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Inexpensive (and Easy) Summer Meals

For my family, summer is not all about cooking, unlike during the winter holidays. Instead, it is about spending time outdoors, going on summer adventures, visiting with friends and family, days at the park or pool, and nights on the grass watching a movie or music concert under the stars.  It is about inviting the neighbors over for a campfire and smores, catching lighting bugs, trying to get all of the ice cream drips before they run down your arm, and re-experiencing the feel of a light breeze coming off of the ocean. Still, we all have to eat, so … Continue reading →

9 Meal Ideas for Leftover Chicken

The prices on whole roasting chicken has been pretty good lately, so I have been finding myself buying quite a few chickens for our meals. My family likes roast chicken, so it isn’t usually a problem, except for the leftovers. They can get a little boring after a while. That is why we usually have one meal of roast chicken (I vary the seasonings), and then use the leftover chicken in new dishes, some of which I can freeze.   Here are my favorite ways to use leftover chicken.   Chicken Pot Pie: You can use a butter crust, shortening … Continue reading →

The Easy Way to Cook from Scratch

Cooking from scratch is a great way to reduce your overall food bill. Eating out can cost three or four times as much as cooking at home, on average. Faced with the reality of the savings, why don’t we all cook more and eat out less? Well, one of the main reasons is that the idea of cooking every meal at home when our lives are so busy can seem daunting. Guess what, though? Eating at home can actually be less time consuming than going out in many cases. Plus, if you follow the following advice, you will see that … Continue reading →

Easy Weeknight Turkey Burgers

Make some yummy, juicy turkey burgers with very little effort for a great weekday meal on even the busiest days. While they are wonderful as is, to make them truly special, make your own burger buns using the very easy and very good Bread Machine Rolls recipe. You can follow the recipe exactly, which calls for a combination of bread flour and wheat flour, or just use all bread flour. This recipe makes 6 medium burgers. Ingredients: 1 1.3 pound package of ground turkey, preferably 85 percent lean 2 tablespoons of dry stuffing mix (another great recipe that uses ground turkey … Continue reading →

Quick and Fancy Crockpot Chicken

Have a couple of hours with no idea what to cook for dinner? Try the following recipe. It is easy, inexpensive and taste a bit fancy. Try serving it up over egg noodles, another inexpensive food. You might also try it with regular pasta or rice. To make this dish even less expensive, try purchasing boneless, skinless chicken breasts in an inexpensive family pack. One of these packs usually contain six good-sized chicken breasts. The following recipe calls for four of those breasts. Retain the remaining two chicken breasts for another meal. My suggestion is to take them and place … Continue reading →

Quick and Frugal Thermos Meals

How can you provide good meals when your busy week means that you are never home to eat, let alone to prepare meals. With kids involved skipping meals is not an option, and the cost of fast food meals would add up quickly. I’ve had to face this situation during the past two weeks. My ten-year-old son is in a big musical production. His rehearsals have been starting after school and going to seven or eight o’clock at night. With the last few rehearsals before opening night (the musical opens this Thursday evening), there are costumes and make up before … Continue reading →

Budget Recipes – Easy Chicken Stir Fry

What are you having for dinner tonight? How about something that is quick to make, easy to do, tasty, and inexpensive? If you pay attention to what is on sale at the grocery store, you can create a dinner that won’t break your budget. Tonight, try out “Easy Chicken Stir Fry”. You may not be aware of this, but Albertsons and Jewel are owned by the same company. Your local grocery store is either called Jewel, or is called Albertsons, based on where the store is located in the United States. I grew up in the Midwest, where the grocery … Continue reading →

Sweet and Spicy Beef

In cooler weather there’s nothing better than a crock pot meal. But why should the crock pot only being relegated to cooler weather. It’s great in warm weather too, as it doesn’t make the kitchen hot with cooking. Yes, you can tell where I’m heading with this can’t you? I have another crock pot meal to share with you. My new crock pot has been getting a huge amount of use since it arrived. Sweet and Spicy Beef Ingredients Tablespoon oil 16 ounces round or rump steak 2 cloves garlic 2 small Spanish onions Quarter cup red wine 1 teaspoon … Continue reading →

Chicken and Lemon Fettuccine

Some nights all you want is to make something that is quick, filling and tasty. For that, pasta is an excellent choice. This recipe meets all of those criteria and for the gluten free you can still has pasta, it’s just rice pasta. The original version of this recipe that this was adapted from called for spaghetti but personally I find the gluten free spaghetti is hopeless, as it is so thin and doesn’t have a good texture, so I always prefer to use fettuccine instead. Of course it is entirely up to you and your preferences. Quick and Easy … Continue reading →

Quick and Easy Chicken

You know what it’s like you’ve come home from work or you’ve been busy all day with a million chores, come dinner time you just want something that is quick and easy. Too often we forget that sometimes those quick and easy meals can be just as tasty as the ones we spend ages over. Yesterday was one of those days for me, by the time I’d finally finished with doctors and x-rays but that’s another blog for another time. The last thing I wanted was an elaborate meal to cook. So here is a really quick chicken meal. Although … Continue reading →