Category: Frugal Food

Delicious foods and frugal recipes from some of our favorites!

October 2, 2015

Cowboy Salsa

As we work to eat primarily whole foods at our house (sprinkled in with the occasionally delightful dessert), I keep working to find new and delicious recipes that will keep the family “epicurically entertained”. Enter, Cowboy Salsa, or as some like to call it, Cowboy Caviar. Of course, the name means it fits well here on the farm. Truth be told, I stole the recipe from my auntie Bev, and added a few things to make it my own. It’s a super easy recipe that goes well with any kind of a Mexican dinner or as a simple addition to tortilla chips. Read more

July 13, 2015

What’s in Your Food?

So, I don’t dwell too terribly often on the food that’s on our grocery store shelves (although I admit that I do bring it up occasionally), but for the past couple of days it’s been on my mind as I replay the events of this past weekend. Rick and I were at the store with our son, and we passed a food sample display counter. They were serving up protein bars; you know, the granola-type bars with the chocolate covering? Our son asked if he could have one, we said yes, and he reached for the chocolate-y delight. We don’t buy these things for our pantry, partly because they don’t fit in with our frugal grocery budget of $400 a month to feed our family of six, and partly because we do try and eat mostly whole foods. Sam was excited to have this treat, but when he ate it, his demeanor changed. Read more

April 13, 2015

The Prepper Garden

When we first started gardening years ago, it was more of a fun hobby than a means to provide cheap food for our family. Then in October of 2012 we moved to the farm, and created a gardening plan that was truly meant to save money and be a reliable resource to provide food for our family of six. Now, our goal is to have a Prepper Garden. Read more

March 10, 2015

What’s in the Food that You Eat?

Pizza – YUM! Or NOT.

If you’ve been following the blog the last couple of weeks, you’ll know of the changes we’ve made here in our diets. The Macrobiotic way of eating and juicing lifestyle have made profound impacts in our health, our focus and our overall energy levels and performance. Gone are the days of tired, lethargic people trudging through the workload with frequent visits to the couch. Our energy abounds now, Read more

March 2, 2015

How a Clean Diet Can Change Your Life

I’ve been talking lots lately on the changes we’ve experienced here at the Frugal Farm as we’ve began juicing and looking more seriously into things like a macrobiotic lifestyle. As a family of self-confessed foodies, this is a HUGE change for our family. I grew up in a family where cooking and feeding others meant love, as did sharing a good meal together. Nothing gave me more pleasure than to cook a wonderful meal and follow it up with a gooey-chocolatey dessert. I love seeing the joy on the faces of friends and loved ones as they delve into my Turtle Cake or my “secret” Chocolate Chip cookie recipe. But a funny thing happened on the way to the dessert bar: we began to not care for the emotional and physical ups and downs that came with a processed food, sugar-laden diet. The funny thing is, we really did eat much less sugar and processed foods than most Americans, but what we were eating still affected us, both emotionally and physically. We figured being stressed out and bounced around like a ping pong was normal life. Then we learned that it wasn’t. Read more

February 26, 2015

Macrobiotic Diet vs Paleo Diet: What’s the Difference?

Our favorite Strawberry Spinach Salad

Well, since we began our un-frugal practice of juicing at the beginning of the year, we have, quite by accident, delved into a world of clean eating. Before our juicing experiment, we had a pretty balanced diet, compared to most Americans, that is. We balanced eating processed food with eating whole foods, kept sugar to a minimum and always drank plenty of water. We liked our balance. It felt like we got to have our cake and eat it too, so to speak. Read more

February 11, 2015

Gardening for Beginners: Helpful Tips

Gardening for Beginners

This post originally appeared in January of 2014. Since gardening time is near, I thought we’d re-run it for any new-to-gardening readers. Enjoy!

Photo Credit

Happy Friday, friends!! My dear friend Michelle, whom I secretly call my cooking and gardening extraordinaire friend, agreed to write a post for us on the basics of gardening for beginners. This gal amazes me, simply because the things that she does, she does very well. She’s a superhero in all things pertaining to house and home. She’s an amazing cook, her house is fabulously decorated, and she’s a pro and growing and preserving her own food, on top of being super sweet. So, my friends, gather up all of the gardening wisdom you can from this wise woman!

Over at RockinTheMomRole.com my motto is ‘Living, Life and Loving Both’. I try to educate, inspire, and enlighten on all things domestic. So, when my dear friends at Frugal Farmer asked me to share some of my home gardening tips, of course I said yes!

Recommended reading: Mini Farming: Self-Sufficiency on 1/4 Acre

Today we are going to discuss beginning your own home garden. Read more

February 7, 2015

Our Best Homemade Pizza Recipe

Like most normal people, 🙂 we LOVE our pizza here at the Frugal Farmer household. Let’s just face it: pizza ROCKS! But it can also be expensive. At our favorite local pizza joint, it’s not uncommon to spend $18-$20 per pizza, and in our big family, two pizzas is the minimum we’ll eat at a sitting.

Being frugal pizza lovers though, we save the spendy pizza outings for special occasions. How then, do we supplement our crazy wild pizza cravings in the meantime? Read more

January 26, 2015

Why You Can’t Save Money on Groceries

Hey friends! This post is a part of a terrific new series that Kayla from Shoeaholic No More is putting together in order to help people save money on groceries. The group involved in this series has a heart to help readers slash their grocery bills. There are many components to teaching people to lower their bills. Income is a factor, as is accessibility to stores, along with the problem of varying prices on products from area to area. Together, we’re working to teach people what they can do, given their individual situations, to cut their grocery bills while still eating healthy. Read more

January 20, 2015

What Do You Want to Know About Feeding Your Family for Less?

That’s the question we need you to answer. Or, more aptly put, what hurdles do you encounter when you try and reduce your grocery/eating out budget?

The Frugal Farmer team is working on putting a book together that will help you cut your grocery bill tremendously. We want this to be the best book it can be, by writing it to cover the topics about feeding your family that concern you most.

Submit your ideas, questions and struggles that cause you to spend more on groceries than you’d like, leaving them in the comments. In the coming weeks, we’ll work to address those questions and get you the information you need on how to feed your family for less.

And spread the word! We know that grocery spending is a huge budget buster in many families. The more feedback we can get regarding readers’ grocery bill struggles, the better the book we can create to help people spend less and save more.

Thanks for leaving your questions!