I've been pretty flexible on diaper brands with my third baby, buying whatever I can get the best deal on. One week, that happened to be Pampers Baby Dry. The diapers seem about the same as...
These are the worse pull-on type training pants I've tried (including random brands I used in Asia). Worst of all, they are extremely bulky and heavy. It's difficult to tell if they were "used"...
We discovered Duck Dynasty last fall and bought Season One to catch up. As with any good TV show, there are distinct characters that make it funny. In this case, it's the Robertson family - who...
This is the best, simple rattle for babies. The two bars make it easy to grasp, and it makes the perfect rattle sound when baby shakes it. Not so noisy that it's annoying or disruptive, but...
I LOVE cooking with canned fire-roasted tomatoes! They add a little something extra to every dish whether it be chili or spaghetti sauce. Before finding the Hunt's, I had to pay twice the price...
I think it's the magazine Simple and Delicious that has a page dedicated to your most frugal meal. So let's list here....what are your most frugal meals you serve your family?
Just sauce and noodle's, no meat. The kids eat it and its cheap. Also, grilled cheese, hotdogs, chicken patties on buns, hamburger and noodles, rice and anything, sandwiches, soup, mac and cheese with hamburger in it, beans and cornbread, collard greens and bread.
Spaghetti and garlic bread. Nothing fancy--just regular sandwich bread with butter, a little salt and perhaps a little cheese (parm or moz) and a sprinkly of garlic. Even if I throw in a little ground meat, it's still pretty cheap. But then, there are only two adults and a toddler in my home, so we're not really expensive to feed!
Spaghetti
Chicken & Dumplings ( if you make your dumplings from scratch it is even cheaper to make)
Potato Soup
There are more, but my son just woke up from his nap, will have to post others later!
beans and rice/rice and beans
Spaghetti---I make a ton of meatballs at one time and freeze them so adding
a meatball or two per person is still pretty cheap
homemade hamburger helper
chicken fried rice
pancakes
I don't really think it gets much cheaper than pasta. Sometimes I make it with butter instead of sauce. Yum. After that, I'd have to say beans and rice.
My fancy-shmancy frugal meal is pasta carbonara, just some eggs, parm cheese (both of which I always have on hand) sometimes I add leftover bacon and a handful of frozen peas.
But everyone loves breakfast for dinner around our house. Homemade pancakes and scrambled eggs.
Today we had homemade pancakes, 2 eggs stretched for 3 people, and a few slices of bacon. Dessert was fruit. Super frugal. I'm saving my stockpile of chicken and pork roast for when my inlaws come for 10 days in October. Every year I make elaborate menus, etc. for when they come over. This year it's easy...we're simply going to have to have what is in the freezer!!