Beef Enchiladas

This is a Taste of Home recipe, but thought I’d repost it here for convenience. The sauce makes a GREAT enchilada sauce for other recipes that call for it. • 1 pound ground beef • 1 cup cottage cheese • 1 can (4-1/4 ounces) chopped ripe olives, drained (optional) • 2 tablespoons minced fresh parsley [...]

I ♥ Faces ~ Laughter

What an exciting week over at I ♥ faces! The Pioneer Woman is the guest judge! How intimidating! J This week’s photo challenge in the Kid’s Category is laughter. If you’ve got a photo you’d like to share head on over and link up or you could just take a look at everyone’s pictures [...]

Menu Plan Monday ~ May 11

Hope everyone enjoyed their Mother’s Day week-end! Hope you all can join me over at Happy to be at Home this week. My kitchen is the “Kitchen of the Week” and I’ll be blogging about the goings on in my kitchen. I’ll be posting a lot of new recipes here at Better is Little, so [...]

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13 ways to Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, Rethink!

On our recent trip to the Library I picked up the book True Green Kids. It is full of save the Earth, but there is a lot of ideas that are good for a simpler life, frugal, and being good stewards of the earth. While flipping through for ideas our children could apply I found [...]

Book Basket – Reading List Resources

We are ready for another library trip, perhaps today. I’ve found that our children devour their library books in the first 3 days after a visit. If there is a book that didn’t really catch their interest and was tossed aside, I pull the book out and dig and find a topic that might catch [...]

Breakfast Cookies

I first got the idea for these breakfast cookies here, but I quickly saw what revisions I would make for our family’s taste buds. I made them last night and it was Oh so hard not to gobble them up as dessert! We each had 2 with a piece of fruit and a glass of [...]

Never tire…

of showing off our Baby Girl For more fun & interesting pictures head on over to 5 Minutes for Mom’s Wordless Wednesday and 7 Clown Circus’ Wordful Wednesday and Cheaper Than Therapy’s A Thousand Words Thursday

Poor Man’s Beef Stroganoff

1 lb hamburger Couple splashes of Worcestershire sauce 1 chopped onion 8 oz sliced fresh mushrooms 1 can of cream of mushroom soup (or you can make your own) 1 can of cream of chicken soup (or you can make your own) 16 oz sour cream Salt, pepper, garlic powder, paprika to taste 2 [...]

Is your electricity LEAKING!?

Many appliances in your home still pull power even when they are turned off! It’s true! They call it “phantom load” and it could be costing you extra dollar$ on your electric bill! The US Department of Energy states that “In the average home, 75% of the electricity used to power home electronics is consumed [...]

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