Our Favorite Homemade Hummus Recipe
Did I tell you that my husband went vegan earlier this year?
I don’t think I did… but it explains why he finally WILLINGLY started eating beans (spicy citrus black beans are his favorite), why we have a classic rice and beans dinner almost every week and why we clean out the fridge using this crunchy quinoa salad as a starting point.
(But truly, anything covered with Thai peanut sauce is a winner!)
It also explains why I’m sharing with you our favorite homemade hummus recipe!
38 Ways to Save Money on Food Year Round
I like to think that with every new season, comes new creative ways to save money on your grocery budget.
Over the years I’ve learned it’s not all about WHAT you buy, but how and when you buy it. In fact, adjusting your mindset on how you shop makes the savings start to add up– and this is EXACTLY what I teach in my course Grocery Budget Bootcamp.
Having the right frame of mind is vital to saving money on groceries, but it never hurts to have practical tips, too.
I’ve been collecting tips over the years, the small things we’ve done to help our grocery dollars go just a teeny bit further, and I’d like to share these 36 ways to save money on food with you today!
Our Favorite Beans and Rice Recipe
Last night while my husband and I were cleaning up after dinner and getting ready for the morning, my daughter asked me the same question she asks me every night after dinner: Girl: Mom, what’s for dinner tomorrow? Me: That beans and rice recipe you like so much. Girl: YESSSSSS!!!!! *pumps fist in the air*Click to Continue »
Crunchy Vegetable Quinoa Salad
Do you ever stand in front of your fridge and think there’s nothing to eat? I sure do, and having a few back pocket meals in place like maple glazed pork chops or Instant Pot honey garlic chicken or slow cooker beef ragu or even kung pao chicken with a bag of frozen vegetables isClick to Continue »
How to Cook Quinoa Perfectly in the Instant Pot
Several years ago I bought a big bag of quinoa from Costco, thinking it would be a great alternative to rice and it would broaden our horizons in terms of recipes. Wrong. I hated it. No matter what I did, I couldn’t get it to taste good. It was either too soft or too hard,Click to Continue »
How to Save Time and Money with Batch Cooking
Every year I try to make small goals that help my family in our real food journey. This year, one of my goals is to use my freezer more. So far, I’ve done two official freezer cooking sessions under my belt (9 breakfasts in one hour and 10 dump dinners in one hour) AND I’mClick to Continue »
DIY Epsom Salt Laundry Booster
Anytime I talk about making baby steps towards natural living – like making homemade toothpaste or your own foaming hand soap or your own furniture polish – people give me funny looks. They think that because it’s homemade, it can’t possibly work as well as store-bought items… that couldn’t be furthest from the truth! TakeClick to Continue »
Our Favorite Black Beans Recipe
When I first started this blog, my husband told me he HATED beans. After he declared his hatred, I told him that if he wanted to keep our budget at $350/month, he’d have to learn to tolerate them. Somehow we found middle ground by adding them to recipes like minestrone soup and tortilla soup andClick to Continue »
Sheet Pan Sausage and Peppers (and Onions and Mushrooms)
Back when I was creating Frugal Real Food Meal Plans, I was always on the lookout for delicious yet easy recipes to share with you guys. One day I stumbled across a recipe for sheet pan sausage and peppers and I thought, “Wow – that looks good!” And then as many good ideas do, itClick to Continue »
One Hour Freezer Cooking Session: Dump Dinner Recipes
I’m just over two months into this “freezer cooking” commitment for 2019 and I have to say that so far- THIS. IS. AWESOME! I absolutely LOVE opening the freezer to find beans and rice, already prepared for dinner. I LOVE sitting down to make a meal plan and writing down a meal that I putClick to Continue »