Ha ha ha! Made you look! That is not our chair but it is the style we want for our table... Want to know how you can have this on a budget? Stick with me!

I don't know where you live, but we live in the HOT, dreadful Texas heat, where summer can equal a $500 energy bill to cool your home... Running the oven at 375 degrees for an hour and the heat that comes out into your home from doing so can really put a damper on your energy usage, and create unnecessary work for your air conditioner. August is normally the hotter part of the summer for us here, so after seeing the brilliant idea on a blog elsewhere, I decided to come up with my own menu for this month of oven-free recipes for August. This month, I will use the grill, my handy crock pot, and the stove top to reduce the amount of work I cause for my a/c and keep my home cooler for cheaper! Who's with me???