Frugal Pantry Tuesday — Leftover Turkey

This week's Frugal Pantry scenario is: You got hungry for turkey so you baked a great big beautiful turkey.  No it's not Thanksgiving but there are times when it happens. Your family ate a lot the turkey but since it was a huge turkey and you have a lot left over.  What are you going to do with it?  Feed it to the cat?  … [Read more...]

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Have you ever visited ShopWiki?

I was looking for some good buys on some baking dishes and ran across a site named Shopwiki.  Normally I don't give sites like that a second glance but there was something about this one.  It is well organized and looks sharp.  So I decided I'd give it a try and after seeing the search results thought I’d share what I found with my blog … [Read more...]

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Saving Money by Using Leftovers

My husband does not like the word “leftovers”. When we first got married, he refused to eat “leftovers”.   I came from a family that believed in using leftovers and would change the dishes into something else altogether.  It was not an uncommon to think that Mom had been cooking all day creating a new dish when the reality was that she … [Read more...]

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The Frugal Pantry #3

It's been a couple of weeks since we had a "The Frugal Pantry Tuesday". Just to refresh your memory what The Frugal Pantry Tuesday is... I pick a meat and some ingredients from the pantry and you leave a comment what you would make out with some of the ingredients. Now I know it is late and past suppertime, but maybe it would be something that … [Read more...]

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The Frugal Pantry — Saving Money by Using What’s On Your Pantry Shelves

Last week, we announced a new weekly series called "The Frugal Pantry."  We hope that you enjoyed last week's post and are as excited as we are about this new series. One of the things that we noticed in our house was that even though we make a grocery list and we plan (ok...loosely plan) our meals for each day of the week, what we actually plan … [Read more...]

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Using Leftovers!!!

chili-con-carne-by-metzecki

Menu didn't work.   Earlier at the start of this blog, we decided that we'd try to make a menu for the week. While doing this is a very good idea, it just didn't work very well for us. My son lives with us in the summer and there are too many activities going on in our household to try and implement the cooking at home. After he went back … [Read more...]

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To Bulk Cook or not — that is the question!!!

Our first week of menu planning was somewhat a success. There were adjustments here and there, but for the most part the menu was followed. It is definitely something that we are going to keep on doing. While looking for more nutritious menus and ideas for dishes, I came across the term "bulk cooking." Bulk cooking simply means cooking … [Read more...]

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