frugal recipes

One of the easiest ways to stretch your dollars is through using frugal recipes.

Anything you make can be a frugal recipe. There will be times when you need to focus your ingredients and use substitutions so you are living on the smallest grocery budget you can. Use your resources you have at home as much as possible so your not wasting your money.

Gardening is a great way to stretch your budget and have resources for healthy recipes. Gardening doesn’t have to be hard or take a lot of space but it can help you to save a ton of money with little effort. That is a wonderful way to save money and still eat healthy meals.

Another great way to save money is by adapted recipes to make them into frugal family recipes. Use substitutions so you don’t have to shop more and so you can use the fresh produce before it goes bad.

Here are some great resources for frugal cooking recipes
 

Frugal Cherry Cobbler Cake Recipe

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I LOVE this frugal cherry cobbler cake recipe.  It is SO easy to make and it is super good.  Dump cake recipes are great ones to have when you need a quick dessert. I lover cherry cobbler and cake mix so when you can make a cherry cobbler recipe with a cake mix you can [...]

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Homemade Cherry Pie Frugal Recipe

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Homemade Cherry Pie is a recipe that many people stay away from because they don’t think it can be easy.  The truth is, it is VERY easy!  And you can make it special for different holiday’s like I did for Valentines. With this recipe I used home canned cherries.  But you can use canned cherries, [...]

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Frugal Peanut Brittle Recipe Guest Post

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I grew up eating this at Christmas. My Mom would make a whole bunch of chocolate fudge, peanut brittle, and there was also usually some type of turtles and other various forms of sugar floating around. It was amazing. So this is her recipe, except I added one thing. Salt. I didn’t taste much of [...]

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Frugal Chocolate Fudge Recipe With A Peppermint Twist

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Chocolate Fudge Recipe With A Peppermint Twist When I was growing up, we made fudge and danish every year for Christmas.  We would make it a family event and I heard stories about when my mom and her grandma would stand in the kitchen mixing and baking fudge and danish.  I always wanted to be [...]

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Frugal Garlic Cheddar Mashed Potatoes Recipe

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Garlic Cheddar Mashed Potatoes

The other night I had plans to make some plain old mashed potatoes from scratch.  But I decided I wanted something more.  So I began to experiment with them and I ended up making a great side!!!  I am excited to share this with you and see how you like it. 8-10 small – small [...]

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