Frugal Meals

Broccoli Beef Stir Fry

May 16, 2011

I love Chinese food and other Asian type dishes. Stir fry, fried rice, beef and broccoli, lettuce wraps, and many other things that are so popular in Chinese food restaurants in American are some of my favorite foods to eat. However, a child with a tree nut, peanut, and sesame allergy has severely limited our [...]

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Chili Cornbread Bake

April 19, 2011

This is one of those quick and easy, yet very kid friendly meals. I made this a few weeks ago and my kids loved it. Even my son, the picky eater of the family, had seconds on this Chili Cornbread Bake. This will definitely be making an appearance on our menu plan again. Adapted from Taste [...]

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Baked Eggs In Cream

April 14, 2011

This is a classic and simple recipe. You will find this simple technique in cookbooks from years ago, but you will also find updated versions in modern cookbooks. This is an inexpensive, yet fairly healthy meal. We like to serve this with toast and fruit. These eggs in cream work well for breakfast, lunch, or even a [...]

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Easy Cheese Enchiladas

April 12, 2011

What do you get when you have had a long day, arrive home late, your family is starving, and you realize that you forgot to defrost the meat for the enchiladas you planned to make for dinner? You get your kids’ new favorite dinner, easy cheese enchiladas and mexican rice. The mexican rice is a [...]

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Pork Fried Rice

April 4, 2011

Fried rice is the perfect quick and easy meal. And not only is it quick and easy, it is an inexpensive meal to make because it contains basic ingredients that almost everyone keeps in their kitchen. It is also a healthy meal and can be made even healthier by using more vegetables and brown rice [...]

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Mexican Chicken Lasagna

March 24, 2011

I will start by saying this is really not a lasagna at all. When I think of lasagna, I think of layers of noodles, covered in cheese and sauce. This Mexican lasagna is layered, and is covered in cheese and sauce, but they are totally different kinds of layers than lasagna because this uses tortillas. [...]

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Spicy Pasta and Sausage

March 15, 2011

We love pasta in our house. It is usually an inexpensive, quick, and easy meal to make that everyone enjoys. This spicy pasta and sausage is a dish that I came up with recently when I wanted to make something that was a little different than the normal pasta I usually make. We all loved [...]

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Breakfast Burrito Casserole

March 11, 2011

My family loves breakfast. The problem is I am not a morning person. Well, it is not that I am not a morning person, it is more like I am not a breakfast person. I have never been much of a breakfast eater, and I doubt I ever will be. I know breakfast is important, [...]

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Quick and Easy Mexican Pork Chops

March 3, 2011

I recently posted on my Facebook page that I do not have many pork chop recipes on my site because they do to photograph well. The above picture proves that, as does the hundred or so other pictures of pork chops that I have taken in the past. We raise hogs, so I have many [...]