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 …
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 …
This week's Frugal Homemade feature is: Banana bread. We happen to think that this is the "best ever banana bread," so I hope you do, too! Overripe bananas tend to happen to the best of us, so you may as well put them to use with this easy, delicious recipe. Let's get started! Best Ever …
Let me introduce you to one of Mr. 8's favorite books in the whole world: Bee-bim Bop, by Linda Sue Park. We've had this book about making this traditional Korean dish since he was a baby and it's a perennial favorite -- the illustrations are adorable, the rhymes are catchy, and it's a fantastic read-aloud. …
Welcome back to Sunday Scratchups, your weekly recipe from scratch around grocery sales and affordable ingredients. Yes, it’s actually Monday -- did Daylight Savings throw you for a loop yesterday, too? But I'll make it up to you with... blackberries! Check out these Bodacious Blackberry Bites in a Quinoa Crust Cup, AKA: Look what I …