Photo by V’ron via Flickr.com Welcome to the Frugal Food Series-the place where we get together and share our fantastic family tested and approved frugal recipes. In doing so we are all helping to create a resource—sort of an online cookbook of budget stretching recipes to help during the lean times. In past week’s we’ve… Keep Reading
Calling all Cooks-More Ground Meat Recipes!
OK folks, we’ve got some great ones, but I know there are more recipes out there. We’ve seen some Mexican and Italian, but there is a whole world out there of recipes. What about Asian? Eastern European (think Goulash, Pastisio, Moussaka etc)? What about fun burger and meatball recipes? Please, help us all out and… Keep Reading
Festival of Frugality
My “Frugal Food Series Part 3: Beans” article is included in this weeks Festival of Frugality. It is a truly huge festival with plenty of great reading for everyone. The host site is “Budgets are Sexy“, which cracks me up! Head on over and check it out. And don’t forget to post your awesome and… Keep Reading
Readers Recipes: Falafel
Rachel left this recipe in the comments of the Frugal Food Series: Beans. **************** If you have a food processor,you can make great falafel without actually cooking the chickpeas- all you have to do is soak them. You get to use ultra cheap dried beans and save the energy used in boiling them; how frugal… Keep Reading
More Bean Recipes Please!
We’ve gotten some great recipes for the Frugal Food Series Part Three: Beans, but we could use even more. Remember, the more ideas and recipes we have, the better a resource this can be for everyone. So dig into your recipe files for those great family tested bean recipes. I know that there are tons… Keep Reading
Frugal Food-Part Three: Beans!
Photo by Roger Smith via Flickr.com Welcome to the Frugal Food Series-a place where we are all trying to help one another stretch our grocery dollar during this time of soaring prices. So far we’ve explored the wonder of the inexpensive egg, and the delicous recipes available for the ubiquitous canned tuna. Now we are… Keep Reading
Frugal Food-Part Two: Tuna
Photo by Iirraa via Flickr.com Welcome to the Frugal Food Series! With prices of everything soaring, most of us are finding we need to tighten the budgetary belts a little. One of the easiest places to trim costs without sacrificing on your lifestyle is usually your grocery budget. Join us as we spend several weeks… Keep Reading
Frugal Food-Part One: EGGS!
Photo by MadelineTosh via Flickr.com Today we are kicking off the frugal food series. Each week I will highlight a frugal food, and then invite readers to post their own recipes and link back here. Hopefully this will provide us all with a nice repertoire of recipes to use during these lean times! We are… Keep Reading




