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Frugal Foods & Recipes

Frugal recipes can be good to your budget and your waistline. Explore our library of simple, healthy meals that cook up fast.
Recipes to Cool You Off
A collection of recipes for cold sandwiches, soups and desserts.
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Biscuit Popovers
Biscuit popovers are the perfect alternative to pricey party foods. Make up a batch for your next gathering.
Recipes to Warm You Up
Recipes to keep you warm, without cranking up the heat.
Make Your Own Marinade
Mix together a few ingredients to create your own cheap, but flavorful marinade.
Homemade Meat Tenderizer
Transform cheap cuts of meat into tender and juicy cuts with one simple trick.
Make Your Own Yogurt without a Yogurt Maker
Instructions for making yogurt in a thermos, an oven, on a heating pad, on a wood stove or in a crockpot.
Three-Ingredients Crockpot Recipes
Slow cook your way to a cheap three-ingredient meal.
Homemade Baby Food Recipes
Loads of nutritious and frugal baby food recipes.
Three Ingredient Recipes
Keep your grocery list small with this list of dishes that cook up with three ingredients or less.
Make Your Own Yogurt
A video tutorial on yogurt making.
Frugal Camping Recipes
Six Frugal and oh-so-tasty camp recipes.
Make Your Own Rice Cereal for Baby
It only takes two ingredients and a little bit of time to make homemade rice cereal.
No-Cook Recipes
In the summertime, cooking adds to the heat in the house. Keep your cooling bill down with this collection of no-cook recipes.
Make Your Own Instant Oatmeal
Learn how to make your own instant oatmeal, and cut an item from your grocery list.

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