Archive for: ‘Cheap Eats!’
Jul 01
Tuna en Salsa
“My parents and I are Cuban immigrants. This recipe was a way to make ends meet as my parents were working on that American Dream. It brings back nice memories.” So true that cooking on the cheap is pleasurable and memorable.
Jun 11
Lunches from Leftovers
File this money-saving advice away for fall when your children or grandchildren head back to school or use it now to pack lunches for work and camp. Carol O’Shea of St. Louis is the latest winner in our Cheap Eats contest for creating what she calls lunches from leftovers.
According to Carol, school lunches have not only risen in price but they are often not filling enough for her sons who will be in 8th and 10th grades this fall. In addition they are not always as healthy as a home-packed meal . . .
May 12
Just What the Dinner Doctor Ordered! Cheap Eats!
Share your tips and win a copy of Cheap. Fast. Good!
The Books
The Dinner Doctor
The doctor's back, and now she's curing dinner woes! Anne Byrn, the award-winning food writer and author of The Cake Mix Doctor and Chocolate from the Cake Mix Doctor does for dinner what she did for dessert-shows how to take common, convenient supermarket ingredients and turn them into meals that taste like they're made from scratch.
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Anne’s Old-Fashioned Yellow Cake Mix
Put on your favorite apron, plug in the mixer, and get ready to bake some memories. I've dreamed of creating a yellow cake mix that gets its color from butter and eggs, not artificial colors, and its scent from Madagascar vanilla.
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