Welcome to Frugal Workshop where every Monday I share the simple strategies used to save money over the past week, along with the meals that made it to our dinner table. You'll find practical tips on how we saved money on food hopefully to inspire your own meal planning using the foods you have in your own pantry.
My Frugal Week
We are still in use it up mode here in our kitchen. I’ve been working on clearing out the freezers to make more room and using those foods I bought for our holiday get togethers really helped with that issue. We will be doing our monthly grocery shopping soon and have freed up a great deal of freezer space for that purpose.
On Saturday I made Hash Brown Casserole, Broccoli Casserole, and Chocolate Cake to take to our family get together on Sunday. This really helped clear freezer space as I bought the hash browns and broccoli at the beginning of the month and those are gone now.
I sorted through my bin of winter squashes to make sure none were spoiling and to use those items up as well.
Use It Up Item Of The Week
This would be the cream cheese we bought on sale at Ingle’s at the first of the month. It was on sale, so I bought ten of them for $1.00 each and centered the dishes I made for the holiday towards using them up, which helped us save money by spending less on our holiday meals. I have two left now and will find a way to use those up as well.
What’s for Dinner
Monday ~ Meat Sauce, Protein Pasta, Spaghetti Squash, Broccoli.
This was a planned over meal from the Sunday before. Bailey wanted protein pasta, but I wanted spaghetti squash, so I made both and served broccoli on the side. The meat sauce had time for the flavor to get even better.
Tuesday ~ Family Get Together ~ Finger Foods
Ham and cheese sandwiches, chips, cheese ball, vegetable tray, Mexican pinwheels, Neman Marcus cake, cookies, German chocolate cake, and cupcakes.
Wednesday ~ Christmas Eve ~ Chili Cheese Dip, Cheese Ball, Mexican Pinwheels.
We decided to keep the finger food theme going, so I made a chili cream cheese dip and had pretzel thins and tortilla chips for dipping, cheese ball with crackers, and Mexican pinwheels. We had Newman Marcus cake, which Bailey made, for dessert.
Thursday & Friday ~ Christmas ~ Ham & Soup Beans, Cheese Ball, Mexican Pinwheels.
I used one Honey Baked Ham bone to make ham with soup beans for dinner. I bought them on a buy one, get two free sale about two months ago and stored them in the freezer. There was plenty of ham on the bone to satisfy our appetites. I served this with the appetizers from Christmas Eve, so cooking was very minimal, which made for a very relaxing day.
Saturday ~ Chicken Sausage, Hash Brown Casserole.
The chicken sausage was a package we bought on markdown at the beginning of the month. I made the hash brown casserole for Sunday and had extra, so served some with dinner.
Sunday ~ Family Get Together Dinner - Ham, Oven Roasted Potatoes, Hash Brown Casserole, Broccoli Casserole, Green Beans, Baked Beans, Rolls, Deviled Eggs, Chocolate Peanut Butter Eclair Cake, Chocolate Cake, Chocolate Covered Peanuts.
What’s been on the menu in your home this past week?
Belinda
Homemaker at Heart
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