I first published this post to Living the Low-Income Life on the 13th of this month. Older children can easily throw together a simple meal with these ideas. On page 133 of Amy Dycyzynz book The Complete Tightwad Gazette, she discusses the art of leftover wizardry. This is an important concept when trying to live frugally. [...]
Do you have an overabundance of pasta in your home? Perhaps you find great deals on pasta at the store, or maybe you get a lot at the food cupboard. However you get it, you likely have a lot. Did you know that you could eat pasta every day this week, and never eat the [...]
Lasagna is an easy recipe, and you can make it with just about any combination of vegetables and/or meats. You can get very creative here. Why not try a combination of different meats and vegetables: tomatoes zucchini cucumber green beans peas corn carrots celery ground beef ground turkey ground chicken tuna ham You can also [...]
If you have a lot of spinach, and are wondering what to do with it, then here is a list of possiblities for you to consider. Put some on your sandwich. Add it to your salad. Chop it up and add it to fajitas. Chop it up and add it to pasta dishes. Make rollups [...]
Pasta is a cheap, meal to make. Depending on what type of pasta you have leftovers of, you can do a plethora of things with it. I want to offer up some cheap ideas, and I want to ask what you do with your leftover pasta. Here are the ideas that I have come up with: [...]
I am a full believer in using up leftovers. It is one of the most frugal things that we can all do, and will save a noticable amount of food money throughout the year. I like to come up with as many ways as I can to reuse each type of food, and today I [...]
Pasta meals are easy and cheap to make. They do not take a lot of prep time, either. You simply cook up the pasta, and heat the other foods together in one pan. Here are some pasta topping ideas for your consideration: Corn, peas and chicken. Carrots, corn and beef. Tomato soup and shredded cheese. [...]
During the same sale that was going on when I purchased the Hamburger Helper, there was also a sale on Pasta/Rice sides. I ended up purchasing a bunch of these for only .75 as well. We don’t add a lot of meat to these. Maybe 1/2 – 1/3 cup of meat, and usually only chicken [...]
Do you like Hamburger Helper? My daughter does. It isn’t something that I usually purchase, but a few months ago I had a few coupons for multiple box purchases. The Hamburger Helper was on sale and cost only .75 a box with coupons for the name brand boxes. We do different things with the different [...]
A couple of months ago IGA was having a $1.00 a box sale on Betty Crocker Hamburger Helpers. I had coupons for $1.00 off three, so I stocked up even though we don’t eat them often. They are helpful sometimes. So, I guess that I paid about .66 per box. We do not always use [...]
This is a great, frugal recipe for a cold day. Easy for older children to make. Ingredients: vegetable stock, and use water if you need more liquid leftover turkey cut into bite size pieces 1 can corn with liquid 1 can peas with liquid 1 can carrots with liquid Any noodles that you like. [...]
I will be posting a couple of other recipes for the Vegetable Mix-Ups that I explained in the previous post. Here is a nice one with variations for a soup/stew. Ingredients: 1 container frozen veggie mix-ups enough water/stock/broth to cover mix-ups 1. Add the frozen mix-ups to a pan with the liquid. 2. Cook [...]
Here are some possible ideas for your children’s school lunches, or for your work or school lunches. Tortilla Roll-Up Ideas: (In each of these, you will spread the ingredients evenly, or lay ingredients flat, then roll the whole thing up. Place in container and slice if desired – be sure to slice things thinly.) peanut [...]
When I go to the food cupboard, I come home with “fresh” produce and lots of canned and boxed goods. The “fresh” produce is not really all that fresh, and needs to be eaten up pretty quickly. Since we can’t eat it all quickly enough, I make things to freeze with them. Pasta Sauce: 1 [...]
In our area we have a grocery store called IGA. They have dollar sales every so often that last a week. Everything in the store is not a dollar, but quite a bit is a dollar or less. Many are store brands. Here is a list of many of the dollar deals that I have [...]
This is an easy one. that won’t cost much. * You will need to brown any meat that has not already been cooked. Drain and rinse and put back into fry pan on the stove. I use usually extra virgin olive oil for browning, at a lower temperature, but you can use whatever you have [...]
This takes minimal preparation. Here is what you do: Keep containers in the freezer for leftover vegetables (corn, peas, green beans, squash, cauliflower, broccoli, etc.), meats (hamburg, pork, steak, ham etc.), vegetable water and pasta water. These will later be used for “leftover soup”. This is a soup/stew, depending on what ingredients you are using. [...]
My children, nieces and nephews love this. It is usually served just as mac and cheese, but sometimes we add add-ins. Today’s were 3/4 lb of chicken and 1 can of whole kernel corn. 2 cups whole wheat pasta – one box costs .99 + tax and will make mac and cheese twice – so [...]
I try not to use these any longer, but sometimes I still have to. (We have a healthier, yummier version that we prefer, but it is more costly.) Boxed Mac and Cheese can still be found at 3/$1.00 for the cheap brand, which all of the children love. Just make the mac and cheese as [...]
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