Budget Recipes for Large Families: Bourbon Rice & Broccoli

Budget Recipes for Large Families:  Bourbon Rice & Broccoli Don’t let the name fool you, this stuff is absolutely amazing. You see,  this was born was a few people in my family absolutely hate white rice. I on the other hand could live on it. I decided to make bourbon chicken one night and I [...]

Made from Scratch Cream of Whatever Soup Recipe

Made from Scratch Cream of Whatever Soup Recipe When you think your cooking from scratch, chances are you maybe, but are you sure you didn’t just exchange your processed foods, for processed ingredients? Take for instance canned cream of whatever soups. I got to admit I used these all the time until I started doing [...]

Stretching Your Milk Budget

Stretching Your Milk Budget With the farm bill expiring and many of us are facing paying up to $6 to $8 dollars per gallon of milk. Many of us are looking towards alternatives to paying such high prices. Congress needs to pass legislation renewing federal support for agriculture programs, so milk will be spared these [...]

Rendering Bacon Fat – Why it’s Healthy

Rendering Bacon Fat – Why it’s Healthy I know a lot of people view bacon fat in an unhealthy light, let’s thank the USDA and the government for giving us a lot of these ideals. Before I explain how to render bacon fat, let’s take a closer look at why it can be considered healthy. [...]

100% Homemade Wheat Pancakes

100% Homemade Wheat Pancakes I absolutely love these pancakes, they are delicious and the kids love them too. Try this healthier alternative to regular pancakes. Ingredients: 2 cups of whole wheat flour 4 ½ teaspoons baking powder ½ teaspoon of salt 2 teaspoons of cinnamon 4 teaspoons of brown sugar 2 teaspoons of vanilla Dash [...]

35 Budget Recipes for Large Families

35 Budget Recipes for Large Families Today I wanted to share with you a list of budget recipes for large families. Most these recipes have all been tried and tested by my family and are some of our favorites while the others are tried and tested from our other blog readers. I hope you enjoy [...]

Stuffed Acorn Squash Recipe

Stuffed Acorn Squash Recipe My family is not a squash family but I can certainly get them to eat acorn squash when I make this recipe.  It’s delicious and pretty healthy and makes a completely filling meal for a budget price.   Ingredients: 4 Acorn Squash halved 1 lb ground meat ½ cup shredded zucchini [...]

Easy Crockpot Pear Butter Recipe

Easy Crockpot Pear Butter Recipe I will be updating this post shortly to add photos. But because the season is upon us I wanted to get this recipe up while most of you are picking pears off your tree’s are already gathered them. A lot of people complained this year because of the lack of [...]

Budget Recipes for Large Families: Crock Pot Taco Meat

Budget Recipes for Large Families: Crock Pot Taco Meat Who doesn’t love taco’s? My kids absolutely love them and love them even more when they get to put them together! This easy put it together and forget about it meal is simple to make and makes enough you can put it into freezer bags or [...]

Budget Recipes for Large Families: Cheesy Zucchini Patties

Cheesy Zucchini Patties Hopefully you have a nice supply of shredded zucchini sitting your freezer from this summer’s harvest. This helps cut your costs on this recipe by a lot and how it ends up in our budget recipes for large families’ series. If you are not fortunate to have this stock, then it would [...]