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Frugal Food and Recipes

Frugal Fancy understands the need to feed a family well without it costing a small fortune! Here are tips and ideas to help you do just that... including coupons, frugal recipes, cooking tips and more!

65 Cheap, Healthy, One-Dish Meals with Good Leftover Potential - Some of the recipes are little too odd for my tastes, but I like the idea!

Best of-Refrigerator Bread - from Frugal Update Blog, includes a recipe for Potato Refrigerator Dough that looks great.

Brand Name Rip-offs and Running an Efficient Kitchen - Has a great comparison of brand name versus store brand costs on several items

Compost Soup - sounds disgusting, the idea is sound!

Dine Without Whine - Weekly menu plan and grocery list delivered to your email box.

Food and Drink Freebies - billed as "the biggest database of food freebies on the net"

Food Storage Label Maker - Free software to help you manage your pantry, track purchases, quantities and more

Free Diabetic Cookbook and Better Care Kit - from AmMed Direct

Free Food - in Exchange for Your E-mail Address - Several restaurants offering coupons for free and B1G1 meals.

Free Sample E-Cookbooks - great resource for printable recipe booklets

Gooseberry Patch - Sign up for the free newsletter from the publisher's of those wonderful cookbooks and drop in on their discussion forum... you just might meet Frugal Fancy over there!!

Grocery Shopping Tips - from The Frugal Shopper

Healthy Snacks for Kids and Toddlers - Some ideas your kids will love.

How to Feed Yourself for $15 a Week - by Get Rich Slowly

Kids Eat Free - Find local restaurants where your kids can eat at no cost!

Kitchen Organizing 101: A Recipe for Organizational Success - by Martha Matthews, Christian-Homemaking.com

Local Harvest - find farmers' markets, family farms, and other sources of organic food that is grown in your area

Make Your Own Mixes - Cookie mixes, spice mixes, drink mixes, gifts-in-a-jar and more from MomsBudget.com

Mom's Roast Turkey - Recipe to help you make your most delicious turkey ever by Elise Bauer

Nabisco Brands Nutrition Info - great site for info on all Nabisco foods as well as games and other fun things for the kids

Print Betty Crocker Coupons - save on all your favorite brands from Betty Crocker

Register to Win $10,000 in Free Groceries! - Best Foods is giving away a year's worth of food to some blessed family! Free registration is required.

Rock Bottom Frugal Living Tip 1 - Great idea on how to get free coupons for products you already use

Save Money on Food with a Deep Freezer - by Budget Girl, Frugal Living Examiner

Super E-book Blowout Sale - get 15 fantastic frugal living and cooking ebooks for less than the price of one!

The 20 Healthiest Foods for Under $1 - by Brie Cadman

The Gourmet Cupboard - Offers monthly specials such as buy one get one free on gourmet mixes for beverages, breads, coffees, cookies, desserts, dips, meals, meats, popcorn, side dishes, soups, sugar free, sweet breads, teas and more.

The 99 Cent Chef Blog - Tons of recipes and ideas for eating on the cheap

True Lemon, True Lime and True Orange Sample - Crystalized lemon substitute from Citrus Made Simple

Welcome to My Kitchen - Delicious recipes and handmade Gourmet Cupboard Mixes so you can prepare easy, home cooked meals for the entire family. - New!

P. S. Frugal Fancy will be updating this page regularly, so check back often.