Frugal Friday Recipe: Sun Dried Tomatoes at home

I love love love sun dried tomatoes. They make any pizza taste gourmet, any pasta sauce or dish taste like it is from a fine Italian restaurant and any sandwich seem much more delicious. But they are EXPENSIVE so you can imagine my joy when I discovered just [...]

Frugal Friday SATURDAY (oops I’m late on posting this!) Recipe: Monthly Meal plan for March 2010

February always seems to go by fast for me and here we are in March already and with it welcoming spring, my daffodils are in full bloom (yeah!) For this Frugal Friday Recipe segment I wanted to share my monthly [...]

Frugal Friday Recipe: Homemade Hamburger / Hot Dog Buns
I am up in Alaska visiting my new nephew (he is oh so cute!) so this Frugal Friday recipe is posting a bit late but is my favorite!! The best thing about this recipe is that it is ready in 20 minutes from start to finish and [...]

Frugal Friday Recipe: Turning your homemade yogurt into thick Greek yogurt or custard style

I have been making my own yogurt now for over a year and while my family does enjoy our homemade yogurt it is just not as thick as store bought. The kids don’t remember anything different (but my is our homemade deliciousness [...]

Frugal Friday Recipe: Preserving your egg  yolk or whites for a future recipe

This post is a part of a mini series in Frugal Friday recipes about not letting anything go to waste (an important part of being frugal.) We love eggs in our house and have lots of things we do with the yolks or [...]

Frugal Friday Recipe: Making sidewalk chalk out of egg shells

This post is a part of a mini series in Frugal Friday recipes about not letting anything go to waste (an important part of being frugal.) We love eggs in our house and we used to just throw our egg shells in the compost bin. They [...]

Frugal Friday Recipe: Making paint out of an egg

This post begins a mini series in Frugal Friday recipes about not letting anything go to waste (an important part of being frugal.) For the next few weeks I will be sharing my favorite recipes for using every part of the egg. My husband is currently on [...]

Frugal Friday Recipe: Make your own non-stick “spray” (spread)

This post begins a mini series in Frugal Friday recipes about not letting anything go to waste (an important part of being frugal.) While this is more of a “tip” then a recipe it sure has saved me alot of time as I bake! When you bake [...]

Frugal Friday Recipe: Everyday Whole Wheat honey bread

We have not bought store bought bread for one year now and after lots of experiments and recipe testing I have found my favorite bread recipe for everyday. I love its simplicity, taste, moisture and low sugar content. Baking our own bread has saved our family a lot [...]

Frugal Friday Recipe: English Muffins

Since this website is all about frugality I figured my cost to make 16 of these tasty muffins was $.50 cents, but there is no price tag on the taste they are simply fabulous!

I really enjoy making my own bread. There is something about the smell as it bakes, the way [...]