I’ve posted before about canning food using both a pressure cooker and a water bath canner. Both of these help with keeping the grocery budget down. We reuse leftovers, both as lunches and as recreated meals. One of my favorite resources for ideas is a YouTube channel, https://www.youtube.com/user/DepressionCooking/videos
Clara, the maven of Great Depression Cooking, had a wonderful outlook on life. Sadly, she passed away a few years ago, but her voice lives on in her videos. Her videos inspire me to think harder about ingredients that I may not be using well. I love her version of Egg Drop Soup and her breakfast cookies go amazingly well with a nice cup of coffee in the morning! I always add a few drops of flavoring to my version of her cookies and bake them just a bit harder than she recommends. Wayne loves it when I add dried cherries and cherry extract to them. Her cookies are super frugal, needing about 3 cups of flour and 2 eggs.
I also follow several food bloggers who offer up recipes from their childhoods. I love Phyllis Stokes because she walks you through the recipe and adds anecdotes about her family while she cooks. Wilhelm’s Kitchen is another channel that inspires me to continue my frugal ways. She loves to share recipes where she follows low FODMAP and gluten-free diet because of her health issues. My favorite sassy gal, Noreen, has a channel where she and her husband record videos that always make me smile! I always grin when I see Rick sneaking in to steal a bite when Noreen isn’t looking! I also love watching Heather, aka The Kneady Homesteader, who has just bought a house in rural Michigan and shares both her canning adventures and her joy at decorating the new place!
There are hundreds of bloggers, vloggers, and Facebook users who create frugal recipes. I love chasing down frugal cooking ideas and I’ve learned tons of tips that I didn’t learn from my mom or Granny.
