Sometimes you just need quick and easy comfort food that the whole family will eat. Well this recipe is it! The ingredients are pantry staples so it is not only fast, but frugal as well! Simple Sloppy Joes 1lb Ground Beef 1 Onion 1 Green Pepper 1C Catsup (or Ketchup!) 2TBS Brown Sugar 1TBS Mustard… Keep Reading
Walmart Meal Solutions: Sloppy Joes
I’ll be publishing this new feature on Frugal Upstate occasionally-read about my participation at: What Are Walmart Meal Solutions? Featured Walmart Meal Solution: Manwich Original Sloppy Joe 26.5oz $2.12 Great Value Hamburger Buns 12oz $1.06 Kraft Velveta Shells & Cheese 12oz $1.70 Bush Baked Beans (Original Flavor) 16oz $.94 Meal: $5.82 + cost of 1… Keep Reading
Menu Plan 9/20
What’s on the menu at the Frugal Upstate Household this week? Monday: Pumpkin Black Bean Bake, Spanish Rice & Green Beans I am always fascinated by the pumpkin recipes that you find in magazines and online in the fall. This particular recipe caught my eye several years ago-I clipped it out and have yet to… 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
From the Vault
This post was supposed to go up on Saturday, but you know how things go! So I thought I’d do a little mid-week vault entry with y’all. 2006 Apparently I was very busy thinking about chicken that week. I had made a 20-lb purchase of chicken thigh quarters that I was prepare for the freezer…. Keep Reading
The Great Oatmeal Experiment-Results!
So, a while back I posted my Overnight Crockpot Oatmeal recipe. To my embarrassment a bunch of readers had absolutely horrible results. Oops. So I decided to figure out what was going on. I enlisted the help of some erstwhile volunteers-Daniel, Candi and Allison*. We all started out with the original recipe: 1 cup steel… Keep Reading
Recipe: Venison Parmigiana
You all know I am always looking for new and different ways to prepare venison-after all we have a couple of deer worth in the freezer! This recipe is simply a takeoff on a classic Chicken Parmigiana (or Parmesan). The combination of Venison with spaghetti sauce is always a winner, the flavors balance each other… Keep Reading
Recipe: Roasted Green Beans
Sometimes I just SWEAR that I’ve posted a recipe before. I mean I’m so certain that when a real life friend asks me about it I tell them to just search on my blog to find it. So when Karen, Yankee Bill’s “Work Wife” ( Hi Karen!), said she couldn’t find the Roasted Green Bean… Keep Reading
Recipe: Fancy Creamed Spinach
I think that spinach has gotten a bad rap. Really-somewhere along the lines folks have decided that it is slimy and disgusting. How unfair! Spinach is a vitamin & mineral powerhouse (dark green leafy vegetable!) and is a good source of fiber. Fresh spinach is lovely either raw, lightly sauteed or steamed. . . but… Keep Reading
Reader’s Question: Cooking Venison
Dear Jenn, I have a Venison question. Can you tell me how to cook it? My husband keeps getting it from his friend so we have an entire shelf of it in the freezer but I have no idea what to do with it. Lara Well Lara, one of the great things about venison is… Keep Reading
