This is a guide about reusing canning jars. If you do a lot of canning you will want to reuse the jars next season.
This is a guide about freezing soup. When making soup it is often convenient to prepare a large batch, including some to freeze for future meals.
This guide contains spring cake pop ideas. Cake pops for your spring event can be a fun, festive addition.
This guide is about calibrating an electric oven. To make sure your foods cook and bake perfectly, it is important to check that the temperature of your oven matches what you set it at.
This is a guide about cooling down hot drinks. There are ways to cool down a hot drink that will not result in a watered down version of itself.
This is a guide about freezing leeks. Leeks are a good candidate for freezing for future use, just follow a few simple steps to clean and prepare them first.
How do you prepare the garlic for the dehydrator? Are the skins left on? Do you slice the cloves? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
Cake pops fit the bill for many small delicious servings for a birthday celebration. This guide contains birthday cake pop ideas.
Buy and Store Larger Sized Food Packages
Smaller sized cans of vegetables are intended to attract buyers who cook for just one or two people. The convenience may seem nice but buying small size cans means you're actually paying more for the item than if you purchased a larger can.
This is a guide about drying vegetables. One excellent method of preserving fresh vegetables is drying.
This is a guide about saving money at restaurants. Eating out is a pleasant social experience; but it can be pricey.
Call me cheap or call me frugal but with my fixed income and the price of coffee going up, I wondered what will happen if I just put water in my coffee pot without adding anymore coffee.
Making Scalloped Potatoes in the Crockpot
This is a guide about making scalloped potatoes in the crockpot. Enjoy the convenience of your slow cooker when making this family favorite.
This is a guide about using canned vegetables. Canned vegetables can be a convenient side dish, or addition to soups and stews.
When I peel hard boiled eggs the shell comes away with some of the white and looks awful, how can I stop this happening? I have tried peeling in cold water and hot and rolling the egg first, but nothing seems to work. The shell just goes brittle and comes off in little bits.
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My Frugal Life: "If Nothing Ever Changes, Nothing Ever Changes"
One cannot lose weight by eating a faulty diet. I eat whole grain bread, lots of fruits and vegetables, and keep bad fats like margarine and chemically-extracted oils and sugars, especially white sugar, to almost nonexistent.
I am dependent on a small monthly check for all my outgoings. Recently, I realized that I had absolutely no money left AT ALL and ten days to go before that check arrived. At first I wondered how I would eat.
My Frugal Life: Lessons From Baking Bread
Baking bread is a discipline/routine. Many people have goals to get to this or that, for example, to bake a few loaves of bread. The discipline to get to a goal, or to have that routine in your day, is usually harder than doing the actual thing you wanted to do.
Track Grocery Stores Sales Cycles
This idea takes time and planning to set up, but will save lots of money on the grocery bill. All the stores seem to cycle their sale items. Track some of the items that you use, and you may see them on sale often. You might even want to keep notes.
