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Fill Your Pantry Now for the Leaner Months

Right now, stores are overflowing with food stock and great food bargains. If you fill your freezer and pantry now, you’ll be able to get through the leaner months that are coming soon. Why Should You Fill Your Pantry Now? There are a couple of reasons why filling your pantry and freezer now will help you to be prepared for later. The first is availability. Stores anticipate selling more food in December and less in January when the perceived demand is not there. This means that some of your favorite foods, especially holiday-related foods may not be available later. If … Continue reading →

Three Things You Should Be Making in Your Kitchen

When I first embarked on the adventure of living frugally, I found myself repeatedly making three specific things because they were easy to do and would always save me money. Here is my advice. Cornbread Cornmeal is even less expensive than is flour. You can use it in place of bread to pump up a meal. Corn muffin mixes are okay, but they really don’t save you much time at all. Cornbread can also be used as a topping for casseroles or for stuffing. Cornbread can really stretch a meal. Popcorn And now another thing with the word corn in … Continue reading →

Frugal Freezer Cooking: “Hot Pockets” 2

We are working on a freezer cooking idea–that of making “hot pockets.” You can make these pockets for pennies as opposed to buying the expensive ones in the grocery store. They are also much tastier than those other ones, I personally think. The hot pockets can be brought in for lunch or just heated for snacks. If you missed the first post that appeared earlier today, please click here. Frugal Freezer Cooking: “Hot Pockets” Now let’s continue. You can then form the pocket into a rectangle, if you want to more traditional shape. I do this by flatting the pocket … Continue reading →

Frugal Freezer Cooking: “Hot Pockets”

Stocking your freezer using leftovers or foodstuff that you buy in bulk on sale can really save you quite a bit of money. If you have the freezer and the room, I highly recommend doing some freezer cooking. It will give you the opportunity to have low cost meals handy and avoid eating out, and it will also give you the opportunity to eat food that you might have otherwise thrown away. These are free meals, as I like to call them. With panic in the economy, it makes so much sense to cut expenses and pay down as much … Continue reading →

Freezer Cooking: Meal Planning (2)

Meal Planning is an important step in the freezer cooking process. Knowing what you are going to make, and when you are going to make it, is imperative in being able to successfully enjoy your new way of cooking. Another thing to consider, is how long a meal will take to prepare the evening that you plan to make it. On Wednesday night, my two oldest children go to church youth group, and because of what time I have to get them there, I have to make dinner a bit earlier than I normally do. This can affect what I … Continue reading →

Three More Fabulous Summertime Freezer Cooking Recipes

Summer is hot. I know it, you know it. The idea of cooking, let alone preheating or running an oven that seems to heat up the kitchen faster than the food, is not attractive at all. That’s why freezer cooking is so awesome. Yes, it might require the use of the oven for the initial preparation (though not all recipes need the oven). However, if you make a lot of meals in one day, you have a freezer full to pull and prepare without heating up your kitchen in drastic ways! Try the following recipes for delicious summer foods!! BBQ … Continue reading →

Freezer Cooking – Breakfast Recipes

Freezer cooking isn’t just for dinnertime anymore. There are lots of great breakfast recipes you can use as well. I’ve given you a couple here, but there are tons more to be found. Almost all muffins freeze relatively well, although work better after being cooked, than in batter form. Anything with cream does not freeze very well, but can be added later. Eggs freeze well, but sometimes tend to be a bit soggy upon thawing out, and just about any casserole freezes very well. Here are a few recipes to try out. These have been eaten and enjoyed by my … Continue reading →

9 Meal Ideas for Leftover Chicken

The prices on whole roasting chicken has been pretty good lately, so I have been finding myself buying quite a few chickens for our meals. My family likes roast chicken, so it isn’t usually a problem, except for the leftovers. They can get a little boring after a while. That is why we usually have one meal of roast chicken (I vary the seasonings), and then use the leftover chicken in new dishes, some of which I can freeze.   Here are my favorite ways to use leftover chicken.   Chicken Pot Pie: You can use a butter crust, shortening … Continue reading →

Extreme Cheapskates on TLC

Have you watched that TLC show, “Extreme Cheapskates?” There is a lot you can learn about frugal living from it, but the question is, how much of it is good? TLC is an extreme phase. “Extreme Couponers” was doing well, and now they need to turn the shock value up a little more. As the producers of an exploitative show such as “Here Comes Honey Boo Boo,” this shouldn’t be a surprise. You know that you are mostly going to get played for entertainment and not actually learn much anything on The Learning Channel. Oh maybe there will be a … Continue reading →

Back to School with a Hot Breakfast

Back to school means crazy mornings, but that doesn’t also mean that you can’t serve your kids a hot breakfast. Although we do have our share of cereal mornings, I enjoy knowing that I got them out the door with something warm and filling most of the time. It also helps me control the ingredients and cut down on the preservatives and other additives that go into pre-prepared breakfast food. One of the tools that I use to help serve a hot breakfast despite a busy morning is my crockpot. I can either fill it with ingredients in the quite … Continue reading →