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Free Cookbooks and Recipes

Are you ready to start cooking more from scratch? It will save you a lot of money over the coursed of a year if you can make your meals at home. Embracing cooking at home is wonderful, exciting and maybe even a little overwhelming. Do you just want to run our an buy up a bunch of new cookbooks? Well, you could do that and still save money by not eating out on one or two occasions, but wouldn’t it be better to take advantage of getting free cookbooks and recipes. Here are my favorite sources. Free cookbooks from manufacturers … Continue reading →

Saving Money With Cookbooks

Cookbooks are a handy accessory in the kitchen, and they can make meal planning a much more pleasant experience. In addition, nobody in the family will get tired of eating the same old thing day after day. But how can cookbooks really save you money in the long run? Here are a few ideas. First of all, limit the number of cookbooks you purchase. It is ridiculous to own 10 different cookbooks if there is only one or two recipes in each cookbook that you actually use. Unless the cookbooks were hand me downs, there isn’t a cookbook worth its … Continue reading →

Eating Out is Out of Style

It seems that more and more Americans are now realizing that eating out can get expensive. A new report by the NPD Group, which is a group of market researchers finds that Americans are now eating out much less than they did just a few years ago. The weakened economy has more people avoiding restaurants in favor of preparing meals at home. One thing that is interesting about this report is that it shows that when people do eat out, they are favoring restaurant chains instead of independent mom and pop shops. There is a perception that chain restaurants are … Continue reading →

Ebook Cooking for the Allergy Sufferers

When you have a child who has food allergies, everyday cooking can become a nightmare. You must adapt favorite recipes and read every label of every package to make sure you don’t give your child a meal that will make them ill. You have a cabinet full of cookbooks, but you’ve used up all the recipes you child will eat and hate to dig through the mess. Welcome yourself to the world of technology with downloadable allergen-free eBook cookbooks. Now the newest recipes can be at your fingertips in a moment’s time (no storage space needed). The Food Allergy Cookbook: … Continue reading →

Win Sandra Lee’s Kitchen in the Valpak Sweepstakes!

Does your kitchen need a makeover? Wouldn’t it be nice if you had the time to shop around for new appliances, and the money to pay for them? If you are someone who likes to cook and entertain, you might be wishing for a brand new kitchen to show off to your guests this holiday season. A new kitchen might be on your list of home improvements in the new year. If so, you should enter the Valpak Sweepstakes. One lucky person will win Sandra Lee’s Kitchen! You might have been planning out a new kitchen for quite some time … Continue reading →

How to Make Oat Flour

Oats are still pretty inexpensive around here, especially when you consider all of the nutritional value that they contain. Oat flour is also gluten free in and of itself. Buying oat flour at the grocery store or specialty store can be quite expensive. This is because there isn’t as much demand of oat flour, making it a specialty item. You are much better off making it yourself. While oat flour won’t behave like wheat flour, you can use it in baking when you combine it with wheat flour (white or whole wheat). If flour prices are getting a bit to … Continue reading →

Gourmet Food at Home

Meat loaf is dandy, and chicken is nice, but don’t you miss getting a nice gourmet restaurant meal? If so, you can learn to do gourmet at home, without being qualified to appear on Top Chef. Gourmet cooking at home is all in the details. You can adapt one or several of these ideas to boost your regular home cooking into the exotic. Here is how. Practice presentation When preparing a meal, give some thought to the presentation. This can make all of the difference in the world between gobbling a meal and appreciating it. For example, you can grate … Continue reading →

Books for Frugal Living

While I hope that you can get all of the frugal living advice that you need right here, it is sometimes nice to be able to curl up with a good book. I often reread frugal living books, as well as my own blogs when I need a little boost or reminder to hunker down and save some money. Rather than give you specific titles of books for frugal living, I thought that it might be more helpful to talk about which categories of books you should be looking at to help you live frugally, while many books that have … Continue reading →

Low Cost Recipes

Groceries are one of the biggest expenses in a typical family’s budget. You can easily spend $200 a week or more for a family of four. Finding ways to cut the grocery bill can make a big impact on your food bill. The first thing to do of course is to cut out a lot of the processed foods. But once that is done, how can you create meals for your family that are nutritious and low cost? One way to do this to to take advantage of the knowledge of others and then apply it to your own family. … Continue reading →

Postal Rate Increase Coming and How to Save

In May of this year, there will another price increase in the cost of the first class stamp. This means that it will cost more to mail a standard letter, bill payment, invitation, etc. The Office of the Postal System has not yet announced exactly how much that increase will be, however I have some guesses. Because there are regulations on how much an increase can be based on current inflation, it is unlikely that the increase will be more than two cents, changing the rate from 42 cents for a first class stamp to 44 cents or less. Personally … Continue reading →