Kitchen Tip: Make Ready-to-Use Frozen Pie Fillings From Scratch
Today’s kitchen tip will show you how to make fruit pie fillings from scratch that are frozen, space-saving, and ready to be used as needed.
If you’ve ever found a really good sale in the produce section, you know how tempting it can be to stock up.  Apples, [...]

Spills and drizzles on the edges of a muffin pan will burn, turn black, smoke and smell bad while baking.  To top it off, baked on burnt batter is hard to clean and often leads to scraping off by hand or soaking.  Avoid the mess altogether and make cupcake and muffin baking clean and easy, [...]

We all want to make sure our leftovers get used up, instead of thrown away after being buried in the refrigerator for weeks! Wet erase markers are a great way to keep all the leftovers in your refrigerator labeled and dated.

For grilling, I usually throw the chicken in a gallon size zipper bag with my marinade of choice the night before cooking. When smoking a chicken, I use a variety of spice blends. For this chicken I used sea salt, coarse black pepper, dill, and garlic.

This handy kitchen tip shares a surefire way to save fruits and vegetables that are going bad.

 
How to Keep Lettuce Longer
Food storage questions are common, especially since certain foods are difficult to keep fresh.  We frequently receive similar questions and concerns from homemakers about the same subject: how do you keep lettuce fresh?, how to keep lettuce longer, how to keep lettuce from turning brown, and how to keep your green [...]

Many times, the only choices for bananas at your grocery store are bright green, hard bananas that were clearly not ripe yet when they were picked.  There is an easy way to fix this! We’ll teach you how to ripen green bananas that takes minimal effort and you don’t have to spend any money on [...]

With all the ready-made tubes of colored decorating icing and gel available in the grocery store’s birthday cakes section, you’d think it would be fast and easy to decorate a birthday cake yourself.  But what happens if you can’t draw?
It may be a great intention to make a frugal birthday or baby shower cake [...]

Kitchen Tip: Remove Fat From Roasts, Stews and Other Crockpot Meals
We frugal chefs love a good pot roast, and for more reasons than just the low price.  It’s true that roast meat is cheap and easy on the grocery budget, but crockpot cooking is also hassle-free, time saving, and almost no work!  The first time [...]

Keep Rolls Warm with a Basket Liner and Lid
Serving hot biscuits or rolls at your holiday dinner?  Wish they stayed warm longer? Here’s a tip that will help!
Presenting homemade rolls or bread in a festive basket with a cloth napkin is a nice way to make them look appealing and evoke cozy Christmas meal memories.  [...]