Hi and welcome to this blog! We all know how difficult it can be to make the dollar stretch, especially in this day and age. And the week before payday, when you are running low on ideas for meals... when you pull things from the freezer, fridge and pantry and create a brand new meal. Sometimes the best meals are made the week before payday!

Thursday, February 25, 2010

Mr. Linky for week of 2/24/2010 - 3/2/2010

Alrighty! Lets see what great meals you come up with! Be sure to share a link back to this post so we can get lots more people and lots more ideas! THANKS!

Be sure to see the very short list of rules for posting.

RULES FOR PARTICIPATING

VERY simple.

1) Make sure to let us know what ingredients you had available (and for fun, let us know how long you have had it before it actually got used - was it that bag of frozen carrots that you discovered while cleaning out the freezer and have no idea how long it has been in there?).

2) Be sure to share a link to the post on your blog and not your blog by itself. We want links to the meals you made. :D

3) When leaving a link, be sure to give us some sort of an idea of what kind of meal you made. Like give a name to your meal.

What is this blog?

SO a friend of mine on Facebook said:

"Sometimes the best recipes are discovered a few days before payday."

HOW TRUE!

For those of us who are on a cash only system, or actually stick to a budget, running to the store the week before payday and using a credit card is not an option. You basically have to use what you have.

This will not a busy blog. In fact, I plan on only two posts a month.

This blog WILL however, allow all of us to band together to share our wonderful discoveries of the most yummy meals!

There will be a Mr. Linky twice a month. You might be like our family is (paid twice a month) or you might be paid once a month. Either way, come and share in the MR. Linky a link to YOUR blog post where you are sharing recipes that you are discovering using ONLY what is in your pantry!

And unlike most people who use Mr. Linky, you can post more than one link! After all, there are three meals a day, seven days a week! The Mr. Linky will stay open for the week before each payday.

PLEASE post a link to your POST (i.e. MEAL) and NOT your blog (all posts just to a blog will be removed).

Be sure to share what ingredients you had on hand, not just the recipe. Feel free to talk about what inspired you to try what you tried and if it was a success (this will be a future meal) or total flop (even the dog wouldn't eat it). :D

AND if you try someone's recipe, be sure to come back and comment on how YOU liked it so we can all be sure to go and try the recipe in link 17 or be sure to avoid recipe in link 23 - not a good combination - my children boycotted!

All in all I hope and pray that this blog will bless others!