Homemade Jaggery Syrup Recipe- Low Cost Honey Replacement
Not the most flattering pic, but here’s my jaggery syrup The other day I decided to make up a bunch of healthy muffins to freeze and defrost each morning for breakfasts for my family. I wanted to make them refined sugar free, because if we’re going to be eating these for breakfast, why put something […]
Frugal Accomplishments This Week
Hi there! I hope you all had a terrifically frugal week this past week. I had some things happen that limited my ability to be frugal in certain ways, but even so, I don’t think you can tell, because I was frugal in other ways and “made up for it”. One thing I have to […]
Homemade Onion Bajji or Pakoras Recipe- Chickpea Flour Based Onion Rings- Vegan and Grain Free
I was debating what to make for lunch today, but was considering making something from India, since Indian food is cheap and healthy, and its easy to find gluten free Indian dishes. I went outside for a few minutes, and saw my neighbor, M., who was born and raised in Bombai. We started talking about […]
Chicken Lo Mein Recipe- Gluten Free, Refined Sugar Free, Vegan Options
I did a decent amount of stuff in the kitchen today, including butchering up a whole chicken, and then with the leftover carcass, plus 2 more I had in the freezer, I cooked up some chicken carcass and veggie scrap broth. Once I made that, I planned to pick all the chicken off the carcasses […]
Menu For the Past Two Weeks- in Full Detail
Recently I’ve been talking a lot about how low our monthly grocery bill is, despite having a gluten free, mostly refined sugar free and processed food free diet, and people want to know and have asked me repeatedly “What are you guys actually eating?” So, I challenged myself- for one week to track every single […]
Frugal Accomplishments This Week
I had a pretty intense and relatively stressful week, so frugality wasn’t the top thing on my mind. I also had a really long and exhausting day today, but I didn’t want to not post this, so I’m just posting this as is, no intro, no elaborations on the notes I took throughout this week. […]
Chicken Veggie Salad with Peanut Butter Dressing Recipe
I made a lovely salad yesterday, that served as an entire meal, was filling, delicious, cheap and nutritious. I wanted to share it with you. I used lambsquarters as the base of my salad, together with other veggies, but you can just as easily use any other green, like spinach, lettuce, swiss chard, etc… You […]
Crispy Fried Noodles Recipe- With Gluten Free Options
Isn’t it awesome when you discover a new use to a food you’d been cooking a long time, a way to prepare it that is so much cooler than the other way you’d been making it, opening up new realms of possibilities in the kitchen? I just discovered a new use for noodles- frying them! […]
Honey Mustard Lentils Recipe- Gluten Free, Refined Sugar Free, Vegan Option
I’ve been having a love affair with mustard lately. Especially when it is paired with honey, and even more so when the pair are with dill as well. So many dishes taste simply divine with the addition of mustard and honety. Because of that, I decided to experiment and see how lentils taste with mustard […]
Middle Eastern Rice with Chickpeas Recipe- Gluten Free, Vegan, Sugar Free- With Pressure Cooker Option
Ever have to cook lunch for your family, but the only produce you have in the house is carrots and onions, and you want to make a full meal with veggies, protein, and carbs, and you are short on time and want to make a one pot meal? Happens to me all the time. This […]