With more and more people looking to become sustainable food storage is a huge topic. Eggs are a great frugal addition to your diet. While many of you are looking for eggs and finding them hard to find others are about to see a rush of eggs from home chickens or sales that often hit around easter when egg production ramps up. When you find eggs on sale it is a good idea to store eggs for later. You can freeze eggs to make them last longer. We make a lot of hard boiled eggs for the kids to munch…
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Tomato sauce is one of the most commonly used ingredients in everything from homemade chili to sloppy joes and pasta sauce and my personal favorite… Pizza. I love a good tomato-based dish and I love adding tomato sauce to everyday dishes like meatloaf for an added dose of flavor . I do not always keep jars of tomato sauce on had though because it is one of those things we go through faster than I can preserve from the garden. That means sometimes I have to get creative with a substitution for tomato sauce. What can you use as a substitution…
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When you find a good deal on eggs it is smart to stock up on this frugal protein staple. While you can freeze eggs for future use and you can get plenty of use out of eggs with these easy egg recipes it is still not uncommon to find eggs shoved at the back of the refrigerator or farm-fresh eggs shoved behind something on the counter. Instead of throwing the eggs out learn how to tell if eggs are good or if they have gone bad without risking breaking a bad egg. How to tell if your eggs are still…
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The past few weeks have been eye-opening for many people. While grocery store prices have been slowly creeping up for months forcing you to work on fighting inflation at the grocery store the current price of eggs has everyone facing a bit of sticker shock. With fall and winter fast approaching, the price of eggs will soon go back up as egg production falls after the days grow short. For families looking to save money on whole foods. For me it is important that I feed my family quality food that can help keep them healthy as well as filling…
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I still remember my first time trying dragon fruit. We lived on the Fort Riley, the Army base in Kansas, and had driven into the closest college town Manhatten KS where we could shop the sales at the grocery stores and stop in for dinner at one of our favorite restaurants. We took a stop in an employee-owned grocery chain called Hy-Vee where they had some of the kid’s favorite staples on sale and I had coupons. They had a stand set up doing samples of some rare fruits all decked out for a summer cookout. The employee stopped us…
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When it comes to making soft fluffy pancakes or dreamy homemade biscuits you can’t go wrong by using buttermilk. Of course, buttermilk can get expensive when you do not use it often and find it going bad long before you can use the average container at the local grocery store. A great alternative is to make your own buttermilk to use when you are cooking. When you learn how to make buttermilk you will be able to save money by not having waste and there is no reason to run out to the store when you can just whip a…