How To Make Your Own Yogurt/ Greek Yogurt, without a Yogurt Maker

How To Make Your Own Yogurt/ Greek Yogurt, without a Yogurt Maker

Yogurt is easy to make, and an interesting process. I like "back to basics" type of activities - and I like to show my children where things come from, other than the store! We don't always make our own yogurt these days, but we do when we can. It is cheaper than the store, and you know *exactly* what is in it this way! Everyone knows yogurt is healthy, but a lot of people don't realize that if you buy those little pre-sweetened packages of fruit-flavored yogurt,

How to Sew Your Own Cloth Diapers

Using cloth diapers is frugal, even if you have to invest some money initially on the diapers. So, making your own is *more* frugal, right?  But, as long as you are making your own, why not take frugal to the one hundreth power and make them from recycled fabrics??

Following is a tutorial on how to do just that.

How To Give a Boy a Haircut All by Yourself!

Giving a boy a haircut is really very simple, and in the long run, it will save you a *bundle* of money! I have always cut my children’s and husband’s hair, and it would be fun sometime to do the math to see how much we’ve saved…. but for now, I will just tell you how I cut my son’s hair. I do basically the same thing for my husband as well, just a little bit longer. It takes all of about 10 minutes, too – way less stressful than going somewhere else!

How To Make Easy, Tender, Delicious Shish Kabobs!

Kabobs are one thing that my husband *really* enjoys.  Thankfully, he not only enjoys eating them, he also enjoys helping to make them. So, this is usually a family project.
First, start out with some meat. We usually use beef, but you could use chicken or the meat of your choice. Because the marinade makes the meat really tender, you can use a cheaper cut of beef.  This happened to be sirloin steak, only because it was on sale for super cheap, but cheap cuts of meat do just as good.

Simple Tool to Teach Your Kids Money Value

Here is a little flipchart that I made a little while back, to teach my little boy about the value of money, and he LOVED it!!!  It was super easy to make, except for cutting out ONE HUNDRED paper pennies, but it was worth it!  I printed the paper money from some online source I googled, and made this with cardstock so it would last. I also put contact paper over it. I LOVE contact paper and put it on everything!!!  I could just see all the money falling off or getting pulled off otherwise!