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Thrifty Thanksgiving: Cheesy Mashed Potatoes

Today’s Thrifty Thanksgiving recipe is for a Thanksgiving favorite: Mashed Potatoes. With all the cheese sales that happened this fall, you should have plenty of cheese in your fridge or freezer. Potatoes are fairly inexpensive and you should have many of the other ingredients on hand. Fresh & Frugal: Cheesy Mashed Potatoes INGREDIENTS 2 pounds [...]

Thanksgiving is right around the corner and last year I got tons of emails from readers asking for advice on how to host the holiday on a dime. I wrote a post last year with a few tips but I thought this year I’d take it a little further. I teamed up with two other [...]

This article was originally published on 10/13/09. I get questions from readers quite often asking how to save on all those ink cartridges we use printing coupons. Sometimes you go through ink so quickly it hardly seems like printing the coupons is even worth it. But there are some techniques you can try to help [...]

It seems almost everyone has a smart phone these days and with the increase in smart phones comes a whole slew of apps you can download to them. There are so many that it’s a daunting task to pick ones that will serve you well without clogging up space on your phone. So how do [...]

This is a Sponsored Post written by me on behalf of Mission Foods. All opinions are 100% mine. I don’t know if it’s because I live in Texas or because it’s so easy to cook but we eat quite a bit of Mexican food at our house. Since we eat so much of it, there [...]

It’s springtime and that means beautiful weather and lots of time spent outdoors. It’s the perfect time to host a yard sale before it gets too hot. It’s also a great time to go yard sale shopping. As people spring clean they want to get rid of their stuff and you can score some great [...]

This week’s question comes from Karen: What exactly is once-a-month cooking? I’ve heard about it but not sure how it really works. Do you cook everything you would eat for a month? How big of a group do you do? How do you store all that food? The concept of once-a-month cooking is pretty basic: [...]

This week’s question comes from Robin: I’m hosting Thanksgiving for my family this year. It’s 14 people and I’m really stressed because of how expensive it is! How can I save money and still host a nice dinner? This is a problem I’m sure many of you face. And if you aren’t facing it for [...]

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