Save Money Make Your Own Homemade Flour Tortillas Recipe

Homemade Tortillas from Jason's Oma http://www.flickr.com/photos/brenbot/6251336334/

The cost of flour tortillas has become amazingly expensive!  Not too long ago, you could buy a dozen pack for a dollar but nowadays the package contains 8 or 10 and costs almost three bucks!  Are the producers lacing these with flakes of gold?

For example, at the writing of this post, ShopRite has [CLICK TO CONTINUE...]

4 Quick Ways to Cook Bottom Round Steak Recipe for Economical Cut of Meat

Fried Round Steak

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Peppered Steak

Bottom round steak is an economical cut and is usually less expensive because it tends to be tough and requires special care in cooking. Many recipes call for marinating for several hours, cooking with moisture or cooking slowly in a crockpot.  I recently found a [CLICK TO CONTINUE...]

Easy Baked Goods Recipes: Carrot Spice Muffins

Carrot Spice Muffins

Carrot Spice Muffins

A couple of weeks ago I shared my favorite muffin recipe with you, Banana Nut Muffins.  This week I’m going to share my second favorite, Carrot Spice Muffins. I have to give my sister credit for these two recipes as she is the one that started to make [CLICK TO CONTINUE...]

Easy Baked Goods Recipes: Jumbo Banana Nut Breakfast Muffins

Banana Nut Muffins

How many of you buy a Starbucks coffee and one of those giant muffins every day?   Probably not too many of you, especially if you’re into personal finance.  But I bet you’d like to buy one of those giant muffins every once in a while. Well, guess what? You can make [CLICK TO CONTINUE...]

Pizza Recipe Delicious and Easy for Making Homemade Pizza at Home

Homemade Pizza

During the years I was a stay at home mom, living below poverty level, we often craved delivery pizza.  Of course we couldn’t afford such a thing very often so I might have ordered a pizza for a special occasion once or twice a year, maybe for someone’s birthday.  When we did happen [CLICK TO CONTINUE...]

Make Your Own Knitting Needles

This is a very fun project and I love my wooden knitting needles for making scarves.

One of my nieces was watching me knit a scarf, and was interested in learning to knit. We improvised with a pair of pencils that she wrapped with electrical tape at the ends. She did really good so [CLICK TO CONTINUE...]

Make Your Own Sauerkraut

On Tuesday I will be hosting the Make it from Scratch! Carnival.  Submissions will be accepted for Tuesday’s carnival until midnight PST on Sunday so hurry and get your post in today!

My submission for the week is going to be how to make your own sauerkraut!

Sauerkraut is a food that helps to [CLICK TO CONTINUE...]

Homemade Candy Cane Peppermint Ice Cream

I love my Donvier Ice Cream Maker so much, it is so handy. I use it, and it’s still halfway frozen when I rinse it out and put it right back into the freezer until the urge strikes me to have ice cream. I’ve been wanting to make this flavor since I made the [CLICK TO CONTINUE...]

Cranberry Chocolate Bread Pudding Recipe

Bread pudding is a great and frugal way to use stale bread.  A couple of years ago at Christmas, one of my coworkers brought in a decadent bread pudding. Prior to that time, I’d never been too fond of bread pudding.  Maybe my tastes have changed, or maybe the bread pudding I’ve had prior [CLICK TO CONTINUE...]

Pumpkin Pie Ice Cream Recipe

This recipe includes four simple ingredients: butternut squash (you can use pumpkin or any variety of winter squash), honey, cream, whole milk and honey.

Yesterday on the way home from church, I noticed several establishments were offering some form of pumpkin “dessert”. Pumpkin Pie Blizzard from DQ, Dreyer’s Limited Edition Pumpkin, but I held [CLICK TO CONTINUE...]