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How to Make a Weekly Frugal Food Plan

Food is quickly becoming one of the biggest expenses in the average family’s budget. Attack your food budget with a weekly money-saving plan. Each day pick a task that will help you save money on your food bill. Developing a weekly frugal food plan can reduce the cost of feeding your family. Below, you can see an example of my own weekly frugal food plan. You can use it as a guideline and customize it to make it your own, so it makes sense for you and your family. Sunday Go grocery shopping with a list and coupons. Distribute bulk … Continue reading →

Fun, Frugal Ways to Celebrate Valentine’s Day

Wouldn’t it be fun to frugally celebrate Valentine’s Day? Forget the $12 boxes of chocolate from the drugstore or the $45 flowers from the florist. Instead, celebrate with some great ideas that will put you in the mood but won’t add to your expenses. In the Kitchen Have the family create a wonderful way to celebrate Valentine’s Day with something full of love from the kitchen. Roll out pizza dough to form a heart shaped pizza and add your favorite toppings. Serve heart shaped chocolate chip pancakes for breakfast and make heart shaped sugar cookies. Basically, any food that you … Continue reading →

Frugal Valentine Gift Ideas

Valentine’s Day is creeping up. Here is how to come up with some great gifts without worrying about having to add an extra line item to next month’s budget. You can have the opportunity to give a great Valentine’s gift or gifts without spending much. Gift basket under $5 Head over to your nearest dollar or discount store. Chances are that you can put together a great gift basket for less than $5, including the basket. Pick out a few special things that might be available there. If that isn’t enough, supplement the basket with baked goods, homemade crafts, samples … Continue reading →

Frugal Freezer Breakfast Meals

Want to cut down on your breakfast expenses? One way to do it is to avoid the convenience cereal and create your own delicious breakfast meals that you can just grab on those hectic mornings. We talk a lot about creating freezer meals in order to take advantage of sales and stocking up on great coupon deals. But often, breakfast gets forgotten when we consider creating and having freezer meals. This is a shame. Breakfast is one of the most important meals of the day. On top of that, making breakfast in bulk is pretty easy, and breakfast foods tend … Continue reading →

Frugal Fast Food Breakfast

While the commercials will tell you that fast food is inexpensive and so convenient, I will tell you that making your own versions at home is even more inexpensive and just as convenient. I don’t know about you, but I would rather take a little extra time out of my morning on one day to create a week’s worth of breakfast that can be grabbed on the go instead of having to detour to a fast food place each day (and hand over my money for a soggy or cold breakfast). The same can be true of lunch and even … Continue reading →

Frugal Breakfast Recipe Choices

I’m sitting here, enjoying the daylight savings time and contemplating what to make my family for breakfast today. Making breakfast from scratch is a good way to save money. Cold cereal, while we do love it, can get pretty expensive. And we also have a tendency to overeat it, since it isn’t very filling. Pancakes are great, but sometimes we want something different. Of our frugal breakfast choices, here are items on the menu. These are breakfast foods that I have made so many time that I can probably make them in my sleep. Scrambled eggs and cheese Eggs are … Continue reading →

Best Frugal Food Ingredients

Many people are put off with many money saving strategies for saving money on groceries. Just the thought of calculating prices, keeping track of sales and clipping coupons can be overwhelming. well, I do have some good news. You can still save money without using coupons or keeping a price book. Just make sure that you diet consists of most of the best frugal food ingredients and you’ll be sure to save. Potatoes Potatoes are so versatile and inexpensive. You can usually save when you purchase them in bulk, at least 10 pounds at a time. Keep them in a … Continue reading →

Frugal Breakfast Plan

In spite of my sometimes best intentions not getting all the way to fruition, I really do try to make a home made breakfast for my family. Not only is it a nutritious practice, but it is also very frugal. Pound for pound, those easy already prepared breakfasts are some of the most expensive meals around. Cereal can cost $4 for a box that lasts one or two days at the most. And frozen breakfast meals are even worse. Lately, with our hectic schedule, we have been relying too much on those convenience breakfast foods, such as instant oatmeal, cereal, … Continue reading →

Frugal Temptations

Today at the grocery store I was tempted twice. Not by the fancy gourmet coffee or the expensive take-home meal section. I think I have already pre-programed myself to automatically pass those things by. I have my “impossible blinders” on. This is such as “buying something like that is simply impossible for me to do.” Since I know those types of purchases aren’t possible, they don’t tempt me in the least. A good example is what happened today with my six-year-old. With coupons in hand, I scanned the sales for pancake mix. Sometimes the mix is cheaper that putting it … Continue reading →

More Frugal Kitchen Tips

Don’t you love tips that are easy to follow and can save money? I do, especially when they relate to my kitchen, one of the rooms that I spend a lot of time in. I love tips that help me avoid purchasing small appliances or gadgets, or ones that same me time and therefore money. Here are some more of my favorite frugal kitchen tips. Instead of buying expensive calcium supplements, why not sneak calcium into your food for a lot less money? Powdered or dry milk is an excellent source of extra calcium, and used in cooking, is pretty … Continue reading →