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Homemade Snow Ice Cream Recipe And Snow Cones

March 1, 2023 by 29 Comments

Make a sweet treat on a snow day with our homemade snow ice cream recipe! Snow ice cream is a wonderful treat for the kids and mom and this recipe and video make it easy!

Make a sweet treat on a snow day with our homemade snow ice cream recipe! This is a wonderful treat for the kids and mom to enjoy together! This recipe and video make it easy!

With snow in most of the country I thought I would post these recipes and tips for a fun frugal snow day, including our homemade snow ice cream recipe!

There are lots of great ways to enjoy snow days or make them better for the kids. We have a family tradition of making snow ice cream every year with the kids and they look forward to the first snowfall with enough snow to make homemade snow ice cream. We have one child who doesn’t like milk or ice cream, so we make snow cones for him and I am including our easy snow cone recipe here, too!

Sometimes, people get a little weird about using snow on the ground, but never fear! We have been making snow ice cream for years and nobody has died. Of course, you want to use fresh snow that has recently fallen and not dirty snow or, even worse, yellow snow! haha!

After the recipes, I included some pictures of some of our snow adventures, including sledding, snow surfing when you don’t have hills and igloo building, which we did for quite a few years when the kids were younger!

I put some pictures of our place too! Enjoy!

Tawra

Watch our “How To Make Snow Ice Cream” videos below!

How To Make Snow Ice Cream video

Our kids love it when it snows because they love making and, more importantly, eating homemade snow ice cream!

Genuine Kansas weather gnome

Genuine Kansas Weather Gnome

The directions say, “If it’s covered in snow, it’s snowing!”

Here's an easy 2 ingredient snow cones recipe you can make with fresh snow or crushed ice! A prefect treat that the kids will love!
House winter wonderland
winter wonderland - snow covered playground
david with a snowball

First, a stay dry tip: Slip plastic sacks over the kids feet to keep them dry. Put them on over the socks and the put on their shoes. Tie the handles around their legs.

sledding behind a lawn tractor mower

If you don’t have a 4-wheeler get out the lawn mower!

Kids sledding in the snow

Baby Jack’s First Sledding!

snow surfing behind a lawn mower

Snow Surfing In Kansas. This is how you have fun in the snow with no hills!

From our snow storm 2 weeks ago

Mom and Jack in the snow

Jack’s first time in the snow (with mom not feeling so great 🙂

gathering snow for the snow fort

Elly and BJ collecting snow to make igloo bricks. They used a plastic tub to make the snow bricks.

building the igloo
bj building the igloo

BJ and David working on the igloo

the homemade igloo is taller than Elly
Elly sand dad in the ogloo

Elly and Mike posing with the final product.

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Filed Under: Kids Recipes, Recipes, Saving Money Tagged With: canning, Cleaning, Food, frugal, Frugal Living, Laundry, recipe, Recipes

Dream Laundry Room Ideas

August 17, 2020 by 10 Comments

Dream Laundry Room Ideas

Dream Laundry Room Ideas

From: Cindy M
This is an idea for handling laundry/clothes that I wish I would have used when my kids were still at home. It would require a good-size laundry room but save a lot of bedroom space. There would be cubbies for everyone – socks, underwear, t-shirts, jeans, anything foldable would go in the cubbies – being folded straight out of the dryer. This would eliminate the need for dressers in the bedroom and the space they would take up. Hanging clothes could either go on a rack in the laundry room if space allows, or in the bedroom closets.

I have to admit this would be my dream laundry room! Since my laundry room barely has room for me stand in I dream of this type of a laundry room everyday! LOL Tawra

My dream laundry room would have an eight foot long and four foot deep table that is the perfect height to fold my clothes on easily with the cubbies and rods above it to place things as I fold them. It also would have a place to keep the ironing board up all the time with a rod and cubbies by it to hang the clothes on. Last but not least it would have a rack to hang all those things like dirty dish rags or towels which need to dry before you dump them in the hamper.

To be honest I love laundry so much I wouldn’t mind dedicating one whole floor to a laundry room. I wonder if more people would enjoy doing it if they didn’t have to do it all in a little 5×3 closet all the time. Cooking and doing laundry are two of the main “have to do” things done in a home and yet they always make theses little tiny rooms to do it in but we create these bathrooms that are so big you could play tennis in them.

I mean how much room do you need to sit on a toilet or stand at a sink to wash your face??? They give you an 8 foot vanity just to brush your hair and put on make up and often don’t give you even one foot of space to fold clothes.

They even are now giving you an area in the bathroom so you can have a couch to sit and read on. I’m sorry but I can think of much more pleasant places I would rather read then laying and looking at a toilet that 4 male members of my family just used.  Makes no sense to me. Although if you are a mom with 4 little ones under the age of 5 that might be your only place to relax. : ) : )

Jill

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Can You Save Money Making Your Own Laundry Detergent?

July 24, 2015 by 44 Comments

A Reader Asks, “Can You Save Money Making Your Own Laundry Detergent?” It’s easy to make homemade laundry detergent but does it actually save money? [Read more…] about Can You Save Money Making Your Own Laundry Detergent?

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What is Washing Soda?

May 13, 2014 by 31 Comments

What is Washing Soda?

What is Washing Soda?

A Reader asks: “What is washing soda? Is it baking soda?”

Tawra: Washing soda is not baking soda.

Washing soda should be in the laundry section of your grocery store. It comes in a yellow box, made by Arm & Hammer, but it’s NOT baking soda. If you’re interested, washing soda is Sodium Carbonate (Na2CO3), baking soda is Sodium Bicarbonate (NaHCO3), and borax is Sodium Tetraborate Decahydrate (Na2B4O7*10H2O), all different chemical compounds.

You can find it locally at Walmart or in the laundry section of most stores. You can also order it at many places online.

 

Homemade Laundry Detergent Recipe

Homemade Laundry Detergent Video

Demystifying The Laundry Detergent Dilemma

Can You Save Money Making your Own Laundry Detergent?

 

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