So I know some of you love your baby carrots, but I am here to tell you-there is another, more frugal way! First of all, do you realize that baby carrots aren’t REALLY baby carrots? They are simply big carrots (that have been bred to be a bit sweeter and orange all the way through)… Keep Reading
When you forget the yeast
. . .your bread doesn’t rise. Yes, adding the yeast is necessary to make the bread rise, and forgetting is a bad, bad thing. *Sigh* What to do? Sometimes life is full of more accidents than successes-and sometimes you are just happy to salvage things. On Monday I did my regular routine to bake two… Keep Reading
Reader’s Question: Should I buy a Breadmaker/Breadmachine?
Frugal Upstate, I love your blog – have gotten so many great ideas. Now a question – I love to make homemade pizza, and I agree with your comments that you can make it relatively healthy and inexpensive compared to delivery pizza. And everyone in my household loves pizza. My question — is buying a… Keep Reading
12 Ways to Use Up Leftover Halloween Candy!
Halloween might be over, but it is not forgotten at the Frugal Upstate household. Despite the fact that we get over 200 trick or treaters a year, we still somehow wound up with leftover candy and the perennial question: “What do we do with leftover Halloween Candy?!” I asked my friends on Twitter and we… Keep Reading
Menu Plan 11/2
Welcome to November! I can’t believe how far into the fall we are already. My oh my-the holiday chaos is ready to start soon. I’m feel quite in a recipe rut. Honestly. I feel as though I cook many of the same dishes over, and over, and over. . . so I am going to… Keep Reading
Return of the Lunchbox Report
School is officially back in session today which means I am back to packing lunches for the kiddos. With the return of that chore I am reinstating the daily “Lunchbox Report” in my sidebar. You can find it about 2/3 of the way down on the right. The lunchbox report is where I will post~in… Keep Reading
Quick Meals: 10 Simple Way to use Chicken
Today is the final installment in my 3 part series on quick meals. I’ve been showing everyone how having frozen precooked meats on hand can really speed up dinner preparation and save you from the dreaded “drive thru trap”. Previously I wrote about ways to use Ground Beef and Meatballs. . . today I tackle… Keep Reading
Quick Dinner: 12 Easy Ideas for Ground Beef
Last night on Frugal Coast2Coast we had a fantastic show with special guest Erin from $5 Dollar Dinners! Lynnae (she’s my co-host if you’ve somehow missed the show) and I are both embroiled in back to school madness. Crazy schedules seem to always lead to dinner chaos-making “Frugal Quick and Easy Dinners for Families on… Keep Reading
Menu Plan 8/17
I feel sort of rushed this week-we are taking a family vacation to the shore in our camper. I almost scrapped the idea of making a menu plan all together~but when you are feeling stressed and overwhelmed is exactly when you need a menu plan the most! Monday: This & That Curry Time to clean… Keep Reading
Nestle Back to School Basics Giveaway: After School Snacks
Last week we talked about ways to “Make Dinner Happen” on a busy school night. Now I’d like to address another big food related area for back to school-those after school snacks. I don’t know about your kids, but mine return home from school famished. I don’t think they could make it from getting off… Keep Reading
