We love crepes!  Crepes make breakfast all the more wonderful!  We make crepes several times each month, sometimes once a week and I don’t think I’ve made them the same way twice. 
You can top crepes with most any type of fruit topping.  I usually use frozen fruit, like strawberries, add a little water and sweetener and let them boil into [...]

With summer time here, squash and zucchini are abundant.  We’ve been eating a lot of squash and zucchini lately!  In addition to canning and freezing squash, here are some ways I have been using it up:

Steamed:  Squash and zucchini are great vegetables to steam.  I add some crushed garlic and sliced onions and steam it [...]

As I mentioned before, we made homemade root beer this week.  For the cost of a little over a cup of sugar and and whatever a teaspoon of vanilla  and yeast costs, we made 1 gallon of root beer.  Now, it wasn’t like the A&W Root Beer you buy in the store!  But it did [...]

I’ve been posting a few recipes on making your own homemade sauces and homemade seasonings.  You do not need Taco Bell Taco seasoning to make good taco seasoning for your taco meat and you can make delicious healthy salad dressings in a snap without relying on Hidden Valley!  Commercially made dressings and dips are filled with [...]

On Thursday’s each week, I’m posting about recipes, bulk cooking and freezer cooking.  This week, I’m posting a few things about the ultra healthy, really cheap amazing head of cabbage!   I’ve been using a lot of cabbage lately.  It’s so cheap!  I’ve paid .44 cents a lb and under for it lately.  I have some baby cabbage [...]

We love salad!  Even better, we love homemade salad dressing.  Making my own homemade salad dressing was so intimidating to me…so I never tried it.  Little did I know how easy and CHEAP it is to make your own homemade salad dressing.  Now I wonder how the salad dressing market stays afloat.  It must be because [...]

I ran across an article on how to make homemade bread for .50 cents and with 5 minutes a day.  It was a very informative read with lots of great information.
Baking bread at home saves hundreds of dollars on groceries every year. With this easy method, each deliciously crusty-on-the-outside, moist-and-chewy-on-the-inside loaf will only cost you [...]