Chicken Fajitas

  Total Meal Cost $3.50 First off I would like to point out that I have decided to start adding costs to the top of each post.  Originally I was opposed to the idea as I know prices vary so much from region to region and store to store.  However, as a budget cooking website…

Chocolate Clementines

  Total Meal Cost: $4.85 When I talked about the recipe for Glazed Carrots I mentioned how they are a great combination of healthy and sweet, with a bit more emphasis on the healthy.  Well, in many ways chocolate clementines are almost like the inverse of the glazed carrots.  They are still a great mixture of…

Garlic Potatoes

  Total meal cost: $3.60 As I’ve mentioned in previous posts, I am Italian, and that being said I love garlic; a lot. Also, I love potatoes.  This love has nothing to do with any form of ethnic heritage, I just think that potatoes are pretty fantastic.  That being said, I always love combining things…

Glazed Carrots

  Total Meal Cost: $1.29 We all know that it’s important to eat our vegetables, right?  After all, we can’t have our dessert unless we eat all of our vegetables first.  However, sometimes vegetables aren’t appealing, and this is coming from someone who really loves vegetables (have I said vegetables enough yet?)  That being said,…

Farmers’ Markets

  As I talked about in my post on Coupons, there are many different ways that you can save money outside of merely finding cost-effective dishes.  Really, any dish can be cost-effective if you know where to purchase your products or if you can find good deals.  I have often talked about my love of…

Easter Cake

Total Meal Cost: $8.65 Happy Easter everyone!  I’m not sure what Easter entails for your family (or if you even celebrate Easter) however, at my home any holiday means lots of delicious foods and desserts.  I am the youngest one in my extended family, and that usually meant that I could get away without ever…

Vegetarian Stuffed Peppers

  Total Cost for recipe:  $2.79 If it hasn’t already become obvious through reading previous posts (or perhaps if this is the first post that you’re reading,) I am not a huge meat eater.  My taste in meat is pretty much confined to chicken, turkey and fish (if you consider fish to be meat.)  That…

Coupons

As this is a budget cooking website, I feel as though it is important to relay any information that can help you save money, instead of simply putting up cost-effective recipes.  All of the costs that I have been putting for recipes are the costs before I use coupons, however often times I buy things…

Potato Dippers

Total Cost: $2.00 Did you know that you could cook a potato in the microwave?  Well, I sure didn’t.  In fact, I was under the impression that potatoes either had to be boiled or cooked in the oven. That being said, I usually avoided cooking potatoes, after all the longest part of any meal is…

Peanut Butter and Banana Quesadilla

Total Meal Cost: $2.75 Often times I find myself in the predicament of having all of my lunch meat go bad, and not wanting to take the time to defrost and cook chicken or beef or any other meat that takes a fair amount of time to prepare.  In addition to that, I also seem…

Fruit and Vegetable Juice

Total Meal Cost $3.20 One of the biggest problems that I have encountered in my college career is that I always tend to buy too many fruits and vegetables and never seem to have enough time to eat them all.  My first year of college I wasn’t able to afford to keep my car on…

Fluffy Banana Pancakes

Total Meal Cost: $3.25 Growing up my parents weren’t exactly the type of people that cooked very often.  Both of my parents worked full time jobs and they left early in the morning, and by the time they got home they were usually too tired to make dinner.  We were the type of family that…