Welcome back to Sunday Scratchups, your weekly recipe from scratch around grocery store matchups, coupons, and sales. You may not have noticed... 😉 but everyone and their brother had ham on sale this week for Easter! So now... you likely have some leftover ham lying around. (If you're instead looking for a soup recipe that …

This week's Frugal Homemade features homemade stir fry sauce! Stir fry sauce is super easy to make, and it's a lot healthier to make your own than to use a bottled sauce or packet. I've been trying to make more "from scratch" lately, in addition to buying the organic version of more of our favorite …

I'll post more photos and updates tomorrow -- but we just got back Tuesday night from our four day spring break trip to St. Louis! It turned out to be a lovely and fairly affordable place to spend a few days, too, so I'll definitely tell you more about it when I have more time …

A couple of weeks ago I told you about some of my favorite things to buy at Costco. Today, here are my top twelve things to buy at ALDI! Do you agree? What would you add? Top Twelve Things To Buy at ALDI 1. El Milagro tortillas. These are, simply, made of awesome -- and …

Enjoy this blast from the past with a few April Fool's tricks from Allison -- Because April Fool's pranks are timeless, I guess! 🙂 Note from Rachel: Back in the day, we had a couple of other contributors to the blog -- and I just ran across this April Fool's post from Allison from 7 …

Welcome back to Sunday Scratchups, your weekly recipe from scratch around grocery sales and affordable ingredients. This week, we're actually doing a Costco recipe! I've been doing a little more shopping there lately, and one thing that's always a good buy at Costco is this 27 oz Kirkland almond butter at $10.79. This is a …