and the days are pleasant and breezy. I spent most of the day outside with the kids yesterday and didn't feel hot. Not even once. Ahhhhh.... Of course this is just a teaser. Temperatures will shoot back up to the ...
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jodie M. posted an article on Eatin' on the Cheap - Sep 3, 2010, 7:58 am
A friend in the blogging world is in great need. Erika of The Ivory Hut, lost everything last night in a devastating house fire. Her and her family made it out safe, but they literally only have the clothes on their back. There has been a website and Paypal donation account set up to help Erika and ...
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jodie M. posted an article on Eatin' on the Cheap - Sep 1, 2010, 9:51 am
Well, I must have gotten too big for my britches because I signed up for the Food Blog Forum in downtown Atlanta that is going on next weekend. I'm not sure what I was thinking, signing up for a seminar on how to be a better blogger. I'll be rubbing shoulders with Bakerella and Steamy Kitche...
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jodie M. posted an article on Eatin' on the Cheap - Aug 29, 2010, 10:26 am
The buzz is in the air. I think it has come with the cooler - if 89 degrees can be called "cooler" - temperatures. It's been tweeted, facebooked, and sent around in emails everywhere...football season is nearly here! More so than baseball, football is America's favorite past time. ...
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jodie M. posted an article on Eatin' on the Cheap - Aug 26, 2010, 8:24 am
Now you guys know that I am a big fan of "free" and I figure that if a lowly food blogger is going to really enjoy food blogging life, you have to take advantage of  a few of it's perks. As long as they are good ones. So, when Saucy Mama sent me an email a couple months ago asking me t...
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jodie M. posted an article on Eatin' on the Cheap - Aug 23, 2010, 8:19 am
I've got big plans for today. Big ones I tell you! The kids will be headed off to school for a couple of hours and you know what I am going to do? Clean like a woman possessed. I will be cleaning gunk that has accumulated over the last few months. I will be cleaning things th...
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jodie M. posted an article on Eatin' on the Cheap - Aug 22, 2010, 10:24 am
If there is one phrase I hear all the time, it has to be "I would love to cook that, but my kids are such picky eaters". And I have to tell you that "picky eaters" are kind of my hot button issue. I often hold my tongue about my opinions on picky eaters, but I feel today is a good day to let them lo...
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jodie M. posted an article on Eatin' on the Cheap - Aug 22, 2010, 8:20 am
This past week has been crazy!All week I have been getting ready for the semi-annual kids consignment sale that my Moms of Multiples club puts on twice a year. I spent a very large portion of my time getting all of my kids old clothes, toys, and other child paraphernalia together, cle...
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jodie M. posted an article on Eatin' on the Cheap - Aug 16, 2010, 10:27 am
I have to say that all in all, this summer has been pretty good. We traveled a little, we visited family, we laughed, we loved, and we ate a lot. But now as summer starts to wind down ( even though the temperatures are still way up), I can tell you with all sincerity... I can't wait until s...
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jodie M. posted an article on Eatin' on the Cheap - Aug 15, 2010, 8:27 am
So date night was awesome! We saw some great live music in honer of Piano Red aka "Dr. Feelgood .( that's this guy here) He wrote Mr. Moonlight ( yes, the Beatles covered that) and The Right String but the Wrong Yo-Yo. Not only did we hear some great songs from Terry Adams and Scott...
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jodie M. posted an article on Eatin' on the Cheap - Aug 10, 2010, 7:56 am
I have a date with my husband this coming Thursday. I am so excited. We will actually be leaving this house without children and we won't come home until after their bedtime. Isn't that awesome! I'll probably shower and shave my legs just to make it all seem extra special. Heck, I&#...
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jodie M. posted an article on Eatin' on the Cheap - Aug 6, 2010, 8:23 pm
The start of a new school year is upon us and I can't help but think back to when I first left home for college. I had packed everything I thought I needed. Little did I know that I had no idea. None whatsoever. Lucky for me, I had unknowingly been well-prepared. As a child, I was blessed. ...
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jodie M. posted an article on Eatin' on the Cheap - Aug 6, 2010, 8:12 am
At 3:15 PM yesterday afternoon I had had enough. I had had enough of not being able to find what I was looking for; of having to look in twelve different places for the one thing I had lost. I am speaking, of course, about my spices and herbs. I am sure that I have mentioned to you before about my...
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jodie M. posted an article on Eatin' on the Cheap - Aug 4, 2010, 5:15 pm
It is crazy hot. It's so hot that the mere thought of going outside makes the sweat start to bead on my forehead. I can't tell you the last time I was cold. But one of the many characteristics of having children is that no matter what the weather, they must be entertained. The best place to ...
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jodie M. posted an article on Eatin' on the Cheap - Aug 2, 2010, 3:00 pm
First, I would like to thank all of you for your condolences and comforting in the loss of my beloved tomatoes. I am doing my best to move on from such a tragedy. I have been trying lots of new things, many of which take several days to make. I bought my first ever fresh figs at the farmer's m...
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jodie M. posted an article on Eatin' on the Cheap - Jul 29, 2010, 9:31 am
I am in mourning. I have suffered a great loss in my life. While we were away this past weekend, I lost my tomatoes to a bunch of stinking deer. Maybe a rabbit too, but mostly deer. before the deer All the time and effort I put in to those tomatoes, all the excitement I had that I had 2 dozen t...
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jodie M. posted an article on Eatin' on the Cheap - Jul 21, 2010, 7:26 am
I remember when my kids were a little over a year old. They had finally gotten enough teeth in their precious little heads to make the big jump from baby food to "big people" food and I was so excited. I could almost hear my monthly grocery bill dropping. No more tiny little jars, no more cans of Wa...
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jodie M. posted an article on Eatin' on the Cheap - Jul 20, 2010, 9:52 am
So, back in the spring, I bought a couple tomato plants at KMart and planted those tomato plants in the 3 square foot sunny spot in my yard. ( Really, that's all the sunny space I have) Well, they have become quite prolific. In the last week I have picked 7 or 8 tomatoes  and I have probabl...
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jodie M. posted an article on Eatin' on the Cheap - Jul 17, 2010, 2:24 pm
My dream is to one day move out of suburbia and back into the country. I would like to have a few acres of land for the kids to run around on freely, I would like some chickens, maybe a goat, a clothes line to hang out laundry and a nice, big garden. And in this garden I will grow whatever I manage ...
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jodie M. posted an article on Eatin' on the Cheap - Jul 16, 2010, 8:50 pm
Do you remember when Wendy's had a potato and chili bar? I think there was probably a small salad bar mixed in there too, but the potato bar was my favorite. You could throw all kinds of stuff on your potato; chili, cheese, bacon, you name it.  Granted, this was probably not the health...
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jodie M. posted an article on Eatin' on the Cheap - Jul 13, 2010, 7:59 pm
As Summer reaches it's highest peak, Mother Nature offers man a slight reprieve in the form of watermelon. Is there anything better than cold watermelon on a hot summer day? Watermelon is really hitting it's stride right now. They are everywhere and it's hard for me...
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jodie M. posted an article on Eatin' on the Cheap - Jul 12, 2010, 8:38 pm
I'm not very girl-y. I never have been. As a child I refused to wear anything even remotely pink and a dress was the equivalent to being put in the stockade, but I have always loved strawberries. My great-grandmother used to have a strawberry patch behind her house ( wait...have I told you ...
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jodie M. posted an article on Eatin' on the Cheap - Jul 11, 2010, 10:26 am
I don't have much to say today. The days are hot, the night's are stormy, and the dirty laundry pile is taller than my children. Goodness, I hate laundry. I was talking to my friend who has triplets yesterday and she told me that she treated herself and took her and her husband's ( not...
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jodie M. posted an article on Eatin' on the Cheap - Jul 9, 2010, 8:38 am
I'm going to give all you single ladies out there a little advice on what to look for in a husband. First, he has to have a job or at least a marketable skill. No free-loaders. Second, he's gotta be good with kids, even if you don't plan on having any. Why? Because accidents ha...
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jodie M. posted an article on Eatin' on the Cheap - Jul 5, 2010, 11:12 am
When I was a little girl, my parent's house was much smaller than it is today. The back of the kitchen was the laundry room which was directly in front of the east facing back door. There were black iron steps that connected the back door to the back yard that Mom always had morning glories grow...
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jodie M. posted an article on Eatin' on the Cheap - Jul 4, 2010, 9:31 am
Peaches are a summertime favorite in the South. Nothing beats that sweet fruit with the fuzzy skin. Every roadside stand seems to be brimming over these days with a plentiful supply. Luckily, peaches are just as versatile as they are delicious. Peaches can be poached in white wine, grilled over hot ...
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jodie M. posted an article on Eatin' on the Cheap - Jun 23, 2010, 9:05 am
I'm here in Tennessee once again visiting with my family. My days have been full of wine, jelly, kids, creeks, and some great Blues music.It has also been full of heat. It's hotter 'an a match! - that's what my brother would tell you. It's been in the upper 90's all week...
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jodie M. posted an article on Eatin' on the Cheap - Jun 15, 2010, 10:00 pm
Maybe...just maybe....my kids have finally reached that age where if they make it, they will eat it. Like the majority of mothers out there, I sometimes have a hard time getting them to eat what I put in front of them. Getting them to eat anything that isn't a potato chip or a cookie after nearl...
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jodie M. posted an article on Eatin' on the Cheap - Jun 14, 2010, 8:45 pm
I am finally back from a long and wonderful vacation. While I was gone the springtime breezes turned into summer's sweltering heat. Heat like this means dinner will be much lighter fare for us. A light and flavorful pesto pasta dish fits the bill nicely. Lucky for me, Amalia from Garof...
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jodie M. posted an article on Eatin' on the Cheap - Jun 5, 2010, 8:09 am
Well, we are nearly packed ( again) and ready to head to the lake to hang out with the in-laws for the week. I'll be back soon with new stuff,including but not limited to, a GIVEAWAY! I'll give you a hint...it's bigger than a bread box...and you can eat it. I'm going to ...
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jodie M. posted an article on Eatin' on the Cheap - Jun 4, 2010, 8:27 am
You know summer is in full swing when the squash and zucchini starts coming in. I have memories of mysterious 5 gallon buckets full of zucchini and summer squash showing up on our back door when I was a kid. While my mother always welcomed free vegetables, after 2 or 3 buckets of squash, she could b...
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jodie M. posted an article on Eatin' on the Cheap - Jun 2, 2010, 11:37 am
What a weekend! I am back from a fantastic time in the North Georgia Mountains. I cheered on my husband and my brother in their second BBQ competition in Young Harris, Georgia. They did well, 3rd in ribs! Then my hubby and I got some much needed R&R for our 6th wedding anniversary. Then we drove bac...
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jodie M. posted an article on Eatin' on the Cheap - May 27, 2010, 9:38 am
I am fairly new at this adventure called “blogging”. I started a yearlong dinner challenge for my family of four in January, and thus Gourmet Meals for Less was created. It has been such a wonderful creative outlet for me on several fronts. Cooking being the obvious one, but also writing and pho...
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jodie M. posted an article on Eatin' on the Cheap - May 26, 2010, 10:44 pm
I'm heading out for a nice long Memorial Day weekend. Memorial Day weekend also happens to be our wedding anniversary. Our 6th as a matter of fact. We always try to spend some quality time together for our anniversaries. It's funny how the meaning of "quality time" changes as you progress ...
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jodie M. posted an article on Eatin' on the Cheap - May 23, 2010, 1:07 pm
So a weekend hiatus turned into a week long absence. I have been strangely busy all week. I've had playdates and Tupperware parties, custom orders and last days of school, not to mention the mountain of laundry that has been washed ( but yet to be folded). During times of extreme busin...
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