Pin It Making simple homemade cream of chicken (or “whatever”) soup in bulk can make a week of super frugal, super nourishing meals, plus some for the freezer. Some people love “Once a Month Cooking” where they make 30 meals in a day or two and rest on their laurels for the next 28. That [...]
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How to Reverse Engineer a Recipe for Real Food Quality
January 26th, 2010 · 64 Comments · Do It Yourself, Upgraded Nutrition
Pin It I used to loooove getting the Kraft Food and Family magazine, chock full of simple, tasty recipes that I could peruse and add to my menu plans. Lately, though, I’m disheartened. So many of the recipes have processed foods in them already (which makes sense, since it’s published by a food processing company, [...]
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Monday Mission: Healthy Upgrades – Real Food Recipe Renditions
January 25th, 2010 · 24 Comments · Monday Missions, Upgraded Nutrition
Pin ItYour mission, if you choose to accept, is to revamp a recipe to cut out the processed food ingredients. Impact Ratings: Level of Commitment: Making Strides Many of you may already be doing this regularly. It’s practically a necessity if you want to eat healthy foods that your family enjoys. If you’re a seasoned [...]
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Monday Mission: Upgrade your Condiment Awareness
August 3rd, 2009 · 21 Comments · Do It Yourself, Upgraded Nutrition
Pin ItYour mission, if you choose to accept it, is to “choose your own adventure” in the new and exciting field of condiment awareness. Last week in the mental mission, I encouraged you to begin reading condiment labels and being conscious of how many condiments you use and what quantity. At our house, we have [...]
Recipe Connection: A Healthy (and Tasty!) Version of Fruit Pizza
July 28th, 2009 · 55 Comments · Do It Yourself, Recipes, Upgraded Nutrition
Pin ItEvery recipe I’ve ever seen for fruit pizza uses sugar cookie dough as the base. Usually they call for pre-packaged, trans-fat and white-sugar laden monstrosities. That bums me out. Since I’m trying hard to focus on real, whole, healthy foods, fruit is a great option…but storebought cookie dough is not. Even a homemade sugar [...]
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Recipe Connection: Sausage Spinach Pasta Toss
July 21st, 2009 · 19 Comments · Avoiding Waste, Do It Yourself, Frugality, KS lifestyle, Recipes, Super Foods, Upgraded Nutrition
Pin ItIt’s Spinach Week here at Kitchen Stewardship! I get to share one of our family’s favorite recipes today. The first indication that it’s a winner is that Kraft Food and Family Magazine publishes it at least once a year, sometimes more. Second is that my son always asks for seconds on (he’s a good [...]
Do Healthy CHEAP Meals from Aldi or Save-A-Lot Exist?
April 29th, 2009 · 40 Comments · Frugality, What to Buy
Pin ItI was inspired by a comment at the post on trusting in your meal blessing. April says, You can tell which months I decided, “No more junk food! I don’t care how much it costs…we’re eating real, natural food!” and the months where I said, “I’m going to feed us as cheaply as I [...]
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