Archive for food
If you must eat out…
Do it like this. Be sure to read the fine print, but even with fine print this is a great deal! I found some of our favorite restaurants listed in my area, and others that we would like to try but didn’t want to pay full price. Stock up for date night, for gifts, and [...]
Outsmart the grocery store
I just wanted to take a moment to share a worthwhile link. I consider myself a reasonably savvy and experienced grocery shopper, feeding 12 on a very modest budget, but I learned a few things from this list: 50 Sneaky Grocery Store Tricks That Trim Your Wallet and Pad Your Waistline My favorite: Sale items [...]
Summer Salad
Here’s a salad you can make without going shopping for the ingredients- although you might need to take a walk. As always, be careful and be sure of your plant identification: Lettuce- grow this in an ice-cream bucket of compost or potting soil. Sprinkle with lettuce seeds, sprinkle with dirt, keep damp and set in [...]
All Food Budgets Are Not Created The Same
Yes, hers was a weekly budget, mine a monthly. Her family was smaller, but I had figured that into my calculations. I knew we had made some different food choices and that definitely was a factor, but why was I so far off from the bottom line? Reading frugal blogs was most helpful to me [...]
Frugal Eats On Road Trips
I tried to count the number of road trips our family has taken, but I really just can’t. I have no idea. And when I talk about road trips, I am talking about trips we have taken of several days duration, sometimes weeks, and, a couple of times, road trips that lasted over a month. [...]
Food Spoilage Table: how old is too old?
You probably realize just how un-frugal it is to let food rot in your fridge. No matter how good the price was, you waste money when you waste food. When it comes to leftovers, we usually draw the line at 1 week or when it doesn’t taste or smell quite right – whichever comes first. [...]
Feed A Crowd For Less
Our church hosts a fellowship brunch one Sunday a month. Various groups take turns cooking food for 100 (give or take)–and naturally, this requires some frugal planning. Last month, my group baked the equivalent of 8 ham and potato casseroles to serve with a make-ahead green vegetable salad and fruit. Along with 100 bran muffins from scratch, [...]
10 ways to cut your grocery bill
Inspired by The Simple Dollar’s article on Trimming the Average Budget: Food at Home, I put together my own list of 10 ways we keep our bill at roughly half the national average. 1. Cook from scratch – consistently. Convenience foods may be tempting and some may even seem affordable, but the habit of cooking [...]
Family Feasts for $75 a Week: A winner and the interview!
Thank you to everyone who participated by asking questions. We had over 100 entries, and I know Mary had a great time choosing questions to answer! We chose one winner from among the entries to win a free copy of Family Feasts for $75 a Week. Here’s the lucky gal, courtesy of Random.org: Lindsey in [...]
Family Feasts for $75 a week: author interview and giveaway
update: Comments are closed and a winner has been chosen. Look for the announcement above! If you don’t read Owlhaven, you’re missing a treat. Mary is the compassionate, frugal and always-real mom of 10 children from various nations and the author of 2 books. Her latest book fits right in here at Frugal Hacks, and [...]
Ways to get free food
a guest post from the Frugal Fraulein Being the Frugal Fraulein that I am, the word free gives me tingles. This is my favorite time of year. The gardens are calling to be harvested, the trees are laden with fruit, the fish are moving up the streams and the deer and elk are fattening up [...]
I want to go shopping with you!
A few days ago I asked you to guess the total cost of all this yumminess, plus a couple more items not shown. I thought I got some very good deals on my produce downtown, but some of your guesses were so low that I want to go shopping with you! The guesses ranged from [...]
Great deals on produce for me, and a giveaway for you!
Thanks for all your guesses! Comments are closed now. Scroll up to August 31 to see the actual cost and winner. I often get my produce by the case downtown at the produce terminal. If you live near a big town, you might have this option too. If you know of one, I would love [...]
