Welcome to the July 19th edition of Sunday Scratchups, your weekly recipe from scratch around grocery sales and affordable ingredients. This week our mystery sale ingredient is: Potatoes. Ten pound bags are on sale at various produce stores this week for $1.50-$1.75... and, well: That's a lot of mice! This recipe is adapted from the …
This week's Frugal Homemade feature is an easy recipe for Shrimp Pasta with Veggies & Lemon Cream Sauce. I haven't been in the mood to cook much lately, but last night I decided to whip up something tasty from the odds and ends I had in the fridge, freezer, and garden. I must say, it …
Welcome back to Midweek Meal Planning for the week of 7/16/15! 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. (Well, Thursday …
Welcome to the July 12th edition of Sunday Scratchups, your weekly recipe from scratch around grocery store sales and affordable ingredients. This week: Rainbow Salad with Homemade Parmesan Vinaigrette, yum. We're now deep in the throes of cheap summer produce deals, so shop your own local produce stores or farmers markets for great deals, and …
Today the boys and I found ourselves near Caputo's so stopped in for the $1.49/lb cherries. They looked awful 🙁 so I'll try again at Pete's another time -- but then they convinced me to stop at the Goodwill in the same strip mall. The DS case and skate gloves for Mr. 8 were each …
Welcome back to Midweek Meal Planning for the week of 7/8/15! 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. So here's …