Category: recipes

Getting Pickier Eaters to Eat Legumes and Cheaper Foods

Lentil beef bolognese I used to be able to say that my kids were not picky and would eat anything I put in front of them. That really helped financially, because I could make what my finances allowed, and all would be well and good. Well, yea. All good things come to an end. My […]

Russian Vinegret Recipe- Vegan, Sugar Free, Cheap

Time is short, but I wanted to leave you this recipe for Russian vinegret. It sounds like it should be a salad dressing, like a vinaigrette, but it is something completely different- it is a salad made with cooked potatoes, beets, carrots, mayonnaise and often pickles. I had heard about it for a while but […]

Vegan Tomato Cobbler Recipe- With Gluten Free Option

All day I’ve been trying to write a blog post. But so many things came up, requiring my attention, so that I couldn’t even sit down to type up a hand written blog post, or even a more complex recipe requiring a long introduction. On top of that, my 2 year old daughter, Anneliese, has […]

Homemade Applesauce Recipe- How to Make it Frugally and Healthy

Someone asked on a cooking group I’m in for a recipe to make applesauce. I never thought applesauce really needed a recipe, but assumed I had one on my site anyhow. I didn’t. There really are two ways to make applesauce- one is raw and one is cooked, but since most people associate applesauce with […]

Homemade Vegan Omelet Recipe From Red Lentils and How to Make a Sneaky Cheap Omelet

Vegan zucchini omelet. I’m a terribly impatient  omelet flipper, vegan omelet or not. Ever since posting why it’s generally cheaper to use egg replacements, even for egg heavy dishes like quiches, I was hoping we’d lower our egg usage in our house, but to be honest, our egg usage didn’t go down tremendously. Last month […]

Thanksgiving Menu for 2013

I wasn’t going to do a Thanksgiving dinner this year, as my husband is not American, and we don’t live in the US… but after deciding that, I realized that I actually had everything in the house that I would need to make a Thanksgiving dinner, so I figured- why on earth not? Here’s my […]

Practically Free Soup- And a Zero Waste Kitchen

So last month I did a grocery shopping challenge, tracking every cent I spent, and breaking it down into different categories, and seeing how much we were spending in each area. After that, I challenged myself to do the same this month, only this time, to try to lower our bill by about 100 dollars, […]

Indian Spiced Radish Greens Recipe- Vegan, Gluten Free, Dairy Free

I love finding recipes for often discarded food items that other people don’t realize are edible and healthy. I make recipes with cauliflower leaves, have cooked banana peels into chutney, turn watermelon rinds into side dishes, and make delicious dishes from fish scraps and chicken skins. So when I was in the farmer’s market, and […]