Thrifty Thursday- Recipe

Thrifty Thursday Saturday tip is a recipe.  I found that it is much cheaper to keep baking staples on hand.  Flour, sugar, butter, eggs... Most of these items can be found less than two dollars and can make a ton of different foods.

So here are a couple of ideas.


 Sugar Cookies- makes about 4 dzn

Ingredients:

2 3/4 cups all-purpose flour 1 teaspoon baking soda 1/2 teaspoon baking powder 1 cup butter, softened

1 1/2 cups white sugar 1 egg 1 teaspoon vanilla extract

Directions:

1.	Preheat oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C). In a small bowl, stir together flour, baking soda, and baking powder. Set aside.
2.	In a large bowl, cream together the butter and sugar until smooth. Beat in egg and vanilla. Gradually blend in the dry ingredients. Roll rounded teaspoonfuls of dough into balls, and place onto ungreased cookie sheets.
3.	Bake 8 to 10 minutes in the preheated oven, or until golden. Let stand on cookie sheet two minutes before removing to cool on wire racks.

Pancakes - these are much better than the boxed stuff and cheaper.

Ingredients:

1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour 3 1/2 teaspoons baking powder 1 teaspoon salt 1 tablespoon white sugar

1 1/4 cups milk 1 egg 3 tablespoons butter, melted

Directions:

1.	In a large bowl, sift together the flour, baking powder, salt and sugar. Make a well in the center and pour in the milk, egg and melted butter; mix until smooth.
2.	Heat a lightly oiled griddle or frying pan over medium high heat. Pour or scoop the batter onto the griddle, using approximately 1/4 cup for each pancake. Brown on both sides and serve hot.

Thrifty Thursday *Baby Food*

The only reason that I chose baby food is because my camera is charging and I can't post pictures of the cloth napkins that I grabbed for 99 cents.  I can't wait to show you what they look like and to show you what I am planning for them...  :)

 Anyway, back to the baby food.  This week I found butternut squash on sale for $1.00.  So I grabbed one.  I was a little worried I must admit because I have never really cooked butternut squash. 

Well I took it home killed it peeled it.  I did not know just how annoying peeling this would be.  So after peeling it and almost losing a finger, I diced it up into cubes and added cinnomon and a little sugar.  OK OK I know that you shouldn't give sugar to babies but if adding a pinch of sugar is my worst offense as a mom then I will take it.  :)

After everything is coated evenly I baked until it was tender.  It took about 45 minutes to an hour on 275 (I did not want to burn it).  Once it was cooked I blended with water until smooth.  After it cooled a bit I used a muffin tin to distribute evenly and froze.  Total it made about 9 jars of baby food.  9.  At the price of baby food I found that I saved about mmmmm.... 8 dollars.  NICE.  I need to start a "money I saved by making my own baby food" jar and save to buy me a nice pair of shoes.  YAY.

Thrifty Thursday

So you know those things that you tell yourself every year... starting next year I'm going to...  Well that is SO me.  Every year it's the same thing.  Next year I'm going to lose weight...eat right.... save money... well all of those are really my goal this year.  Starting this Thursday I will be featuring different ways that you can save your family some mulah!!!