When we begin trying to control finances, lowering the food expense can be the easiest place to start and the one we can quickly see results. What are your best tips to making a food budget and sticking to it to help someone starting out with better finances?

The stores around me usually have the better deals on the dark meat portions of chicken.Only the children really like the taste but I have found that this meat can be used in a variety of dishes with gravy or sauce to stretch the budget. Do you use the dark meat to save on your food expense? What are...

Cold Roast Beef Sandwiches on homemade buns, pasta pepperoni salad and fresh strawberries from the garden.

Ahh the price of soda and other prepared drinks! There are frugal alternatives to soda, what are your choices?

One of our readers is single and struggling to eat frugally. Can you help with ideas on frugal meals? I am an older male and because of constant price increases at grocery stores etc. have started to pay attention to coupons, sites like Group-On etc. The problem is that even if I buy something on sale...

I guess we need to read the whole article. All quotes are from the SacBee article; Title: U.S. inflation holds steady, but food prices keep rising Good news for some of us; "Prices for fresh fruits and vegetables, fresh meat and milk have dropped as commodity prices fell in lockstep with the economic...

More of yesterday's clean fridge soup served on rice.

We did this a few weeks ago, and I was floored how much we had stashed away. We have a Costco membership, and it really paid for itself the third week of April when we were out of ready cash and still needed to eat. (I blogged about it over at LiveJournal, if you're inclined to see.) We're in...

I've found a simple recipe for homemade bread. It's a cool rise, wet dough recipe. I found it on Mother Earth News. They market it as 5min a day bread. NOT!!!! BUT, it is easy! lol.... You make the dough, then it can keep in your fridge for up to 2 weeks. I had to make mine in a very large plastic...

I have started trying to plan better, by making meals that make other meals in order to cut down on waste and to save money. This has been a big budget saver for me. I would like to get some more ideas. What do you do to make your meals budget saving and also saving time and energy in the kitchen? If...