How to prepare garlic for the freezer so you don’t have to peel and minced garlic each time you need a clove or two. Make your own garlic cubes for the freezer. Garlic is something that I use all the time in so many recipes. While I enjoy using garlic because it adds great flavor. […]
How to Make Your Own....
Below you will find recipes for making items you would normally purchase at the store yourself. Most of the recipes are for food items, but there's a few other items mixed in too. Not only can you take pride in making something yourself, you can avoid ingredients that you would rather not be exposed to, since you are making it yourself. Looking for more? Check out the DIY section.
How to Make Sunflower Butter, Easy Nut Butter
I don’t know quite why but I stopped making my own nut butter, but I did. Maybe I was being a little lazy about making our own sunflower butter at home. But when I started having trouble finding the sunflower butter at the store I was more motivated to make my own. You know that […]
DIY Hot Cocoa Mix with Dairy Free Options
I really love hot cocoa in the wintertime. It’s a nice comfort drink for me. I don’t usually purchase the packets at the store. One because my family can’t have the dairy that’s in them and two they can be a little expensive for what you are getting. I usually mix up a cup of […]
DIY Single Serve Soup for the Freezer
You know one of the ways to cut down on your grocery budget is to stop food waste. I know it’s sounds like such a simple concept, but at times, it can be easy to let food just waste away in the cupboard or refrigerator. I’m making an effort to reduce our food waste this […]
Super Easy Homemade Hash Browns
My family loves hash browns to go with breakfast or with a breakfast dinner. For a long time the only way we ate hash browns was from the freezer section of the store. But one day I looked at the ingredients. Which were basically potatoes and some kind of fat. There was also some additives […]
Make Your Own Lunchables
Lunchables, what a great invention. Little packs of meat, cheese and crackers all sealed up in a nice little package. There is just something about those little compartments that kids love to eat out of. I know a snack type lunch is one of my kid’s favorite lunches. Now if you can get the Lunchables […]
Make Your Own Seasoning Mix Recipes
Do you buy seasoning mixes in those little foil packages? If you do, would you like to have some recipes that you can make yourself to replace those? I really like to make my own seasoning mixes. I can purchase the herbs and spices really inexpensively at Winco Foods. So the cost of each mix […]
Make Your Own Uncrustables
If your kids are like mine, they like to have something different every now and then, for lunch. My son really gets sucked in by commercials. I need to learn how to harness the power a commercial has over him, to help him memorize his math facts. It’s amazing to me that he can […]
