Aiming to live a healthier lifestyle
in mind, body, and bank account!

The Rough Draft A Year in Review 2020
Though it seemed a silly thing to do considering the year 2020 has been, I decided to rekindle The Rough ...
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A Pandemic for Christmas
J and I weren't planning to put up a Christmas tree this year. The mini one we'd been using lost ...
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Covid Ate My Homework
It's been a year. If we say nothing else of 2020, we can at least say that: it's been a ...
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Meal Plan Monday
Despite "theme-ing" my week, we ended up straying from the meal plan quite a bit. I've realised that moving meals ...
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meal plan monday
You ever blink and suddenly it's two weeks later and you have no idea where the time went? Yeah, that ...
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Meal Plan Monday
This week was a 'use up all the food in the freezer' kind of week, as we've had a few ...
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Meal Plan Monday
I teased you all last week that J was making us a mince-free Bolognese, and I have to say it ...
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Recipe: Backpacker Pasta
3 Ingredient Backpacker Pasta When I was backpacking my way around New Zealand, it sometimes wasn't always in my budget ...
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Meal Planning… Sometimes
Meal Planning is something I've been doing on-and-off for just over a year now. It's one of those things that ...
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Meal Plan Monday
Wow. Talk about your not following a meal plan! My word. I was actually really excited for last week's meals ...
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Meal Plan Monday
It started out so beautifully... (Using the traffic light system for ‘Nailed it!’, ‘Well… at least we didn’t spend any ...
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Debt Free Journey: My 2019 Goal
Since getting more serious about becoming debt free, I've been spending quite a bit of time looking into budgeting and ...
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Debt Free: Dave Ramsey Style
If you've looked into going debt free you've probably heard about Dave Ramsey. His was definitely one of the first ...
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Meal Plan Monday
I can hardly believe we've passed through the first week of June already! I had pretty big plans for this ...
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MEAL PLANNING 101
It’s funny how you can get into a habit. Doing the same thing over and over and over again until ...
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WHY AM I ALWAYS BROKE?
That's the question, isn't it? Why am I always broke? It’s actually something I’ve been asking myself since forever. Or ...
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