But in none of those instances did we order take-out, because… we had emergency frozen meals all set to go in our freezer! We keep several frozen pizzas in our freezer at all times. No exceptions. Running out of frozen pizzas would be tantamount to running out of soap or beer.

We also have a stash of frozen meals that Mr. FW cooked. On nights when he has the time, he whips up a gigantic batch of soup or chili and we use a food funnel to portion the extras in quart-size Ziplock bags we find that a quart is about 2 meals worth to freeze.

I mean seriously people, go easy on yourself and stock your freezer. In that same vein…. Similar to the plan ahead mentality of frozen meals, be honest with yourself about your capacity to cook on weeknights.

Some nights, everything goes smoothly: children are well-behaved and do not smear banana in their hair, dogs do not whine underfoot and lick banana off the baby, mamas do not accidentally drop coffee mugs out of the dishwasher, daddies do not need to chop wood, and dinner comes out beautifully!

But other nights? Some people aka babies fling quinoa across the room, other people aka dogs eat said quinoa, which gives them indigestion, and everyone is a hot mess. And so, what to do about dinner? Prepare for the inevitable melee of Mondays and create an easy rotation of meals to fall back on.

I think a lot of people misguidedly assume Mr. Rather, we have a simple list of meals that we eat on repeat. Oh yes, you read that right, we eat the same, easy meals over and over again.

Because it gives us lots of time and money to do other things. Just sayin. We stock our pantry with the raw, bulk ingredients Mr. FW likes and he throws together whatever time and creativity allow for.

Split pea soup: this is one of our favorites for freezing. Chili: another freezer fave. Scrambled eggs and grits: has the advantage of being cheap, easy and quick, but has the disadvantage of not creating leftovers. Mix in with some pasta and squeeze fresh lemon on top.

Bonus: tastes great cold and so is a good leftover candidate. Sweet potatoes and quinoa: roasted sweet potatoes paired with quinoa. This makes cooking and clean-up easier and faster.

Let me dispel a common myth of Frugalwoods lore right now: we do eat meat! We also eat dairy! We will basically eat anything! But I digress. What we do with expensive proteins—meat and cheese—is use them sparingly.

This also has the advantage of being extremely tasty and easy to freeze! When in doubt, add beans, onions, and garlic! I exaggerate, but not by much. FW adds these components to just about everything he makes.

We also eat grass-fed beef, which we buy locally from our neighbors. Instead, Mr. FW mixes ground beef into homemade tomato sauce with crushed tomatoes and—you guessed it—onions and garlic. Our lunches are vegetarian and at least several dinners a week are as well.

Forgoing meat just a few times a week will lower a grocery bill in a hot minute. FW and I came around to AFTER performing a full clean-out of our pantry, freezer, and refrigerator. This is rather crucial for us since we live 45 minutes from the nearest grocery store and get snowed in with some amount of regularity.

Conversely, if you live in a small apartment in the city with easy access to a grocery store, this might not be a good exercise for you. FW could, at any time, whip up a batch of soup or stew or chili from the staples we keep on hand.

FW knows we always have these base, raw ingredients to choose from. All of these items are shelf stable for at least a few weeks and we cycle through them regularly. Snacking: we all do it. I find the disavowal of the need to snack will fast track you to buying convenience food or zipping through the drive-through or popping over to the cafeteria at work.

How do I know this? Have quick, healthy snacks at work, in your diaper bag, in your purse, your briefcase, your car, and certainly your pantry. Here are a few tidbits we like to snack on:.

Granola bars. fruit and veggies. This is especially good for an afternoon snack when I just want to crunch something. Dried fruit. We actually eat this for dessert, but it could work for snacks too.

What Are You Drinking? Cheers to cheap seltzer! Drinks are another element of a food budget. FW and I regularly consume the following, all of which have been frugalized and optimized:. In each of these instances, instead of giving up something we enjoy, we found thriftier alternatives.

This is the backbone of my luxurious frugality lifestyle philosophy : do what you love, but frugalize it. The title pretty much sums this tenet up: DO NOT WASTE FOOD. The culprit here is likely a failure to plan ahead or, a failure to have simple weeknight meals you can whip up.

Do yourself the favor of making a list of easy meals you can cook each night. You could eat a different meal every single night and only cook once a week if you followed this pattern!

Not eating leftovers. This is simply not allowed. But dumping entire loads of vegetables or full casseroles in the trash? Not allowed.

No excuses. Have a good way to store your leftovers we use glass containers and for veggie odds and ends, get a compost bucket for your kitchen and start a compost pile! Kids add a whole new dimension to frugal eating and life in general, come to think of it….

In short, Babywoods eats what we eat. I cut up any large chunks since she only has two teeth , but otherwise, she eats our diet. When she was younger, we cooked homemade purees for her and froze them in ice cube trays. Offer small amounts.

We allow Babywoods to eat as much or as little as she wants at each meal. However, I offer her foods in small doses. Save leftovers. And so, I simply scoop these leftovers into a glass container and store them in the fridge for her next meal. In this way, we waste very little while encouraging our adventurous little eater to consume as much—or as little—as she desires.

Since desserts are expensive and typically laden with sugar, we choose to abstain as a family. Now I do love to bake for potlucks and dinner parties and the holidays!!! Be mindful with beverages. Will Babywoods drink these during her childhood? Full stop. Breakfast at home!

Many of my baby food ideas come from my wise and frugal sister, who has three kids ages 10, 8 and 4. Seems to work well and avoids many a dinner table battle. Catchy, no? I thought so.

I never leave the house without food. Not a joke. I always take a water bottle, almonds, and other snacks with me. No matter what. Ergo, I always take food.

When Babywoods and I go to the grocery store and run errands, I pack sandwiches for both of us along with almonds for me , water bottles for both of us, and other sundry bits of snack.

But hey, it is food! Have the foods you like on hand and the discipline to eat them and not order take-out! You can do this. While I think Mr. And you know what we do? We eat it anyway.

And then never make it again. FW has only made one meal that we really and truly had to toss. It was a most unfortunate fish stew that tasted awful. Truly horrendous. We ate it for one meal and then threw out the leftovers. I hated to waste so much food, but wow, was it unpalatable.

So, aside from fish stew disasters, buck up and eat it. Sign up to get new Frugalwoods stories in your email inbox. None of that here. Very comprehensive list. We tend to prepare crock pot meals given the kids. My wife also cooks by feel so there are no recipes to share.

I grew up in a household where meals were separate plates, so its been an adjustment. But it is a huge savings.

We supplement cost savings with our garden and some fruit trees in our yard. Fresh blueberries are expensive afterall 😉. Also figuring out things that taste amazing and are healthy and cheap… for example, 2kg of frozen blueberries from Costco are 8. Surprisingly, per weight, this puts them at the same price as bulk apples and bananas at the local grocery store, and cheaper than most other fruit.

Also, individually frozen lunches, if you work outside the home. Oh, and final best tip: a lot of recipes use ground spiced Italian sausage as a flavour base for he rest of the meal.

Replace with ground pork, add about 2tbs of oil or water texture , and add spices google for spicy Italian sausage blends…. Freeze in 1-lb bags and tug out for easy meal bases. Oh, and any water used to re-hydrate mushrooms makes the BEST risotto broth.

Or Jamie Olivers recipe for sausage and fennel fusilli. And the soup, specifically, freezes beautifully. The Budget Bytes Sauasage and Lentil Stew is a staple in my kitchen.

Cheap and delicious, freezes beautifully. It tends to be quite expensive, at least where I live. I finally got a grinder for Christmas last year and grind up whatever is cheap, which is often a nice lean loin which tends to be dry, but you can compensate.

It takes a little work to do it right as you need to cut it up then par-freeze for the grinder to work well, but I do a number of pounds at once then throw it all in the freezer in meal sized bags.

We buy whole legs of pork when they go on sale, usually in the fall, ridiculously cheap. My husband cuts them up and grinds them to make sausage meat. A lot of people are happy to give the scapes away to anyone who has a use for them.

A container of fair trade cocoa lasts me for months. Anyone else being hit hard by a rise in grocery prices since the COVID thing?

I checked out the price of a beef roast the other day and nearly had a stroke. I used to be an extreme couponer and I know how badly coupons can be for your grocery budget.

We did this with beans, rice, bread, sauces, soups, etc. Go through your pantry to use up existing items. I make a list of everything we need to use up. I only bother looking at the meat and produce; everything else is just noise.

I make note of what produce and meat is on sale. Make a menu. This way, I get the cheapest meals possible. It also means we tend to eat a lot of grains like rice with cheap fresh produce, which is pretty healthy. I would encourage you to make different types of freezer meals like soups, casseroles, enchiladas, desserts, etc.

It really cuts down on the need to eat out and spend money. I would add that if you pay attention a lot of the same sorts of things go on sale. When it comes to saving on food, I think so much depends on knowing yourself. Is it more expensive, yes.

But cheaper than buying a squash, letting it rot and ordering delivery instead 😉. Chopped frozen butternut squash is one of the few things that I will pay extra for the convenience of! I absolutely hate chopping butternut squash too, so I cut it in half, clean out the gunk, and roast it cut side down on a baking tray with a bit of oil.

If your microwave is large enough, you can also cook butternut there. Pierce the skin in several place, then nuke on high for about 5min.

Start checking every minute or so after that. Butternut freezes well though. Jamie Oliver never peels butternut squash. Once I saw him cook it with the peel on, I never went back.

Peel almost melts away and there is no taste of it. That, plus a clean kitchen towel to grasp the slippery gord, makes the job so much easier. At home I have salad dressing and veggie boullion. That all becomes soup, salad and bread.

This is so, so true Stefanie! For example, I find that when I keep those huge bags of pre-cut frozen veggies in the freezer, I eat 9 different vegetables before noon seriously, I did it yesterday!

Things have changed for me, frugality-wise, in different seasons of life. Frugalwoods is a young mom of one. I am an older mom with 7 yep, s-e-v-e-n kids, and we homeschool, and I run two blogs, and hubby runs a business, and… my energy at 41 is more precious. I used to struggle with this until I learnt to put the whole squash into the oven and bake it, then chop when it cools 🙂.

I also hate chopping squash and it can be very hard indeed. I cook it whole in the oven and then scoop it out. Also same for pumpkin, except with next step to get the seeds, and roast them after.

Totally, me too. I cannot bear the prep. I know you can skin and chop and de-seed yourself, but even the thought makes me need to lie down quietly! If you ever need smooth cooked butternut squash versus chopped browned squares which sometimes you need , you can cook the entire butternut in a crockpot.

Stab with some holes, add 2 cups of water and cook it whole 8 hours on Low. Let it cool in the fridge before you slice it open, and you have magical squash puree without giving yourself a hernia!

For any squash place in the crockpot with a small bath of water. Cook on high for about 4hrs. The skin will slide off and your squash will melt off the fork. No more cutting your hands off trying to get into the shell. Works every time.

Just a note on tahini; a little bit of peanut butter makes a fine tahini substitute when making homemade hummus 🙂 Love your blog! Great tip! I made homemade humous once I really hated it. Perhaps this will be better? Same goes for open packets — like yogurt, cream, meat etc.

Also rice is such a high risk food that you should only keep it in the fridge for 1 day and you have to be super, super careful if you are planning to re-heat it.

Stay safe people, if in doubt — throw it out. Your health is worth more than a little bit of money! What I find is that most food expiration dates are remarkably conservative. I tackle this very topic in greater depth in this post: How I Fight Food Waste At Thanksgiving And Beyond. I wonder if our dairy products are more pasteurized than yours because neither product would go bad in a properly cold fridge in 3 days.

Also not sure where the rice fear comes from. We do this all the time,. Now if it was rice leftover from a restaurant…probably not. A big yogurt pot once open can happily sit in my fridge 10 days.

Use clean spoon to serve from pot, keep refrigerated, no problem. Milk in my experience lasts 5 to 9 days once open fresh, pasteurised, not UHT.

PSs just to add.. I make a batch of rice and eat on it for a week. I have never been sick while eating rice….. I am Southern, and I sometimes eat the greens with cornbread, but rice works also.

The rice is really good soaked in the pot likker. I add the pepper sauce which is hot peppers in a vinegar sauce. Pinto beans and a slice of raw onion with sea salt on top make for a fine meal.

I think health and safety culture does have a lot going for it certainly, but the nannying endless food policing is insane. I found that hummus is one of those foods for which you must acquire a taste.

I started eating it when my parents lived in Saudi Arabia and it was novel to Westerners. Then I worked with a group of people who were from the Middle East, and hummus was their favorite dish.

That was back in the 60s and 70s before it became a popular item in the United States. I make my own hummus, and adjust the seasonings for my taste. You might try making a batch and adjust the garlic, oil, salt to your preference.

If there is no mold on it it is safe to eat. Rice — That is a misunderstanding between two issues. There is a bacteria that loves rice that has a poisonous byproduct. Therefore even if you re-heat it and kill the bacteria the byproduct remains and can make you quite ill.

It is only an issue for rice that is left out. Why am I not dead yet? I also cook for the week and eat off of it. And if it goes past five days the dog eats it. Once again just goes to show that I expose my body to enough bad stuff that I never get sick!

Rice is a high risk food? When I was young I lived and worked in the amazon with no refrigeration whatsoever and some hot and humid weather. We often had rice and beans for dinner and then packed them up to carrry with us for lunch the next day. I did find that I had to eat the beans by 10 am or they start to go off, but I never knew the rice to be a problem.

Thank you for this! I made hummus yesterday and we were out of tahini, so I subbed peanut butter. We liked it even better. I will never buy tahini again! Leanne is a nutritionist.

Leanne also gets it about making sure dinner is on the table in minutes. The recipes are flavorful and made with stuff you can easily find in the supermarket. Also guilty of letting our 4 kids become too picky with their food, which resulted in too much waste 🙁. Ty, I get jealous when reading how cheap produce an other items are cheaper in other areas of the country.

I have even noticed the Kroger affiliates here PNW are more expensive than say Arizona or even California. My daughter has bball practice in the central district and the least expensive fruit and veggies stand is a block from her school.

But then, so does housing or land. Mixed blessing, that! Frugalwoods, you answered my question about the oats, thank you, I am so happy!! How do you store them? Hi Amy!

Awesome post, Mrs. I totally agree that kids throw everything for a loop, haha! Super easy and it gets our day off to a healthy start! We use OJ as our base though you could use water , add in a banana, frozen pineapple chunks, blueberries, etc and then TONS of spinach or kale!

Our weakness is without a doubt coffee and dessert. We get Starbucks a few times per week; but our daughters will only nap in the car now they are 3 and 4!

Love all your tips!!! This week I made vegan sweet potato and black bean enchiladas that were amazing; and then made spicy potato and black bean burritos two nights later since they used the same ingredients!

You are totally right that black beans are a must; and every meal should begin by sauteing an onion! For example, I used to eat a Chipotle burrito bowl once or even twice a week.

So I set out to master the best vegan burrito bowl I could. The key to the rice is adding lime juice and a little olive oil. More recently, I had an amazing batch of vegan tacos featuring crispy smashed potatoes yum! So now I have a perfect topping for my burrito bowl.

The next challenge still working on it is coming up with a tasty vegan substitute for Vietnamese rice noodle salad bowls. I like your Chipotle hack. I did the same, but for us it was their barbacoa beef for burrito bowls.

I located a great copycat recipe and every few months, if beef is affordable, I make a batch and freeze it in meal-size portions. Probably at least a year-and-a-half. will babywoods eat regular oatmeal? Yes, she has regular oatmeal plus a banana for breakfast no sugar added! Looks weird, but she likes it that way :.

Good luck! My other 3 kids love oatmeal, I do steel cut oats in the crockpot, so good! Food can be such a challenging aspect of frugality because there are so many emotional, family, and political elements tied up into how and what we eat. I very much agree with other commenters who noted the importance of working with your habits.

Neither of us enjoy cooking so more frequent simple meal planning to prevent the take-out meals is the next battle to fight! Food is so cheap in the US, and the average family spends less of its income on food than ever, but housing costs have skyrocketed.

My rent budget is five to ten times what my food budget is, and my income tax budget is three times that. If you live in the U. you might want to give TurboTax a try.

TurboTax knows about every tax deduction there is and can save you quite a bit on your income taxes when you file. Great post. I am vegan so I chuckle at comments that a vegan diet is expensive. Like you point out, if you avoid the processed stuff and stick to whole foods then it can be crazy cheap!

We do have slightly higher grocery bills because we balance shopping for a committed vegan me with my omni husband and kids. The family eats lots of vegan dishes with the odd bit of meat served on the side to keep them happy. It works. As requested, this is a homemade vegan granola bar that we love.

Here is a link to the recipe. She also has a blog which has some fantastic and freely shared recipes if you google her name for those looking for recipes. Like you I am an avid hiker.

I am in the process of completing the Bruce Trail in Ontario just shy of km. These bars, along with a pb and banana sandwich are my go to hiking snack. Delicious recipes!

Good, basic vegan food. This post is excellent! Thank you! We buy whole ingredients, waste almost nothing and bulk cook so we always have something to eat even if we are lazy. Just ate NC pulled pork bbq last night.

From the freezer! That will be pulled pork tacos for lunch today along with home cooked crock pot beans from the freezer of course. That was pretty much a perfect list. Whenever I get into discussions on MMM on how to eat frugally — often people are frustrated that they cannot get their bill as low as others.

I make many of those points. The big 3 for me: 1. What you eat. Paleo, Vegan, Omnivore, whatever — everyone has different needs I, for one, cannot maintain my weight at a healthy weight by eating a carb-heavy diet anymore.

So sad. Carbs are cheap. Where you shop. We have a couple of stores that have produce REALLY cheap, and we eat pounds per day. It adds up. Where you live. Some areas of the country are more expensive. Some towns do not have a lot of competition.

I love your list. And I love that it sounds like you help people figure out what will work in THEIR situation — or at least to think about their own variables. But I have found that roasted sweet potatoes are okay for me for whatever reason.

I roast up a couple a week and eat those for breakfast. I also throw them in soups. Ahhh food. Such an expensive thing, that. We have a few allergies, some of which we choose to buy our way out of and boy does it get expensive!

My spouse eats one between work and squash, nights per week. My parents alive on green smoothies and they throw the Entire Bag of spinach straight I to the freezer when they get home from the store, then take what they want.

We buy the big bags of mixed greens — spinach, kale, etc. and the big size of broccoli at Costco and I blend it with some whey from my homemade yogurt and freeze it in cubes.

We throw them into our daily fruit smoothies. Now I keep some out to use fresh and freeze the rest. Eating in is just a matter of habit and practice.

Cheapheart and I are in the food and wine business. There is absolutely no excuse not to learn to cook. There is an endless wealth of information about how cook anything and everything on the internet. Serious Eats is a great resource. It is ready in half an hour.

Cheapheart and I banged out a big pot of lentil, sausage and kale soup and a pot of tomato sauce and meatballs in a half an hour.

Long ago, I gave Mr. Cheapheart the gift of a pizza making class at the awesome King Arthur Flour Baking Center near you Frugalwoods!

It was not cheap, but it was nice to spend time together away from the baby and learn something new. Years of confidence in pizza making have certainly paid for that class many times over. The dough takes 5 mins to asssemble and 45 minutes in the bread machine unstylish and very useful appliance, buy one used, people are always getting rid of them.

Tastes way better, and is healthier and cheaper than delivery, plus the pride of doing it yourself is the best part!

I have been encouraged to embrace them by two women I admire. You can assemble a loaf in10 minutes. Takes hours of bread machine magic for a nice loaf of tasty homemade bread at a fraction of the cost. Once you become accustomed to eating homemade bread, the stuff out of the bag is pretty appalling.

Better, healthier, cheaper. I recommend the Panasonic YD, look on Craigslist or eBay. Yogurt is another easy thing to make that is just a matter of practice, a million recipes on the internet and no special equipment required other than maybe a thermometer.

For the price of a half gallon of milk I can have a half gallon of yogurt for 10 minutes active time. Plus no stabilizers and gums. Better, healthier, cheaper, pride! For better nutrition and even more savings, have you considered milling your own flour? Most modern whole wheat flour is actually white flour with the germ added back later.

Is that a challenge snowcanyon? When I lived in the city I did not have this option! King Arthur has a great website and they are customer-friendly, but their flour is mass-market and not particularly good, nor do they have all the varieties necessary for classic European-style unsweetened whole-wheat bread.

You can mill flour in one minute in a vitamix! I will give it a try for sure. KAF has a beautiful teaching facility in Vermont that offers lots of great classes with state of the art equipment. I was just planning to mention that King Arthur chewy granola bars are the best.

I make them weekly. It calls for cups fruit and nuts, any combo, so it is good for remnants of bulk purchases. I LOVE King Arthur Flour recipes, so this sounds great! And in a frugal win- we got our bread machine for free when a family member was moving.

If you can make split pea soup, you can make lentil. The primary difference is you WANT to cook the peas into oblivion, with lentils you generally want them to retain their shape.

We love both. Leftovers are great. Random bits of leftover veggies can go into either. A dollop of sour cream or yogurt on top makes it seem more special, or a very little sherry.

Homemade pizza can also accommodate bits of leftovers. Top with pizza-type toppings and heat in the oven. Sounds fancy. Pasta, veggies, and a sprinkle of parmesan, a little pepper. Can be hot or cold. Warming even slightly may be preferable to stone cold out of the fridge.

This means you also get less added sugar. Frozen veggies when on sale can be a great find, especially for things not seasonal or not readily available in your area. I like to cook dry beans for chili. So cook a batch of beans pinto or kidney , make some into chili, the rest into refried beans.

Both freeze beautifully. Explore vegetarian and vegan recipes to cut down on meat consumption. Find something else. I really appreciate your note at the top about being sure to find your food priorities and then figure out how to frugalize is that a word? We try really hard to buy organic and to be frugal.

Even that though has changed our habits to encourage frugality. I follow many of the tips you gave, already, but somehow, seeing it in plain writing makes it impressed upon me to really watch how and what I buy. I know I can still reduce our food budget if I think more strategically.

Thanks for the encouragement and reminders! I work outside the home, full-time, so I do this on weekends or evenings — it can be done!

I second your comments about coupons. The only exceptions to that will likely be from a local market. Kroger or Giant Eagle central Ohio will sometimes have coupons in the paper or their mailings for their house brand products usually a good deal , or occasionally for produce.

Favorite go to meal during the week is garlic, onions, tomatoes, rice,shaved carrots, and jalepenoes. I throw in sweet red peppers and sometimes left over chicken. Saute in some olive oil and yummy. Babywoods is so darling!

Thank you very much for the list! May I ask how long do you store the homemade food in the freezer and at what tempetature? We have a small freezer inside the refridgerator, not a separate freezer, and I am not how long cooked food will be good there.

How long do you store food soups, lunches in the usual fridge and at what temperature? Do you maybe know if there are any safety rules in this respect? Thank you very much! Food stored below freezing will stay safe indefinitely, as bacteria cannot grow in freezing temperatures.

I finally feel very secure in feeding my family and myself… it only took 10 years of trial and error! I have also learned about cutting down food waste by going through my kitchen once a week and putting stuff on the counter that needs to be used up… right now I have corn meal, a can of cream of chicken, a can of cream of mushroom, fried onions, apricot preserves and pie crust mix… all items gifted to me by my Buy Nothing Group.

I make it a point to collect unwanted food items from my BN community and then build recipes around them. Last week we had salmon cakes and pumpkin pie because of my BN gifts. My food bill is still not as cheap as others, but I think it has to do with geography. In general living on the west coast means that our costs are higher.

and you can sub different types of flour and mix-ins nuts, seeds, etc. Our biggest foods savings, besides raising some vegetables and chickens in the summer, comes from eating bone-in chicken.

I agree that being judicious about your proteins can make a huge difference. Love the tips! We use most for our family of five healthy eaters—buy bulk raw ingredients, add beans and onions to everything to stretch it, slow cooker soups and stews, planned leftover meals, etc.

We also finally invested in a pressure cooker, which is proving to be a game changer! Less temptation to give into take out or eat through our entire stash of freezer meals when you can cook beans in 30 min or frozen chicken in 10!

We used to do more of our meal prep on weekends, but as the kids get older and have more activities popping up on weekends, it was getting hard to keep up with the prep. Our other strategy is frittatas of every variety. Do you make it in a high speed blender like a Vitamix?

I never enjoyed homemade hummus made in the food processor, but in the Vitamix or other comparable one the texture is so much smoother. We bought canned beans from target most recently and they were super firm and make very chunky hummus. If you cook your own garbanzo beans, you can make sure to get them thoroughly softened first.

Are you using dried chickpeas? which I personally think is superior Is your water hard? Our new house has very hard water so I now use distilled water to cook my chickpeas and other beans.

It makes a big difference with the texture of the chickpeas. I suffered though a year of horrible beans before I discovered water can make or break your beans and it is definitely worth the extra dollar for distilled water. I tried those once with no luck, so I went back to canned, though that may have been at my old apartment which had really hard water….

I may get some dried ones though and try out the crockpot method of soaking. Dumber people than I have mastered homemade hummus! Otherwise, make sure you blend, blend, blend. I use a Cuisnart as well — it should get fluffy. Make sure you have a little lemon juice in there.

Great post! If you want to get all fancy with your hummus because I like the taste the tahini adds to it , you can always make it yourself.

And the bonus is that you can also use the sesame seeds for your homemade breads which we do quite a lot. We fed our Demon Child the same way and I can report, three years on, that she is willing to eat just about anything.

The kid asks for snacks of broccoli and fourth helpings of beans! but she eats it just fine. Thank you for sharing! FW will have her in the kitchen with him as soon as possible! Hey guys! It just might be my all time favorite tv show!

Just wanted to share the link for my favorite granola bar recipe. One thing that has helped us consume more of our leftovers is packaging them in individual serving size containers.

Then, when we need to grab food for lunch or dinner, we can just grab a meal out of the refrigerator and warm it up. The book itself is available at our library. As someone who lives in a city with limited grocery stores but TONS of restaurants I have had to work on this- especially since I have a LOT of severe food allergies one epipen or ER visit is definitely more than my grocery bill!

so I have to be careful of what I eat. I love making soup from scratch and taking it to work, and buying basics rather than premade food.

I also do use coupons a few times a year when I know basics like tp, paper towels, shampoo, etc will be on sale. Also, befriend your local butcher! Easy protein source. Great list of tips and resources! Thanks again for always impressing! A big key for me has been to reduce the thinking behind.

well, everything. Every two weeks I put on a pot of dry beans to cook for two hours, and add seasonings and oil as they cook down. Then I scoop out half cup portions into lunch containers, let them cool, add cheap bulk frozen veggies, and shove all ten plus containers back in the freezer.

At the beginning of every week, I portion out nuts in small containers for lunch, and oatmeal with cinnamon and chia and yogurt with honey for breakfast. The savings in time, money, and stress have been terrific.

All I have to do is fend off the folks who think eating beans and oatmeal every day reflect a serious lack of imagination. Great article! My approach is similar, but I have yet to give up the semi-weekly meal out at UNO or one of our local establishments.

You mentioned that you buy granola bars… I thought I would share this recipe for homemade granola bars , which I made recently and LOVED. I changed a few things around, like adding toasted sesame seeds, pecans, walnuts, and I used sliced, skinless almonds instead of whole ones.

Oh, and I added a tablespoon of butter and a little bit of salt to the mix. I toasted the oats and all the nuts first, which I think adds a nice flavor note.

After cutting the bars, I kept them from sticking together by wrapping them in little pieces of waxed paper. When I have had dinner failures…. hot sauce. We make what my husband calls salsa soup. Any bulk hot sauce you have can save a bad fish stew or similar.

I actually save up my scrap vegetables in a freezer bag in the freezer…when I have a couple full bags I make a batch of vegetable stock.

Love this post and your blog. Do you ever buy Frugalhound treats? Or do you make them homemade? Dog treats are one of the food priorities in our house.

My mother grew up in wartime Europe and these were lessons necessary for life, not just lifestyle. We are currently working on less packaged food.

More of a health choice than frugality actually. I will say you are lucky with your little ones eating habits. My oldest daughter has always been a great eater. We are working with an occupational therapist to expand her horizons.

Unfortunately feeding your kids is not always as straightforward as one might think. Fresh veggies are usually cheaper than most packaged options, you can get a lot of vegetables and fruit for less than it would be for prepackaged foods.

The best part of this extremely informative article is the picture of Houndlett licking food off of Babylett. Yes, you have been upstaged by the younger generation. My desire to eat gourmet food often was my incentive to learn to cook. The restaurant scene in Vancouver was vibrant and expensive!

so I began researching recipes. And, of course, the savings have been incredible. Because food is our hobby, we have no problem with sourcing great ingredients, eating out and generally spending most of our variable income on food.

Having said that, there are plenty of things we happily do without to fund that one particular lifestyle choice. Those little tidbits, squirreled away in containers or ziplock bags in the freezer are your best friends. Think savory pies, soups, curry, stew, risotto, hash or the best sandwich in the world.

Cauliflower, with prices at an all-time high, is currently on hiatus in my kitchen. Green cabbage, on the other hand, holding steady as a bargain vegetable, is my trusted culinary companion. Thinly sliced or grated cabbage makes a health-giving, crunchy, fiber-licous coleslaw, and can be taken in new flavour directions with salad dressings.

And cabbage rolls — which can be made with all sorts of grains, not just rice. Try barley, buckwheat grouts or wheat berries. You can also use Swiss chard leaves for rolling, but be aware that they take less time to cook than cabbage. Braised on the top of the stove with a bit of stock, it's delicious added to pasta.

That liquid gold is integral in finishing or thinning down any pasta sauce, adding a bit of salty richness. It makes a lovely emulsion with butter or olive oil.

To obtain maximum flavours, dry roast or fry herbs and spices first to release their wonderful aromas and essential oils. There is no shame in perusing the discounted section in grocery stores for past-its-prime produce. It's not just a penny saver, but a way to stretch your creativity and spontaneity.

Sweet peppers, for example, trimmed of any bruises or soft spots, can be roasted to concentrate their flavours, then added to stews, chowders or braises, or even cheese and charcuterie boards, lightly tossed in olive oil and sea salt.

Add them to smoothies as a thickener, or peel and freeze them for later use, including said banana bread. Mushrooms are great roasted whole. Any citrus fruits can be juiced and frozen for later, added to smoothies, or for cocktails, or anywhere a citrus hit is needed.

Be brave. For example, fennel bulbs, with their delicate anise flavour, are lovely shaved into a salad or braised in large pieces with a bit of stock. You might also see the gnarly-looking celery root. Peeled and cooked, its flavour is earthy and very celery-like.

Luckily, bags of potatoes and onions are still relatively inexpensive, and they provide immeasurable mealtime potential. Slowly caramelized, onions can be worked into a tart, a sandwich or the classic French onion soup.

Scalloped potatoes can easily be made low-cal — and low budget — by adding in some thinly sliced onions, caramelized or not, and a bit of stock, then baked with whatever leftover cheese you have on hand, topped with bread crumbs.

Any leftover bread can be made into crumbs, croutons, either cubed or sliced and used as a topping for soup. And bread pudding, especially a savoury version, makes a hearty meal.

Add in any leftover vegetables — roasted squash is especially tasty, any leftover cheeses, and rebrand it as a strata or vegetable casserole. Many deli sections will sell off cheese and meat ends, pieces that are too small to cut into slices.

Wonder what in the world we eat on a $ grocery budget? Here's our frugal menu plan for the last two weeks. It shows exactly what our family of 5 ate! Discover a unique specialty food market one where you can expect to find a remarkable selection of produce, meat, and international products Thrifty Bodega, Haltom City, Texas. likes · 92 were here. Needing to redo your space? Wanted that nice decor item but don't want to pay retail!? We

Thrifty gourmet bargains - Earn Scene+ points at Thrifty Foods and combine with other great deals. Tick Fresh Gourmet (8) · Freshana (1) · Fun Blasters (1) · GoMacro (1) · H&H Dry Fruit Wonder what in the world we eat on a $ grocery budget? Here's our frugal menu plan for the last two weeks. It shows exactly what our family of 5 ate! Discover a unique specialty food market one where you can expect to find a remarkable selection of produce, meat, and international products Thrifty Bodega, Haltom City, Texas. likes · 92 were here. Needing to redo your space? Wanted that nice decor item but don't want to pay retail!? We

You can then print whatever pages you want using a PDF management program such as Adobe Reader. There are two conversion programs I recommend. There are, unfortunately, several eBook file formats such as AZW, MOBI and EPUB. You will need to know which one you will be wanting to convert.

A caveat here is that eBooks that are protected by a privacy scheme called Digital Rights Management or DRM may not be convertible. There is also a free web-based converter. Open a browser and go to www. Follow the instructions for converting almost any eBook formatted file to a PDF file. That said, quality of ingredients is of paramount importance to any dish.

If you use poor-quality ingredients, your dishes will be poor-quality. Go out of your way to find excellent quality bread.

I live in Northern California, where eating good bread is commensurate with a religious experience, but not everybody has the choices I do.

Nevertheless, it will pay you to look around for artisan breads. As much as good bread can enhance a meal, lousy bread can ruin it. Some of the recipes suggest accompanying the meal with Indian naan bread.

If you have an Indian restaurant in your neighborhood, you can get it as takeout. If not, look for frozen naan in your local market. Naan freezes well, and the frozen stuff is pretty good. I just warm it up in the microwave and smear it with butter.

You can also heat it up in a toaster. Although you can get by with the conventional salted butter, I strongly recommend that you use only unsalted butter that has low water content.

This quality butter is often imported from Europe, but the imported stuff is expensive. Instead, look for an American-made butter that says something like made in the European tradition on the label.

Many recipes call for grated cheese. If you can afford it, use imported Parmagiano Reggiano. If not, Grana Podano, Pecorino Romano, or Asiago can be substituted.

Costco usually has the best price for Parmagiano Reggiano, but you have to buy a lot of it. Stay away from anything labeled parmesan. Demi-glace is highly concentrated stock made from beef, chicken, veal or even vegetables.

It is an indispensible ingredient to many sauces. I recommend that you buy it rather than make it. It is easy to make, but very time-consuming.

If you are only going to buy one kind, I suggest you buy the one made from veal as it goes well with everything. All wheat flours are not created equal. The main difference is the amount of a protein called gluten. For example, to make cake flour and save money , sift together 8 parts of all-purpose flour with 2 parts of cornstarch.

Self-rising flour has baking powder mixed into it. Not a good idea because you have no control, and, after being stored for a few months the baking powder will lose its effectiveness. Although garlic is one plant, the way it is prepared can greatly influence its flavor contribution to a dish.

Crushing or pressing the garlic releases strong oils. Chopping or slicing garlic with a sharp knife does not release those oils, and the flavor contribution will be relatively mild.

Roasting the garlic gives it a nutty flavor that melds beautifully with many dishes. Over time, they oxidize and lose their pungency. Dishes made with old herbs and spices taste blah.

Use them and your good work will be good for nothing. If it smells strong, use it. If not, toss it. Fresh herbs rarely stand up to long cooking, but for some dishes they are a requirement.

The prices they charge for fresh herbs in markets these days are absurd. There is no excuse for not growing your own, even if you live in a dark apartment.

I grow fresh basil, oregano, rosemary, tarragon, thyme and mint from seedlings purchased at a local nursery. Basil is an annual and needs to be replanted every year, but the rest are perennials, so you never have to buy them again.

Some local markets will special order, but that tends to be expensive. Your only recourse is to shop around until you find the best deals.

If you live in an area that has a large Latino population, you may find some terrific meat and fish bargains in Latino markets.

For example, not one of the supermarkets in my town sells oxtails, but I can get very good oxtails at my favorite Latino market, and they are inexpensive. Remember, if you are going to braise your meat, inexpensive cuts taste best.

Fat and gristle are your friends in braised dishes. Fish and shellfish have become expensive. Coupon hunting pays off in this category. Find the loss leaders and you can save a ton of money. The key with frozen fish is to defrost it slowly in the refrigerator.

Also stay away from frozen fish if you can see ice crystals in the package. That means the fish is old. Some markets sell fish that was once frozen in the defrosted state. While most meat can be refrozen once or twice without harm, fish will suffer from refreezing.

I use only extra virgin olive oil EVOO when olive oil is called for in a recipe, because it adds flavor. There are artisan EVOOs that are expensive. Save them for dipping and salad dressings, not cooking. If you are going to cook the EVOO, use the least expensive you can find.

I prefer to use sweet onions such as Vidalias. All of my pasta recipes can use either fresh or dried pasta. With a few exceptions, the only fresh pasta served today in restaurants and homes in Italy is sheet pasta used for dishes like ravioli.

That said, not all brands of American-made dried pasta are good. Making roasted peppers is a pain. Quarter the peppers and remove seeds and membranes. Place the peppers on a baking sheet, skin side up and roast until the skin turns black.

Let cool and peel away the charred skin. Sometimes the charred peel is difficult to remove. Try peeling under running water — it might help. Another method is to put the peppers in a paper bag when hot and allow them to sweat in their own steam before peeling them.

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There is no shame in perusing the discounted section in grocery stores for past-its-prime produce. It's not just a penny saver, but a way to stretch your creativity and spontaneity.

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Add them to smoothies as a thickener, or peel and freeze them for later use, including said banana bread. Mushrooms are great roasted whole. Any citrus fruits can be juiced and frozen for later, added to smoothies, or for cocktails, or anywhere a citrus hit is needed.

Be brave. For example, fennel bulbs, with their delicate anise flavour, are lovely shaved into a salad or braised in large pieces with a bit of stock. You might also see the gnarly-looking celery root. Peeled and cooked, its flavour is earthy and very celery-like.

Luckily, bags of potatoes and onions are still relatively inexpensive, and they provide immeasurable mealtime potential.

Slowly caramelized, onions can be worked into a tart, a sandwich or the classic French onion soup. Scalloped potatoes can easily be made low-cal — and low budget — by adding in some thinly sliced onions, caramelized or not, and a bit of stock, then baked with whatever leftover cheese you have on hand, topped with bread crumbs.

Any leftover bread can be made into crumbs, croutons, either cubed or sliced and used as a topping for soup. And bread pudding, especially a savoury version, makes a hearty meal.

Add in any leftover vegetables — roasted squash is especially tasty, any leftover cheeses, and rebrand it as a strata or vegetable casserole. Many deli sections will sell off cheese and meat ends, pieces that are too small to cut into slices.

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Coupon hunting pays off in this category. Find the loss leaders and you can save a ton of money. The key with frozen fish is to defrost it slowly in the refrigerator.

Also stay away from frozen fish if you can see ice crystals in the package. That means the fish is old. Some markets sell fish that was once frozen in the defrosted state. While most meat can be refrozen once or twice without harm, fish will suffer from refreezing. I use only extra virgin olive oil EVOO when olive oil is called for in a recipe, because it adds flavor.

There are artisan EVOOs that are expensive. Save them for dipping and salad dressings, not cooking. If you are going to cook the EVOO, use the least expensive you can find. I prefer to use sweet onions such as Vidalias.

All of my pasta recipes can use either fresh or dried pasta. With a few exceptions, the only fresh pasta served today in restaurants and homes in Italy is sheet pasta used for dishes like ravioli.

That said, not all brands of American-made dried pasta are good. Making roasted peppers is a pain. Quarter the peppers and remove seeds and membranes. Place the peppers on a baking sheet, skin side up and roast until the skin turns black. Let cool and peel away the charred skin. Sometimes the charred peel is difficult to remove.

Try peeling under running water — it might help. Another method is to put the peppers in a paper bag when hot and allow them to sweat in their own steam before peeling them. Open navigation menu. Close suggestions Search Search. en Change Language close menu Language English selected Español Português Deutsch Français Русский Italiano Română Bahasa Indonesia Learn more.

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The book is divided into nineteen chapters in accordance with the dishes' position in a meal: Examples of recipes contained in some of the chapters are as follows: Hors d'oeuvres and Finger-Food: Angels on Horseback, International Chips, Onion Apple Bites, Nuts to You, Bagel Chips, Caviar and Cucumbers Appetizers, Tapas and First Courses: Asparagus Wrapped in Prosciutto, Grilled Shishito or Padron, Garlic Calamari Rings, Shrimp with Sherry Sauce, Tempura Salads: Grilled Lettuce, Kicked Up Cole Slaw, Kohlrabi and Carrot, Roasted Fennel and Onion, Moroccan Beet Soups: Avgolemono, Exotic Mushroom, Pho, Thai Coconut Chicken Main Courses by featured ingredient including beef, chicken, duck, lamb, pork, seafood, veal and vegetarian: Catalan Beef Stew, La Genovese, Cider-braised Chicken Legs, Asian Quail, Citrus Braised Duck, Pork Adobo, Stinco, Veal Martini, Stuffed Peppers Desserts and Cookies: French Apple tart, No-bake Cheesecake, St.

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Save Baking Bread It can be really tricky to figure out how to stay within budget, especially with the costs rising so much! I hope you can figure out some things to do that work well for you to get it to where you can feel good about it. I love this!! I need this motivation and all of your ideas.

Its just our 10 yo son, husband and myself. But I homeschool my son, we have two young dogs and all the household work as well as my two outside of the home jobs. We want to live well below our means as we are trying to mass save which we are doing well in all areas except for food. Your site has really helped me simplify my thinking and I am totally going to consistently incorporate cooking into our homeschool curriculum!

Cinthia, your comment totally made my day. I am so delighted that what I am sharing is helping you. Thank for taking the time to let me know! And I love too that you are thinking about ways to incorporate cooking into your homeschooling.

So smart! Well, I do actually work for a living. It definitely is easier to cook at home when you are there most of the time because of your work, but I know lots of people that work full time away from home and still eat similarly to this.

A lot of it comes down to mindset. If we decide something is doable, we are more willing to figure out how to make it work and willing to make the sacrifices to do it. No judgment! Just know that it can be done even if you are working full time. Crockpots and prepping food ahead are two things that help a lot!

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