Story of my $8 Watermelon! 😲🍉

Published: Wed, 05/25/22

But first, our Summer Bucket List:

The day after the last day of school, I sat down with our 3, 6, and 8 year olds to write down fun summer ideas. Nothing was extravagant (I was the one with the pen, after all). We wrote things like:

Go to the library
Go on lots of walks
Eat picnics at the park
Go to ALL THE PARKS
Make popsicles
Eat popsicles!
Go to the farmer's market
Roast hotdogs at our firepit
Have shopping time with mom (as in, take turns going to the store with mom one-on-one)
Go to Montana for the WEDDING!!!
Go to the pool...

It's all activities we would be doing anyway, but the kids had soooo much fun making plans with me as if they thought of these "unique" ideas all by themselves! :)

Here's a great guide for you!

It's part of our Heavenly Homemakers Summer 2022 eMagazine, which is of course, filled with tons of summer recipes, hundreds of ideas to have family time for free, ways to serve as a family - so much goodness!

There's an entire printable booklet just for kids in this edition. They'll love it! (Messes not included.)

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We've been all about saving money on groceries lately :)

I've been encouraged to know that it's still possible. We shared this, which is off to a super strong start! Today I posted this - the Least Expensive Burrito Recipe. I have these in my freezer almost always. They are so easy to warm up quickly.

Here are some very inexpensive meals I made from food I got from Costco. And take note of this--->

Last week I bought a watermelon and it cost me $8. OUCH. I'd rather pay the usual $4 or $5 that I used to pay. But it was large and I bought it anyway because what choice did I have (but to avoid fruits and veggies just because the prices are increasing)?

I cut it all up one day, and look how much fruit!!! was inside that melon for $8?

We've used this one melon as a side dish for at least 5 meals and it is sweet as can be. Yes, prices are going up. But YES, we can still afford to eat healthy food. Take it from my sweet three year old who insisted on being in my watermelon picture. (And whose shirt is not permanently stained with watermelon juice.)

Chin up, grocery purchasing friends. We can do this!

Laura @ HeavenlyHomemakers.com