Blogs Tagged With frugal options | rated: b

  • How to Buy the Most Nutritious Foods for Your Dollar

    As consumers, we all search for getting the most for our dollar. The question, are we looking for quantity or quality? By quality, we mean the greatest nutritional content that we get for our money. http://www.gomestic.com/Consumer-Information/How-to-Buy-the-Most-Nutritious-Foods-for-Your-Dollar.384…

  • $5 Dinner Mom Cookbook only $5.55!

    If you've never heard of the $5 Dinner Mom, then you are missing out! This woman is amazing - she makes every dinner for $5 or less. The recipes are easy and super family friendly (she has 3 boys!), and she lets you know if anything is gluten-free since her own kids deal with allergies.

  • Homemade Hair Products

    Today I'm going to give you guys 2 natural recipes using products in your own kitchen. The first one is a homemade sea salt spray which is known for giving hair some natural looking beach waves and the second recipe is for a homemade hair spray! Homemade Sea Salt Spray What You'll Need: 2 cups of w…

  • Show Me Your Frugal

    The same son that just brought home the Mustang convertible, brought this home the other day. Off brand cappuccino. Now that he is an adult, working full time, paying for his own classes, gasoline, insurance and car maintenance, he is learning just how far, or not so far, that buck really g…

  • Back To School: Making Lunches

    I must make a very non frugal confession. I try to save money wherever I can as we pursue our dream of being debt free. But last year Tommy ate hot lunch nearly every day. I just could not get into the groove of making lunches and I would procrastinate each night. I would then say, "Forget it,…

  • How to Shop With A Small Budget

    I have two toddlers (a 2 yr. old boy and a 3 yr. old girl) and they grow fast which means we have to buy a good deal of clothing & shoes. We only make around $25,000 a year which is not much to live on. Luckily, I also grew up not having a whole lot and learned a lot of great lessons from my mo…

  • Eat it up, wear it out, make it do, or do without

    Frugality has acquired a negative nuance as the decendents of hard times grew nuttier. Now, with the economic situation, we are looking past the opulence of our parents in the 80s. Our grandparents and great grandparents hold many secrets to frugal living. Unfortunately many of their great life skil…

  • Easy Cheesy Slow Cooked Hash Browns

    This is a guest post from Mandi Minding Money. A super easy and cheesy hash brown recipe for your slow cooker. Dump it and forget it!

  • Sweet & Savory Sundays: Crock Pot Rice

    Guest post from Mandi Minding Money See that white fluffy rice? Perfect and delicious rice? Yes, that came from my SLOW COOKER! I’m not kidding. I ended up making a second batch just to make sure it wasn’t some random cooking fluke. This is the perfect cooking project for rainy days to…

  • Homemade sandwich buns

    Being short on bread products forces one to get creative. I had made a loaf of whole wheat bread last night but wanted to try my hand at making sandwich rolls/hamburger buns for lunch today. I recently bought The Bread Lover's Bread Machine Cookbook but was disappointed to find that nearly all the…