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Parmesan Potato Packets

Welcome to the November 8, 2015 edition of Sunday Scratchups, your weekly recipe from scratch around grocery sales and affordable ingredients: Potatoes edition. Bagged potatoes have been super cheap this week all over town (and are always an affordable choice, really!), making for a plethora of affordable side dish options. So, here's an easy foil …

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Pulled Pork Enchiladas Verde -- Low Carb & Regular in one handy recipe

Welcome to the October 25, 2015 edition of Sunday Scratchups, your weekly recipe from scratch around grocery sales and affordable ingredients. I promise that this is the last recipe in a row I'll share using the one batch of Slow Cooker Pulled Pork from super cheap pork roast from a couple weeks ago 🙂 -- …

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Simple easy, super easy, so easy baked apple chips

No, really: These two ingredient apple chips are easy, guys! Let's reprise an old favorite in a Frugal Homemade recipe today, since ALDI has honeycrisp apples on sale this week (2 lbs for $1.69, yum). When apples are in season, making your own chips can be more affordable than buying the bags -- not to …

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Parsley Pesto Pasta with Tomatoes, Mushrooms, and Spinach

Welcome to the October 4, 2015 edition of Sunday Scratchups, your weekly recipe from scratch around grocery sales and affordable ingredients This week we're cooking around fall garden produce and free Barilla Pronto Pasta from a Target deal a couple weeks ago -- so, technically, this is actually Parsley Pesto Pronto Pasta. It's just too …

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One Panini, Two Panini, Three Panini, More!

This week's Frugal Homemade feature is an homage to one of my favorite counter top kitchen appliances: The Panini Press. If you don't have one, you're missing out. Panini presses can be basic and inexpensive, like this Hamilton Beach model for around $25.00, or they can have more bells & whistles, like this Cuisinart 5-in-1 …

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