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Easy Refrigerator Pickled Jalapenos

Welcome back to Sunday Scratchups, your home for weekly recipes from scratch around grocery sales -- or garden bounty! In October we're really winding down the growing season here in Chicagoland, but I'm still picking pecks of pickled peppers... more accurately, my garden is still producing both jalapeños and cayenne. Just two jalapeño plants do …

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Crunchy Homemade Fish Tenders: Way better than frozen fish sticks!

Here's a frugal homemade fish tenders recipe from Trish -- enjoy! Homemade kid-friendly fish sticks, anyone? Welcome to Frugal Homemade! This week, I am sharing my favorite low-guilt "kid dinner:" Crunchy Homemade Fish Tenders! I made these last night along with roasted carrots, and my four-year-old could not have been happier -- although I'll admit, …

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Honeycrisp apples on sale everywhere -- Make EASY apple chips!

Honeycrisp apples are on sale all over town this week when the new ads flip tomorrow and Thursday, so let's flash back to this super easy recipe for Two Ingredient Baked Apple Chips. So good! Honeycrisp apple sales include... $1.28/lb at Ultra Foods starts 9/24. $.99/lb at Pete's Fresh Market starts 9/24. $.97/lb at Valli …

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Copycat Gluten Free Dairy Free Pizza Lunchables

Welcome back to Sunday Scratchups, weekly recipes from scratch around grocery sales and affordable ingredients. This week we're kind of stretching the definition of "from scratch," but I thought it would be fun to show you how I've been making these copycat Gluten Free Dairy Free Pizza Lunchables for Junior High Guy. Plus, there are …

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