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Frugal living

Black Bean Chiliquile

June 23, 2009

I made this for dinner last night.  Fairly quick and easy (especially since I used canned tomatoes and canned corn).  It came out delicious.   This probably has 4-6 servings.  If you wanted to make more, you could probably add another can of beans and some cooked rice.  Cheap and healthy too.
1 c chopped onions
1 T [...]

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Cloth Diapering Simplified–Link roundup

March 6, 2009

I didn’t intend for this to become cloth diapering week, but once I had three articles written it seemed good to finish up with some good cloth diapering resources from around the web.
For starters, the articles on this blog:

Top 10 reasons to use cloth diapers
Supplies for getting started
The simple wash routine

When I was making my [...]

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Cloth Diapering Simplified–The Wash Routine

March 5, 2009

I’ve read a lot of opinions on how to properly wash cloth diapers.  Some say use bleach, others say don’t bleach.  Some articles insist on HOT water, others say it doesn’t matter.
Here is my simple routine for washing cloth diapers, everything seems to come out clean and stink free and that’s what’s really important isn’t [...]

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Cloth Diapering Simplified–Supplies to get started

March 4, 2009

Back when I was still pregnant, people would ask me, “Are you planning on using cloth diapers?”  When I answered affirmatively, they responded, “You won’t do it.”  I talked to several friends who had briefly attempted cloth diapering and then gave up.  “It was too hard,” they said. Momentarily, my resolve wavered, but I found [...]

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Cloth Diapering Simplified–Top 10 reasons for cloth diapering

March 3, 2009

It’s no harder than using a disposable diaper–Cloth diapering has come a long way.  Put out of your mind images of sticking a baby with a pin or soaking dirty diapers in a pail of water.  With velcro diaper covers you can use prefolds (old style diapers) with no pins, if you prefer to go [...]

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