Welcome back to Midweek Meal Planning for the week of 5/6/15! 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 this …

Welcome back to Sunday Scratchups, your weekly recipe from scratch around grocery sales and affordable ingredients. This week we're making Low Carb Cauliflower Waffle Rolls -- because cauliflower has been on sale, and because I wanted to share this fun and even tastier modification to the Low Carb Cauliflower Rolls recipe I posted a few months …

Things are skewed a bit later than usual today because Junior High Guy and I spent the morning at the Gluten Free Expo in Schaumburg. You may have been there too -- I'd never have seen you in the crowd because there were a few too many people for the space, but this was a …

This week's Frugal Homemade features Gooey Bars: Another version of the Whatever-ya-have Cookies recipe from a few months ago, but this time in bar form. With toasted coconut. And caramel. How can you go wrong with chocolate, caramel, and toasted coconut? So, in the spirit of Cars Being in the Shop & the Stockpile Running …

Welcome back to Midweek Meal Planning for the week of 4/30/15! 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. Or, you …

Welcome back to Sunday Scratchups, your weekly recipe from scratch around seasonal sales and frugal ingredients. I do adore the Spicy Green Beans at P.F. Chang's, but don't adore the price. So, this sale week for green beans seemed like a good time to play around and see how close I could get to the original …