I absolutely love the egg sandwiches you can get at various fast food joints. This summer, my daughter and I have been on a huge kick, eating egg and muffin sandwiches for breakfast, sometimes snacks, and sometimes for lunch. They are so easy to make and quite inexpensive. For one sandwich, here’s all you need: [...]
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Easy Egg and English Muffin Sandwich
Posted in Breakfast, cooking, Frugal Living, Kitchen Tips on July 29, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Cheap and Easy – Crockpot Pork Shoulder
Posted in crock pot, dinner, Frugal Living, Kitchen Tips on July 28, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I’m all about good food, but also like to save money and save time. This recipe covers all the bases. First off, one of my main grocery shopping strategies is to take advantage of sale meats. Last week, Kroger had pork shoulder on sale for about 1.39 per pound, so I bought a 6 pound [...]
Make your own ground beef!
Posted in cooking, dinner, Frugal Living, Kitchen Tips, recipes on June 25, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
This month’s Cooking Light magazine had a feature on hamburgers, and one of the recipes provided details on how to make your own fresh ground beef for really tasty burgers. All you needed was some time, a cut of beef, and a Kitchenaid mixer with the grinder attachment. The most time consuming part for me [...]
A new approach to menu planning….
Posted in cooking, dinner, Frugal Living, Kitchen Tips, organizing, recipes on May 28, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
For those of us who cook most of our family meals at home, menu planning can help save money, time, and frustration, but sometimes it is hard to find the time or initiative to get a meal plan going. In the past, I have used weekly or even monthly menu plans, but as our family [...]
Pantry Tip #5 – Keep a List!
Posted in Kitchen Tips, organizing, tagged organizing, pantry tips on August 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This tip may seem a bit self-evident, but I think it bears repeating. The best way to make sure you don’t run out of things and have what you need is to keep a running list and check it before you go to the store. If you keep things on your fridge with magnets, put [...]
Pantry Tip #4 – How much food should you “stockpile?”
Posted in cooking, coupons, Frugal Living, Kitchen Tips, organizing, tagged cooking, frugal, organizing, pantry tips, saving money on August 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
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Pantry Tip #3 – Bulk Buying Ground Meat
Posted in Kitchen Tips, tagged Kitchen Tips, pantry tips on August 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Sometimes the best deals to be had come in big packages. If your store is running a special on ground meat, but it’s on a family package of 5 lbs. or more, what are you to do? Split the package and freeze. Here’s my technique. I get alot of hamburger and almost all my ground [...]
Pantry Tip #2 – Best Prices on Dry Herbs and Spices
Posted in cooking, Frugal Living, Kitchen Tips, tagged cooking, frugal, Kitchen Tips, saving money on August 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Today I have a few recommendations about where to get the best price and quality on herbs and spices for your pantry. I start by assuming you have containers of some kind for your regularly used spices – old spice jars or baby food jars or something. When I first went on my own, my [...]
Pantry Tip #1 – Use a Sharpie and put dates on those pantry items!
Posted in Kitchen Tips, organizing, tagged organizing, pantry tips on August 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This week, from Monday to Friday, I am going to post a tip a day on helping get your pantry organized and working for you. The start of school is rapidly approaching, for both me and my kids, but I don’t want to discontinue posting to my blog. My idea is to set weekly themes [...]
Handy Kitchen Tip: Re-grow Green Onions
Posted in cooking, Frugal Living, Kitchen Tips, tagged cooking, frugal, Kitchen Tips, saving money on August 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Busy day today as I have a lot of errands to run, but I want to share a neat kitchen tip. We are big fans of the show “The Next Food Network Star” and this tip came from contestant and winner Melissa about halfway through the series. When asked for a helpful kitchen tip to [...]
