Surprise Your Kids With Some Yummy Fruit Smoothies This Week

You are going to love my frugal tip for you this week. It’s all about getting your kids to consume more fruits and even vegetables. During these hot summer months there is lost of fresh produce available all over the place. But often the hardest part is not finding delicious fruits and vegetables, but getting [...]

Summer Time Calls For Some Salads

When it’s hot outside, I often don’t feel like stirring pots in the kitchen.With temperatures already soaring up in the high 90s here in the south, it’s all the air conditioner can do to somewhat cool down the house. No need to add more heat by turning on the stove or oven. But we still [...]

Fresh Blueberry Pie Recipes – Frugal Desserts With Fresh Berries In Season

There’s just something about fresh blueberries and they are in season right now. Chances are you have a neighbor, friend or family member with a blueberry bush that would be glad to share some of his harvest with you. Even if you don’t these delicious blue berries can be had at a bargain right now [...]

Best Ways To Cook Asparagus

By Susanne Myers www.HillbillyHousewife.com As a frugal homemaker, I like to use fruits and vegetables that are in season as much as I can. For the last few weeks we’ve had an abundance of asparagus at out local markets. I’ve cooked it all kinds of ways and used it various reicpes from plain side dish [...]

Christmas Meal Plan – Do You Have One Yet?

We have just a few more short weeks until Christmas. I don’t know about you, but I much rather spend the majority of my time during the holidays with my family than slaving over a hot stove in the kitchen. I recently interviewed my good friend Christine – aka “The Menu Mom” about family meal [...]

9 Simple Ways to Save Money on Your Groceries

It never fails, we budget for our groceries, but the bill always ends up being more. We underestimate, run out of things faster than expected and overall, everything is becoming just too darned expensive! To make things a little bit easier, here are 9 simple ways you can start saving money on your groceries. 1. [...]

Frugal Freezer Cooking Ideas & Recipes

If you’re struggling to provide your family with meals that are both budget-friendly and nutritious as well as getting dinner to the table without a lot of fuss then you might take a closer look at freezer cooking.  Also called once a month or once a week cooking,when it comes to freezer cooking, it is [...]

7 Frugal Living Tips – In The Bathroom

Last week we talked about frugal living tips for the kitchen, this week we’re talking about how you can save in the bathroom. Before we dive into my seven tips, I wanted to point you to an article I recently wrote about a frugal definition. If you’re not quite sure what living frugally means, take [...]

7 Frugal Living Tips – In The Kitchen

Over the coming weeks I’m going to share a series of frugal living tips with you. These are simple things you can start implementing right away to lead a more frugal lifestyle (and more importantly save some money). Since we were talking about Grandma’s frugal recipes last week, I thought we’d start out this frugal [...]

Grandma’s Frugal Recipes

We’re all trying to live and cook a little more frugally and are always on the lookout for recipes to fit that lifestyle. One of the best sources for making do with less is Grandma. I bet if you asked her (or your mom, aunt, great-aunt etc. for that matter), you’ll end up with an [...]

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