Our menu plan this week features frugal recipes using one of our favorite cheap grocery staples: ground beef. You’ll probably also like the recipes in our Frugal Ground Meat Recipes menu plan, so be sure to check those out as well.

This basic muffin recipe is one I’ve made countless times using all sorts of different fruits and even vegetables. It is one of those great recipes that you can use your imagination with.

Sometimes it is hard to eat as many fruit and vegetables as we should when shopping on a budget. With coupons you can often find great deals on frozen and canned items, but fresh produce often comes with a higher price tag.

This homemade macaroni and cheese recipe makes a favorite creamy dish of traditional American comfort food for kids and parents alike.

How about throwing a date night at home? It is one of the most frugal things that you can do this year to celebrate Valentine’s Day.

How to Make Mashed Potatoes
Every homemaker should know how to make mashed potatoes.  Potatoes are a basic frugal  cooking ingredient that will allow you to stretch your grocery budget while adding nutrition to your menu plan.  Follow the directions in our step-by-step tutorial / recipe below to learn how to cook mashed potatoes.  We’ve also [...]

How to Stretch Your Ground Meat by Cutting With Frugal Fillers
Meat is expensive and if yours is like most frugal families, it takes up a significant portion of your grocery budget. While ground beef, ground chicken, ground pork and ground turkey are many times cheaper than full cuts of meat, they are still one of [...]

Recipe: Barbi’s Frugal Deep-Fry Fish Batter
This frugal batter recipe is great for deep frying fish if you want it to taste restaurant-style. I had fish to fry, but had no beer to make a beer batter or Tempura mix. All the recipes I knew took one of those two ingredients, and I knew I could [...]

Inexpensive ingredients make this one of my favorites! Roasts are an economical way to feed your family, as the per pound prices are considerably lower than other cuts of meat. This recipe is for pork roast, but can be adapted to other meats as well. I really do use beef broth in my pork roast; [...]

If the biggest variable in any recipe is the person cooking the dish, the same food will turn out differently for every person who prepares it. Today I learned that I have been measuring my flour improperly, which may be why my bread turns out differently from my husband’s!
Here, About.com Busy Cooks guide [...]