The Frugal Home

This month I published my latest book, and it has absolutely nothing to do with frugal living! This is my first fiction novel and I hope to do many more, in between frugal living and cookbooks, of course! Ghost in the Light is a young adult horror novella, 99 cents on Amazon Kindle! Please check it out and let me know what you think by leaving a review on Amazon.

The Frugal Home E-book has been revamped with an entirely new chapter on moving on a budget! This e-book offers tips and advice on saving money and living the frugal life. It includes information to help you save money on weddings, food, entertainment, holidays, home decor and remodeling. Look for the new chapter on moving. We sure learned a lot about saving money while moving last year! Get The Frugal Home book for only 99 cents on your Kindle (free [...]

  I’m the kind of girl who needs a good amount of protein in the morning or I end up snacking my way through the rest of the day. This breakfast is a protein packed meal. Frugal Tips for Pork Strips, Asparagus, and Egg Breakfast Pork strips are very cheap. They look like thick cut bacon but they aren’t seasoned or cured like bacon. They taste just like a pork cutlet and they have a decent amount of fat on [...]

We all know that you shouldn’t go grocery shopping without eating first but a Cornell University study shows that it may be doing you even more harm than you thought. The study showed that when you shop hungry you buy more junk food and this in turn causes you to eat more junk food throughout the week because, well, that’s what you spent your hard earned money on. The study showed that people bought 23% more junk food when they [...]

The end of October is when things finally started to come together with the kitchen. The progress we made in those last two weeks helped us push through the month of November to the end of this huge project we had undertaken. I think back now to how hectic and stressful that time was and how it felt like it would never end. It was a long project but it was a great feeling when we put up that first [...]

  I love to throw something in the crock pot and have a meal ready to go a few hours later. Pork shoulder has been my go to meat lately. I cooked this version up while looking for something that would be easy on my stomach. Frugal Tips for Slow Cooker Pork Shoulder Roast Over Mashed Potatoes Purchase pork shoulder on sale. I always buy three or four when I can get a good deal. *All of my recipes can [...]

The third phase of the kitchen seemed to take forever, even more than phase one or phase two. By this point we were eating out way too much and my health was quickly failing. My body doesn’t react well when I don’t feed it correctly and it really wasn’t reacting well to all the fast food and restaurants. We should have been eating at home more, we could have made sandwiches or used the crockpot but really, all we wanted [...]

  When you are needing something easy, quick, and frugal this gluten free breakfast burrito recipe is for you! I absolutely loved this, and as someone who was a big fan of flour tortilla wrapped breakfast burritos, it was a fantastic replacement. Four of these filled me up without a problem. Frugal Tips for Chickpea and Tuna Salad Since I try to purchase the healthiest lunch meat available I tend to buy a great deal of it when its on [...]

Have you heard of Meatless Monday? It’s a movement designed to get everyone to not eat meat one day a week for health and environmental reasons. If neither of those appeal enough to you to push you to try Meatless Monday then perhaps your wallet will! Meat is the most expensive item on our grocery lists and cutting it out just one day a week can help  you save a great deal of money over the course of a year. [...]

Frugal Tips for Cabbage and Ground Beef Skillet This is a pretty frugal recipe all around. Ground turkey can be substituted for ground beef if necessary. *All of my recipes can be used with dairy or made into dairy free recipe versions. I have a milk allergy while my husband does not so I often try to make recipes in which substitutions can be made either way. My recipes are also made to be as frugal as possible. My recipes [...]

  Three years ago I made a deal with myself to do at least one 5K each year. I did one in 2011. I signed up for one in 2012 at the end of the year but I threw my back out before the race and couldn’t compete. This year I wanted to do one as soon as I could, just in case something came up and I couldn’t be involved, I’d have another chance at it. I signed my [...]

  We decided that this year we are doing a garden. Nothing will stop us. Like laziness. That’s generally been the deal breaker on this excursion before. It just seemed like so much work. This year my pocketbook screamed louder than my laziness. I have been having some health problems with GERD and food intolerances as well as some other issues. One of the ways we are trying to figure out all these issues is by switching to an as [...]