Cooking At Home

Tips For Saving Money When Cooking For A Crowd

If you have a big family or love to entertain, you already know what a struggle it can be to fit food for all of those people into your budget. Food is expensive, so you need every tip you can find to help you save a few dollars. Armed with ideas like these, you can [...]

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Meal Planning Around Grocery Sales – 15 Ways To Use Those Jars of Pasta Sauce

{Updated on April 28, 2011:} In my area there are several grocery stores which feature weekly sales, specifically those “buy one get one free” sales. In watching these sale ads week after week, I have come to notice certain trends in the sale items – they usually repeat the same items after a certain period [...]

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Leftover Chicken Breast: Some Fresh Ideas To Break Up The Boredom

Baked chicken is one of my favorite meals to prepare for my kids, but the leftovers used to cause me real problems. After all, my family will only let me reheat the same meal so many times before they start threatening to stage a mutiny. The frugal side of me hated to waste anything, though. [...]

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Strategies for Time Deprived Cooks

Lately our weekends have become so full of activity with kid’s sports, Church, etc. that we found ourselves doing “take out” a lot more than usual. While at first it was fun because it was different (Hey, where can we drive thru tonight?), we started to see our dining out costs rise so I knew [...]

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30 Days of Homemade Gifts: Baked Goodies From Your Own Kitchen

Giving baked goodies as gifts for the holidays is always a great idea. Everyone loves to indulge in a sweet treat, right? And especially people love to receive homemade gifts. In an afternoon, I can create enough goodies to lavish treats on almost everyone on my gift list. The only trick to delivering up plates [...]

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