Welcome to the August 2nd, 2015 edition of Sunday Scratchups, your weekly recipe from scratch (or in this case, semi-scratch) around grocery sales and affordable ingredients. This week’s mystery sale ingredients: Peanut butter and brownie mix! So you know how a lot of my Sunday Scratchups recipes are healthier and/or allergy friendly? Well... This ain't …
This week's Frugal Homemade feature is a DIY Dry Erase Calendar. I've seen variations on these on Pinterest over the years and thought it was finally time to give it a try! Materials You will need: A sheet of Lexan -- I used an 18"x24" sheet from Home Depot, about $22.00. (Lexan is also called …
Onion Flowers are an easy & beautiful side dish option -- so pretty when you make them with red onions, and only five ingredients! Welcome to the July 26th edition of Sunday Scratchups, your weekly recipe from scratch around grocery sales & affordable ingredients. This week's mystery sale ingredient is: Red onions! In today's Onion …
This week's Frugal Homemade features a quick & easy make ahead breakfast idea: Apple-Cinnamon Oatmeal, made with steel cut oats in the slow cooker. It doesn't get much easier than this! My daughter leaves for work every morning at 6AM (earlier than school was!) and loves to eat oatmeal on the fly, so I thought …
Welcome back to Midweek Meal Planning for the week of 7/22/15! It’s more traditional to meal plan on the weekend, but since our Chicago grocery deals mostly flip midweek, and since Wednesday hump day is when many of us start running out of steam, we buck the trend here and go with Wednesdays. This is …
This giveaway has been sponsored by Donley's Wild West Town. All opinions in this post, however, are my own. This looks like a fun thing to do with the kids this summer! Check out Donley's Wild West Town in Union, IL. (Between Huntley and Marengo, off US-20.) This summer take the family out to Wild …