Dollar Stretcher Meals and Frugal Recipes

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Preparing Frugal recipes will keep your money where it belongs, in your wallet, not in McDonalds cash register.

Since we all need to eat three meals everyday, it pays to make a frugal recipes file and use it to plan your Quick Dinner Recipes for each weeks meals.

If you are on this site you are truly trying to save money on groceries and are committed to making your family homemade meals each day. You know there is no room in the budget and no excuses for takeout dinners.

Or maybe there is plenty of room in your budget but you are trying to form better habits and increase your savings. In either case- Good Work adopting cheap recipes instead of take out!

Frugal recipes are generally easy to follow and save money on everyday meals at home. Gather as many Free Manufacturer Coupons as you can find and plan meals around the items that have the most discount taken. Don't be tempted to use the ones for convenience foods.

The boxes of freeze dried nothings are shrinking at an alarming rate, and you can eat healthier and save more money by just buying real, unaltered meat, potatoes and vegetables and cooking them yourself, using the many frugal recipes found on the family security site.

Takeout meals drain our wallets, and even though you may have money to spare at the moment, you could very well end up rich if you consistently Save On Food and make frugal living your mantra from this moment on.

We all need to eat. By adopting a frugal gourmet mindset and following cheap recipes you and your family will eat much healthier for much less money. Do not neglect your crock pot! For example, you can make Crock Pot Baked Beans and other crock pot food recipes that make you home smell heavenly at dinnertime.

Sounds great right? So what is the catch? Simple. We will have to get organized and stay focused on the plan, that's all!

The Frugal Recipes Menu

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There are so many ways to plan your menus, but the point is to keep you organized and out of the grocery store as much as possible.
The weekly plan involves writing down three squares a day for one week, doing the shopping once and sticking to it. You need to be armed with quick dinner recipes so you don't stray from your focus.

You can build in flexibility depending on what leftovers are in the offing, or how much time you have that week (or not) to try a new dollar stretcher recipe. For a particularly bad day try our Free Soul Food Recipes pages.

The weekly plan can be modified to suit your schedule into the monthly plan as well, doing your shopping two or three times that month. Do not forget to shop your garden and go the extra mile Home Canning Food and preserving what you grow. Tomatoes in particular are an ingredient we all use year round. Be sure to learn all about Canning Tomatoes while they are in season. Don't let that bumper crop go to waste this summer!
Another money saving and healthy summer activity is to learn about Canning Fruits into jams and jellies. Pluck apples and make applesauce or apple butter, pick those pears and peaches and process them into mason jars. The Big Book of Ball Canning Recipes will give you additional guidance and recipes.

Here is one of the great frugal living websites that will help you on your frugal living journey. Check them out here:

Practical self sufficiency through food skills

Vegetable Gardening, Home Canning and Freezing, Orchards and Fruit, Food Crafts, Wine Making and more...

Seasonal menu planning is a natural approach. We all want warm breads and hot soups and stews in the cold months, and it is always fun to plan barbecue and cold salads in the summertime.
Seasonal planners can harvest from their garden for the maximum dollars saved. The benefits of frugal recipes by the seasons equals dollars in your pocket and healthy cooking from the garden bounty.

Frugal Cooking

Cheap meals are best made using certain food groups, and many ethnic meals are well known and loved for their contribution not only to our taste buds, but also money saved through using these ingredients over and over, in different ways each time.

Here are the magic money saving recipes my family have used when money is tight and everyone is ravenous, as usual!

Mexican Food Recipes

Famous Chicken Enchiladas

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Fill your skillet with the 6 Tablespoons of corn oil, fry each corn tortilla in hot sizzling oil for 5 seconds each side, flip carefully and fry the other side.
Blot on a plate and paper towels, keep warm while you prepare the rest of the recipe.

Make the Buttermilk Enchilada Sauce:

On a burner set on medium-low, stir the following into a sauce pan and cook until the consistency of thin gravy.

Stir in 2 Cups Chicken Broth and 1 Cup Buttermilk. Stir until thickened slightly.

Next step:

Repeat filling twice for each serving.

Dip each tortilla in the buttermilk enchilada sauce and lay it on each serving plate.

Hand craft each plate with the chicken mixture, grated cheese, and spicy onion jalapeno mix.

Cover with the enchilada sauce and finish off with sour cream.

You're done! Time to enjoy a healthy frugal Mexican quick dinner recipes meal.