It’s that time again, that time where I share just how frugal (or not) I was in a week. Fortunately this past week as a good one, and I have a decent amount of frugal things I did to share with y’all.
Here’s what I did this week to save money, divided by category:
Frugal In the Kitchen:
Made From Scratch:
Made homemade kombucha
Made homemade iced tea
Ground gluten free flour
Made gluten free bread
Made homemade jello, and when that didn’t work out amazingly, fixed it and made a second batch
Made homemade gluten free marble cake
Made strawberry sour gummy candies from scratch
Made gluten free chocolate cake
Made homemade chocolates
Made homemade Italian dressing
Made pickled green tomatoes
Revamped Leftovers:
Made chicken scrap soup
Used the meat from a chicken carcass that I’d made into soup, as the protein for a meal
Made veggie scrap broth, then used that together with free zucchini, home rendered chicken fat, not so greatly textured noodles, and frozen hamburger crumbles to make soup.
Bibimbap leftovers that I’d frozen became fried rice
Frugal Dishes:
Joined a communal BBQ, and brought along chicken breast, which I stretched by making shish kebabs with that and other veggies I got free
Made chicken piccata with foraged capers
Homemade Health Products
Made homemade ginger pills
Made olive leaf and rosemary teas for medicinal purposes
Frugal Clothes
Took in the waist and hemmed two pairs of pants for my sons
Ordered rain boots from nextdirect.com- free shipping and cheaper than buying locally
Frugal Fun Things
Went on a trip to a nearby spring- free- and had a picnic there
Foraging and Other Free Food
Foraged mallow and wild mustard
Picked tomatoes, hot peppers, cucumbers, basil, and pumpkin blossoms from my friend’s yard
Foraged olive leaves and rosemary
Frugal DIY
Fixed our broken freezer
What did you do to save money this week?
