It’s time again for the Grocery Benchmark Report. While prices either remained stable or dropped slightly this month I did notice a few interesting cost changes this month. The first was that Aldi changed their sugar to a 4lb bag. That makes the price look significantly less at the register (ie last month’s bag of… Keep Reading
Menu Plan 5/21
What are you eating this week? You don’t know? Well you should! Menu planning makes a HUGE difference in both the amount of money you spend on meals AND the amount of chaos in your kitchen each night. This week is pretty chaotic-which makes menu planning even more important than usual! 1. As usual, Tuesday… Keep Reading
Around the Web: The Wartime Kitchen
Sometimes it feels like it’s so hard to feed your family a healthy, tasty meal while sticking to a grocery budget. Imagine what it would be like if groceries were rationed! Have you ever stopped to imagine what it must have been like for a homemaker trying to feed the family during WWII? I found… Keep Reading
Readers’ Question: Freezing Pizza Dough
Dear Frugal Upstate: I’m am sure you have posted about this somewhere but I can’t remember! Can you make the Pizza Hut Crust Clone recipe ahead of time or do you make it and par-bake it right away. I’m just wondering if it can be frozen or refrigerated?? Thanks!!! and love your site! Kristie Well… Keep Reading
Menu 5/14
Time again for the weekly meal plan! This week is fairly simple-nothing too out of the ordinary to deal with (thank goodness!) 1. Standard schedule of meetings and after school type activities. Scouts & Pool on Wednesdays, Yankee Bill has a meeting on Tuesday (today), Princess has her dance lesson. The regular stuff. 2. Monday… Keep Reading
Reader’s Questions: Homemade Laundry Stain Remover?
Dear Frugal Upstate, I’ve been using and love your Homemade Laundry Soap, but it’s got me wondering. . . do you have a frugal homemade laundry stain remover? My kids (and frankly my husband) are hard on clothes. Alice Well Alice, here are a few inexpensive options you can use to deal with stains. Remember,… Keep Reading
Meal Plan 5/7
Time to start the week out right with a meal plan! This week is slightly less chaotic than the last few have been. As of right now we have only the “regularly” scheduled activities, more or less. 1. Scouts for both kids and hubs playing pool on Wednesday, which means a hectic evening which calls… Keep Reading
Meal Plan 4/29
Weekly meal plan time again! Here is what I have to think about this week: 1. The kiddos are off school on Tuesday (today) all day, and we have dentist appointments. I think I’ll splurge and take them out to the Chinese buffet for lunch (yeah-the hygienists are going to LOVE me eh?). Since that… Keep Reading
Around the Web: Barter Economy in Greece
Interesting BBC video about the barter economy that is springing up in Greece in response to their economic hardships: Have you ever bartered for something?
April Grocery Benchmark
It’s time again for the Grocery Benchmark Report. Actually I continue to be amazed by the relative stability of prices. I hate it when the data doesn’t match my hypothesis 😉 However I do have some thoughts on why. 1. I am using ALDI for my source. It is quite possible that ALDI is purposely… Keep Reading
