Chocolate Peanut Butter Buckwheat Banana Bread
I was supposed to host a group of friends this morning around breakfast time, and last night I was trying in vain to think up something baked and yummy that I could make to serve then. Since it was breakfast time, I didn’t want to serve something too cakey or sweet or unhealthy, because, you […]
What To Do With Lots of Free Expiring Milk – Again!
This is 1/10th of the milk I got, free Because I live in an area that is considered to be of a lower socio-economic background (gotta love a community like this, as we’re all in the same frugal living boat, so not much pressure to keep up with the Jones), from time to time we […]
Homemade Date Seed Coffee Substitute Recipe and Instructions
Sorry, I couldn’t help myself! I had a hard time bringing myself to write coffee on here, because it isn’t… covfefe worked well as a replacement…. Growing up, I never liked or drank coffee. I didn’t understand the appeal of the bitterness of the drink. I did always like the smell, though, just never drank […]
Cooking Dinner With No Inspiration
People think of me as a foodie, as someone who is always chock full of ideas and inspiration for cooking my family and myself delicious meals. I’ll admit, lately it has happened to me many times that I’ve had literally zero inspiration, that I can’t even begin to come up with ideas of what to […]
Paleo Vegan Almond Flour Biscotti Recipe
I’m not the easiest person to make desserts for, especially when I’m trying to stick to the paleo diet 100% (desserts are my downfall) instead of just gluten free, and even more so when I’m trying to minimize how many carbohydrates I’m eating. It doesn’t make it any easier that most paleo desserts are either […]
Marinated Eggplant Salad Recipe- Paleo, Vegan, Easy
Eggplants are in season round these parts, making them one of the more frugal vegetables I can currently buy. This salad is one of my favorite ways to eat eggplant. Unlike the locals who make this recipe by first deep frying the eggplant, I bake them in the oven and then marinate them until absolute […]
Raw Carrot and Beet Salad Recipe- AIP, Paleo, Vegan
My mom is not an easy person to feed. Since she has Hashimotos, an auto-immune thyroid disease, among other things, she is on a combination of diets that make it hard to find foods that are safe for her to eat. She is not only paleo, she’s on the GAPS diet as well, which means […]
Wild Green Stuffed Mushrooms Recipe — Paleo and Vegan
Recently I hosted guests and wanted to do something fancy for them. At the grocery store I saw some large mushrooms that looked perfect for stuffing so I decided to try that. I didn’t want to go the standard stuffing method with meat, nor did I want to fill it with grains, cheese, bread crumbs […]
Cantaloupe Salsa Recipe- Vegan, Paleo, and Frugal
The last time I was at the market, one of the vendors who sells past prime produce had a melon very similar to cantaloupe on sale for 13 cents a pound, and though I only wanted one or two, he gave them to me for much less than 13 cents a pound, and I ended […]
Frugal Kitchen Things I’ve Made Lately
Chicken fat, chicken broth, and deboned chicken, all free. Though I haven’t updated this blog so much lately, that doesn’t mean that I haven’t been up to my usual frugal self lately. I’m a little busy and have a lot on my plate lately but I’ve made a bunch of things lately that save us […]