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Here we are at Part 2 of the Taste of Home Magazine Review. Let’s pick up where we left off: Page 14: Ad for the digital copy of Taste of Home magazine. This would save trees and gas for delivery… but you’d probably use ink and paper to print out the recipes. Page 15: Article for pick your . . . → Read More: Taste of Home Magazine Review – August/September 2010 Issue Part 2 pages 14 -92 Do you have two boxes of Ziploc bags or containers hanging around in your pantry? If so you can visit the Taste of Home website here to enter those UPC codes and download the free back to school menu planner. You can also sign up for coupons from SC Johnson at . . . → Read More: Free back to school menu planner from Ziplock and Taste of Home magazine Here’s a new one on me. Kidney Beans contain a poison that must be elimated by boiling the dry beans for 10 min. This poison can’t be removed by the low temperature in a Crock-pot or slow cooker and people can be poisoned by them. See the full write up I read on . . . → Read More: Boil Kidney Beans for 10 min before cooking in a slow cooker to prevent poisoning OK, I love odd things so when I went to the Cooks Ham website, www.Cooksham.com, I just had to see what kinds of audio and video they had for ham. So I went to this link and lo and behold I discovered HAM TV. What a great intro video this has… just the kind of thing I . . . → Read More: Want to know how to cut a spiral ham, are Cooks Ham products Gluten Free or how long you can store ham leftovers? Check out HAM TV. I was reading a magazine and stumbled across ads for cream cheese referencing www.spreadphilly.com. Next time I was online I visited the website and was pleasantly surprised at what Kraft had put together. The website has your usual huge list of recipes plus an online community, but the section I found interesting was the “How to Cook . . . → Read More: Love cooking and baking with cream cheese? Need to know if you can substitute cream cheese spread for regular? There is a place you can go. I stumbled across a neat downloadable on the “Beef It’s What’s For Dinner” website. If you click here you will be taken to a PDF document that you can print out which contains 29 cuts of beef that meet govenment standards for lean beef. The card contains the name of the cut, the calories and the . . . → Read More: Healthy Beef Choices – get a wallet card with the leanest cuts to take to the store with you My friend Doris shared her newest issue of Taste of Home Magazine with me. She’s a subscriber (my Mom used to be too) and we both know there are good recipes to be had in this magazine but I wondered what else I could find. So here’s the rundown on content. This issue has 92 pages including . . . → Read More: Taste of Home Magazine Review – August/September 2010 Issue Part 1 pages 1 – 13 One of my ultimate reference books is The Complete Tightwad Gazette by Amy Dacyczyn. If you’re reading this blog to be frugal you’ve probably already stumbled on Amy’s books or someone talking about Amy’s books. Please, please, please if you are interested in frugal and you haven’t read one of her books get to the library . . . → Read More: Tightwad Gazette Cuban Bread Recipe – good bread, fast and HFCS free I do not use paper napkins, nor do I think anyone should BUT I do appreciate Vanity Fair providing us with a quick reference on how to fold a napkin (works with cloth too folks!) Check out their website here . . . → Read More: Vanity Fair Napkins teaches napkin folding Buying paper napkins and paper towels is a huge waste of money and resources so at our house we almost always use cloth – even for picnics. Cloth napkins are usually sized from 10 to 22 inches depending on if they are cocktail or dinner sized ones and they are usually square, but they do not have . . . → Read More: Cloth Napkins, how to make and buy them |
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