With everyone’s budget being stretched to the limit these days, it’s no wonder that many people are turning to the dollar menus and other items they find at those cheap fast food restaurants to help round out their meals.  When you have a family to feed it can be tempting to just take everyone to [...]

Everyone needs to watch their spending today; even someone making six figures is going to feel the pinch of gas prices and food prices that are skyrocketing out of control these days.  But while there seems to be no end to the number of Budget Cooking recipes that you can use to cut back on [...]

Everyone wants to save money but sometimes it’s easy to get overwhelmed with figuring out just how.  Cutting back on your grocery bill is only going to happen if you have some concrete and realistic Budget Cooking ideas as to what to fix for each meal and snack.  Sometimes this means following a particular recipe [...]

Simple chicken skillets are fine, for a while. At some point, we all get tired of our own recipes. That’s why I was so excited when I found Captain Curry’s Country Chicken Skillet to try on my family. There is nothing ordinary about this chicken skillet. I often cook seafood with [...]

Your family enjoying cheap easy meals is probably the biggest concern when we start talking meals on a budget!  Anyone can boil a piece of broccoli and slap it on a plate and call it dinner, but when we’re talking about Low Cost Cooking family meals we’re talking about things that your family will actually [...]

With rising food prices - and prices for just about everything else on the rise as well - it’s no wonder that many people are wondering how to make as many Low Cost Cooking easy meals as they possibly can.  Of course there are many ways you can trim your grocery bill from buying more [...]

It might be true that one reason many people have a hard time making cheap and easy meals is that they think they’re somewhat complicated and take a lot of planning, coupon clipping, and so forth.  No one wants to spend their precious Saturday afternoon clipping coupons and studying store circulars, but of course the [...]

Beans and Ham go naturally together in any soup or stew. Using dried navy beans in Congressional Navy Bean Soup give it a nice smooth and hearty texture and the ham adds that great smoky flavor that we look for in bean soups of any kind. My Grandma made the best navy bean [...]

When I sort through recipes for baked beans, I keep finding recipes that call for canned pork and beans. It took my Grandmother’s cookbooks to steer me in the right direction. Most older cookbooks will have dishes made from scratch, because prepackaged foods weren’t readily available to everyone. So, a traditional Homemade [...]