Ideas and resources for menu planning in May, many seasonal spring and real food recipes. Very simple ingredients, from scratch. As always, these are all frugal recipes intended for a tight budget. Real food/from scratch/traditional diet/nutrient dense/whole food/blah blah blah. My monthly meal plans are organized into tiers based on how perishable the ingredients are, not sorted into particular days.
Continue readingIdeas and resources for menu planning in February, many seasonal winter and real food recipes. Very simple ingredients, from scratch, frugal recipes. Real food/from scratch/traditional diet/nutrient dense/whole food/blah blah blah. You can save so much money by planning your meals. … Continue reading
Ideas and resources for menu planning in January, many seasonal winter and real food recipes. Very simple ingredients, from scratch, frugal recipes. You can save so much money by planning your meals. Even if you only plan three days at … Continue reading
Ideas and resources for menu planning in December, many seasonal fall/winter and real food recipes. Very simple ingredients, from scratch, frugal recipes. You can save so much money by planning your meals. Even if you only plan three days at … Continue reading
Use this frugal shopping list to spend $50 and purchase store bought items for your Thanksgiving meal, making smart decisions in tough times. This series of articles is designed to help families put a frugal Thanksgiving meal on the table. … Continue reading
From Scratch Frugal $50 Shopping Cart from the Thrifty Thanksgiving for Tough Times
Continue readingThis is my menu that came from my $50 shopping cart, assuming your cupboards are bare, but I was very conservative in my estimating, so odds are very good that you can do better than this and include more.
You have to decide what is most important to your family for your Thanksgiving menu. I love fall flavors. Everything we eat at Thanksgiving is my favorite; I look forward to the meal all year. In my house we have to have turkey, gravy, stuffing, pumpkin pie, and egg nog.
The priority of this list was determined by my hubby, and may or may not have anything to do with what your family likes. You will note how I had to dig down in the list to find something that would fit my last little bit of money. I do include that last item on the list so I know what I want to do if something comes out better than I expected. The price listed is the actual cost to make it.
*Over 2,000 people have pinned this sucker! Woo hoo! Hello my beautiful pinners!* Ideas and resources for menu planning in October, many seasonal fall and whole food recipes. Very simple ingredients, from scratch, frugal recipes. You can save so much … Continue reading
Come check out our September Meal Plan Pinterest Board. I tried to stick to summer flavors, before this beautiful weather is gone and the farmers markets are empty Ideas and resources for menu planning in September, many seasonal summer and … Continue reading
This is a series of articles on how to survive a road trip with four kids, including a toddler and a preschooler, from a frugal mom who has done it on the cheap many times. Chock full of 244 fantabulous tips for your long car trip!
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