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	<description>Can a blog be about gardening, cancer, family, food and life all at the same time?  Oh good.</description>
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		<title>Glee Mixed with Joy Equals&#8230;</title>
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This is also why he fell asleep mid-chew on Sunday night in the middle of a blaring restaurant.
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		<title>Days 5 through 7 &#8212; Feasting with Friends</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was pleased on Day 5 because I fought my baser &#8220;run to the store&#8221; instincts in the face of impending company and after a day at the beach that went about two hours longer than I&#8217;d intended. In addition, I suddenly realized I&#8217;d be feeding more than I&#8217;d planned on when shopping and going [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=merlotmudpies.wordpress.com&blog=3004835&post=340&subd=merlotmudpies&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Aw, Nuts! (and Honey Whole Wheat)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Some pictures and recipes (approximate &#8212; that&#8217;s just the way i roll)
Chili, Garlic and Lime Peanuts:

These peanuts (3.5 C) got mixed with:
2 T melted butter
juice of 1 lime
1 tsp garlic, minced finely
zest of 1 lime
1/2 tsp cayenne pepper
2 tsp chili powder
garlic salt
sea salt
then they got roasted in a 300 degree oven for 20 minutes (could [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=merlotmudpies.wordpress.com&blog=3004835&post=336&subd=merlotmudpies&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://merlotmudpies.wordpress.com/2009/09/04/aw-nuts-and-honey-whole-wheat/</link>
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		<title>Grocery Spending Challenge &#8212; Day 3</title>
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Here I am at the end of day 3 of the challenge and it&#8217;s only my first post on progress.  But what a busy few days I&#8217;ve had.  And spendy!  However, I&#8217;m thrilled about some of the deals I&#8217;ve gotten this month so far.  I&#8217;m hoping that some of the spending I&#8217;ve done up front [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=merlotmudpies.wordpress.com&blog=3004835&post=332&subd=merlotmudpies&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Grocery Spending Challenge &#8212; $75.00 a Week!</title>
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All right!  Here we go with my first big update for the Grocery Spending Challenge from Mary at Owlhaven.  If you haven&#8217;t come here because you&#8217;re a part of the challenge, too, then click on the image and join in!  Each participant is stating her goal and then we&#8217;re getting down to business.  I&#8217;m ashamed [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=merlotmudpies.wordpress.com&blog=3004835&post=328&subd=merlotmudpies&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://merlotmudpies.wordpress.com/2009/09/03/grocery-spending-challenge-75-00-a-week/</link>
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		<title>Free Groceries, If I Don&#8217;t Get Trampled&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There is a new Henry&#8217;s opening in my neighborhood tomorrow and giving away free groceries to the first 200 families to come through the door.  They open at 8:00.  I&#8217;m just silly enough to go to this.  I&#8217;ll let you know if I survive and, more importantly, whether it was worth it!
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		<link>http://merlotmudpies.wordpress.com/2009/09/02/free-groceries-if-i-dont-get-trampled/</link>
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		<title>Snacks &#8212; The Budget Buster</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I once wept to my husband, &#8220;Could you PLEASE keep your cravings to something that DOESN&#8217;T cost us $11.00 a lb.??&#8221; when thwarted in the process of making pesto one night.  I reached for my bag of pine nuts only to find 8 or 10 measly little kernels remaining in the bottom of what [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=merlotmudpies.wordpress.com&blog=3004835&post=322&subd=merlotmudpies&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://merlotmudpies.wordpress.com/2009/08/31/snacks-the-budget-buster/</link>
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		<title>Dinner</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Is there honestly much tastier than a BLT?
Tonight Ryan and I feasted on BLTA&#8217;s (avocado being the addition to the mix) and they were just ridiculously good.  I felt bad about a slackerly dinner but after 3 hours in the garden with languishing tomato plants and soil needing to be turned and another 4 at [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=merlotmudpies.wordpress.com&blog=3004835&post=319&subd=merlotmudpies&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>There is a Time for Everything</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have been struggling with this blog for awhile because I&#8217;m not posting with the same focus I had when I first started to write here.  When I first started this blog I was in a period of immediate, deep grief over the illness and then loss of my mom to cancer.  Along with that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=merlotmudpies.wordpress.com&blog=3004835&post=313&subd=merlotmudpies&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://merlotmudpies.wordpress.com/2009/08/18/there-is-a-time-for-everything/</link>
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		<title>Ten Widdow Mon-teys, Yumpin&#8217;onna Bed</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today I had a blast with Eamonn.  Do you know what we were doing?  We were cleaning.
We&#8217;re in week two of no channels on the TV and a lovely thing has happened &#8212; he&#8217;s started not to miss TV.  This morning he asked me, &#8220;Mom &#8212; would you play music on the TV?&#8221;  We don&#8217;t [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=merlotmudpies.wordpress.com&blog=3004835&post=310&subd=merlotmudpies&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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