And the grocer expanded its private-label products to meet customer demand. Many grocers such as Whole Foods and Supervalu, which owns Shoppers, acknowledge that consumer cutbacks are squeezing their earnings this year.

To deal with those declines, grocers are looking at other ways to cut costs, such as packing more products into delivery trucks, adding motion detectors to store lighting and wrapping less food in packages while selling them at the same price.

Besides its shopping classes, the grocer publishes a new newsletter called The Whole Deal, which provides money-saving tips and menu planning. It has a back-to-school brochure filled with coupons and is aggressively promoting weekly values.

Whalin said mid-tier supermarkets and discounters are offering the most aggressive sales. Some of the more upscale grocers, such as Wegmans Food Markets Inc. Even with its new promotions, Whole Foods is doing its best not to dilute its image.

A Wegmans spokeswoman said the chain has not instituted any new promotions because of the economy. You might also see the gnarly-looking celery root.

Peeled and cooked, its flavour is earthy and very celery-like. Luckily, bags of potatoes and onions are still relatively inexpensive, and they provide immeasurable mealtime potential.

Slowly caramelized, onions can be worked into a tart, a sandwich or the classic French onion soup. Scalloped potatoes can easily be made low-cal — and low budget — by adding in some thinly sliced onions, caramelized or not, and a bit of stock, then baked with whatever leftover cheese you have on hand, topped with bread crumbs.

Any leftover bread can be made into crumbs, croutons, either cubed or sliced and used as a topping for soup. And bread pudding, especially a savoury version, makes a hearty meal. Add in any leftover vegetables — roasted squash is especially tasty, any leftover cheeses, and rebrand it as a strata or vegetable casserole.

Many deli sections will sell off cheese and meat ends, pieces that are too small to cut into slices. Anything smoked can be added to a hearty soup or stew with lentils, beans or other pulses.

Once you strain the stock, there is often quite a bit of meat left on the bones. Vegetable stock is also easy. All those scraps such as onion ends, carrot peels and celery tops should be saved along with any leftover herbs, parsley ends, etc. Add them to your stockpot with water and simmer over medium heat for about an hour.

Use stock to braise other ingredients or to cook rice in — delicious! I freeze those for a meal down the road, thus, making my dollar stretch even further. With fork and pen in hand, and a taste for culinary adventure, Shelora Sheldan, writer, cook and curious traveller, goes in search of the delectable.

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Cancel anytime. Ebook pages 5 hours. Read free for days. Read preview. About this ebook This book contains gourmet recipes culled from well over that were collected over 40 years by Michael Burwen, an accomplished amateur chef. The book is divided into nineteen chapters in accordance with the dishes' position in a meal: Examples of recipes contained in some of the chapters are as follows: Hors d'oeuvres and Finger-Food: Angels on Horseback, International Chips, Onion Apple Bites, Nuts to You, Bagel Chips, Caviar and Cucumbers Appetizers, Tapas and First Courses: Asparagus Wrapped in Prosciutto, Grilled Shishito or Padron, Garlic Calamari Rings, Shrimp with Sherry Sauce, Tempura Salads: Grilled Lettuce, Kicked Up Cole Slaw, Kohlrabi and Carrot, Roasted Fennel and Onion, Moroccan Beet Soups: Avgolemono, Exotic Mushroom, Pho, Thai Coconut Chicken Main Courses by featured ingredient including beef, chicken, duck, lamb, pork, seafood, veal and vegetarian: Catalan Beef Stew, La Genovese, Cider-braised Chicken Legs, Asian Quail, Citrus Braised Duck, Pork Adobo, Stinco, Veal Martini, Stuffed Peppers Desserts and Cookies: French Apple tart, No-bake Cheesecake, St.

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Welcome to Thrifty Foods. Top Site Features Online Shopping Goto Online Shopping. Josette Sykes, 57, began noticing the higher prices about a year ago.

These days, she buys fewer items, including eggs and bread, and chooses smaller containers for products such as dishwashing liquid. The retired corrections officer from Baltimore, who has noticed more grocers competing for her dollars lately, also scours the newspaper for discounts and uses more coupons than ever.

Nearly half of shoppers say they are buying less than a year ago because of the slowing economy, according to a May survey by the Washington trade group Food Marketing Institute. About 40 percent say they are looking for grocery specials in newspapers and circulars.

Coupon use, after declining for several years, remained flat for the first time in , according to CMI Inc. Safeway is offering discounts at its gas stations when shoppers spend a certain amount on groceries.

The supermarket also has Five Dollar Fridays, when it offers certain items, such as an eight-piece prepared chicken, for that price.

And the grocer expanded its private-label products to meet customer demand. We also try to use re-usable products as much as possible. For example: our glass tupperware gets used over and over again, I store our bread wrapped in a tea towel, I use rags instead of paper towels.

We also invest when it makes sense, such as in re-chargeable batteries, low-energy-use lightbulbs, etc. I hope this helps! Our power company lets us order LED lights at a HUGE discount. Check and see if yours does. Coconut oil makes a divine moisturizer.

I also make a whipped body butter I love for winter coconut oil, shea butter, cocoa butter, and almond oil in equal proportions, chilled and whipped. I make a whipped body butter too with those same ingredients! Smells heavenly! Did you get from the Trash is Tossers website, like me?

Frugal weirdo toiletry tip: try Tibetan crystal deodorant! Mix previous. Press into a baking sheet. I tend to think we have the food thing down, but even I picked up some great tips here!

I also really enjoyed how long it was, much longer than you usually write. More Frugalwoods is a good thing in my book! My current frugal boss move is to make a giant egg bake for the week. I top with whatever bits and bobs of cheese are still hanging about, then 12 beaten eggs.

Love this post! I have bought barley, millet, buckwheat, wheat berries, amaranth, and more at Whole Foods and is just insanely expensive. I would love to source these great grains online and see big box.

Any suggestions? I buy mine at the local grain elevators; wheat berries, oats, rye and corn. Just notice when and what the farmers are harvesting to determine when to stop at the elevator. You can not pick up oats when they are harvesting wheat! We eat a lot like you do Mrs.

We rarely eat out. It makes a huge difference in our food budget, but we do splurge on the specialty ingredients to make yummy Asian dishes. So we pay a little extra for that good life. Such great advice all around. We had split pea soup last night and there is enough in the freezer for several meals.

I want to give another thumbs up for freezer meals. They have saved me so many times. Monday I got home from a weekend out of town and we had lasagna from the freezer. I make 3 at a time — still one left!

Today we skied all day and came home tired and famished. There was a time this would have meant order pizza or Chinese take-out, but I had thawed a chicken and noodle casserole before we left. That and some steamed broccoli will make a great meal.

We are also big on packing lunches for road trips and anytime we will be away at lunch time. We prefer a homemade sandwich with homemade bread! to fast food, and so does our bank account. Food is hard for me, since I have 14 allergies. Onions, garlic, rice, wheat, oats, eggs, peanuts, etc.

That does mean that I never eat out, which is budget friendly. I buy only raw food, in bulk when I can. I have a friend who has a severe corn allergy along with concurrent related food allergies. So totally hear ya about how hard it can be dealing with food. Most of the squash will be the main ingredient in soup.

I season with herbs, a little bit of salt, and a dash of chipotle chili, but you could use anything and could make it more sweet than spicy. You would have to skip the few that involve oats.

Potatoes in 15 minutes, brown rice in Beans, lentils, kale, soup — no more standing over the stove — dump in and set. Love these tips. I have brown basmati rice frozen in pint-sized packets for quick meals, too, plus lots of quart-sized soups and stews ready. Our biggest food priority is eating healthy fish sourced in the most environmentally responsible way.

So we invest in shipping pounds of wild-caught Alaskan salmon every year, plus 80 cans of sockeye for salmon salad and fish patties. Some people buy a side of beef, we buy Alaskan salmon and follow a Native American version of the Mediterranean Diet, which is a little seafood, lots of greens and vegetables, and some nuts, beans, legumes, and a few grains.

That quinoa bowl looks yum! Do you scramble the egg? Did I really say that?!? Must have been a moment of delusion was I pregnant at the time? The thing is that Mr. FW is really good at cooking and he enjoys it, whereas me, not so much on either of those.

If I absolutely had to cook, I would. But I prefer to clean and do the laundry while he manages all things culinary :.

Have you considered purchasing an instant pot? Worth every penny in my opinion. I use it to make yogurt, rice, quinoa, and so on. I currently have frozen chicken breasts in there that will cook up in 15 minutes flat.

It helps me avoid to the temptation to buy takeout and premade foods because it is so quick and easy to use.

Yes, I agree the Instant Pot is great!! I make yogurt, soups, stews, and breakfast and lunch preps for the week.

After considerable research, and hemming and hawing, I finally purchased an instant pot for many of the same reasons. Totally worth it! One big purchase we feel has paid us back tenfold.

A friend, however, makes them regularly and said the secret is brown rice syrup. She buys it from a co-op grocery store, it seems to be the kind of thing you either find at a health food store or at an Asian supermarket.

Worth a shot! Around here, regular price is about ¢ a pound, but every so often they go on sale for ¢ a pound and I buy the max the store will allow. I bake them, shred off whatever meat I can, and then turn the bones lots of bones!

into broth. I priced it out as being about 50 cents per quart of broth made to store-bought strength, though I do reduce it for the freezer to save space. The meat is useful for soup, casseroles, chicken salad, etc.

Other protein— the cut of meat called top blade steaks, or Spencer steaks in the midwest, or flat iron steaks. All the same. They are usually rather thin cut, oblong shape well-marbled meat with a line of gristle down the middle.

The other cut I get is called chuck eye, only one of my local grocery stores carries it. I use that to make homemade cured salmon, aka lox. We also use that salmon to make salmon sandwiches, basically eaten just like a burger with a piece of salmon instead of beef. Each piece is about ¼ lb so a sandwich runs about a dollar.

Can you provide a recipe for the cured salmon? We have a lot in common when it comes to food and groceries. My wife and I buy mostly whole foods, and organic when it matters. What we put into our bodies is very important to us.

Sure we splurge every now and then on unhealthy food, but we keep it to a minimum. Making meals ahead saves us big time during the week. After a long day of work, the last thing I want to do is think about making food.

Having something frozen that I can heat up is a life saver during the week. I loved reading this article! Hey guys, Apart from all the great tips from Mrs.

Frugalwoods, I have a great tip I came up with while shopping for groceries. Say NO to one of the products in your cart! Put SOMETHING BACK at the end of each shopping session! I am saying this because I, as probably many of you, love to just throw in ingredients or foods that we love, that are not necessarily cheap nor healthy.

It saves you money 2. What a super, easy way to save money on groceries. Thanks so much the the great tip. If spinach is cheap in your area you should really try it out!

So much great information here. A cheese sandwich tastes so much nicer with a good green tomato chutney, or dill pickle. And it is very empowering not to mention cheap to make your own.

My homemade mango chutney is streets ahead of any of the sugary commercial stuff, and a lot spicier too:- When a friend gave me a free bag of nectarines I made chutney out of those as well. PS Totally off-topic, but we gave our greyhound puppy the empty peanut butter jar to lick this morning and she was in seventh heaven:- No need to wash out the container for recycling.

I have AdBlocker After I read through the whole article there were Zero Ads blocked. This is the first time I ever saw this. Way to go frugalwoods. RE: cooking, I completely thank the Food Network.

My parents did teach me plenty, mostly about the importance of home-cooking and having food on the table every night. From the Food Network watching, I learned a lot about how to do different techniques, like butterflying a chicken breast helps avoid the super thick and bland problem.

Sometimes, I do one sauce in a big thing a Le Cruset or a casserole dish or pyrex. The other night, I used smaller ones and did two different sauces, but it gave me three nights worth of dinners where all we had to do was prepare a side veggie.

What are some of your favorite brands of box wines and styles-cabernet, merlot? I was wondering, do you guys have an opinion on the zero waste movement? You guys have offered a ton of great zero waste options—Sodastream, make coffee at home, make hummus or bread by hand.

Your article gave some great advice but I had to laugh out loud when you suggested hummus and veggies is enough for dinner. My husband would absolutely freak out! It was the only part I thought was completely unrealistic expectations and points to why you guys are so thin and America as a whole is overweight.

Eating whole homemade food in small quantities and snacking on fruits and veggies is what the majority of American would call a diet!

I made the epic-ly frugal lunch recipe yesterday. Eating it while I type. Curious as to the use of canned black beans vs. buying bulk? Great post, Ms. PDF cookbook designed for those living on SNAP benefits food stamps. This post was very informative. I agree that bringing snacks and your lunch to work can save you SO much money.

There are several people at my office that eat out every day or go pick up fast food. We also purposefully make too much food for dinner so that we can have leftovers for lunch the next day. My husband and I also like to drink alcohol, but we limit that to the weekends now because it is so expensive.

We are doing the low carb diet so I have to limit wine intake. My favorite drink is a chilton club soda, lemon, salt, and vodka. Food has always been my struggle. I love food and spend way too much money satisfying cravings and experiments. I make a batch of this every Sunday and eat throughout the week.

I also pack them when my toddler and I are running errands to keep hunger at bay. The base of this is the nut butter and oats, and you can really play around with the rest.

I sometimes add dried fruit or chopped nuts to it. If I find chia seeds on sale I will add a tablespoon of those. Mix all ingredients together your hands will work better than a spoon and then mold into a glass dish and refrigerate for at least 20 minutes.

Cut into the portions you want. I keep these in the fridge all week and take out as I want to eat them. You can also just mix all ingredients in a bowl, refrigerate, and then mold into balls. I am getting better I eat red sauce! We have reduced it to every other week.

Our friends also love to host and vice versa. We pick a theme and everyone brings dish. We also do grilled pizza in the summer which is a steal! Makes 12 wedges at approximately calories each. A yummy oatmeal variation is what I call my banana bread oatmeal.

Cook as usual. I always cook my oatmeal in the microwave. Great post and comments, too. For example, I bought a bag of fresh turmeric for a few bucks at an Indian store. Compared to the health food store super cheap. It freezes perfectly. At Asian stores, I get teas for much cheaper.

We have been doing it for years and have no children. We try to do bigger portions so as to do multiple lunch meals which we take for our respective offices and soups for most dinners of the week. Do you have any other ideas come to mind?

Thank you very much and keep writing! Have you thought to purchase garage sale a pressure canner?. Smitten Kitchen has a recipe for great granola bars. You can use whatever nuts or dried fruit you have on hand. Bring water to boil Gently add a dozen eggs Boil 6 minutes Take off heat, let sit 20 minutes Drain hit water, add cool water,ice 20 mins.

rolled oats; mix together and roll into balls. Store in fridge and grab when you need them. I usually add T of flax seed meal for omega-3s and vitamins. Can add choc chips, coconut flakes, raisins, etc. But I usually make them plain. My kids LOVE them. The recipe is on my website.

I cut them into bars and freeze each bar. I totally agree that finding a workable granola bar recipe is tough.

What I do is make loose granola to top our homemade yogurt.. I like the crunch it brings to the meal. I have found that it is much easier to save on groceries, eat clean and healthy and not to throw away food when ordering all food via e-shop.

For few months now I have planned our meals family of 4 , ordered the stuff online and my husband just went to pick up the prepacked goods from store. Much less destraction and impulse bought items, much better planning and lots of saved time.

S- where we live it is free of charge to preorder and pick up groceries. Excellent post! I love that you keep weeknights simple.

That is something I try and do also. As for granola bars. I love having a simple snack and this recipe has been my go-to for years. I double the batch and put it in a 9×13 pan and leave it in the fridge. Out family of 3 can polish off a pan in a week or so and they taste simply amazing on top of a little bit of plain greek yogurt.

Melt peanut butter, honey and butter together. Then add any ingredients you want. Looks like you guys do consistent lunch and breakfast and then a more varied dinner. Great strategy. We are in Milwaukee, so we shop on Sundays during the Packers game. It is like a ghost town.

Do you have an average cost per meal per person that you try to maintain? We are mostly utilizing the recipes link from BlueApron, but rather than use their service we go to the grocery store and buy the ingredients ourselves.

This might sound like an odd one but it worked for me and when I pointed it out to my colleague she noted the cost savings too. I rarely eat meat but when I do I eat halal meat.

We have a very large Muslim community in my city — large enough that there is a section at the grocery store for the halal meats and products in a very basic sense like kosher for Jewish.

The overall price point is different and when they do markdowns they are more substantial. Food has always been my easiest area to tackle with frugality. I then go back and write a new list, re-ordering my items based on my path around the store.

If you are NOT familiar with your store, ask customer service for a map. Seriously, most grocery stores have a map. Anyway, write your items down in an order from door to register in one straight trip. I have saved SO much by doing this because I am a HUGE compulsive buyer and my persuasive snack side is far stronger than my practical frugal side.

The other thing I do is buy whole raw chicken. Out grocery store usually has them for. With the leftovers, I can usually squeeze out more chicken meals that are all cheap.

Then with the bones, I make my own chicken stock and throw that in the freezer for other meals. When my freezer starts to overflow with chicken stock, we just have chicken soup. I make the stock, but after straining out the bones, I just add onions, carrots, rice or whatever tiny pasta is in the cupboard.

Last, ask if your store has markdown sections. Ours regularly has a bread markdown randomly located in one of the frozen food aisles…. I make it a point to always browse these. It was about 4 times the amount I usually buy for my daughter for only about half a dollar more. Excellent guide.

I wonder what do the Frugalwoods use to store some of the bulk items, such as the big bags of oatmeal, quinoa, etc.? Thanks again. Homemade bread is also a good place to add good stuff. Just blend twice as much whole flax seeds as you would use oil.

Flax seeds keep for years. For real whole wheat bread, add in wheat germ. It can be bitter, so add as much as tastes good to you. I totally agree with your view on the judicious use of proteins. My wife tries to use meat with every meal, but eating too much protein can be costly and even unhealthy.

Keep up the great work! We eat out a couple of times a month. Yes, it costs more than cooking at home but we have some strategies to keep the bill reasonable. We always portion out at least half the meal to take home and take any leftover bread to use for breakfast or lunch the next day.

We also try to avoid buying coffee or tea out. I have good travel mugs and will make drinks at home to take with us when we go for walks in the park.

Other than that we do cook at home from scratch as much as possible. Soups are one of my favorite things to make since you can often add in odds and ends and it still comes out good.

I added leftover rice to my split pea soup and it helped to thicken it nicely. When you have a spoonful of peas left on the dinner table—too little to serve again, too much to finish off—put that spoonful in the soup box.

Repeat with whatever spoonful portions are left at the end of the meal. When the soup box is full, all you need for a great soup is to make the base of your choice broth, tomato, etc and add in the goodies. Avoids waste and saves both time and money. Larabars homemade. Equal parts raw nut cashews typically, peanut is also good and dates.

Pinch of salt, vanilla and cinnamon. Awesome backpacking food. Awesome snack. Have to use a Vitamix. For the granola bar question, I make these granola bars religiously.

They use brown rice cereal and brown rice syrup those ingredients are a bit more expensive , but making these homemade certainly saves and they are SO. than store bought. Everyone loves these. If you have a food processing, another fun thing to do is to see how many things you can make in a row without having to wash it in between!

Keep a few to eat, and freeze the rest for later! The same holds true with grating cheese! Just buy chunks of cheese, and grate it yourself in your food processor!

Bag each type of cheese into a freezer ziplock bag, and toss them into the freezer. Grated cheese at your fingertips whenever you want! Then, when you end up with a batch of raspberries, for ex.

Easy peasy, right? Got the idea? My trick to saving on baby food is skipping purée, homemade and store-bought, and doing baby-led weaning… Baby had what we had from the start and all we had to do was forfeit one or two spoonfuls from our plates to the little guy.

I think the Classic Glo Bars from Oh She Glows are pretty darn good and fairly healthy. Bulk foods are hard to find in Australia in the way they seem available in America. Things like rice are available but other things that are suitable for coeliacs are not.

I just discovered Walmart Grocery Pickup. I may never set foot inside a grocery store again. We struggle to lower our monthly food bill, though we do not eat out and cook almost everything from scratch.

Oddly, perhaps, produce is the killer. We are pretty committed to buying meat from animals not raised in factory-farm conditions, and because this is more expensive, we eat a lot less meat than we used to. And are raising meat chickens in the backyard! Quite the adventure.

But I still marvel at the low grocery bills I see posted from others. We live a major metro area in the SE. I recommend checking out ethnic grocery stores near you. It might seem daunting at first, but just jump into it and explore.

Those are pretty good and cheap, good for buying beans, various grains and flour. Produce and meat not too expensive either, and there are many interesting selections.

You would see many of the same foods in fancy international departments of your bigger grocery stores, and they would be a lot more expensive. Asian markets are great too. I also used to go to a big Korean grocery store when I lived near one to get cheap seafood and the variety was amazing.

Grilled octopus, anyone? Asian markets would offer cheaper rice in bulk. I know! We have lots of great Latino stores here in FL and we love getting our cheap spices there! I always keep blue tape on hand for writing on food containers when I put them in the fridge or freezer.

I put the name of what is in the container, along with the date of when it was put in the fridge. This helps for ensuring that we know how old something is before we eat it! In medium bowl, mix together honey, melted butter, and egg.

Add to dry ingredients. Pour in prepared baking dish and bake for 30 minutes. Cool for 30 minutes before cutting. Leftover sandwiches which have been in the refrigerator become delectable treats when I smear a bit of soft butter on the outside and heat them up on a nonstick pan for a few minutes!

Try making flatbreads. Espesially good for hungry kids. My favourite recipes are Rachael Koo no yeast and ready to cook in 15minutes and Jenny can Cook.

You tubeVideo on how to make them is so easy. Your email address will not be published. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. Skip to content. Eliminate Excuses; Identify Your Parameters Mr. I eat a vegan diet and that food is expensive!

I eat a lot of meat and it is expensive! I hate to cook and so I spend too much on ingredients! I love to cook and so I spend too much on ingredients! Where You Shop My beloved Market Basket Our first stop is where we shop. Be Wary Of Coupons Our groceries on the conveyor belt.

People wondered why I was photographing this… Coupons can be the best of times or the worst of times. How You Shop Mr. Make your list at home ahead of time and while looking in your pantry and refrigerator. I always bring snacks and toys for Babywoods, which makes our weekly trips mostly pleasant.

What You Buy Babywoods modeling some of our bulk, raw ingredients Since everyone has different dietary restrictions, preferences, and priorities, this category will be, well, different for everyone. Instead of pre-made bread, buy flour. Good, pre-made bread is ridiculously expensive.

Instead of chopped baby carrots, buy the big, whole carrots. Do you know how long 5lbs of carrots last? A long time, my friends.

These are but a few examples. Look through your pantry and fridge and identify anything that came in a package. FW whipping up homemade hummus. But for the rest of us, please familiarize yourself with the following key tenets of frugality: Frozen pizzas Other frozen food We have freezers for a reason , people.

Here are a few real-life scenarios where Mr. FW and I have resorted to emergency freezer meals: We had a baby and were in the NICU with her for a week. One of our pipes froze and burst , which we discovered at 7pm on a Sunday night after returning home from a weekend away with our baby and dog.

We spent the day in the ER with a sick Mr.

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Needless to say, I was pleasantly surprised! Another surprise is what I discovered in the spice aisle. Of course, there was great selection, but some of the prices were great too.

At this specialty shoppe? That's half price compared to a discount store. What got me in the door to begin with was the great bargain mentioned previously. They had a large selection of wines on offer and all the prices were in line with what I would expect to pay elsewhere.

I wouldn't hesitate to go get a bottle there anytime. That said, their sale didn't disappoint. Believe me when I say it's difficult to find a decent bottle of wine for under 9 dollars in Canada. Especially since we had offered to donate a case of wine for a "Perfume Draw", the proceeds of which are earmarked for to the non-profit organization who helped us find and adopt our greyhound.

I think not. As the staff were preparing my order, I asked the very helpful storekeeper about curry sauces because I intend to use our large slow cooker to make a seafood bisque with a banana squash base and some inexpensive mixed seafood this Friday.

She immediately selected the Sharwood's Red Curry Sauce, which is made for use with seafood. She also said the chefs use it as a base in some of the foods they prepare in house. I was surprised when I read the ingredient list: no crap ingredients the only ingredient that is not "food" in this sauce is lactic acid no biggie.

Given it will flavour a vat of bisque, I'm calling it a good purchase. I'll have to let you know how it turns out.

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Our other strategy is frittatas of every variety. Do you make it in a high speed blender like a Vitamix? I never enjoyed homemade hummus made in the food processor, but in the Vitamix or other comparable one the texture is so much smoother. We bought canned beans from target most recently and they were super firm and make very chunky hummus.

If you cook your own garbanzo beans, you can make sure to get them thoroughly softened first. Are you using dried chickpeas? which I personally think is superior Is your water hard? Our new house has very hard water so I now use distilled water to cook my chickpeas and other beans.

It makes a big difference with the texture of the chickpeas. I suffered though a year of horrible beans before I discovered water can make or break your beans and it is definitely worth the extra dollar for distilled water.

I tried those once with no luck, so I went back to canned, though that may have been at my old apartment which had really hard water….

I may get some dried ones though and try out the crockpot method of soaking. Dumber people than I have mastered homemade hummus! Otherwise, make sure you blend, blend, blend. I use a Cuisnart as well — it should get fluffy.

Make sure you have a little lemon juice in there. Great post! If you want to get all fancy with your hummus because I like the taste the tahini adds to it , you can always make it yourself. And the bonus is that you can also use the sesame seeds for your homemade breads which we do quite a lot.

We fed our Demon Child the same way and I can report, three years on, that she is willing to eat just about anything. The kid asks for snacks of broccoli and fourth helpings of beans! but she eats it just fine.

Thank you for sharing! FW will have her in the kitchen with him as soon as possible! Hey guys! It just might be my all time favorite tv show! Just wanted to share the link for my favorite granola bar recipe. One thing that has helped us consume more of our leftovers is packaging them in individual serving size containers.

Then, when we need to grab food for lunch or dinner, we can just grab a meal out of the refrigerator and warm it up. The book itself is available at our library. As someone who lives in a city with limited grocery stores but TONS of restaurants I have had to work on this- especially since I have a LOT of severe food allergies one epipen or ER visit is definitely more than my grocery bill!

so I have to be careful of what I eat. I love making soup from scratch and taking it to work, and buying basics rather than premade food. I also do use coupons a few times a year when I know basics like tp, paper towels, shampoo, etc will be on sale. Also, befriend your local butcher! Easy protein source.

Great list of tips and resources! Thanks again for always impressing! A big key for me has been to reduce the thinking behind. well, everything. Every two weeks I put on a pot of dry beans to cook for two hours, and add seasonings and oil as they cook down.

Then I scoop out half cup portions into lunch containers, let them cool, add cheap bulk frozen veggies, and shove all ten plus containers back in the freezer. At the beginning of every week, I portion out nuts in small containers for lunch, and oatmeal with cinnamon and chia and yogurt with honey for breakfast.

The savings in time, money, and stress have been terrific. All I have to do is fend off the folks who think eating beans and oatmeal every day reflect a serious lack of imagination. Great article! My approach is similar, but I have yet to give up the semi-weekly meal out at UNO or one of our local establishments.

You mentioned that you buy granola bars… I thought I would share this recipe for homemade granola bars , which I made recently and LOVED. I changed a few things around, like adding toasted sesame seeds, pecans, walnuts, and I used sliced, skinless almonds instead of whole ones.

Oh, and I added a tablespoon of butter and a little bit of salt to the mix. I toasted the oats and all the nuts first, which I think adds a nice flavor note. After cutting the bars, I kept them from sticking together by wrapping them in little pieces of waxed paper.

When I have had dinner failures…. hot sauce. We make what my husband calls salsa soup. Any bulk hot sauce you have can save a bad fish stew or similar. I actually save up my scrap vegetables in a freezer bag in the freezer…when I have a couple full bags I make a batch of vegetable stock.

Love this post and your blog. Do you ever buy Frugalhound treats? Or do you make them homemade? Dog treats are one of the food priorities in our house. My mother grew up in wartime Europe and these were lessons necessary for life, not just lifestyle.

We are currently working on less packaged food. More of a health choice than frugality actually. I will say you are lucky with your little ones eating habits. My oldest daughter has always been a great eater.

We are working with an occupational therapist to expand her horizons. Unfortunately feeding your kids is not always as straightforward as one might think. Fresh veggies are usually cheaper than most packaged options, you can get a lot of vegetables and fruit for less than it would be for prepackaged foods.

The best part of this extremely informative article is the picture of Houndlett licking food off of Babylett. Yes, you have been upstaged by the younger generation.

My desire to eat gourmet food often was my incentive to learn to cook. The restaurant scene in Vancouver was vibrant and expensive! so I began researching recipes. And, of course, the savings have been incredible. Because food is our hobby, we have no problem with sourcing great ingredients, eating out and generally spending most of our variable income on food.

Having said that, there are plenty of things we happily do without to fund that one particular lifestyle choice. Your discussion about babywoods and healthy eating reminds me of our toddler. On another note, you can freeze flour.

I freeze my whole wheat flour to keep it fresh longer, which lets me buy larger bulk amounts than I could use in the normal run of things before it went bad. But, may I point out, there are also things you CAN expect. Not to get too personal, but, every month there are a few days that come where I know I will not be cooking.

Like spaghetti, really any type of pasta, with a package of frozen veggies to go along with it. He takes them for lunch too so I never seem to have any full dinners around for those occasions.

I do plan on working that in though so thanks for the ideas. Thanks for all the encouragement and the regular flow of ideas. It helps so much! We have many of the same tactics.

We stay regimented with our grocery shopping always on the weekend and always one trip per week. We compile the list as we go throughout the week adding items as we use them up or think of recipes to make. Thank you for all the great posts on grocery expenses!

We do love those Costco pizzas! Grocery budgeting is a fun challenge, but the other big killer of flexible expenses for me is non-food consumables: toiletries, paper goods, disposables I have cut down our plastic consumption drastically, but sometimes you just need freezer bags for frozen meals!

Do you have any advice on these, or could you point me to a post on it? not wearing makeup and getting LASIK. I would love a comprehensive post on non-food consumables in the same vein as your grocery posts.

I love your writing! We also try to use re-usable products as much as possible. For example: our glass tupperware gets used over and over again, I store our bread wrapped in a tea towel, I use rags instead of paper towels.

We also invest when it makes sense, such as in re-chargeable batteries, low-energy-use lightbulbs, etc. I hope this helps!

Our power company lets us order LED lights at a HUGE discount. Check and see if yours does. Coconut oil makes a divine moisturizer. I also make a whipped body butter I love for winter coconut oil, shea butter, cocoa butter, and almond oil in equal proportions, chilled and whipped.

I make a whipped body butter too with those same ingredients! Smells heavenly! Did you get from the Trash is Tossers website, like me? Frugal weirdo toiletry tip: try Tibetan crystal deodorant! Mix previous. Press into a baking sheet. I tend to think we have the food thing down, but even I picked up some great tips here!

I also really enjoyed how long it was, much longer than you usually write. More Frugalwoods is a good thing in my book! My current frugal boss move is to make a giant egg bake for the week.

I top with whatever bits and bobs of cheese are still hanging about, then 12 beaten eggs. Love this post! I have bought barley, millet, buckwheat, wheat berries, amaranth, and more at Whole Foods and is just insanely expensive.

I would love to source these great grains online and see big box. Any suggestions? I buy mine at the local grain elevators; wheat berries, oats, rye and corn. Just notice when and what the farmers are harvesting to determine when to stop at the elevator. You can not pick up oats when they are harvesting wheat!

We eat a lot like you do Mrs. We rarely eat out. It makes a huge difference in our food budget, but we do splurge on the specialty ingredients to make yummy Asian dishes.

So we pay a little extra for that good life. Such great advice all around. We had split pea soup last night and there is enough in the freezer for several meals. I want to give another thumbs up for freezer meals.

They have saved me so many times. Monday I got home from a weekend out of town and we had lasagna from the freezer. I make 3 at a time — still one left! Today we skied all day and came home tired and famished. There was a time this would have meant order pizza or Chinese take-out, but I had thawed a chicken and noodle casserole before we left.

That and some steamed broccoli will make a great meal. We are also big on packing lunches for road trips and anytime we will be away at lunch time.

We prefer a homemade sandwich with homemade bread! to fast food, and so does our bank account. Food is hard for me, since I have 14 allergies. Onions, garlic, rice, wheat, oats, eggs, peanuts, etc. That does mean that I never eat out, which is budget friendly. I buy only raw food, in bulk when I can.

I have a friend who has a severe corn allergy along with concurrent related food allergies. So totally hear ya about how hard it can be dealing with food. Most of the squash will be the main ingredient in soup. I season with herbs, a little bit of salt, and a dash of chipotle chili, but you could use anything and could make it more sweet than spicy.

You would have to skip the few that involve oats. Potatoes in 15 minutes, brown rice in Beans, lentils, kale, soup — no more standing over the stove — dump in and set. Love these tips.

I have brown basmati rice frozen in pint-sized packets for quick meals, too, plus lots of quart-sized soups and stews ready.

Our biggest food priority is eating healthy fish sourced in the most environmentally responsible way. So we invest in shipping pounds of wild-caught Alaskan salmon every year, plus 80 cans of sockeye for salmon salad and fish patties.

Some people buy a side of beef, we buy Alaskan salmon and follow a Native American version of the Mediterranean Diet, which is a little seafood, lots of greens and vegetables, and some nuts, beans, legumes, and a few grains. That quinoa bowl looks yum! Do you scramble the egg?

Did I really say that?!? Must have been a moment of delusion was I pregnant at the time? The thing is that Mr. FW is really good at cooking and he enjoys it, whereas me, not so much on either of those.

If I absolutely had to cook, I would. But I prefer to clean and do the laundry while he manages all things culinary :. Have you considered purchasing an instant pot?

Worth every penny in my opinion. I use it to make yogurt, rice, quinoa, and so on. I currently have frozen chicken breasts in there that will cook up in 15 minutes flat. It helps me avoid to the temptation to buy takeout and premade foods because it is so quick and easy to use.

Yes, I agree the Instant Pot is great!! I make yogurt, soups, stews, and breakfast and lunch preps for the week. After considerable research, and hemming and hawing, I finally purchased an instant pot for many of the same reasons.

Totally worth it! One big purchase we feel has paid us back tenfold. A friend, however, makes them regularly and said the secret is brown rice syrup. She buys it from a co-op grocery store, it seems to be the kind of thing you either find at a health food store or at an Asian supermarket.

Worth a shot! Around here, regular price is about ¢ a pound, but every so often they go on sale for ¢ a pound and I buy the max the store will allow.

I bake them, shred off whatever meat I can, and then turn the bones lots of bones! into broth. I priced it out as being about 50 cents per quart of broth made to store-bought strength, though I do reduce it for the freezer to save space.

The meat is useful for soup, casseroles, chicken salad, etc. Other protein— the cut of meat called top blade steaks, or Spencer steaks in the midwest, or flat iron steaks.

All the same. They are usually rather thin cut, oblong shape well-marbled meat with a line of gristle down the middle. The other cut I get is called chuck eye, only one of my local grocery stores carries it. I use that to make homemade cured salmon, aka lox.

We also use that salmon to make salmon sandwiches, basically eaten just like a burger with a piece of salmon instead of beef. Each piece is about ¼ lb so a sandwich runs about a dollar. Can you provide a recipe for the cured salmon?

We have a lot in common when it comes to food and groceries. My wife and I buy mostly whole foods, and organic when it matters. What we put into our bodies is very important to us.

Sure we splurge every now and then on unhealthy food, but we keep it to a minimum. Making meals ahead saves us big time during the week. After a long day of work, the last thing I want to do is think about making food. Having something frozen that I can heat up is a life saver during the week.

I loved reading this article! Hey guys, Apart from all the great tips from Mrs. Frugalwoods, I have a great tip I came up with while shopping for groceries. Say NO to one of the products in your cart!

Put SOMETHING BACK at the end of each shopping session! I am saying this because I, as probably many of you, love to just throw in ingredients or foods that we love, that are not necessarily cheap nor healthy. It saves you money 2. What a super, easy way to save money on groceries.

Thanks so much the the great tip. If spinach is cheap in your area you should really try it out! So much great information here. A cheese sandwich tastes so much nicer with a good green tomato chutney, or dill pickle.

And it is very empowering not to mention cheap to make your own. My homemade mango chutney is streets ahead of any of the sugary commercial stuff, and a lot spicier too:- When a friend gave me a free bag of nectarines I made chutney out of those as well.

PS Totally off-topic, but we gave our greyhound puppy the empty peanut butter jar to lick this morning and she was in seventh heaven:- No need to wash out the container for recycling.

I have AdBlocker After I read through the whole article there were Zero Ads blocked. This is the first time I ever saw this. Way to go frugalwoods. RE: cooking, I completely thank the Food Network.

My parents did teach me plenty, mostly about the importance of home-cooking and having food on the table every night. From the Food Network watching, I learned a lot about how to do different techniques, like butterflying a chicken breast helps avoid the super thick and bland problem.

Sometimes, I do one sauce in a big thing a Le Cruset or a casserole dish or pyrex. The other night, I used smaller ones and did two different sauces, but it gave me three nights worth of dinners where all we had to do was prepare a side veggie.

What are some of your favorite brands of box wines and styles-cabernet, merlot? I was wondering, do you guys have an opinion on the zero waste movement? You guys have offered a ton of great zero waste options—Sodastream, make coffee at home, make hummus or bread by hand.

Your article gave some great advice but I had to laugh out loud when you suggested hummus and veggies is enough for dinner. My husband would absolutely freak out!

It was the only part I thought was completely unrealistic expectations and points to why you guys are so thin and America as a whole is overweight. Eating whole homemade food in small quantities and snacking on fruits and veggies is what the majority of American would call a diet!

I made the epic-ly frugal lunch recipe yesterday. Eating it while I type. Curious as to the use of canned black beans vs. buying bulk? Great post, Ms. PDF cookbook designed for those living on SNAP benefits food stamps. This post was very informative. I agree that bringing snacks and your lunch to work can save you SO much money.

There are several people at my office that eat out every day or go pick up fast food. We also purposefully make too much food for dinner so that we can have leftovers for lunch the next day.

My husband and I also like to drink alcohol, but we limit that to the weekends now because it is so expensive. We are doing the low carb diet so I have to limit wine intake.

My favorite drink is a chilton club soda, lemon, salt, and vodka. Food has always been my struggle. I love food and spend way too much money satisfying cravings and experiments.

I make a batch of this every Sunday and eat throughout the week. I also pack them when my toddler and I are running errands to keep hunger at bay.

The base of this is the nut butter and oats, and you can really play around with the rest. I sometimes add dried fruit or chopped nuts to it. If I find chia seeds on sale I will add a tablespoon of those. Mix all ingredients together your hands will work better than a spoon and then mold into a glass dish and refrigerate for at least 20 minutes.

Cut into the portions you want. I keep these in the fridge all week and take out as I want to eat them. You can also just mix all ingredients in a bowl, refrigerate, and then mold into balls.

I am getting better I eat red sauce! We have reduced it to every other week. Our friends also love to host and vice versa. We pick a theme and everyone brings dish. We also do grilled pizza in the summer which is a steal!

Makes 12 wedges at approximately calories each. A yummy oatmeal variation is what I call my banana bread oatmeal. Cook as usual. I always cook my oatmeal in the microwave. Great post and comments, too. For example, I bought a bag of fresh turmeric for a few bucks at an Indian store.

Compared to the health food store super cheap. It freezes perfectly. At Asian stores, I get teas for much cheaper. We have been doing it for years and have no children.

We try to do bigger portions so as to do multiple lunch meals which we take for our respective offices and soups for most dinners of the week.

Do you have any other ideas come to mind? Thank you very much and keep writing! Have you thought to purchase garage sale a pressure canner?. Smitten Kitchen has a recipe for great granola bars. You can use whatever nuts or dried fruit you have on hand. Bring water to boil Gently add a dozen eggs Boil 6 minutes Take off heat, let sit 20 minutes Drain hit water, add cool water,ice 20 mins.

rolled oats; mix together and roll into balls. Store in fridge and grab when you need them. I usually add T of flax seed meal for omega-3s and vitamins. Can add choc chips, coconut flakes, raisins, etc. But I usually make them plain. My kids LOVE them.

The recipe is on my website. I cut them into bars and freeze each bar. I totally agree that finding a workable granola bar recipe is tough. What I do is make loose granola to top our homemade yogurt.. I like the crunch it brings to the meal.

I have found that it is much easier to save on groceries, eat clean and healthy and not to throw away food when ordering all food via e-shop. For few months now I have planned our meals family of 4 , ordered the stuff online and my husband just went to pick up the prepacked goods from store.

Much less destraction and impulse bought items, much better planning and lots of saved time. S- where we live it is free of charge to preorder and pick up groceries. Excellent post! I love that you keep weeknights simple. That is something I try and do also.

As for granola bars. I love having a simple snack and this recipe has been my go-to for years. I double the batch and put it in a 9×13 pan and leave it in the fridge. Out family of 3 can polish off a pan in a week or so and they taste simply amazing on top of a little bit of plain greek yogurt.

Melt peanut butter, honey and butter together. Then add any ingredients you want. Looks like you guys do consistent lunch and breakfast and then a more varied dinner.

Great strategy. We are in Milwaukee, so we shop on Sundays during the Packers game. It is like a ghost town. Do you have an average cost per meal per person that you try to maintain? We are mostly utilizing the recipes link from BlueApron, but rather than use their service we go to the grocery store and buy the ingredients ourselves.

This might sound like an odd one but it worked for me and when I pointed it out to my colleague she noted the cost savings too. I rarely eat meat but when I do I eat halal meat. We have a very large Muslim community in my city — large enough that there is a section at the grocery store for the halal meats and products in a very basic sense like kosher for Jewish.

The overall price point is different and when they do markdowns they are more substantial. Food has always been my easiest area to tackle with frugality. I then go back and write a new list, re-ordering my items based on my path around the store.

If you are NOT familiar with your store, ask customer service for a map. Seriously, most grocery stores have a map. Anyway, write your items down in an order from door to register in one straight trip. I have saved SO much by doing this because I am a HUGE compulsive buyer and my persuasive snack side is far stronger than my practical frugal side.

The other thing I do is buy whole raw chicken. Out grocery store usually has them for. With the leftovers, I can usually squeeze out more chicken meals that are all cheap. Then with the bones, I make my own chicken stock and throw that in the freezer for other meals.

When my freezer starts to overflow with chicken stock, we just have chicken soup. I make the stock, but after straining out the bones, I just add onions, carrots, rice or whatever tiny pasta is in the cupboard. Last, ask if your store has markdown sections. Ours regularly has a bread markdown randomly located in one of the frozen food aisles….

I make it a point to always browse these. It was about 4 times the amount I usually buy for my daughter for only about half a dollar more. Excellent guide.

I wonder what do the Frugalwoods use to store some of the bulk items, such as the big bags of oatmeal, quinoa, etc.? Thanks again. Homemade bread is also a good place to add good stuff. Just blend twice as much whole flax seeds as you would use oil.

Flax seeds keep for years. For real whole wheat bread, add in wheat germ. It can be bitter, so add as much as tastes good to you.

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