Welcome back to Sunday Scratchups, your weekly recipe from scratch around grocery sales and affordable ingredients! Easy Spicy Curried Chickpeas is a tasty and darn affordable vegetarian recipe, even when items aren't on sale. This is not my original recipe; I ran across it on Budget Bytes and decided to make some for lunch earlier …
How about a little comfort food for this week's cold weather? This week's Frugal Homemade features a hearty and delicious homemade chicken pot pie. My family always loves this recipe, and I hope yours will, too. Chicken Pot Pie Preheat oven to 350 degrees. This recipe makes enough for a 7x11" (2 quart) glass dish. …
It may be 9 degrees outside, but here's Mr. 7's after-school snack: He specifically requested fruit! A few days ago at ALDI I picked up: Blueberries for $1.99 (pint!), blackberries for $.79, 3 lb clementines for $2.29, and clearance sugar snap peas for $.99. Not bad for the middle of winter -- and blackberries and …
Welcome back to Sunday Scratchups, your source for weekly recipes from scratch around grocery sales and affordable ingredients. This week I picked up some clearance Sunbutter, ALDI has their baking supplies on sale for the holiday season (including cocoa powder and sugar), and we recently saw a price drop on dairy free Enjoy Life chocolate …
These Easy Make Ahead Cinnamon Rolls have become our special occasion breakfast -- a favorite for birthday breakfasts, over Thanksgiving weekend (on Tree Cutting Day), and on Christmas morning (when no one really has time to make an elaborate breakfast). These cinnamon rolls can be made should be made the day before. Three cheers for …
Welcome back to Sunday Scratchups, your weekly recipe from scratch around grocery sales and affordable ingredients. This week, we have seen really nice sales on holiday baking Craisins and pecans -- and ALDI now carries these amazing gluten free pretzels. So I was looking at the Craisins and at the pecans and at the pretzels …