Scrape, Bake, and Repeat

MP) Bread is still high on my thoughts at home lately, but it's kind of the same old stuff. No new recipes for me this week. Perfecting the Perfect Loaf? Nope, not yet. The kids enjoyed the Perfect Loaf recipe, so we did make it again and this time I measured carefully the ingredients. It … Continue reading Scrape, Bake, and Repeat →

The Perfect Loaf

MP) After a few days of being stranded at home, without mail delivery due to the snow, MP made it into the office to pick up the package with the Bread Machine parts for the CBK-100. The new pan and paddle, ready to make the bread machine almost new again. MP talked big and promised … Continue reading The Perfect Loaf →

Improvising Recipes!

MP) MP decided to try and make the Cinnamon Raisin bread again. I figured I’d try a sweet bread setting on the back up bread machine, because the basic bread setting made for a darker bread on the bottom of the silo bread. So, a different setting, and since the raisins were ‘shredded’ last time, … Continue reading Improvising Recipes! →

Epic Fail – Epic Recovery

MP) MP decided to follow in the path of JL and CL and ordered a new pan and paddle for the CBK-100 Cuisinart Bread Machine. I want to try out CL’s hack on the pizza dough in 19 minutes. I can’t wait to get my parts. While shopping at the grocery store this weekend, my … Continue reading Epic Fail – Epic Recovery →

A Toast to Us!

The Bakers: MP and JL - original friends sharing ideas on how to be frugal and now persuading others to join the Bread Machine Life Style. CL - JL's husband, currently making, breaking and eating bread. MJ - MP's coworker that busted out her Bread Machine to start baking again. JP - MP's coworker making … Continue reading A Toast to Us! →

A Toast to our Bread Machines

In August of 2018, we found the podcast Choose FI. What an inspiration to change! In one of the first few episodes of the podcast, the co-hosts discuss how they're making bread in their bread machines. Putting in 5 ingredients, press a button or two and forget about it until it's beeping and done. On … Continue reading A Toast to our Bread Machines →

Umbrella 1.0

In April 2018, we began the journey with creating our first budget and categorizing what we actually spent, so we could make 'informed' decisions in our actual first budget in May. May crept up on us with a harsh reality of trying to stick within the budget and a number of things that weren't budgeted … Continue reading Umbrella 1.0 →

Window Washers

Summer is approaching quickly and the kids are going to be out of school. I've been trying to think about what little side gig my son could do and I was dreaming about how nice it would to have clean windows. It was a quick thought about how he could do it, what he could … Continue reading Window Washers →

What does retirement look like?

Through one of our conversations Jolene asked me, "What does retirement look like?" While on the phone going back and forth, trying to figure it out, checking in on what we've learned today. I received a picture of my husband who was on a "planned" repeating vacation. Since my husband has always squirreled away money … Continue reading What does retirement look like? →

Found Money

Before I was budget planning and before I had shared my goal to retire in 10 years with my friend Marci, I was busily going about my life without much awareness to my spending or the money that I had in various forms. Upon reading Dave Ramsey’s book Complete Guide to Money, I became inspired … Continue reading Found Money →