The Harried Homemaker Preps

July in Review: The Garden - July has been a tough month. Like much of the nation, we've been under the grip of a heatwave that just won...

Do you remember how expensive produce was last winter? ? Even in a normal year, I regularly have to pay between $2-3 per red bell pepper in ...

This is a recipe my mother-in-law makes frequently during the summer for family get-togethers. It's sweet, creamy, and has a nice zip fr...

I apologize for the formatting issues you may see on this and other recent posts. I'm having issues with Blogger working, period, much l...

Hubby Dear was on-call from 5 pm Friday until 7 am Monday. That meant that every person that showed up at our hospital with ailments large o...

Last month I bought 6 dozen Tattler reusable canning lids. I finally had a chance to put them to the test last week. The typical canning lid...

We've harvested over 15 pounds of green beans from our garden so far. Assuming the garden survives the next week (the highs are projec...

It's prime gardening season. The cucumbers are coming by the bucket-load, we're finally getting some tomatoes, and it's hot enou...

Like much of the nation, it has been darn hot around here the past few days. Day after day of 100 degree+ temperatures must have caused me t...

I just love babies! They're so tiny and sweet. Sure, they take up a lot of time. You've got to feed them and clean up after them a...

Before I got married to Hubby Dear, I went through my Mom's recipe collection and copied all her best recipes into a little cookbook of ...

Back when I was a child bride, Hubby Dear loved to indulge me by buying kitchen equipment that we could not afford. I've never been one ...

Those of you who are completely uninterested in gardening are going to have to excuse me because I have more garden photos to share. When yo...

Over the past few months I've used my prepping budget to build up our survival library. As promised, here's the first of many book r...

I hope you all got a chance to watch "Doomsday Preppers" on Monday night. I enjoyed the show a lot and was pleasantly surprised it...

Tonight, the National Geographic Channel is airing a show called "Doomsday Preppers".   Click here to see more about it or watch ...

Don't you love it when you get ready to fix dinner and find out that you're missing a key ingredient? That happened to me last night...