Sometimes the simplest ideas are really profound. Vanessa from What Geeks Eat has a powerful four-word formula that can help anyone in charge of cooking who wants to stop the pizza deliveries and get healthy meals on the table instead. If you'd like a blueprint for creating nutritious dinners every night and sticking to the food budget, click this post's title to read more.

These are expensive times, and families are having to get creative in maximizing their resources. One blogger, Mary of Owlhaven, is a mom of ten kids committed to teaching her kids common-sense frugality by example.