If you feel like the price of beef has been going up and up, it's not your imagination. Between drought and increasing costs of feed, beef cattle are selling at higher and higher prices. Shoppers are looking at other meats and types of protein to help the food budget. Beef, it's what's NOT for dinner in more homes.Chicken, turkey, and pork can be … [Read more...]
16 Ways to Save More Money on Food
Here's a back-to-basics list of ways to lower your grocery bill. I hope you find something useful in this list of things I've learned over the years. 1. Throwing out food is like throwing money down the drain. Check your fridge every day to see what needs to be used. To use up ingredients, do an ingredient search on allrecipes.com or use … [Read more...]
Crisis in a Family? Take Them a Meal
When someone you know has a crisis in the family, like a serious illness, many people want to bring a meal to them to ease their stress. Sometimes too many people bring food on the same day leading to waste. The solution is to organize so that friends don't overlap with their food gifts. While it's possible to do this with one person in charge, … [Read more...]
Low Calorie Chilaquiles Casserole
Why not make this great Tex-Mex casserole for your family and friends to warm up these winter days & nights? This would be great for game day & no one will know that it's a low calorie recipe. Enjoy!Click title for link at Delish. … [Read more...]
Great Holiday Side Dish: Spinach Rice Cheese Casserole
This is one of my favorite casseroles. How can you go wrong with spinach, rice, and cheese? It calls for brown rice, but you can use white rice if that's what you have. It calls for fresh spinach, but I use frozen sometimes. It's fine. This is a lovely side dish for a holiday meal where you have big eaters. It will fill them up and add good … [Read more...]
Eggplant Parmesan with No Frying
This is the #1 eggplant recipe at AllRecipes. I love eggplant parmesan and always order it when I find it on a menu. There's nothing like it & I often judge a restaurant by how well they make it.This is great way to make it healthier since no frying is involved. Try it; I think you'll like it.Click title for link at AllRecipes. … [Read more...]