30+ Creative Crockpot Recipes, Ideas & Uses—Crazy! (Soap?)

An amazing collection of creative uses for your crockpot - making soap . . . really?

If you’re looking for creative crockpot recipes and cooking ideas we’ve got answers. If you want lots of delicious and favorite recipes and some really outrageous uses for a slow cooker, you’ve also come to the right place!

The slow cooker or Crockpot is one of the most versatile time and money-saving tools we have in our kitchen. We use them so much that, over time, we now have three of them. They help us on our once-month cooking day and for other daily needs.

Related Article: $3400 in CrockPot Savings A Year

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Use a Crockpot for a Year and Save $3400!

Crockpot Savings - Use a Slow Cooker for a year and Save $3400

Using a crockpot for a year could save you a ton of money. But even if you used it just a few days each week, it could still save you more money than you ever imagined.  We’ll show you how this works and give you some other tips too.

This is the third of a 5-part Kitchen Tools series that will empower you to save thousands of dollars on your food budget.

What’s at stake when it comes to feeding a family?

When it comes to feeding a family, there is a lot of money at stake. The average family is spending $200 … Read more »

Fresh Fruit Recipe Ideas Page

Flavorful Fruit Recipes RoundUp Page! #flavorfulfruitrecipes

This Fresh Fruit Recipe Ideas page contains 5 recipes for fresh and cooked fruit.

Recipes included on this page: Fresh Cranberry Sauce,   Lyn’s Cranberry Chutney,   Disappearing Fresh Fruit Salad,    Delicious & Easy Baked Apples

Fresh Fruit Recipe 1: Fresh Cranberry Sauce

PRINT THE RECIPE HERE

his fresh no-cook cranberry sauce won’t stay on the table long. It is a family favorite fruit recipe and disappears almost as soon as we put it out.

Ingredients for Fresh Cranberry Sauce:

1 Cup finely chopped Raw Cranberries (a food processor is great for this)

7/8 to 1 Cup Sugar

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54 Productive Things To Do When You’re Bored

Productive Things to Do When You're Bored

There are LOTS of blogs written about fun things to do when you’re bored.  So, we wanted to put a new twist on that, and offer you a list of productive things to accomplish in this season of staying home more than normal.

We’ve broken this list of productive activities into 9 categories:

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1 1) Money Activities (5 ideas)2 2) Outdoor Activities (6 ideas)3 3) Organizing Activities (13 ideas)4 4) Things to do with Your Computer (5 ideas)5 5) Cleaning Activities to do When Bored (7 ideas)6 6) Kitchen Activities (5 ideas)7 … Read more »

Home Meat Slicer Uses that will Save you $500 or More

Save $500 each year by slicing the cost of lunchmeat. Find out how

There are dozens of uses for a home meat slicer and the savings you can bank are amazing. In this article, we’ll talk mainly about how much money you can save using a meat slicer to cut your own lunch meat.

With food prices soaring, we’ve got to use every strategy possible to save money!

And we’ll also share other things that we use a meat slicer for — you may be surprised.

Plus we’ll tell you how much our meat slicer cost and what you can expect to pay for a new one.

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What is a Spoonula and How Can It Save You Money? Kitchen Tool #1

Clean up in your kitchen by using SpoonULas, they save time and money.

If you’ve never heard of a spoonula, hang on because you’re going to love it. In this article, we’ll tell you what a spoonula is and how it can save you money and we’ll introduce our kitchen tool series.

5 Kitchen Tools That Will Save $6000 #1 Spoonula

Saving money on groceries could revolutionize your family budget! Really, it’s no hype. And kitchen tools such as a spoonula, can certainly help save time and money!

As a matter of fact, there are dozens of simple strategies that can cut your grocery bill in half without clipping a single coupon. But, instead of shopping … Read more »

How to Find Cheap Meat: Best prices for Beef, Pork, Ham, & Chicken

Discounted cheap meat - family sized.

Are you looking to save money and find cheap meat near your home? These strategies could save you thousands of dollars this year.

In this article, we do mention prices, but with the current inflation cycle, you’ll need to establish your own pricing table for your area of the country or world.

Putting Meat on the Table History:

Years ago, it was the man’s “job” to hunt for the meat to provide for the family. All it cost was a few days’ trudging through the forest, and some bullets or arrows. Then there was time to clean and dress the meat, a man’s … Read more »

The Today Show #8 – Getting Back on Budget

Christmas on The Today Show #1

Steve, Annette, Becky, and Abbey Economides appeared on NBC’s Today Show to share how their budgeting system has enabled us to accomplish some remarkable financial accomplishments in the past 28 years. They also shared loads of money-saving tips for reducing expenses in your entire house.

As usual, we had so much material to cover that we didn’t quite get to it all. Below is a list of the questions we were supposed to cover and some more detailed answers on how you can make your money go further than ever before.

Questions from Today Show Producers

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Chunk Beef Main Dish Recipes – Recipe Round-Up

Chunk Beef Main Dish Recipes including Reuben Sandwiches, Pot Roast, Beef Stroganoff, Beef brisket & Teriyaki/ Wine Marinade.

This Chunk Beef Main Dish Recipes Super Page contains Delicious & Easy Chunk Beef Recipe Round-Up!

If you’re looking for easy-to-make, delicious tasting and inexpensive Chunk Beef main dish recipes, you’ve come to the right page.

We had so many beef main dish recipes, that we needed to break them up into 2 pages. So the ground beef main dish recipes have been moved to our Ground Beef Main Dish Recipes Page.

Chunk Beef Main Dish Recipes on this page include:

Beef StewPot RoastBeef Brisket with Mustard and Onion, Beef StroganoffSteak Marinade Recipe with Teriyaki & Wine, Read more »

Save Money on Buying Meat: Ideas & Tips Page

Save Money on Meat/ Buying Meat Cheaper/ Cheap Meat

Our “Save Money on Buying Meat” Page contains a growing list of clever and frugal ideas for grinding beef, slicing ham, lunch meat ends from the deli, meat bought in bulk and so much more! Plus there are more resources listed at the bottom of this page. 

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1 1. How to Grind Beef at Home2 2. Shank Ham for Lunchmeat?3 3. Broiled Bulk Beef is Better4 Save Money on Meat Tip #4 – Discount Meat at Closing Time5 5. Turkey Left-Overs, More Than Sandwiches6 6. Limits for Freezing Turkeys?7 How to … Read more »

Cooking Made Easy: Money Saving Tips

Cooking made easy - with cooking tips from our money saving super page.

This Cooking Tips – Cooking Made Easy Page contains Frugal Tips & Ideas to help you Save Money while Cooking!

If you want some time- and money-saving cooking tips watch the Cooking Made Easy 9 Minute Video

Cooking as a Single Mom!

I really love your website and cooking tips. It’s just what I’ve needed all these years. It’s really helped me in more ways than one. I’m a single mom and for years it’s always been easier for me to go to a fast food place or restaurant for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. And of course, I never had money for other … Read more »

10 Unique Family Recreation Ideas—Save Money, Have Fun

Family Recreation- 10 Ways to Save, from local events, shopping, hosting parties and much more.

This Family Recreation Savings Ideas Page contains a growing number of money-saving ideas for cutting costs when you look for local fun in your area, go to garage sales or host a party!

1. Garage Sale Entertainment?

You never know what someone wants to dispose of. I took just a short time recently and went to about ten garage sales, driving less than eight miles (gasoline is expensive, you know). My main purchases were;

A brass floor lamp in perfect condition (the shade was in the original wrapper) for two dollars;

A window shade with a small fringe and a 10-year guarantee (in original wrapper) for one … Read more »