Frugal: $10 Grocery List for when you're Broke

Frugal: $10 Grocery List for when you're Broke   $10 Grocery List for when you're Broke http://www.budget10 1.com/household/ dirt-cheap- groceries- 14.html Surviving on a Budget, $10 Grocery List Has this happened to you? Following several harrowing hours of balancing the checkbook, making payment agreements with various creditors, you sit back and look at the balance in your checkbook and realize you have about $20 left for the entire week. Somehow, with that measly $20, you have to put gas in your car for work... and still buy groceries to feed the family.So how do you do it? You put $10 in your car & spend the other $10 on groceries... and you eat for the entire week. How can someone eat on $10 a week? Here is a list of groceries that can be purchased for approximately $10. 1. Baking Powder (MYO!) 2. Eggs 3. Flour 4. Fruits (on sale) 5. Hamburger 6. Rice or Ramen Noodles 7. Margarine 8. Milk 9. Potatoes 10. Salt 11. Vegetables (on sale) 12. Tuna (1 or 2 cans) What's For Breakfast? * Scrambled eggs in a Biscuit * Fruit Smoothie, Hash Browns * Muffins, many kinds... * Pancakes, Fruit * Potato Pancakes * Tortilla with scrambled or fried eggs inside * Donut Muffins * Rice Pudding What's For Lunch/Dinner? * Tortilla with anything you have on hand in it. * Tomatoes/onions/ hamburg etc. * Shepherds Pie (Hamburger/gravy over mashed potatoes/corn) * Veggies in gravy over rice * Baked Potato and Vegetables * Scalloped Potatoes and Vegetables * Oven Baked French Fries & Salad * Vegetable Soup w/ or w/o Rice * Tuna/ Pea Wiggle (serve over toast or biscuits or saltine crackers) * Scalloped Potato/Tuna Casserole * Popovers fill with: tuna pea wiggle recipe or gravy/veggie mix * Chicken Pot Pie Although the above menu is very limited, but this grocery list is for the tough times! ~

Christmas Eve" by Mina Morris Scott

VINTAGE VERSE: "Christmas Eve" by Mina Morris Scott from the IDEALS Christmas Magazine 1969 Kindle the candles and sing the sweet carols; Hang up the holly and tinsel the tree. Christmas is coming with all of its gladness, With treasures and pleasure for you and for me. Hide the gay gifts and secret surprises; Bake the plum pudding, the cookies and pie. Pin up the stockings along the broad mantel, Santa may come in the wink of an eye. Off now to bed and the deepest of slumbers, Wondering if we have forgotten a thing; So we drift off into blissful oblivion, Dreaming of joys that tomorrow will bring.

VINTAGE RECIPE: "Peanut Butter Popcorn Balls"

VINTAGE RECIPE: "Peanut Butter Popcorn Balls" "Peanut butter adds flavor as well as protein to these holiday sweets. They can be wrapped in wax paper and then in tissue paper to make a colorful centerpiece or gift." 1 cup light molasses 2/3 cup light corn syrup 1 tablespoon vinegar 1 teaspoon salt 1/2 cup peanut butter 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract 3 quarts popped corn 1. Combine molasses, corn syrup, vinegar, and salt in a heavy 3-quart saucepan. Bring to a boil over medium heat, stirring frequently until mixture reaches 250 degrees F. or until a little syrup dripped into cold water forms a hard ball. Remove from heat and stir in peanut butter and vanilla. 2. While syrup is cooking, spread out popcorn in a deep roasting pan. When peanut butter mixture has been combined, pour immediately over popcorn and stir until popcorn is evenly coated. 3. Lightly oil hands and shape mixture in 12 balls. Set aside to cool completely. 12 servings.

Cinnamon-Honey Butter

Here is a wonderful recipe for Cinnamon-Honey Butter, shared by Ina Garten. One pound of butter will make 4 gifts for Christmas or any other holiday! I would suggest using the 1/2 cup plastic GLAD containers with the screw-on lids, to store the Cinnamon-Honey Butter in. Once you fill the containers with the Cinnamon-Honey Butter, place the container in a cellophane bag and tie with a ribbon threaded with two bells. The butter should be refrigerated until ready to serve, at which time it can be served softened. Serve with toast, pancakes, or biscuits. The Cinnamon-Honey Butter will last in the refrigerator as long as your regular butter. 1/4 Pound (1 stick) Unsalted Butter, Softened at Room Temperature 3 Tablespoons Honey 1/4 Teaspoon Cinnamon 1/8 Teaspoon Kosher Salt Whip all ingredients together with an electric mixer until light and fluffy. Fill containers with Cinnamon-Honey Butter.